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epilogue wrote:

dad wrote:

epilogue wrote:

dad wrote:

epilogue wrote:I'm reading The Girls by Emma Cline. The Guest was outstanding and this is shaping up to be excellent as well (50% through). I'm kinda surprised more people don't talk about her in literary terms. Feels like her books are marketed as "chick lit" or "beach reads." And they are? I guess... but they're so much more, too. They aren't just page turning plot machines. They have real deep, complex themes and fascinating characters. I don't know. She's really fucking good.

I read The Girls a few years back and enjoyed it.

I read The Guest a couple of months ago, and enjoyed it very much. One of those books you could read in a day if you let yourself.

that's whatsup, that's whatsup

Have you read Big Swiss?

I have not.... Should I?

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

The Argonaut wrote:I've read the Fagles translation and the Emily Wilson translation and liked the Wilson a lot. Fagles wins the first line, though:

"Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns"

vs Wilson's:

"Tell me about a complicated man."

There's millennia of commentary on that line, and I really think Wilson swung and missed there in every way. But from there on out, it's a good read.

I'd like to read some of the earlier translations, too, someday.

Mickey wrote:

epilogue wrote:It was a really cool little book launch event. In a church no less!

Both of those women are icons to me. One of those nights that reminds me why I continue to live in this stupid awful terrible amazing marvelous city.

Miranda July is a real piece of shit just fyi

dad wrote:

Mickey wrote:

epilogue wrote:It was a really cool little book launch event. In a church no less!

Both of those women are icons to me. One of those nights that reminds me why I continue to live in this stupid awful terrible amazing marvelous city.

Miranda July is a real piece of shit just fyi

not sure Mickey comes around anymore, but i've been thinking about this post lately because my wife read her newest book within the last month or so, and i wanted to know what makes her so awful?

epilogue wrote:

dad wrote:

Mickey wrote:

epilogue wrote:It was a really cool little book launch event. In a church no less!

Both of those women are icons to me. One of those nights that reminds me why I continue to live in this stupid awful terrible amazing marvelous city.

Miranda July is a real piece of shit just fyi

not sure Mickey comes around anymore, but i've been thinking about this post lately because my wife read her newest book within the last month or so, and i wanted to know what makes her so awful?

I have no idea. It's a great question.

dad wrote:

epilogue wrote:

dad wrote:

Mickey wrote:

epilogue wrote:It was a really cool little book launch event. In a church no less!

Both of those women are icons to me. One of those nights that reminds me why I continue to live in this stupid awful terrible amazing marvelous city.

Miranda July is a real piece of shit just fyi

not sure Mickey comes around anymore, but i've been thinking about this post lately because my wife read her newest book within the last month or so, and i wanted to know what makes her so awful?

I have no idea. It's a great question.

thanks, I thought it up all by myself.

VinylGuy wrote:I miss Mickey. Great dude. Very smart.

Did you guys know he used to live in my neighborhood?