I have always heard Mike Love was a grade a asshole.

last books trimpie HASN'T read

https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-...ir-authors-fox

finished Joseph McCabe's Is Spiritualism Based on Fraud? (1920)

https://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2019/...-see-crap.html

Rob,
Nice review of Claw of the Conciliator!

But this bugged me:



BRO IT WAS YEARS! Straight up YEARS, fam. Lol.

I am really glad you’ve lived the books so far, though. Can’t wait to read the next review.

HAHAHHAHHAHHA. it was YEARS! time flies time flies.......

celebrating last weekened early for my birthday and my wife gifted me this holy grail of Star Trek Deep Space Nine collectibles. This book was written by Andrew Robinson who played garak on DS9, and it is awesome, and out of print like a mafk, and rare, and it goes on ebay for $60-90 and my wife managed to find the very last copy held by Texas half price books for only $4.00 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

fuck I am a book nerd.

sword of lictor https://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2019/...g-with-my.html

Ursula k le guin - the dispossessed

Yeah, I read that one. Just waiting for Citadel of the Autarch now. :)

I Can't Breathe, the history and particulars of the killing of Eric Garner.

very helpful in understanding the issues. Recco'd

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...-can-t-breathe

finished Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun Vol4 - The Citadel of the Autarch
https://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2019/...f-new-sun.html

that photo... he must have massive jowls because that’s a huge effort to hide them. the hand , the shade... photoshop would look more natural :D

Finished the “His Dark Materials” series, and now I’m reading the sequel to “The Handmaid’s Tale” that just came our - “The Testaments.”

Honestly I’m enjoying it more than Handmaid, which I respect conceptually, but don’t particularly love in terms of style and flow. Quite a pretentious tone, to be honest. I vastly prefer the (also sometimes pretentious) show to the book, but Testaments is written much differently. More in the style of a political thriller. Still plenty of guessing and uncertainty, but more direct and clips right along at a smooth and satisfying pace.

Also it has this whole Trump thing to kind of indirectly lean on as reference material. I’m enjoying it.

Finished up some B&N pairing of The Time Machine and The Invisible Man. I'm 2 books away from my 20 book goal for 2019. I'll potentially go over :D

Finished Volume 1 of The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life, by Drunvalo Melchizedek.

https://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2019/...c-gets-to.html

because "Briefing For A Descent Into Hell" isn't presently burning my eyes in joy at the spot I'm at, I decided to start in to a fresh read of "The Hardcore Diaries" by Mick Foley.

You ever finish BOTNS?

https://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2019/...f-new-sun.html Bad ass

I have a few more books ahead in the queue but I also have Gene Wolfe's The Wizard Knight at home. Gonna read that one soon.

The Wizard Knight is great. Not BOTNS level great, but great for a couple of fantasy books (The Knight is Book 1; The Wizard is Book 2).

That was actually the first Gene Wolfe book I read, this beginning the obsession.

As for me, I finished “The Testaments,” and it’s better than “The Handmaid’s Tale.”

Tried to read “Ulysses” but decided to go with something easier. Namely a Michael Chabon book called “Summerland”

Whole lot of Carl Jung this year.

I've since finished both Hardcore Diaries and Briefing, so I'm down to just IT again, unless I start something new.

wow, have not seen you in ages. you must be like 40 by now! :D

jung can be a lot of fun. that bollinger series is some good shit.

haha nah not 40 yet, don't rush it! I do a fair bit of lurking here and there, but never enough to keep up with what's going on.

Can't get enough of Jung right now.

Speaking of Jung, I loved MAN & HIS SYMBOLS https://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2014/...t-caliber.html

I Need A Godddamn Book Or I’m Going To Start Reading Comics Again

A polish sci-fi criminal. Really cool

Finished Hans Reichenbach's The Direction of Time. It twisted my melon, man.

https://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2019/...o-show-us.html

I am currently reading Bukowski's favorite author, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, and his novel Journey to the End of the Night.

Decided to add in this gem to my current reading:





Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers

Celine is pretty funny! Antisemitic, though. I'm reading Irvine Welsh "If You Liked School, You'll Love Work", which is also pretty funny, though misogynistic.

I haven't gotten around to that one yet, Rob, though it's the only book of Jung's my local library has...Maybe reading your writing on it will inspire me to snag it. Looks like an easier read.

I Second this.

I have yet to get to any anti-semitic stuff, but he is hilariouos and extremely honest when it comes to the machinations of war and the asshole barely-human trash that warfare promotes into leadership positions.

I have tried to read Jung's analytical work for years, and it was always a bit of a slog.

Man & His Symbols, however, was written by Jung for the lay-person, if the lay person was an educated human!

Give it a shot. Very cool stuff.

Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies

Anyone looking for a supply of cutting put-downs need look no further.

holy shit!

i just read that harold bloom died last month