what are you reading? - Page 239

Severian · 10.16.2017, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by gogologogolo

I'm reading A Fire Upon the Deep. High concept science fiction about the far future when humans have colonized the Galaxy, and omniscient super-AIs protect and destroy entire civilizations. Pretty visionary entertaining stuff, I'd recommend it.

Yes! Good stuff.

demonrail666 · 10.16.2017, 04:15 PM

John Fante, Ask the Dust

Re-reading this, a personal fave, guaranteed to appeal to fans of Hubert Selby and Bukowski (who wrote the foreword claiming it inspired him to become a writer).

h8kurdt · 10.17.2017, 03:21 AM

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Originally Posted by demonrail666

John Fante, Ask the Dust

Re-reading this, a personal fave, guaranteed to appeal to fans of Hubert Selby and Bukowski (who wrote the foreword claiming it inspired him to become a writer).

*ear perks up*

Oh really?

!@#$%! · 10.17.2017, 02:34 PM

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Originally Posted by h8kurdt

*ear perks up*

Oh really?

me too! without the hashtags

tesla69 · 10.30.2017, 04:54 PM

Runnin’ With the Devil: A Backstage Pass Into the Wild Times, Loud Rock and the Down and Dirty Truth Behind the Making of Van Halen. Penned by Noel E. Monk.

Its ok and has some educational material but there is also a vagueness that may be explained by the single line tucked towards the end when Monk mentions his old friend Valium.

Rob Instigator · 10.31.2017, 08:29 AM

I like to collect music. I look for fungi of all types and take photos of them. I watch American Football and my Astros (GO ASTROS!). I draw and paint. I write book reviews of all I read. I enjoy inhaling the smoke from green flowers. I like cheese of all types.

Severian · 10.31.2017, 09:47 AM

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Originally Posted by SheeddySuic

In order to breathe some life into the sub-forum and get to know people here.

Besides the given what are your hobbies. What do you like to do in your spare time that brings a lot of enjoyement to you?

Uh... working. Watching shows and movies after a long day of work. Critiquing everything I see and hear. Comic books. Stats and science shit — research. Politics — following political and social developments and subsequently freaking out about them.

Animals. Love animals.

I also have this lifelong habit of coming up with shit in my head. No matter what I’m doing, my brain seems to automatically try its hand at said thing. If I’m reading comic books, I think of comic book characters I would create if I were in that field (I probably have a whole multiverse of bad ideas saved up at this point). When I’m thinking about music a lot, I can’t help but come up with imaginary bands and artists and labels and albums... alternative histories, and so on. I do the same with books and movies. Make shit in my head. Never actually make anything though. Well... I do write all the time and I have made tons of music, but not the kind of stuff that I do in my imagination.

This is probably indicative of some kind of borderline spectrum disorder, honestly. Probably means I’m crazy or worse.

Rob Instigator · 11.09.2017, 04:34 PM

finished 100 Edible Mushrooms https://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2017/...mushrooms.html

ilduclo · 11.09.2017, 05:11 PM

I really like finding great authors. Really dislike finding them after their deaths

"Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives."

!@#$%! · 11.09.2017, 05:42 PM

franquista de mierda

Severian · 11.09.2017, 06:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

I am just plain never going to finish “Book of the New Sun,” which I started a year and a half ago, said I loved, and put down to read nine thousand pages of mushroom guides. I am also never going to respond to my good friend Severian, who introduced me to said book and also to other books I have loved like “Annihilation,” when he asks me if I’m ever going to finish “Book of the New Sun.”

Yeah tell me about it.

Severian · 11.09.2017, 06:36 PM

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Originally Posted by ilduclo

I really like finding great authors. Really dislike finding them after their deaths

"Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives."

I don’t think I’ve ever heard of this.

What’s it like?

ilduclo · 11.10.2017, 11:06 AM

Growing up poor in rural Spain. Published in 1942, so there's Franco and the church pretty much in control, brutal, but with a surprising amount of humor & so well written.

Severian · 11.10.2017, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by ilduclo

Growing up poor in rural Spain. Published in 1942, so there's Franco and the church pretty much in control, brutal, but with a surprising amount of humor & so well written.

Nice. Thanks. I will look into it for sure.

ilduclo · 11.10.2017, 11:19 AM

Chirbes "On the Edge" for a contemporary view of a similar story

Rob Instigator · 11.13.2017, 09:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Severian

Yeah tell me about it.

