[pony]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

read nietzsche. he might cure you.

plus— such a pleasure!

-

eta: i understand also the prose in the original is amazing. i can only read translation

i finished the book just to make sure it really was shit. and it was.
now i am off to new, and hopefully better, adventures

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by pony

i finished the book just to make sure it really was shit. and it was.
now i am off to new, and hopefully better, adventures

you want adventures?

go visit the empress...

 

[Rob Instigator]

Originally Posted by Severian

BOOK
OF
THE
NEW
SUN
?
?
?

coming up dawg.... coming up.

I am currently reading an anthropological text called The Gender of Debt by Mariano Pavanello, an Italian retired professor of anthropology.

he actually reached out to me and offered the book for me to review. https://www.cambridgescholars.com/the-gender-of-debt

[Rob Instigator]

My stated goal with my book review blog was for it to become a resource, and for heady, nerdy, intellectual types to want to contact me so I can review their books, and IT IS HAPPENING! (Just took almost 5 years....) http://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/

[!@#$%!]

was just coming in to say CONGRATS!

must spread more quantum paste...

[Rob Instigator]

(needs more charactersssss)

[Severian]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

My stated goal with my book review blog was for it to become a resource, and for heady, nerdy, intellectual types to want to contact me so I can review their books, and IT IS HAPPENING! (Just took almost 5 years....) http://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/

Right on, man. Well done!

(I was actually really looking forward to reviews of the remaining New Sun books, hence the hounding... so the hounding has been a compliment, and I shall pay you more!)

[!@#$%!]

 

[tw2113]

Made about 111 page progress on "Small Victories". Started just short of Mosely's firing all the way through "The Real Thing"'s rocket and ending in the early stages of "Angel Dust"'s recording.


Loving this book, but having a long appreciation for the band in the first place does NOT hurt.

[Severian]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

coming up dawg.... coming up.

Thank the gods

he actually reached out to me and offered the book for me to review. https://www.cambridgescholars.com/the-gender-of-debt

Cool! Well done!

[tw2113]

And finished. Onwards to Pirate Latitudes. Been a good weekend.

[!@#$%!]

feel free to laugh at me. im testing this app

https://www.blinkist.com/

yes yes yes. cliff notes are not books.

and yet so many nonfiction books these days are just 2 or 3 ideas wrapped in a bunch of fluff...

why not skip the fluff and decide later what’s worth a full read?

been reading a bunch of summaries. so far so good...

[pony]

I am reading Maria Stepanova's "Nach dem Gedächtnis" (original: Pamjati pamjati). She writes about all things that have to do with memory. It is really nice, as she is using theory, novels, art, but also stories of her own, and letters and pictures of/written by her older family members (of those she has known, and those she had never met) in order to discuss memory. At times it is hard to follow and I am not sure if I do get everything she is saying/I have to re-read a lot. That is probably because I am not so used to russian sentence structure? I am not sure. I do enjoy the book a lot though and I am sad that, apparently, there aren't any other books by the author translated into German.
I saw the author doing a reading back in March. Before that, I had never heard of her. The reading was of her poetry (which I can't find translations of; at the event they used a power point presentation with translations in Dutch, French, and English) was in Russian, it was so nice to listen to Poetry in Russian! I instantly fell in love with her. She also talked about the book that I am reading right now, but there was no mention of any translation. Found it by "accident" in a book store and overdrafted my bank account, ha ha ha.

I don't think there is an English translation out yet. I could only find (the original) Russian, German, Dutch. The French version will come out next month, I think. If you guys can read any of those languages, I highly recommend reading this book. If you cannot, I am crossing my fingers for you for an English translation to come out soon!


/edit: I went book shopping, and I will these books shortly:

Helene Bukowski - Milchzähne
Annie Ernaux - A Man's Place
Édouard Louis - History of Violence
A book of essays by David Grossmann, titled Eine Taube erschießen
Bessel van der Kolk - The Body Keeps the Score
Leslie Jamison - The Recovering
Tiqqun - Introduction to Civil War
W.G. Sebald - Austerlitz

[The Gazpacho Gestapo]

Originally Posted by pony

 

reading this because people have been hyping it so much....so I decided to read it. I am halfway trough now and I am kind of annoyed with it. It has loads of references to lots of bands like Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., Bikini Kill, etc., to hip books, movies.... But the references just seem like name dropping. It annoys me so much, because they really don't give anything to the story. I feel like the author will just seem very cool for knowing all of these bands. Can't wait to be done with this book.

|||| lol so its just Ready Player One for hippies?

ooo look at me im a fancy man listening to throbbing grizzle and eating miracle whip with a fork look at my fancy dress

XDXDXD 100

i read this book

 

[tw2113]

And topped off Pirate Latitudes. One of the things I found interesting is that it was actually posthumously published for Crichton.

[LifeDistortion]

This month I actually have a to be read pile of books. Currently reading

 

[tw2113]

For lack of better term, I'm reading an indie book named "Foop!" by a Chris Genoa. Definitely an odd one, and not sure what i think of it, even being halfway through. However, it's one of those i'll finish just to see how it finishes.


Likely to follow up with "Rat Girl" by Kristen Hersh of Throwing Muses fame.

[demonrail666]

Originally Posted by LifeDistortion

This month I actually have a to be read pile of books. Currently reading

 

How is that? I liked the other hardboiled novel he wrote, Joyland, but I hear mixed things about this one.

[LifeDistortion]

I literally just started it, I'm 50 pages in. Its alright so far.

[Severian]

Originally Posted by LifeDistortion

I literally just started it, I'm 50 pages in. Its alright so far.

There’s a corny series on Syfy called “Eureka” that contains a fuckton of references to “The Colorado Kid,” but is not a direct adaptation.

Weird.

Also, Syfy channel, so pretty bad.