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06.29.2016, 10:38 AM | #4322 |
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I am not much of a fiction reader. I read sci-fi, some specific writers (Vonnegut, Bukowski) but otherwise I mostly read non-fiction books, usually about science, cognition, or identity.
I am also a fan of proper punctuation, and do not find it "clever" or "avant-garde" to write without punctuation like McCarthy does. I find that shit pretentious and distracting.
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06.30.2016, 08:20 AM | #4323 | |
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I agree when it comes to McCarthy. He's got a head full of interesting images and ideas, but often seems to fall short when executing them, at least in my opinion — the No Country for Old Men film is the best thing associated with his name — but in other instances I can totally get behind writing that is unhindered by the rules of punctuation/style. Specifically with Karoac. His unstructured approach is what gives On The Road such a unique sense of abandon. Truman Capote can gripe about it all day long, it's fucking glorious. |
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I finished Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.
cool and sad and eye-opening. http://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2016/0...ns-can-go.html
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07.07.2016, 09:29 AM | #4326 |
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Yo Sevs,
I found an original paperback printing of Claw of the Conciliator at Half Price Books for $.75 !! Shit yea\h. I also found 3 of the Robert E. Howard Ace paperback printings from the 70's of Conan the Barbarian. sweeet
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Classic (if a tad fluffy) neuroscience-pop classic. A good read indeed, though I long for a bit more hard science in my cognition based non-fiction. |
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DUDE. I appreciate you keeping me up to date and all, but seriously, just read the damn Bool of the New Sun! There's this dumb website called Amazon were the compiled volumes (Shadow & Claw, Sword & Citadel) can be purchased any day of the week for $1-3. Bite the bullet and read them shits. Buying one novella at a time is just going to make you drag this thing out for god knows how long. There are four core novellas and a coda novella in BOTNS alone! The "extended" arc contains a total of TWELVE little books (four more in Book of the Long Sun, followed by three in Book of the Short Sun). If you're gonna do this thing, do it. But for now I guess it's good that you have Concilloator, which is, what, like 100 pages? And I thought you already had this from the library? And I thought you had Shadow & Claw like five months ago! Anyway, just read that shit and then let's talk about it! |
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I had shadow and claw from the library, but had to return it. (due dates and all)
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Read the duck out of that shit. Thank me later. The more I grow to know you, the more certain I become that you will truly love and appreciate this. |
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Just finished reading Neil Gaiman's The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction. http://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2016/0...o-mind-of.html
As soon as I finish up Instant Replay: The Green Bay Diary of Jerry Kramer, I am diving headfirst into the WOLFEEEEEEE
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currently rereading Clive Barker Sacrament remembering why i have always adored reading Clive Barker
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Months!
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one cannot force the mind's appeal!!!
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But one can, apparently, lie about what one is going to read as soon as one is done with what one is currently reading. Get it done. Pussy. |
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