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tecate is my favorite beer for this
any major dude will tell you
I figure it is probably less dense but still entertaining enough to keep my interest in reading up til next week.
Well actually the goddamn end of Feast For Crows has got me all flustered to get my hands on the next one.
I'm like 14 pages too late on this but just so you know you just need to download Calibre (http://calibre-ebook.com/) and press like 4 buttons to convert any kind of ebook file into any other kind. I'm sure there are other programs out there as well, some might even work better than this.
"Sandra's favourite movie is escape from new York because she cries when magpie and brain die because they will never be together." HAIL SATAN
I try very hard to never be between books, by jugging a fiction and nonfiction at all times, but Maximum City was so engrossing that everything else fell by the wayside. (Seriously, if you are interested in a book covering the following: Jainism, Islamic hitmen, Hindu mafia, crossdressers, bar girls, slumdwellers, and corrupt cops, you should probably read it.) Now everything is a disaster and I cannot read anything at all.
I've been thinking of one of the following:
The One From the Other (the next in the Bernie Gunther series, about a private detective in Berlin from the 30's to the 50's)
The Hunter (the first Parker novel)
Post-Captain (second book of the Aubrey-Maturin series)
Parrot & Olivier in America
Bitter Seeds (a fantasy-scifi about Nazi supermen and British demon soldiers I guess?)
Clouds & Ashes (a weird folkloric series of novellas set in some other world)
Lost City Radio (about a woman who runs a radio show connecting lost/missing to those searching for them in a fictional South American country)
There are so many more, too! But none of them seem just right. I am panicking, guys, I think I need to put my head between my knees and take deep breaths.
"Sandra's favourite movie is escape from new York because she cries when magpie and brain die because they will never be together." HAIL SATAN
"Sandra's favourite movie is escape from new York because she cries when magpie and brain die because they will never be together." HAIL SATAN
Of course my Kindle decided that this was the appropriate time to use nothing but the (tasteful) nudes I've installed as screensavers. Damnit, me. Way to make myself feel like a terrible feminist.
Season's greetings, Satan!
not that i've read them. i've only read the darwyn cooke adaptations. but i want you to so you can tell me if they're any good.
also who uses naked ladies as screensavers? think of the children
the parker novels are fantastic and if you like the cooke versions you like the originals
they're literally 1:1
Who has two thumbs and a few artistic nudes among his screensavers? This guy.
Anyway, yeah, I'm probably going to get rid of them now.
Season's greetings, Satan!
yeah i read cooke's adaptation of the hunter to like
see how he pulled it off
mind you this is about an hour after i blasted through The Hunter in under a day
i was astounded by how well he adapted it, almost word for word, into pictures
fun fact: out of the many adaptations of the hunter, cooke's is the only one where westlake allowed them to call the main character "parker"
its the only one he thought was good enough
Lost City Radio sounds extremely compelling to me
Please read that and tell me what you think
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read the intro, which is about four pages, and I just had to put it down because damn this is a good book
here's a larger section if you want the context:
i've been alternating Maximum City and Pale Fire and been a little put off by the former
does it get a little less autobiographical/"the life of pi" at any point?
also pale fire is fucking incredible and you should read the berlin PI series because it sounds excellent
every time i read cormac mccarthy i can't help but hear it in my friend's beat poet/Spoken Word Open Mic Night voice
I have never read The Life of Pi because it seemed annoying and not like something I'm interested in, so I do not have a comparison there.
And I am in fact reading The One From the Other, but I'm probably going to read Lost City Radio after that depending on whether Book Club picks a fiction or a non-fiction for this month.
Which by the way is a reminder for people to submit your nominations by Friday!
"Sandra's favourite movie is escape from new York because she cries when magpie and brain die because they will never be together." HAIL SATAN
"Sandra's favourite movie is escape from new York because she cries when magpie and brain die because they will never be together." HAIL SATAN
And I started the second book of the First Law trilogy, and it is off to a good start too.
welp
it's called columbine (weird right)
it is absolutely fantastic and is probably the single best piece of journalism surrounding what happened there and you should read it because seriously it is just damn
the first part of the book walks through the day of the attack from a couple of perspectives: victims, family members, and the killers
after that it alternates between chapters detailing harris and klebold meeting and coming up with the idea and the plan and the various things that led to it (hint: it was literally none of the things that it was reported to be, harris was a fucking psychopath and klebold was depressed as hell and latched onto his best friend, that's basically it) and chapters about the aftermath and the survivors
it's absolutely fantastic
seriously
the audiobook is also really good, whoever reads it has basically the perfect dramatic voice for this
Tell me you bought this
"Sandra's favourite movie is escape from new York because she cries when magpie and brain die because they will never be together." HAIL SATAN
This is all true. That book should be required reading in High School.
So hey you guys, it's quite good.
Season's greetings, Satan!
Do you want to read fiction or non-fiction? What genre?
I am in my reading cycle for something difficult next. It's looking like Paradise Lost, The Decameron, or Infinite Jest.
Fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, just about anything but not romance novels or non-fiction lol
Sci-fi: Some Alastair Reynolds. House of Suns is good.
It has a very well written protagonist. And it's not super long - or at least it didn't feel like it - while being an engaging and exciting read.
So yeah, I recommend it wholeheartedly.
Season's greetings, Satan!
I am maybe a quarter of the way through naked lunch.
It sure is different. It's like there is almost no narrative and it's just not so much a story but just a bunch experiences in each chapter drawn together by common setting.
It feels so directionless but engrossing at the same time.
Satans..... hints..... I'm a mo bro!
Hmm...I'll check those out
did you just skip the post i made about Columbine or what
read Columbine
jesus
Ohh! Sorry! I seriously didn't see that! I'll check that out also thanks
Need to clone myself a couple times to recommend this more than once.
Anything by Reynolds, really, but House of Suns and Galactic North are the two I pitch at people who might be interested in his stuff.
People have one more day to nominate (by which I mean today right now Friday do it)
And then we're voting over the weekend.
I stalled a bit and then started reading The One From the Other anyway.
"Sandra's favourite movie is escape from new York because she cries when magpie and brain die because they will never be together." HAIL SATAN