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SeaGoatSupreme posted:My job is really hard physically which is great for my body but it's made it hard to get into high minded stuff, so I've been running through some early adulthood favorites lately. I'm glad they still hold up I should break down and read neuromamcer. I have been putting that off for like over 20 years. |
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I'm one of those weirdos who thinks the entire sprawl trilogy is amazing.
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Feb 7, 2021 04:51
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reading virginia woolf the wavves, fantastic so far
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Feb 8, 2021 19:06
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Feb 9, 2021 08:34
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Rereading Mary Karr's memoirs. The first time around, I enjoyed Liar's Club and Lit, but couldn't get into Cherry. I'm pretty sure I stopped reading when (describing masturbation) she said something like "the horse between my legs was off, galloping away". I was bored enough to give it a second go, and if you ignore the  way she writes about sex, the stories about her friends are worth reading. My favourite moments/people are her weird friend climbing naked up a flagpole, her friend Doonie with a pillowcase full of drugs and a used car lot named S&M Motors, and going to a run down juke joint on acid and meeting a go go dancer with a rotting eye and a man who can't stop introducing himself.
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Feb 12, 2021 03:25
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Reading Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty. It's about her experiences as a 23-year-old crematory operator. Excellent so far. |
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Feb 12, 2021 17:12
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wanted to bump this, been reading abunch. naked lunch for like the 10th time, but i also really, really liked ice by anna kevan (?) which was just dank. total feels hit. i also read her asylum piece which was chill. basically i wanna read whatever by her i can get my hands on now started and gave up on to sleep among the stars by the eragon guy, which seemed to be just generic hostile first contact xenos coming to kill us all and i couldnt get into the stakes. for some reason started dead astronauts by van der meer without knowing it was the 2nd book. im enjoying it a bunch tho. i have a bunch of sff on my list. i read a bunch of gibson and falkner stories but i dont think i finished the respective collections. every time i try to read count zero my eyes glaze over the character who is like a freelance magazine writer and some guy who is on a yacht talking about some poo poo. i have tried that book so many times, i think last time i stopped at the street gang who dressed like vampires and called themselves the draculas. falkner is dank tho when his stories arent about pranks. i need like a bit of weight like a church on fire or someone dying. oh lol mc i saw ur post. yea fight me on the sprawl. im sure its actually good but lol ---------------- |
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Mar 9, 2021 20:57
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i'm reading The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress. so far it's not that great, too much talk talk. hopefully it will heat up. |
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Mar 9, 2021 21:27
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ive been not reading much due to moving related stress but very slowly reading love in the time of cholera which i picked up bc i liked 100 years of solitude a lot. this one seems ok but im not loving it
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Mar 9, 2021 22:16
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I read Tom Sawyer Abroad and it's a bit on the racist side. I like the poo poo ending tho.
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Mar 10, 2021 13:51
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take the moon posted:oh lol mc i saw ur post. yea fight me on the sprawl. im sure its actually good but lol Count zero is the weakest of the three, but some of the world building pays off in Mona Lisa Overdrive which has the coolest "holy poo poo" moment that connects back to Neuromancer, making all three of the books equally necessary. now if you want a real fight gibson has never written a bad book. even the one about the designer jeans 
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Mar 10, 2021 17:37
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magic cactus posted:Count zero is the weakest of the three, but some of the world building pays off in Mona Lisa Overdrive which has the coolest "holy poo poo" moment that connects back to Neuromancer, making all three of the books equally necessary. Zero History is weak, but still a Gibson book so I'll allow it |
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Mar 11, 2021 02:27
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I just read the first discworld novel. That was fun, I want to read more. I need a new library card because there's a lot of them and it could end up very costly buying them all. |
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Mar 27, 2021 22:38
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Finger Prince posted:I just read the first discworld novel. That was fun, I want to read more. I need a new library card because there's a lot of them and it could end up very costly buying them all. The series massively improves, too. For me, Guards! Guards! is where the seriess really kicks off. Some of the "gimmicky" books are a bit meh but I still like them. |
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Mar 28, 2021 00:43
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I'm about half way through David Copperfield. Kinda cool that the audio book is on youtube, so I'm able to swap between reading and listening at my pleasure 
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Mar 28, 2021 04:35
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okiedoke posted:I'm about half way through David Copperfield. Kinda cool that the audio book is on youtube, so I'm able to swap between reading and listening at my pleasure i did this with blood meridian. finally finished it and it was dank ---------------- |
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Mar 28, 2021 04:41
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I've been reading Švejk because I got it for 1€ at the flea market. It's a bit different than the 1975 radio play I used to listen to off cassettes as a kid. I like it - the best war book I've ever read. (I don't really read war books.) Josef Lada's illustrations always remind me of my dad. When he'd had a stroke and was in hospital we brought him his old copy of the book and he very painstakingly scrawled "PHYSICAL THERAPIST" and "ME" over the characters in this picture: 
