yall into reading Books? the what books u been reading thread

The Something Awful Forums > Main > BYOB: BYOB BYOB BOYB BBOY YOBB YBOB BBYO?? > yall into reading Books? the what books u been reading thread

«‹›3 »

beer pal

hey yobbos what books u been reading.

i just finished a short story collection by james tiptree / alice sheldon which i think soembody on byob reccommended like several years ago and has been on my shelf since then. it was really good i liked it. if u dont know she wrote in the 70s-80s under a male pseudonym and it wasn't known she was a woman through a lot of her carreer. which is kind of funny reading them today since a lot of the stories had like a pretty explicitly feminist theme. i really liked 'the women men don't see' where a dingus fed guy gets marooned after a plane crash with a woman & her daughter and some aliens come around and she jumps at the chance to go away to their plaent with them bc earth sucks because of men and he just goes uhh buh? anyway most of the stories were really good

before that i read god bless you mr rosewater by vonnegut about a fuckup rich heir dude who spends his time & money helping folks in a little town while his conservative senator dad gets mad at him. very fun quick read.

before that i read v by thomas pynchon and it was like.. maybe my favorite book ive read so far. not as difficult as i was worried it would be with pynchon's reputation. looking forward to reding more of his novels, ive heard you can like seee his voice develop though his first few which sounds cool.

# ¿ Apr 18, 2020 19:21

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ¿ May 10, 2024 21:55

beer pal

cda posted:

I've definitely recommended her. I love her stories. Besides the one you mentioned, "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" and "The Screwfly Solution" are my faves. I love how unapologetically feminist they are.

I'm reading the Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge and I'm really enjoying it but it's not over yet so I will have to see. I read House of Leaves and did not like it.

i read house of leaves a little whle back and i liked it pretty well. i think if you take the structure & the typographic gimicks as like self-serious esotericism its a bit lame but i thought it was just kind of goofy fun

https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png

# ¿ Apr 19, 2020 02:34

beer pal

im reading a confederacy of dunces and this ignateus guy sseems like a real schmuck!

https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png

# ¿ Apr 23, 2020 20:14

beer pal

confederacy of dunces rules, i thought for the first third or so that i wouldnt be able to take the ignateus dude just being insufferable all the time but i was sold as soon as i got to the factory protest scene

then i read ice by anna kavan which someone on byob posted about before, it was really fascinating! i love to read

https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png

# ¿ Apr 30, 2020 21:58

beer pal

cda posted:

I'm reading Ice bc Beer Pal recommended it

hope you like it C.D.A. i found the fore & afterwords, about her life & her other novels & how this one fits in (i got the penguin classics 50th anniversery edition) really interesting & coloured my understanding of the book

now im reading an ursula le guin short stories collection (the unreal & the real) and its really good, i love her

https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png

# ¿ May 6, 2020 21:20

beer pal

dickens is the christmas guy to me. i dont knw what any of his books are about except that theyrea ll about christmas

https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png

# ¿ May 7, 2020 23:52

beer pal

u canadian nut me too. i think the only canadian novel ive read is station eleven which i didnt like all that much. recently i read the wretched of the earth which i found very useful and now im reading the three body problem which is one of those sci fi novels that has some interesting ideas but its weighed down by dull writing and cardboard characters and a bunch of hard science stuff i dont care about

https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png

# ¿ Jun 1, 2020 17:28

beer pal

take the moon posted:

I read one Eugene dies and I think it was enough. It seemed a little trifling

Re: can lit u might as well go full hipster and read the Moodie journals. we kind of peaked there I feel like

I didn't think station eleven was bad but boy was it overrated

ya i dont think station elven is bad but it didnt marie kondo voice spark joy for me ya know

https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png

# ¿ Jun 2, 2020 04:16

beer pal

weed cat posted:

i have also been posting in tbb but i've recently read Neuromancer, Into The Wild, and Star Trek: TNG - Headlong Flight and have a bunch of partly finished stuff on my kindle

what did you think of neuromancer, ive been curious to read it. i imagine it to be like endearingly corny

https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png

# ¿ Jun 2, 2020 17:55

beer pal

im reading crying of lot 49 which ive heard is either his best or worst novel. an alternative position ive hard is that its somewhere in the middle.

https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png

# ¿ Jun 4, 2020 21:15

beer pal

holy poo poo

https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png

# ¿ Jun 4, 2020 23:47

beer pal

i didnt like lot 49 that much (i liked v a lot better) now im reading 100 yeras of solitude and its pretty charmign so far

https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png

# ¿ Jun 9, 2020 23:18

beer pal

the author did a very rude prank on me where he named all the characters the same name

https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png

# ¿ Jun 10, 2020 17:58

beer pal

ya ive got a physical copy and its got the tree but a) its spoilers ok and b) how much good does it do me to know that angelino's sons are angelino and jose angelino and his daugther is angelina

https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png

# ¿ Jun 10, 2020 18:07

beer pal

gonna do my own translation and be like jose arcadio (the one who does the silver stuff) and rebeca (shes the one who eats dirts if u forgot)

https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png

# ¿ Jun 10, 2020 18:14

beer pal

sounds up my alley from the synopsis

https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png

# ¿ Jun 11, 2020 19:38

beer pal

100 yrs of solitude was good as hell, and then i read a tolstoy novela called the death of ivan ilyich which was also good and next im reading to the lighthouse by virgina woolf wwhich i dont know anything about but im a big fan of lighthouses

https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png

# ¿ Jun 22, 2020 17:46

beer pal

cda posted:

