guttertech
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Post by guttertech on Jul 11, 2018 16:37:43 GMT -5
about to start In Cold Blood.
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Post by immortalrites on Jul 11, 2018 18:21:47 GMT -5
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Post by folding person on Jul 12, 2018 13:05:19 GMT -5
About 100 pages into The Pale King.
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Post by throwdemgunz on Jul 12, 2018 17:03:47 GMT -5
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
Its a bit of a slog so far but I'm enjoying it
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Post by versailles on Jul 12, 2018 17:14:55 GMT -5
I'm finishing the Berserk manga.
Book wise I'm reading The Three Body Problem.
Berserk is better. Gonna read Made in Abyss next.
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Post by solidsnake on Jul 13, 2018 22:08:28 GMT -5
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Post by face of a pervert on Jul 13, 2018 23:04:08 GMT -5
bout halfway through of my yearly reading of Mona Lisa Overdrive
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Post by ilovebirds on Jul 14, 2018 0:12:30 GMT -5
The left hand of darkness, it rules pretty hard
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Post by killthekool on Jul 16, 2018 15:14:27 GMT -5
I'm going into the clink for 3 weeks. what books would be good to order from amazon and shipped in to me? I wanna grab like 3-4.. I would bring in books from home but its gotta be from a 3rd party
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Post by stevedave on Jul 16, 2018 17:29:38 GMT -5
I read The Stand by Stephen King when I was in last year. It’s wicked long, so it took up a good chunk of time. I’m assuming there will be some sort of library there but I don’t know what the selection will be like. Tried to read Moby Dick but it is boring as fuuuuck.
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Post by brahskolnikov on Jul 18, 2018 13:14:35 GMT -5
Just finished "Soccer in Sun and Shadow" by Eduardo Galeano. Just started rereading "V" by Pynchon. I'm also starting "Stream Cycle" by Gerald Murnane.
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Post by guttertech on Jul 19, 2018 13:03:41 GMT -5
just finished this and picked this up for something quick
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Post by paulkersey on Jul 19, 2018 13:11:25 GMT -5
Since summer began I reread The Outsiders and Of Mice and Men since I'm teaching both in summer school. Read through One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest for the first time (made me want to rewatch the movie since its been years). Almost done with The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion. For people into international shit, particularly Russia, Masha Gessen's award-winning book The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia is very dense but so good.
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Post by stevedave on Jul 19, 2018 22:24:24 GMT -5
Since summer began I reread The Outsiders and Of Mice and Men since I'm teaching both in summer school. Read through One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest for the first time (made me want to rewatch the movie since its been years). Almost done with The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion. For people into international shit, particularly Russia, Masha Gessen's award-winning book The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia is very dense but so good. I still have my copy of the Outsiders that I took from my 7th grade teacher. I reread it every couple years, and wrote my essay portion of my SATs on it. It’s definitely up there as an all time favorite for me.
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Post by liquidswords on Jul 19, 2018 23:00:50 GMT -5
Pandora's box a huge 1k+ tome about World War One Which I've been splitting by reading with two lil pulp books, a sci-fi from ace, called doomsday 1999 by Paul mactyre & a Vietnam story from ivy called dear mom : a sniper's veitnam by Joseph T ward.
Trying to decide which is my next two books, 1 nonfiction & 1 fiction
Looks like I got my choices narrowed downed to: Non fiction -
Goddess of anarchy: the life & times of Lucy parsons. American radical by Jacqueline jones
The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of color blindness by Michelle Alexander
Or secrets of the flesh : a life of Colette by Judith Thurman
Fiction-
Therese Raquin by Emile Zola
Songs of a dead dreamer and grimscribe by Thomas ligotti
The white plague by frank Herbert
Or A single man by Christopher Isherwood .
Please help by voting for one from each category pleaseeee. Share your thoughts if you read any that I've listed in this here post.
GOODREADS users please add me, @vaginalvoodoo / I'm a bit in love with using it, and forever adding books to my TBR
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Post by guttertech on Jul 20, 2018 10:16:40 GMT -5
I'd recommend the Ligotti collection on the strength of The Last Feast of Harlequin and The Shadow at the Bottom of the World alone. SoaDD can seem a bit amateurish at times being his first book, so keep that in mind if the first few stories seem a little bit hokey. It's nowhere near as bad as Lovecraft's juvenilia for example, but something to keep in mind.
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Post by jimmychance on Jul 20, 2018 13:23:29 GMT -5
Finishing up Blade of the Immortal omnibus V. Going to start Troublemaker(surviving Hollywood and Scientology) by Leah Remini.
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Post by Panera Lemonade Specialist on Jul 20, 2018 13:34:16 GMT -5
April Blood by Lauro Martines. It's about Florence and the plot against the Medici.
