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Post by tep on Jan 2, 2024 21:35:18 GMT
Finished My Year of Rest and Relaxation the other day. Last read of the year. Weird ass book, I give it like a 6/10. It was memorable, at the very least.
Just started Cujo .
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Post by chris3 on Jan 31, 2024 16:31:23 GMT
Has anyone read the French book trilogy Vernon Subutex by Virginie Despentes? I was absolutely blown away. It's an epic satire about a couch-surfing Gen X-er named Vernon. Once the owner of a chic Parisian record store, now homeless and couch-surfing after his rockstar (and rent-paying) friend dies from an overdose, Vernon stumbles from one misadventure to another until eventually becoming the DJ/leader of a bohemian cult. Fans of Trainspotting, The Big Lebowski, Boogie Nights, and Inside Llewyn Davis will find a lot to love in these pages. The series is hilarious, horrifying, and utterly heartbreaking. Can't recommend it highly enough. 10
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Post by Nikan on Jan 31, 2024 16:45:21 GMT
Pleasures and Days by Marcel Proust.
I'm going bloody slow though.
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Post by Brother Fease on Jan 31, 2024 17:24:53 GMT
Pleasures and Days by Marcel Proust. I'm going bloody slow though. I never understood the concept of speed reading.
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Post by Brother Fease on Jan 31, 2024 17:27:00 GMT
Troubled Blood, JK Rowlings, #5 Strike series Completely forgot to tell you guys I finished this book a couple of weeks ago. Not the best one. My least favorite of the bunch.
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Feb 2, 2024 18:07:15 GMT
Reading Lolita for the first time... about a third of the way into it, and it's unsettling how the book uncannily captures what consuming obsession looks like psychologically in its details and specificity - how the object of obsession bleeds into one's thoughts irrationally while in a state of extreme stress... sort of like a coping mechanism or a way of dissociating.
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 2, 2024 19:10:27 GMT
Reading Lolita for the first time... about a third of the way into it, and it's unsettling how the book uncannily captures what consuming obsession looks like psychologically in its details and specificity He is the novelist who can be the most keenly, psychologically aware across the most kinds of mental states of being too I think. ........in Bend Sinister - which basically these days I read every day - he's increible with that. When you read almost any Nabokov for the first time you almost want to skip ahead because every few lines of text is like a revelation or a quotable line of some thought you're sure you've had but didn't contemplate until his words forced you to do so............. he is incredibly precise and on target in his prose: “Do all people have that? A face, a phrase, a landscape, an air bubble from the past suddenly floating up as if released by the head warden's child from a cell in the brain while the mind is at work on some totally different matter? Something of the sort also occurs just before falling asleep when what you think you are thinking is not at all what you think. Or two parallel passenger trains of thought, one overtaking the other.
"I esteem my colleagues as I do my own self, I esteem them for two things: because they are able to find perfect felicity in specialized knowledge and because they are not apt to commit physical murder.”
- Bend Sinister
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Post by Brother Fease on Feb 10, 2024 2:09:31 GMT
Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King
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Post by sterlingarcher86 on Feb 13, 2024 4:08:47 GMT
The Ceremonies by T.E.D Klein
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Post by dazed on Mar 7, 2024 2:38:47 GMT
starting 1984 here soon
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Post by Martin Stett on Mar 7, 2024 2:49:15 GMT
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Post by stabcaesar on Mar 14, 2024 9:08:56 GMT
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Mar 16, 2024 23:02:56 GMT
@ stabcaesar I haven't been following this thread lately but if you haven't read Circe it's even better Madeline Miller's writing is so beautiful
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Mar 16, 2024 23:22:13 GMT
trying to get back into audiobooks after collecting a bunch on Audible over the last few months. Mostly Stephen King cravings lit that I've already consumed (when you get the itch, you just have to have it) -- Misery narrated brilliantly by Lindsey Crouse, Full Dark No Stars which has two of his best stories, Everything's Eventual, Skeleton Crew (mostly for "The Mist"), Bazaar of Bad Dreams. Some stuff from Night Shift too (mostly for "The Mangler" and "Graveyard Shift" which I just have to have). Gooood shit also some longer ones I need to get to. Grant by Chernow, Team of Rivals which I absolutely will someday finish, full collection of Narnia for the nostalgia. last things I read (listened to, whatever) were King's "1922" (again) and "Fair Extension" (again!) narrated by Craig Wasson from the Full Dark No Stars collection. Mean as hell. starting out in earnest with a loan from my library because I want to get back into using overdrive again. It's such a great [free!] resource and I haven't been using it. Moneyball by Michael Lewis because it's not too long, and I NEED Scott Brick's voice in my ears again.
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Post by Drish on Mar 16, 2024 23:56:03 GMT
FINALLY mustered the courage to read The Kite Runner. A Thousand Splendid Suns was so emotionally draining that I decided that I'll read his other acclaimed book after 2 years. A Little Life in 2026 then 😀
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Post by Nikan on Mar 17, 2024 0:23:45 GMT
Pleasures and Days by Marcel Proust. I'm going bloody slow though. Fun fact: this still rings true.
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Post by stabcaesar on Mar 17, 2024 1:08:12 GMT
@ stabcaesar I haven't been following this thread lately but if you haven't read Crice it's even better Madeline Miller's writing is so beautiful I am trying to read some more lighthearted stuff before I read Circe. Maybe next week.
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Post by stabcaesar on Mar 17, 2024 15:23:44 GMT
@ stabcaesar I haven't been following this thread lately but if you haven't read Circe it's even better Madeline Miller's writing is so beautiful Btw who do you think could play (adult) Patroclus, Achilles and Thetis (bitch is so fucking well-written , I love her and Briseis) in a film? A movie based on The Song of Achilles would be soooooooo good if done right.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Mar 18, 2024 17:49:08 GMT
@ stabcaesar I haven't been following this thread lately but if you haven't read Circe it's even better Madeline Miller's writing is so beautiful Btw who do you think could play (adult) Patroclus, Achilles and Thetis (bitch is so fucking well-written , I love her and Briseis) in a film? A movie based on The Song of Achilles would be soooooooo good if done right. don't remember who was the top and who was the bottom As far as sexy young brits I could see in a Greek mythology fantasy, idk... George MacKay and Sam Claflin come to mind. For Thetis I'm seeing Rebecca Ferguson and I can't unsee it.
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Post by Martin Stett on Mar 23, 2024 2:30:57 GMT
The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapjkowski
It's pretty cool so far. Feels more like it was intended to be a TV show than a book, but it works well as such so I'm not complaining. Just finished The Lesser Evil (the Snow White riff) and it was good stuff.
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Post by stabcaesar on Mar 25, 2024 8:56:56 GMT
I cried more than I did The Song of Achilles. Holy shit.
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Post by Nikan on Mar 25, 2024 9:06:14 GMT
MAR threads.
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Post by stabcaesar on Mar 28, 2024 12:04:30 GMT
I thought it was really mediocre. The plot is fun and it isn't without its moments, but the writing is pretty awful for the most part. Don't get the hype.
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Post by sterlingarcher86 on Apr 1, 2024 19:43:54 GMT
Just started Night of the Hunter. Going to read that then watch the movie and fill in a HUGE blind spot.
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Post by stephen on Apr 1, 2024 19:47:53 GMT
Just started Night of the Hunter. Going to read that then watch the movie and fill in a HUGE blind spot. Oooooh, enjoy. I would recommend following it up with William Gay's Twilight, which owes a massive debt to Davis Grubb and would (in my opinion) make for a better project to tackle rather than re-adapting Night of the Hunter.
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