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Legba

Oh, Joe Hill is Stephen King's son? That's interesting.

So far I'm enjoying it, although it's a little fluffy. More amusing than scary.

Buttlord

yeah, he writes under his mother's maiden name

did it to avoid people jumping all over it as soon as they saw "king" and realized who his dad was

only worked until his picture was on the dust jacket because goddamn does he look like his dad

Captain Marcus

Picked up The Ox-Bow Incident over the weekend. Looking forward to reading it, although the introduction spoiled the story. I hate when there's a summary of the plot in introductions.

Shorty

Buttlord wrote: »

yeah, he writes under his mother's maiden name

did it to avoid people jumping all over it as soon as they saw "king" and realized who his dad was

only worked until his picture was on the dust jacket because goddamn does he look like his dad

whoooaaaa

hell yes he does

also dat beard

Antimatter

welp

sarukun

That's a pretty awesome photo.

Darmak

He looks like a goth dude who works at the plant I work at.

lostwords

He kinda looks like Martin Starr. That's awesome

Also just foud out hope Larson is doing a graphic novel adaptation of a wrinkle in time and gosh, I want it to be October already so I can read it

Grey Ghost

Haha oh man

Today's comic and newspost

Buttlord

i really like mieville

he's not fantastic but he's fun

also

reamde is a cool book that i need to finish, but i really just want stephenson to write a book about them developing the game

nothing else, just them talking about creating the languages and terrain and everything

i'd read the living FUCK out of it

Sheri

I'm reading The Dig

It's pretty good so far

captaink

Buttlord wrote: »

i really like mieville

he's not fantastic but he's fun

also

reamde is a cool book that i need to finish, but i really just want stephenson to write a book about them developing the game

nothing else, just them talking about creating the languages and terrain and everything

i'd read the living FUCK out of it

Yeah those parts were a quite a bit more interesting than the terrorists and guns parts.

Buttlord

i like the terrorist and guns parts though!

there was just something about that dude with the fifteen book series talking about developing languages that i want to read more of

captaink

Buttlord wrote: »

i like the terrorist and guns parts though!

there was just something about that dude with the fifteen book series talking about developing languages that i want to read more of

They were good for what they were, but that's not what I read Stephenson for.

sarukun

I bought A Game of Thrones last week.


The Prologue was definitely not what I was expecting, although it had clear traces of asshole peppered through out, so.

Shorty

Joe Hill also looks a lot like Richard Schiff

weird

Crimson King

i love that the consensus on neal stephenson's new book seems to be

'fuck the action adventure parts'

'bring on the game design theory'

captaink

Crimson King wrote: »

i love that the consensus on neal stephenson's new book seems to be

'fuck the action adventure parts'

'bring on the game design theory'

We are all huge nerds.

YaYa

Buttlord wrote: »

i really like mieville

he's not fantastic but he's fun

also

reamde is a cool book that i need to finish, but i really just want stephenson to write a book about them developing the game

nothing else, just them talking about creating the languages and terrain and everything

i'd read the living FUCK out of it

I got like halfway through that book before I realized I'd never see the game stuff again

That was a sad day

DouglasDanger

what is a good pynchon book to try and read?

Lost Salient

I dug the hell out of Mason & Dixon

captaink

Lost Salient wrote: »

I dug the hell out of Mason & Dixon

I did not dig Gravity's Rainbow as a first go

Legba

Re: Mieville, I want to like him more than I do.

I've only read Perditio Street Station so far, and I loved all the ideas and characters and the setting and the portrayal of otherness and and and, but it was, at times, an exhausting read. I mean I read The Sound and the Fury not long after and it was so chill in comparison.

DouglasDanger

captaink wrote: »

Lost Salient wrote: »

I dug the hell out of Mason & Dixon

I did not dig Gravity's Rainbow as a first go

the summaries of pynchon's books all sound neat, so i am having a hard time choosing one

i have a kindle, but i am looking for a book because i don't want to take my kindle to the beach
and i have wanted to read pynchon for a while now, and it just so happens you can't buy his books on the kindle

Lost Salient

Well if you read The Crying of Lot 49 it's just a novella, so if you hate it you can stop.

Buttlord

hmmmm

i'm thinking about picking up Without Conscience in a couple weeks

follow it up with The Sociopath Next Door

do kind of a Crazy People trilogy with them and American Psycho

Phillishere

I really enjoyed Pynchon's Inherent Vice. Pynchon's stuff always has a sly humor, but Vice is outright fun.

Orikaeshigitae

Crimson King wrote: »

i love that the consensus on neal stephenson's new book seems to be

'fuck the action adventure parts'

'bring on the game design theory'

huff puff did someone say game design theory

Buttlord

orikaeguy did you read reamde

towards the beginning there are flashbacks to how the main dude created this MMO

and they are just fascinating

like a respected fantasy writer sits down and looks at what they have written and says ok now here's what the languages tell us, what the names say, and it's just

it's nuts

i want an entire book about that

Sheri

Sheri wrote: »

I'm reading The Dig

It's pretty good so far

I finished this today

It's good all the way through!

YaYa

Buttlord wrote: »

orikaeguy did you read reamde

towards the beginning there are flashbacks to how the main dude created this MMO

and they are just fascinating

like a respected fantasy writer sits down and looks at what they have written and says ok now here's what the languages tell us, what the names say, and it's just

it's nuts

i want an entire book about that

the best scene in the book, at least the part that I read, was a rant about the pointlessness of random apostrophes in fantasy names

Buttlord

that is the specific part i was thinking of

where he's like ok well we've established why this race has them. what about this one? and then basically makes the other dude look stupid for not thinking through linguistics on a tolkien-esque level

Lost Salient

I started reading Heart-Shaped Box tonight.

I'm going to go ahead and say this was an awful choice for book club because it is one of those books that makes you go "OH GOD WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN" and then oops it's one a.m. and you've read 2/3 of the damn thing.

Not that I'm speaking from personal experience or anything.

(I like ghost stories and this one is not annoying as I'd thought it would be, and also it is creepy and I swear to god if I have nightmares I'm coming after you @cabsy )

Legba

So I made this today.



I went around town hanging them up stealth-style. Only a dozen so far but I'll print up some more over the weekend.

Buttlord

why would you hate someone enough to link them to jane austen

also

te new john sandford book came out the other day

stoked to read that shit

Straightzi

Oh jeeze that is rad.

premium

That is pretty cool

Antimatter

Buttlord wrote: »

why would you hate someone enough to link them to jane austen

:^:

but yeah that is an awesome poster, person!

Raijin Quickfoot

I've read all of those books except for My Man Jeeves.

Legba

Raijin Quickfoot wrote: »

I've read all of those books except for My Man Jeeves.

You should read it! It's really good. If you have an ereader, I made a nicely formated ebook version:

Epub
Mobi