pisswizard
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Post by pisswizard on Jun 10, 2024 7:45:16 GMT -5
Still Not At Night is from a series of books that are full of short stories from pulp magazines. Mostly 30’s stuff very awesome. Finished that and just reading this Conan book I found at a market. Just read the first story in it. I have read a lot of Conan books but its always nice to go back and read the original Robert E Howard ones. This copy had lots of cool pulp mag style illustrations to go with it.
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Post by twocripplesdancing on Jun 11, 2024 9:10:15 GMT -5
Just read Maggie Nelson's Bluets, and now I'm onto Faulkner's As I Lay Dying.
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giorgio merauder
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Post by giorgio merauder on Jun 11, 2024 10:18:13 GMT -5
book rules you gonna read the rest of the trilogy? I'm about halfway through Count Zero right now and it's really good
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Post by toddparker on Jun 11, 2024 10:22:16 GMT -5
I finally got around to reading All the Pretty Horses. It was really everything I had hoped it would be. I might hop right into the Crossing.
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theboobox
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Post by theboobox on Jun 11, 2024 10:34:42 GMT -5
George Lucas: A Life by Brian Jay Jones to catch up on all his biographies
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Post by bufoalvarius on Jun 11, 2024 11:30:47 GMT -5
it has the smallest text outside of like the bible but it's very good so far.
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stevedave
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Post by stevedave on Jun 11, 2024 12:06:51 GMT -5
Read Breakfast at Tiffany’s yesterday. Haven’t seen the movie and this wasn’t anything like I expected it to be. I’ve known a few Holly Golightly types in my life and that shit is exhausting. I really love Capote’s writing style.
Picked up a pretty big stack at the used book store recently. Really gotta start chipping away at my backlog.
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theboobox
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Post by theboobox on Jun 11, 2024 12:20:06 GMT -5
I do want to read that since I soft DNFed In Cold Blood (good book but I was reading too much at that time)
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Post by perimeter player on Jun 11, 2024 12:35:11 GMT -5
Always hard for gothic romanticism
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Mr. Dingle Foot
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Post by Mr. Dingle Foot on Jun 11, 2024 12:48:33 GMT -5
Recently picked up Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel and enjoy it.
Ive been trying to make it through all of the man booker winners whenever I find them. I have an awful time picking out a book so this keeps me on track.
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Post by stevedave on Jun 11, 2024 15:15:33 GMT -5
I do want to read that since I soft DNFed In Cold Blood (good book but I was reading too much at that time) In Cold Blood was the first I read by Capote and was pretty captivated the entire time. Highly suggest giving it another go.
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Post by folding person on Jun 11, 2024 18:19:04 GMT -5
book rules you gonna read the rest of the trilogy? I'm about halfway through Count Zero right now and it's really good Oh yeah. I read it back in college, but never finished the trilogy. Gonna read all 3 this summer. I’m enjoying it more this time around too. I feel like it’s become a more prescient series since the advent of modern AI.
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beowulf
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Post by beowulf on Jun 11, 2024 20:00:44 GMT -5
Just read Maggie Nelson's Bluets, and now I'm onto Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. Also reading As I Lay Dying right now.
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Post by wedealinlead on Jun 11, 2024 20:24:00 GMT -5
John Wyndham - The Chrysalids
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pisswizard
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Post by pisswizard on Jun 12, 2024 2:14:52 GMT -5
John Wyndham - The Chrysalids That book is fuckin sick really liked that. Have you read Chocky?
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Post by twocripplesdancing on Jun 12, 2024 4:32:53 GMT -5
Just read Maggie Nelson's Bluets, and now I'm onto Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. Also reading As I Lay Dying right now. How you finding it? First time reading Faulkner, and I'm not sure so far.
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Post by wedealinlead on Jun 12, 2024 12:02:24 GMT -5
John Wyndham - The Chrysalids That book is fuckin sick really liked that. Have you read Chocky? Not yet but I'm planning on reading everything he wrote.
