Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu June 05, 2025 11:49 am
Nice. Let me know what you think about it when you finish.epilogue wrote:Finally started Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner.
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Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu June 05, 2025 11:49 am
James is a very good book. What is the class your friend would be using it?Farmer John wrote:What are you, his assistant? Tell him to do his own job!lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Started The Sound and the Fury a week or so ago, but have been too tired to read. Now my hotshot community college professor friend wants me to try Percival Everett's James and see if I think it's worth using in his class.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu June 05, 2025 2:06 pm
Will do. I'm low key in love with the first 40 pages.blueviper wrote:Nice. Let me know what you think about it when you finish.epilogue wrote:Finally started Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner.
Excited to see where it's headed.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu June 05, 2025 4:51 pm
David Mamet's Everywhere an Oink Oink. David Mamet is fucking crazy.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sun June 15, 2025 4:24 am
Just finished this and couldn’t disagree more. Love the idea, but the execution is abysmal.blueviper wrote:James is a very good book. What is the class your friend would be using it?Farmer John wrote:What are you, his assistant? Tell him to do his own job!lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Started The Sound and the Fury a week or so ago, but have been too tired to read. Now my hotshot community college professor friend wants me to try Percival Everett's James and see if I think it's worth using in his class.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sun June 15, 2025 10:30 pm
No, just a good friend who he trusts.Farmer John wrote:What are you, his assistant? Tell him to do his own job!lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Started The Sound and the Fury a week or so ago, but have been too tired to read. Now my hotshot community college professor friend wants me to try Percival Everett's James and see if I think it's worth using in his class.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sun June 15, 2025 10:30 pm
I enjoyed it, but felt like it could have been much more. I'm moderately surprised it won the Pulitzer.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sun June 15, 2025 10:42 pm
The Sound and the Fury isn't a very good book. It's one of those "medicine" pieces of art. It's time to call it what it is.lennytheweedwhacker wrote:I enjoyed it, but felt like it could have been much more. I'm moderately surprised it won the Pulitzer.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sun June 15, 2025 10:50 pm
I was talking about James.epilogue wrote:The Sound and the Fury isn't a very good book. It's one of those "medicine" pieces of art. It's time to call it what it is.lennytheweedwhacker wrote:I enjoyed it, but felt like it could have been much more. I'm moderately surprised it won the Pulitzer.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sun June 15, 2025 11:46 pm
Joe, you bananalennytheweedwhacker wrote:I was talking about James.epilogue wrote:The Sound and the Fury isn't a very good book. It's one of those "medicine" pieces of art. It's time to call it what it is.lennytheweedwhacker wrote:I enjoyed it, but felt like it could have been much more. I'm moderately surprised it won the Pulitzer.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon June 16, 2025 2:57 am
Ohlennytheweedwhacker wrote:I was talking about James.epilogue wrote:The Sound and the Fury isn't a very good book. It's one of those "medicine" pieces of art. It's time to call it what it is.lennytheweedwhacker wrote:I enjoyed it, but felt like it could have been much more. I'm moderately surprised it won the Pulitzer.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon June 16, 2025 12:58 pm
I am, however, open to this argument on The Sound and the Fury. I'm halfway through and it's feeling like a long walk for a small drink of water. I don't know anything about it (didn't even know the aggressively obfuscative narrative style) but I'm already feeling like it's a short story's worth of stuff stretched out across a novel's worth of headspace.epilogue wrote:Ohlennytheweedwhacker wrote:I was talking about James.epilogue wrote:The Sound and the Fury isn't a very good book. It's one of those "medicine" pieces of art. It's time to call it what it is.lennytheweedwhacker wrote:I enjoyed it, but felt like it could have been much more. I'm moderately surprised it won the Pulitzer.
However, when Faulkner is just telling a part of the story I really like it. I'd read that whole novel any day.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon June 16, 2025 1:16 pm
It was a chance to see Jim/James interact with his wife and daughter, to witness what his life being owned by Miss Watson was like, to hear his thoughts as he is alone tied up on the raft or at Phelps’ farm. That would be character development.lennytheweedwhacker wrote:I enjoyed it, but felt like it could have been much more. I'm moderately surprised it won the Pulitzer.
Instead, we’re given that all slaves actually talk in “proper English” when white people aren’t present. They’re like the cows in Far Side comics. Ridiculous. Then you get the book’s huge twist, which is absurd, and Jim basically
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Posted: Tue June 17, 2025 7:59 pm
My Dog Got Ox-Fucked To Death, by Gordon Gordón
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Posted: Sat June 21, 2025 7:56 pm
In the Garden of Beasts - Erik Larson
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Posted: Sat June 21, 2025 8:11 pm
The Devils - Joe Abercrombie
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Posted: Sun June 22, 2025 12:14 am
The Angels- Frank Fitch
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu June 26, 2025 2:22 pm
Finished Horns by Joe Hill last evening. Enjoyed it though given how it began:
I feel it could have been more polished overall. It was only his second novel, perhaps he picked up some methods and received some advice from dear old dad as his career moved along; looks like mostly short stories with three full novels. I am curious to read his debut Heart-Shaped Box though:Approximately a decade ago, Hill wrote an epic fantasy novel entitled The Fear Tree... that involved a character with the ability to divine people's most closely guarded secrets. This concept was reworked for a novel Hill wrote entitled The Surrealist's Glass, wherein the protagonist acquired a magical lens which allowed him to see people's secrets. Hill describes The Surrealist's Glass "as a confused, corrupt, first draft of Horns" to the degree that "several scenes in Horns appeared in a cruder earlier form in [The Surrealist's] Glass." According to Hill, "writers tend to revisit the same themes, tropes, places, and concerns, again and again, until they figure out how to use them in a satisfying way," which is what he did with this premise until he "finally got it right with Horns."
On the non-fiction side I have been reading Why the Right Went Wrong and may start 11/22/63 given the time frame.The titles of the novel and its four sections are all those of rock songs: Heart-Shaped Box by Nirvana, Black Dog by Led Zeppelin, Ride On by AC/DC, Hurt by Nine Inch Nails and Alive by Pearl Jam
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu June 26, 2025 3:40 pm
Is it communist to go to the library?BurtReynolds wrote:
Found out after doing taxes that I spent 1000 bucks on books last year. I'm banned from buying any more until I read the crap I have.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu June 26, 2025 3:40 pm
I read Horns back in the day, i cant remember anything really. I did loved Nos4a2. wonderful.