Dude.... Your reading so many good books

i know right im on a good run

https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png

# ¿ Jun 23, 2020 04:02

beer pal

drat! virginai woolf is good as hell! what a beautiful novel

https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png

# ¿ Jun 30, 2020 18:25

beer pal

she rules

https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png

# ¿ Jul 4, 2020 16:15

beer pal

im reading catch 22 and not enjoying it all that much

https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png

# ¿ Jul 4, 2020 21:43

beer pal

i stopped reading catch 22 for now and instead im reading if on a winter's night a traveler by italo calvino which so far im finding very fun and good

https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png

# ¿ Jul 6, 2020 17:52

beer pal

whts up yobbos heres what ive been reading. the calvino book winter traveler night is very silly and fun and good. u ever read a book and think wow the author really seemed like they were having a good time with this one. then i read the short stories collection exhalation by ted chiang and thought it was pretty good. i would describe it as "solid". i finally finished a scanner darkly by phillip k dick which was my book for at work and i didnt much like it, i found it very ugly in a way that i didnt enjoy. just this morning finished the sailor who fell from grace w/ the sea by yukio mishima & i dont know how to talk about a book like that so ill just say "its a wild one"

https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png

# ¿ Jul 20, 2020 19:13

beer pal

hell ya. u read any other calvino? probably gonna pick up invisible cities before too long

https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png

# ¿ Jul 20, 2020 21:06

beer pal

ah yes, guy de borges

https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png

# ¿ Jul 22, 2020 18:27

beer pal

take the moon posted:

idk anythin bout this or the author but that's a dank title lol

sry u didn't like pkd.

I haven't been able to read much l8ly I'm becoming one or those. gotta stay trashed and reading freal

its a great title i love a nice long evocative title, others in this genre i like are "drive your plow over the bones of the dead" and "we have always lived in the castle"

https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png

# ¿ Jul 22, 2020 18:33

beer pal

im having a great time reading dracula

https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png

# ¿ Aug 2, 2020 02:39

beer pal

like 90% of the way through dracula and he still hasnt used his catchphrase... must be saving it for the finale

https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png

# ¿ Aug 6, 2020 17:42

beer pal

dracula was pretty good but i found it dragged a bit through the middle.. like i wasnt that interested in the like beurocratic manouverings to track down all of draculas boxes of dirt. now im reading hard to be a god by the strugatsky bros of roadside picnic fame about a dude in the future whos under cover on another world thats in a feudal era & a vioelnt anti intellectual crackdown and hes all conflicted bc it sucks there but hes not allowed to intervene

https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png

# ¿ Aug 10, 2020 18:06

beer pal

i agree. i thought it was kind of funny having a dumbass rear end in a top hat dude pop in all the time talking about some stupid bullshit for no reason but it gets old pretty quickly

https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png

# ¿ Aug 10, 2020 22:48

beer pal

lol

https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png

# ¿ Aug 10, 2020 23:21

beer pal

im reading blindness by jose saramago its a very heavy book, hard to read at times. also i started listending to audio books for whem im in the car or on a walk etc and choosing books that im a bit curious of but a bit skeptical bc its a bit harder for me to focus than reaading with my eyes so i got the horror book ' im thinking of endng things' which i thought was bad and now im listening to normal people which i was curious about after seeing an interview with the author about its relationship to marxism but its sseeming like its not a book 'for me' which i thought might be the case

i cant get myself to read non fic lately but the jakarta method is one im interested in, i heard one or two interviews with the author on pod casts

https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png

# ¿ Aug 17, 2020 19:36

beer pal

sure but if its a book i thnk ill actually really like id rather give it more attention. esp since im not much of a re reader so im not likely to read it again

https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png

# ¿ Aug 17, 2020 20:42

beer pal

holy hell jr by william gaddis is 37 hours long

https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png

# ¿ Aug 17, 2020 20:43

beer pal

finding an even bigger book to put infinite jest in to read it in public

https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png

# ¿ Aug 18, 2020 03:17

beer pal

u ever just stop & think sometimes like drat... hteres so many books

https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png

# ¿ Aug 18, 2020 23:37

beer pal

blindness was really good. i liked the writing style, sometimes i would go several pages without realizing it was all without a paragraph break. the dialogue all separated only by a capital letter after a comma, the whole book felt very fast paced

now im reading don quixote, often called the infinite jest of the early 17th century

https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png

# ¿ Aug 19, 2020 17:51

beer pal

its fun to joke around :evilbuddy:

https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png

# ¿ Aug 19, 2020 18:19

beer pal

would love to read more by him, i'll add those to my list. is the blindness sequel any good?

https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png

# ¿ Aug 19, 2020 19:07

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ¿ May 10, 2024 21:55

beer pal

the first half was so grim that once they got out of the hospital it seemed downright hopeful by contrast even while there were piles of poo poo & dead bodies all over the place

https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png

# ¿ Aug 19, 2020 19:32

The Something Awful Forums > Main > BYOB: BYOB BYOB BOYB BBOY YOBB YBOB BBYO?? > yall into reading Books? the what books u been reading thread

«‹›3 »