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Post by Thin Lizzy Gulag Graduate on Jun 12, 2024 12:12:18 GMT -5
Started You Can’t Win…for the 3rd time. Have never made it past the first chapter cause I get too distracted
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Post by Jacked Homeboy on Jun 12, 2024 14:01:42 GMT -5
Recently picked up Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel and enjoy it. Ive been trying to make it through all of the man booker winners whenever I find them. I have an awful time picking out a book so this keeps me on track. Read Wolf Hall a while back. Loved it. Congrats on the new born btw fam x
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theboobox
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Post by theboobox on Jun 12, 2024 14:08:22 GMT -5
Recently picked up Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel and enjoy it. Ive been trying to make it through all of the man booker winners whenever I find them. I have an awful time picking out a book so this keeps me on track. been on my TBR list for a minute
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Post by Guybrush Threepwood on Jun 12, 2024 14:11:26 GMT -5
John Wyndham - The Chrysalids Flashback to grade 8. I should read this again, clearly been a while.
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Mr. Dingle Foot
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Post by Mr. Dingle Foot on Jun 12, 2024 14:33:59 GMT -5
Recently picked up Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel and enjoy it. Ive been trying to make it through all of the man booker winners whenever I find them. I have an awful time picking out a book so this keeps me on track. been on my TBR list for a minute its not bad but taking a bit to get all the names/relations in order.
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beowulf
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Post by beowulf on Jun 12, 2024 19:45:28 GMT -5
Also reading As I Lay Dying right now. How you finding it? First time reading Faulkner, and I'm not sure so far. Same it is the first Faulkner I read as well. I wasn't expecting it to be this challenging-- I thought it was like a classic high school book report kind of joint but this would be too hard for most high schoolers to read. The whole modernist thing threw me off at first but I am kind of into it now. Vardaman cracks me up. Started to get into it more around the scene where they cross the ford/Addie's chapter about two thirds of the way through.
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Post by burp on Jun 12, 2024 20:07:02 GMT -5
really dislike how the beginning of Solenoid is just talkin bout bugs
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Post by antipasto on Jun 12, 2024 21:11:32 GMT -5
really dislike how the beginning of Solenoid is just talkin bout bugs This makes me wanna read it haha. When I read Woman in the Dunes I was really loving all of the bug talk
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pisswizard
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Post by pisswizard on Jun 12, 2024 21:13:38 GMT -5
That book is fuckin sick really liked that. Have you read Chocky? Not yet but I'm planning on reading everything he wrote. Same, I have a stack of paperbacks all matching that I grabbed at a secondhand place. I have read The Chrisalids, Chocky and Day of the Triffids so far.
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Post by Radiation on Jun 12, 2024 21:44:20 GMT -5
I'm reading Moby Dick and it's fuckin bad ass
I finished reading Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin a couple weeks ago and it was incredible. Such a master of emotionality...
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Post by twocripplesdancing on Jun 13, 2024 1:54:03 GMT -5
How you finding it? First time reading Faulkner, and I'm not sure so far. Same it is the first Faulkner I read as well. I wasn't expecting it to be this challenging-- I thought it was like a classic high school book report kind of joint but this would be too hard for most high schoolers to read. The whole modernist thing threw me off at first but I am kind of into it now. Vardaman cracks me up. Started to get into it more around the scene where they cross the ford/Addie's chapter about two thirds of the way through. Yeah, I'm finding it a little tough. I like the differing perspectives, but I can't get my hooks into how they're written, though occasionally he'll come out with a heater line. They're just words on a page, and I seem to be glossing over them. Not up to the part you've mentioned though, so hopefully things click for me by then.
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giorgio merauder
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Post by giorgio merauder on Jun 13, 2024 18:54:46 GMT -5
finished count zero today shit was tight, I loved all the voodoo bits and the way all the plotlines converged
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Post by crobssssss on Jun 13, 2024 20:57:14 GMT -5
Finished Revolutionary Road today. That was a real bummer!
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