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Vastarien posted:I just read the first two for the first time. I liked them alright, though the second gets pretty goofy at times. That Detta character sure was... something, eh? Thanks for the schizophrenic, crippled lady masturbation scenes, Steve! you should read fat by raymond carver
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if u can parse fat by raymond carver u can read literature as a man caouldnadt
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Vastarien posted:I just read the first two for the first time. I liked them alright, though the second gets pretty goofy at times. That Detta character sure was... something, eh? Thanks for the schizophrenic, crippled lady masturbation scenes, Steve! Long Walk is great, especially considering how young he was when he wrote it. Definitely one of his best. You will get varying answers depending on who you ask, but the 3rd and 4th book are pretty much the peak of Dark Tower. The third is my personal favorite and the fourth is not far behind. The 5th drops a bit in quality and the 6th is the worst one (but still worth reading), and the last one picks up again and is probably on par with book 2, but with some extremely goofy/disappointing parts. I think you'll enjoy the next couple, and despite the negative things I and many others say about the next 3 they are still fun to read.
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Orkin Mang posted:the cadence of this post is atrocious. theres no rhythm at all. im reading atlas shrugged at the moment. i dont agree with the message, but its like ulysses, where the prose is exquisite but the story is only of secondary interest. So many people can't get past the philosophy, but yeah, Atlas Shrugged is incredibly written; it's like an old propaganda poster come to life. e: I'm reading Sapiens right now, which started out as an interesting look at how humans developed but is now threatening to become a poorly thought out theory on what went wrong and why we're all unhappy. Hopefully it's just this couple of chapters. crusty fucked around with this message at 13:54 on Jun 3, 2017 |
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Tea leaves, they're saying the forums are dead, gay...hmm
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Jim Barris posted:I'm sure the fine people of this sub-forum are readers. While I'm sure much of what you degenerates read is crummy sci-fi you foraged out of the garbage none the less inquiring minds want to know, what are you currently reading? I personally am reading the copy of You Can't Win that finally arrived at my doorstep yesterday. It's got a great cover and there are extra writings of the author included in this printing that were previously unavailable. Here is a photo of said book, for your enjoyment. That is one of my favorite books of all time! I just dug out my copy so I can re-read it some day soon.  What extra writings does that version have? Mine includes an article he wrote called "What's Wrong With the Right People?" but I'd be curious to read anything else Jack Black wrote before he disappeared. Here are some other books I've read/ been reading over the last month or two: John Muir was a lunatic, but in a good way.  This is a story/ memoir about punk rock gangs in the early 80's. It is fascinating, and I couldn't put it down. Highly recommended.  Speaking of punk rock, these two are quick reads and I enjoyed them both:   This is a ridiculous evangelical Christian book from the mid-80's warning parents that Satan uses He-Man toys and Care Bears to lure their children to Hell. Good stuff.  A truly brutal book about a prison takeover in New Mexico.  This is a series of personal stories from the co-creator of the TV show "Get a Life!" It is hilarious, and I laughed until the point of tears at least twice.  I recently added this to my collection of books about 70's custom van culture:  I was ecstatic when I found this a couple of weeks ago. It's a novel by the late Lavoy Finicum (aka - Tarpman), and he signed it before he went out in a blaze of stupidity!   I'm also pleased with this recent score, which I picked up from a (the only?) surviving member of the Heaven's Gate cult:  These are queued up to be read as soon as I get a chance:   
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Gutter Phoenix posted:COOL BOOKS I'd read all those and start with the 70's van culture book. Nice haul.
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I would dig right the gently caress into that Heaven's Gate book, I wonder if its worth any money?
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Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions Much more interesting than the title probably makes it sound.
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Hardware tech goons could also do far worse then inside the machine.
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Up next for me is The Private Life of Chairman Mao, by Dr. Li Zhisui. This one should prove interesting.
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Wolf Hall. I thought a Booker Prize winner would be more high-falutin', but it's just a well done bit of historical fiction.
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Orkin Mang posted:you should read fat by raymond carver I read it and uh... I don't get it. I generally like fat guy stories, though. George R.R. Martin's The Monkey Treatment and The Pear-Shaped Man are my favorite fat guy stories. yeah I eat rear end posted:Long Walk is great, especially considering how young he was when he wrote it. Definitely one of his best. Yeah, I'd definitely rank The Long Walk up there with anything else that King has written. Really great. Looking forward to the next two Dark Tower books. I've heard loads of people say that those are the best.
