[tesla69]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

Hey Severian, I dropped Blood Meridian like a bad bean pie..

You would probably not like Pete Dexter's Deadwood then.

[Rob Instigator]

I am not much of a fiction reader. I read sci-fi, some specific writers (Vonnegut, Bukowski) but otherwise I mostly read non-fiction books, usually about science, cognition, or identity.

I am also a fan of proper punctuation, and do not find it "clever" or "avant-garde" to write without punctuation like McCarthy does. I find that shit pretentious and distracting.

[Severian]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

I am not much of a fiction reader. I read sci-fi, some specific writers (Vonnegut, Bukowski) but otherwise I mostly read non-fiction books, usually about science, cognition, or identity.

I am also a fan of proper punctuation, and do not find it "clever" or "avant-garde" to write without punctuation like McCarthy does. I find that shit pretentious and distracting.

I agree when it comes to McCarthy. He's got a head full of interesting images and ideas, but often seems to fall short when executing them, at least in my opinion — the No Country for Old Men film is the best thing associated with his name — but in other instances I can totally get behind writing that is unhindered by the rules of punctuation/style. Specifically with Karoac. His unstructured approach is what gives On The Road such a unique sense of abandon. Truman Capote can gripe about it all day long, it's fucking glorious.

[tesla69]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

I am also a fan of proper punctuation, and do not find it "clever" or "avant-garde" to write without punctuation like McCarthy does. I find that shit pretentious and distracting.

You must not like Celine much...a true misanthrope and racist...GAUL WILL RISE AGAIN!

[Rob Instigator]

I finished Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.

 

cool and sad and eye-opening. http://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2016/0...ns-can-go.html

[Rob Instigator]

Yo Sevs,

I found an original paperback printing of Claw of the Conciliator at Half Price Books for $.75 !!

Shit yea\h. I also found 3 of the Robert E. Howard Ace paperback printings from the 70's of Conan the Barbarian. sweeet

[Severian]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

I finished Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.

 

cool and sad and eye-opening. http://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2016/0...ns-can-go.html

Classic (if a tad fluffy) neuroscience-pop classic. A good read indeed, though I long for a bit more hard science in my cognition based non-fiction.

[Severian]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

Yo Sevs,

I found an original paperback printing of Claw of the Conciliator at Half Price Books for $.75 !!

Shit yea\h. I also found 3 of the Robert E. Howard Ace paperback printings from the 70's of Conan the Barbarian. sweeet

DUDE.

I appreciate you keeping me up to date and all, but seriously, just read the damn Bool of the New Sun! There's this dumb website called Amazon were the compiled volumes (Shadow & Claw, Sword & Citadel) can be purchased any day of the week for $1-3. Bite the bullet and read them shits. Buying one novella at a time is just going to make you drag this thing out for god knows how long.

There are four core novellas and a coda novella in BOTNS alone! The "extended" arc contains a total of TWELVE little books (four more in Book of the Long Sun, followed by three in Book of the Short Sun). If you're gonna do this thing, do it.

But for now I guess it's good that you have Concilloator, which is, what, like 100 pages? And I thought you already had this from the library? And I thought you had Shadow & Claw like five months ago! Anyway, just read that shit and then let's talk about it!

[Rob Instigator]

I had shadow and claw from the library, but had to return it. (due dates and all)

[Severian]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

I had shadow and claw from the library, but had to return it. (due dates and all)

Read the duck out of that shit. Thank me later.

The more I grow to know you, the more certain I become that you will truly love and appreciate this.

[Rob Instigator]

Just finished reading Neil Gaiman's The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction. http://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2016/0...o-mind-of.html

 

 

As soon as I finish up Instant Replay: The Green Bay Diary of Jerry Kramer, I am diving headfirst into the WOLFEEEEEEE

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by Severian

I'm re-reading old favorites and classics because that is how motherfucking bored I am with books right now. I never re-read. Only a small bundle of books have ever met my eye twice. Even if I LOVE something, I simply consider it a complete waste of my time to read it again until at least 10 years have passed. There are maybe 2 or 3 exceptions to this.

But that's how fucking bored I am goddammit. I'm bored as piss.

Currently re-reading Great Expectations, which is simply a pleasure and a phenomenal story, but everyone knows this and has known this since the dawn of fucking time.

Ugh!

i used to not like rereading but now i love it and have made the point to reread all the novels from my shelf and the various stacks and boxes i have everywhere.
currently rereading Clive Barker Sacrament remembering why i have always adored reading Clive Barker

 

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

Plotlessness is literary masturbation by those who have no story to tell.

agreed. i prefer novels with at least some sense of direction. my favorite are those that follow Dumas tradition of blending several story lines together plopping back and forth between each chapter so that you're brain is keeping vivid track of each character and story in ways you're brain just doesn't do with even superb films

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

thinner sucks.

all stephen king books suck. the dialogue is total garbage. the stories shallow and lacking character development. the "twists" too obvious and predictable. its why it translated so well into cheesy horror flicks

[Severian]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

As soon as I finish up Instant Replay: The Green Bay Diary of Jerry Kramer, I am diving headfirst into the WOLFEEEEEEE

You have been saying that for months. Less talkie more readie.

[Rob Instigator]

Months!

[Severian]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

Months!

Months.

[Rob Instigator]

one cannot force the mind's appeal!!!

[Severian]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

one cannot force the mind's appeal!!!

But one can, apparently, lie about what one is going to read as soon as one is done with what one is currently reading.

Get it done.

Pussy.

[Rob Instigator]