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Post by benitalone on Jul 20, 2018 13:52:57 GMT -5
The Game of War: The Life and Death of Guy Debord. Next is Confession of an English opium-eater.
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Post by Guybrush Threepwood on Jul 21, 2018 17:57:59 GMT -5
For the last three weeks I've been reading Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. I'm reading in concert with the Half Hour Hegel series on YouTube, which translates to 1-3 paragraphs per day. I'm now on paragraph 51 (past the half-way point of the preface) and there are 808 sections which means I have 0% chance of finishing this book on my first attempt.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2018 17:40:09 GMT -5
Hegel and Debord are backed.
Monthly library haul:
Present Shock by Douglas Rushkoff Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television by Jerome Mander The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul War on Peace by Ronan Farrow
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Post by folding person on Jul 25, 2018 13:30:37 GMT -5
If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2018 13:36:48 GMT -5
President Carter: The White House Years by Stuart Eizenstat.
Very good and, from what I can tell so far, fair assessment of Carter's presidency.
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Post by tenthplanet on Jul 25, 2018 14:18:59 GMT -5
If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino I've had a copy of his Cosmicomics by my bed for the last year, every now and then I'll pick it up and read a couple. What an incredible writer. Anyways, I've been reading The Genocides by Thomas Disch. Dated in language and style, but the story is crushing. Also been slowly making my way through From Eternity to Here by Sean Carroll.
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Post by mutateme on Jul 27, 2018 19:32:38 GMT -5
Saga and It
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2018 19:50:35 GMT -5
Not sure if anyone else has this problem but I have a hard time reading fiction. Essays or short stories are a bit easier but I still feel like it's overly stylized. 10 people can read Bartleby the Scrivener and end up with 10 different interpretations. There's value in the ambiguity and discussion but I prefer nonfiction where authors are making concrete points.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2018 3:20:39 GMT -5
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guttertech
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Post by guttertech on Jul 28, 2018 13:13:10 GMT -5
Not sure if anyone else has this problem but I have a hard time reading fiction. Essays or short stories are a bit easier but I still feel like it's overly stylized. 10 people can read Bartleby the Scrivener and end up with 10 different interpretations. There's value in the ambiguity and discussion but I prefer nonfiction where authors are making concrete points. Wouldn't you say the same occurs with David Lynch films or any other artist who doesn't neatly package his ideas? I think you have to look at literature as an aesthetic whole that doesn't necessarily have utilitarian aims rather than something that can always and only be boiled down to clearly defined points and meanings. See it as an illumination of all the corners of human experience that would lose their richness if they only existed in textbook analyses. It's the difference between reading Wuthering Heights and an academic work on intergenerational abuse or class mobility.
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Post by Spice 1 on Jul 28, 2018 20:50:17 GMT -5
Not sure if anyone else has this problem but I have a hard time reading fiction. Essays or short stories are a bit easier but I still feel like it's overly stylized. 10 people can read Bartleby the Scrivener and end up with 10 different interpretations. There's value in the ambiguity and discussion but I prefer nonfiction where authors are making concrete points. I mean, this sort of echoes the tireless debate between Platonics and Aristotelianism. You should read Plato’s Pharmacy by Derrida, if you haven’t already. Also you picked up that Rushkoff book, which I think you’ll really enjoy because a lot of his thought runs parallel to some of your posting, but holy shit I could not stand that book. I’m pretty sure it’s early on, but my eyes were rolling so hard when he talks about the collapse of the narrative.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2018 21:16:44 GMT -5
Not sure if anyone else has this problem but I have a hard time reading fiction. Essays or short stories are a bit easier but I still feel like it's overly stylized. 10 people can read Bartleby the Scrivener and end up with 10 different interpretations. There's value in the ambiguity and discussion but I prefer nonfiction where authors are making concrete points. Wouldn't ya say the same occurs with David Lynch films or any other artist who doesn't neatly package his ideas? I think ya have to look at literature as an aesthetic whole that doesn't necessarily have utilitarian aims rather than something that can always and only be boiled down to clearly defined points and meanings. See it as an illumination of all the corners of human experience that would lose their richness if they only existed in textbook analyses. It's the difference between reading Wuthering Heights and an academic work on intergenerational abuse or class mobility. Good point on Lynch but I'm the complete opposite and actually enjoy that from film though. I hardly even watch movies but I think the subversion of narrative structure in visual media explores more possibilities. Lynch, specifically, is a master at subjectivity at its most absurd. I'm not anti-fiction at all and probably could've explained myself better. I read a lot of religious books, Greek mythology etc. but I can't sit down through Steven King a Star Wars (which I love) book or most classic novels. I appreciate their importance but it's really just a preference at this point.
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