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Mar 28, 2021 11:26
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as many people as humanly possible deserve the joy of experiencing Proust |
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May 15, 2021 18:26
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preparing for octavia butler/ursula k summer by reading kindred& ill prolly try the earthsea books again after
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May 15, 2021 19:46
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I'm reading Super-Cannes and I'm beginning to thing this J.G. Ballard character might be some kind of CREEP! |
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May 15, 2021 22:55
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I haven't read fiction in forever but I've been re-reading Omon Ra and it's very funny and good still
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May 15, 2021 22:56
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I'm reading Super-Cannes and I'm beginning to thing this J.G. Ballard character might be some kind of CREEP! I read a couple Ballard books, including the semi-autobio one, and he is weird. War really fucks people up. Fifteen years taking prescriptions |
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May 15, 2021 23:44
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ulvir posted:as many people as humanly possible deserve the joy of experiencing Proust i found a copy of remembrance of things past pt 1 at the used book store a short while ago, looking forward to it https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png |
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May 15, 2021 23:56
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xcheopis posted:I read a couple Ballard books, including the semi-autobio one, and he is weird. War really fucks people up. I saw the war kid movie back when and never realized it was based on Ballard's novel, until I Binged him after starting to read Super-Cannes. I don't hate the book but I feel like I'll be glad to finish it. Next up: a non-fiction book about parasites 
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May 16, 2021 00:03
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I saw the war kid movie back when and never realized it was based on Ballard's novel, until I Binged him after starting to read Super-Cannes. Parasitic worms? Parasitic insects? Parasitic fungus? All of them? Parasitic worms even look horrifying. eeeeesh Fifteen years taking prescriptions |
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May 16, 2021 00:13
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xcheopis posted:Parasitic worms? Parasitic insects? Parasitic fungus? All of them? I don't know yet! The title translates to "Endless Parasites". Spoilered for drawings of ??? 
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May 16, 2021 00:16
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I don't know yet! The title translates to "Endless Parasites". Cool! Fifteen years taking prescriptions |
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May 16, 2021 00:33
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Just some light reading
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May 16, 2021 01:15
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Pleiadian Light posted:Just some light reading Looks like someone really got their teeth into the top one. |
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May 16, 2021 01:30
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Looks like someone really got their teeth into the top one. Yea, you know birds |
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May 16, 2021 02:37
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Pleiadian Light posted:Yea, you know birds But, do I really?
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May 16, 2021 02:41
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OK I gotta post this, it's tangentially related to book. I looked up the writer of the parasite book and he spent time on Madagascar studying the poops of these guys:
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May 16, 2021 02:43
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May 16, 2021 03:13
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3D Megadoodoo posted:OK I gotta post this, it's tangentially related to book. I looked up the writer of the parasite book and he spent time on Madagascar studying the poops of these guys: Lemurs are so cute until they start throwing stink bombs at you Fifteen years taking prescriptions |
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May 16, 2021 03:23
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i just read jack kirby's omac https://i.imgur.com/2kLkHbM.mp4 :wq |
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May 16, 2021 03:32
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Halfway through Richard Powers' The Overstory, and I don't know man. He writes well but every one of these 10 main characters sound the same and I'm starting to find it a slog. There's no rhythm or quiet sections to this book, it's very 110% full steam ahead and florid as hell all the time. I've read a lot of praise for the book but maybe it's not for me. Maybe I should've read it translated, I also do not have the required biology vocabulary in English I think. |
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May 17, 2021 14:39
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e: wrong thread, im reading foucault rn tho
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May 17, 2021 16:18
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Finished "Axiom's End" by Lindsay Ellis. A neat take on the alien invasion concept, told strictly through the POV of our young Latinx woman tagged by one of the aliens as a translator. It's got a lot of neat bits about context and nuance and language but it's also just a good little sci-fi action yarn. Nice debut novel. Started "Providence" by Max Berry and I guess I thought it was Max Brooks when I picked it up so no oral history in this but a bit of flexible prose that swings between second and third person narrative. Oh and it's about aliens taking over a space station (I think?) |
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May 17, 2021 21:48
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Haven't read it yet but just bought a book by Elie Wiesel that was marked at 1,50€, probably because someone had scrawled their name on the front leaf in large letters, with a biro. I'm about 100% certain that someone was Elie Wiesel. |
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Haven't read it yet but just bought a book by Elie Wiesel that was marked at 1,50€, probably because someone had scrawled their name on the front leaf in large letters, with a biro. Which one? |
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