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Orkin Mang posted:theres a bit from mill on the floss i memorised but i enver finsished the book. quote what novelty is worth the sweet monotony of knowing something, and loving something because it is known. the woman who wrote that looked like oscar wilde. very butch. the curls just made it worse What's loving weird is I googled that quote and the third hit was Oscar Wilde with ZERO on page matches. Sweet quote tho
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Better Fred Than Dead posted:What's loving weird is I googled that quote and the third hit was Oscar Wilde with ZERO on page matches. Sweet quote tho i just did the same. whoa
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I'm reading Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar. Slowly. Not cause it's dull, it's just sorta dense and like the other guy said, internet gets me most of the time. I might have more opportunity to read at work coming up since I switched to a later shift when things are a bit slower. The prose is super good tho, and the guy is one of the earlier writers coming outta Latin American fiction which eventually spawned magical realism and all that kinda jazz. The book is structured to be read by "hopping" around, each chapter points to another, and only the first 56 chapters are "required" with the back 60 chapters being extraneous. Generally the path is early late early, like chapter 5->87->6 or occasionally 7->98->108->8. I keep notes at the beginning of each chapter so I know what I've read already. Usually a quote from the chapter. Some really great stuff. Let's see... quote:we kiss as if our mouths were filled with flowers or with fish, with lively movements and dark fragrance. I can't dig up more right now cause most are really long paragraphs. His short story collection Blow up is good, here's the first story http://southerncrossreview.org/73/axolotl.html
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I went to a book signing for the author of that book. I got a copy of his other book, Dead Wake, but I'm reluctant to physically read the book since I got it signed, and don't want to crease it.
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Is The House of Leaves any good? Or is it a dumb horror book for stupid babies? I don't really want to go to Wikipedia and spoil it, but I've heard several people raving about it a couple of years ago.
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Colonel Cancer posted:Is The House of Leaves any good? Or is it a dumb horror book for stupid babies? I don't really want to go to Wikipedia and spoil it, but I've heard several people raving about it a couple of years ago. I thought it was mediocre, personally. I've read worse novels and it at least attempts some novel stuff even if I found the execution lacking.
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moose face posted:I just finished norm macdonalds memoir im still reading it. every chapters like a stand up bit. its weird but good. the one about the guy who took him to his shed was ambiguous
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moose face posted:I just finished norm macdonalds memoir Oh didn't he write it in such a way that obviously untrue stuff is mixed in with actual autobiography?
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Jim Barris posted:Oh didn't he write it in such a way that obviously untrue stuff is mixed in with actual autobiography? yes
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Its mostly fabrication but i laughed out loud quite often. He is a good writer you read it in his voice and its pretty funny
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That's so loving cool. I'm gonna make it my next buy once I finish On Stranger Tides.
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moose face posted:Its mostly fabrication but i laughed out loud quite often. He is a good writer you read it in his voice and its pretty funny At this point I've heard Norm's view on everything for most of my life and I think if he tried to be honest it'd be less interesting and maybe even less informative than learning that he's actually a capable writer. The least revealing chapter of all, the Rodney Dangerfield chapter, is the best thing ever.
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extra stout posted:At this point I've heard Norm's view on everything for most of my life and I think if he tried to be honest it'd be less interesting and maybe even less informative than learning that he's actually a capable writer. The least revealing chapter of all, the Rodney Dangerfield chapter, is the best thing ever. I liked the one where he went to jail
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Picked these up a while back and totally forgot about them until now. I am unsure if any of them are actually good. I also recently finished Brian Cranstons autobiography "A Life in Parts" which was really interesting, and will soon move on to "Depends What You Mean By Extremist" by John Safran.
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 people getting fried and blown up and poo poo
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Jukeboxblues posted:Picked these up a while back and totally forgot about them until now. I am unsure if any of them are actually good. read nostromo
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Ok I will read it sometime during the week
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Jukeboxblues posted:Ok I will read it sometime during the week then read lance by nabokov. its a short story
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