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Bertrand · 06.07.2018, 06:22 AM

I do plan to join and squash you all, !@#$%!, but the damn site keeps saying it'll be coming soon.
I wish I already had all the data to create a team.
Why the postponing? Can I blame the Russians?

I'll read Hans Castorp's "story" during pauses.

h8kurdt · 06.07.2018, 07:38 AM

I heard it was June 7th but nothing so far. If nothing comes up by Friday I'll find another site and use that instead.

!@#$%! · 06.07.2018, 08:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Bertrand

I do plan to join and squash you all, !@#$%!, but the damn site keeps saying it'll be coming soon.
I wish I already had all the data to create a team.
Why the postponing? Can I blame the Russians?

I'll read Hans Castorp's "story" during pauses.

that’s great news on you joining, not so great on the software fails, and yes let’s blame putin

i’ll match your practices then and get on with some dostoevsky.

demonrail666 · 06.07.2018, 03:42 PM

Just finished Saul Bellow's Seize the Day and Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint. Interested to read more of both but I think, of the two, I'll probably end up preferring Bellow.

dirty bunny · 06.07.2018, 04:53 PM

I finished The Great And Secret Show by Clive Barker, and I was thinking of reading his The Thief Of Always.
Maybe I'll take a break and read a Dick Francis or Ian Rankin instead.

Rob Instigator · 06.15.2018, 11:20 AM

I have been writing to the authors of the books I review. Just got an email from 94 year old physicist genius mathematician Freeman Dyson!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! man, fucking awesome. I get just as hype for talking to physicist as I do for talking to my rock god heroes!!!!!!!

!@#$%! · 06.15.2018, 12:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

I have been writing to the authors of the books I review. Just got an email from 94 year old physicist genius mathematician Freeman Dyson!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! man, fucking awesome. I get just as hype for talking to physicist as I do for talking to my rock god heroes!!!!!!!

whoa! freeman dyson!

how did he invent the vacuum cleaner?

but seriously now, that’s awesome

tw2113 · 06.15.2018, 12:34 PM

Finished up "On Stranger Tides" on Tuesday.

Planning to start "Foley is Good: And the Real World is Faker Than Wrestling" by Mick Foley next. Been years since I read it.

After that, my general plans look to be a re-read of all the Harry Potter books. That'll likely finish up my year.

Rob Instigator · 06.15.2018, 12:41 PM

he even gave me some reading suggestions. sweet,

Rob Instigator · 06.15.2018, 02:37 PM

Just finished Alexander Solzhenitsyn's first novel, One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich. http://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2018/0...iterature.html

tesla69 · 06.18.2018, 05:09 PM

Scars of Independence by Holger Hoock, a German academic who looks at the American Revolution, or Civil War, through the lens of violence. Having all the massacres, atrocities, biowar, torture, vendettas, death camps, etc in one volume is great reading! The vicious fighting in the South and New Jersey are particularly emphasized

ilduclo · 06.22.2018, 01:03 PM

Out by Natsuo Kirino

winner of crime writing award in Ja. Not bad, female protagonists, complex situations.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25365.Out

!@#$%! · 06.22.2018, 01:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

Just finished Alexander Solzhenitsyn's first novel, One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich. http://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2018/0...iterature.html

hey dude i read your review and it’s a good one.

but i’d take it a step further, see...

it’s not just that one can adapt to “horrific” circumstances imposed by political imprisonment under totalitarian systems

sometimes the horrific prison comes from something else—illness, poverty, depression, etc.

the larger, practical meaning for me is that one can manage to score small victories that keep us going or give our life meaning when every other option is closed.

yes, building a good wall for your captors is a minimal victory— but the satisfaction of doing a good job is something, and it’s meaningful in that small restricted world.

and that is how one survives when in chains. whether the chains are a siberian gulag or an oppressive job or a country gone mad or a struggle with mental illness.

the same kind of effort, the squeezing a victory out of whatever our circumstances, helps us survive all kinds of difficulties too. more than just a story... it’s a demonstration of a technique.

Rob Instigator · 06.22.2018, 02:19 PM

Very true. Food for thought.

demonrail666 · 06.23.2018, 09:41 AM

I reread Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach today, after discussing it here a few weeks ago. Whatever issues I might have had about it before seemed to evaporate this time round - maybe because this time I read it in one single go. Beautifully written and constructed is a given with McEwan but, while it may superficially lack the edge of his earlier books, in some ways it's even tougher. And truly heartbreaking, in a way that other novels try but rarely actually achieve.