HAHAHHA! I told you I read only 4-5 novels a year! I slam my brain against grad-level science and reference books for the most part. ahhaa. I told you I wuld finish BOTNS, and I will! sonic promise. I will finish the second book by xmas.

!@#$%! · 11.13.2017, 10:07 AM

i don’t understand finishing a book you started because “you have to”

i did too much of that in grad school— ruined reading for me, for years

life is too short to read books that cease to interest you, especially when it’s for leisure

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i’m rereading this:

a great book for where i live. i’m sure more people will need it where the earth is going

Severian · 11.13.2017, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

HAHAHHA! I told you I read only 4-5 novels a year! I slam my brain against grad-level science and reference books for the most part. ahhaa. I told you I wuld finish BOTNS, and I will! sonic promise. I will finish the second book by xmas.

Yeah, but each book is only like 100 pages! Jesus! Just read the thing! It’s all supposed to be one book anyway. Cripes!

It’s the fact that you read such heavy material that I know you are up to it. It’s because of that that I recommended it to you. I told you, I’ve only met one other person who’s finished it.

Anyway. Fucking Christmas bitch.

Severian · 11.13.2017, 11:28 AM

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!

i don’t understand finishing a book you started because “you have to”

i did too much of that in grad school— ruined reading for me, for years

life is too short to read books that cease to interest you, especially when it’s for leisure

Well BOTNS is the best thing ever. If Gene Wolfe were a more well-known author, this thing would be taught in grad level philosophy courses. Makes Lord of the Rings look basic.

I’ve just never had anyone to talk about it with is all.

Anyway, Rob read the first volume (was published in four volumes), and said he loved it. And he hasn’t even scratched the surface of the story, so I wanted him to finish the COCKSUCJING THING BECAUSE I HAVE NO CONTROL OVER ANYTHING!

!@#$%! · 11.13.2017, 11:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Severian

Makes Lord of the Rings look basic.

LOTR makes LOTR look basic!

so what you’re saying is... potshots are free for all?

as for that book i think if he loved it as much as he said he would have continued

one time i skipped an organic chemistry exam because i was way too deep into a cortázar book (hopscotch). i fucking lied to the teacher, claimed i was sick.

i can’t read cortázar these days anymore but when i got the bug i got the bug and i got it bad.

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im gonna go look at the first pages of this book you say and see if it’s true. but if LOTR is your benchmark... i don’t know.

10.16.2017, 04:15 PM	#4762
demonrail666 invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 18,510	John Fante, Ask the Dust Re-reading this, a personal fave, guaranteed to appeal to fans of Hubert Selby and Bukowski (who wrote the foreword claiming it inspired him to become a writer).
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10.30.2017, 04:54 PM	#4765
tesla69 Banned Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: NYC Posts: 4,055	Runnin’ With the Devil: A Backstage Pass Into the Wild Times, Loud Rock and the Down and Dirty Truth Behind the Making of Van Halen. Penned by Noel E. Monk. Its ok and has some educational material but there is also a vagueness that may be explained by the single line tucked towards the end when Monk mentions his old friend Valium.
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10.31.2017, 08:29 AM	#4766
Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,976	I like to collect music. I look for fungi of all types and take photos of them. I watch American Football and my Astros (GO ASTROS!). I draw and paint. I write book reviews of all I read. I enjoy inhaling the smoke from green flowers. I like cheese of all types. __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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11.09.2017, 04:34 PM	#4768
Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,976	finished 100 Edible Mushrooms https://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2017/...mushrooms.html __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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11.09.2017, 05:11 PM	#4769
ilduclo invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 3,305	I really like finding great authors. Really dislike finding them after their deaths "Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives."
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11.09.2017, 05:42 PM	#4770
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,564	franquista de mierda
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11.10.2017, 11:06 AM	#4773
ilduclo invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 3,305	Growing up poor in rural Spain. Published in 1942, so there's Franco and the church pretty much in control, brutal, but with a surprising amount of humor & so well written.
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11.10.2017, 11:19 AM	#4775
ilduclo invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 3,305	Chirbes "On the Edge" for a contemporary view of a similar story
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11.13.2017, 10:07 AM	#4777
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,564	i don’t understand finishing a book you started because “you have to” i did too much of that in grad school— ruined reading for me, for years life is too short to read books that cease to interest you, especially when it’s for leisure — i’m rereading this: a great book for where i live. i’m sure more people will need it where the earth is going
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