_tunic_ · 06.24.2018, 04:50 AM

My Sunday lecture:
Man admits having sex with 1,000 cars

Afterthought:
I'll never rent a car again!
Yuck

tw2113 · 06.24.2018, 03:21 PM

Foley Is Good is done. Onwards to Harry Potter!

h8kurdt · 06.24.2018, 03:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tw2113

Foley Is Good is done.

Such a great book that. The first probably pips it, mind

tw2113 · 06.24.2018, 06:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by h8kurdt

Such a great book that. The first probably pips it, mind

Must agree, "Have A Nice Day!" is better, but definitely a worthy followup.

Rob Instigator · 06.28.2018, 03:53 PM

RIP Harlan Ellison http://www.vulture.com/2018/06/write...ead-at-84.html

06.07.2018, 06:22 AM	#5121
Bertrand expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Rennes, France Posts: 1,267	I do plan to join and squash you all, !@#$%!, but the damn site keeps saying it'll be coming soon. I wish I already had all the data to create a team. Why the postponing? Can I blame the Russians? I'll read Hans Castorp's "story" during pauses.
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06.07.2018, 07:38 AM	#5122
h8kurdt invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In Mulder's Basement room Posts: 5,459	I heard it was June 7th but nothing so far. If nothing comes up by Friday I'll find another site and use that instead. __________________ Down with this sort of thing.
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06.07.2018, 03:42 PM	#5124
demonrail666 invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 18,510	Just finished Saul Bellow's Seize the Day and Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint. Interested to read more of both but I think, of the two, I'll probably end up preferring Bellow.
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06.07.2018, 04:53 PM	#5125
dirty bunny expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: oh, why Texas actually Posts: 1,680	I finished The Great And Secret Show by Clive Barker, and I was thinking of reading his The Thief Of Always. Maybe I'll take a break and read a Dick Francis or Ian Rankin instead. __________________ kiss me kiss me in the shadow of a doubt
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06.15.2018, 11:20 AM	#5126
Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,959	I have been writing to the authors of the books I review. Just got an email from 94 year old physicist genius mathematician Freeman Dyson!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! man, fucking awesome. I get just as hype for talking to physicist as I do for talking to my rock god heroes!!!!!!! __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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06.15.2018, 12:34 PM	#5128
tw2113 expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: South Dakota Posts: 2,145	Finished up "On Stranger Tides" on Tuesday. Planning to start "Foley is Good: And the Real World is Faker Than Wrestling" by Mick Foley next. Been years since I read it. After that, my general plans look to be a re-read of all the Harry Potter books. That'll likely finish up my year. __________________ Shake shake
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06.15.2018, 12:41 PM	#5129
Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,959	he even gave me some reading suggestions. sweet, __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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06.15.2018, 02:37 PM	#5130
Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,959	Just finished Alexander Solzhenitsyn's first novel, One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich. http://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2018/0...iterature.html __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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06.18.2018, 05:09 PM	#5131
tesla69 Banned Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: NYC Posts: 4,055	Scars of Independence by Holger Hoock, a German academic who looks at the American Revolution, or Civil War, through the lens of violence. Having all the massacres, atrocities, biowar, torture, vendettas, death camps, etc in one volume is great reading! The vicious fighting in the South and New Jersey are particularly emphasized
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06.22.2018, 01:03 PM	#5132
ilduclo invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 3,305	Out by Natsuo Kirino winner of crime writing award in Ja. Not bad, female protagonists, complex situations. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25365.Out
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06.22.2018, 02:19 PM	#5134
Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,959	Very true. Food for thought. __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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06.23.2018, 09:41 AM	#5135
demonrail666 invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 18,510	I reread Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach today, after discussing it here a few weeks ago. Whatever issues I might have had about it before seemed to evaporate this time round - maybe because this time I read it in one single go. Beautifully written and constructed is a given with McEwan but, while it may superficially lack the edge of his earlier books, in some ways it's even tougher. And truly heartbreaking, in a way that other novels try but rarely actually achieve.
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06.24.2018, 04:50 AM	#5136
_tunic_ invito al cielo Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: I could live in eurHope Posts: 3,936	My Sunday lecture: Man admits having sex with 1,000 cars Afterthought: I'll never rent a car again! Yuck __________________ what comes first, the music or the words?
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06.24.2018, 03:21 PM	#5137
tw2113 expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: South Dakota Posts: 2,145	Foley Is Good is done. Onwards to Harry Potter! __________________ Shake shake
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06.28.2018, 03:53 PM	#5140
Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,959	RIP Harlan Ellison http://www.vulture.com/2018/06/write...ead-at-84.html __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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