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10.16.2017, 04:15 PM | #4762 |
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John Fante, Ask the Dust Re-reading this, a personal fave, guaranteed to appeal to fans of Hubert Selby and Bukowski (who wrote the foreword claiming it inspired him to become a writer). |
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10.17.2017, 03:21 AM | #4763 | |
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10.17.2017, 02:34 PM | #4764 | |
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10.30.2017, 04:54 PM | #4765 |
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Runnin’ With the Devil: A Backstage Pass Into the Wild Times, Loud Rock and the Down and Dirty Truth Behind the Making of Van Halen. Penned by Noel E. Monk.
Its ok and has some educational material but there is also a vagueness that may be explained by the single line tucked towards the end when Monk mentions his old friend Valium. |
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10.31.2017, 08:29 AM | #4766 |
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I like to collect music. I look for fungi of all types and take photos of them. I watch American Football and my Astros (GO ASTROS!). I draw and paint. I write book reviews of all I read. I enjoy inhaling the smoke from green flowers. I like cheese of all types.
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10.31.2017, 09:47 AM | #4767 | |
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Uh... working. Watching shows and movies after a long day of work. Critiquing everything I see and hear. Comic books. Stats and science shit — research. Politics — following political and social developments and subsequently freaking out about them. Animals. Love animals. I also have this lifelong habit of coming up with shit in my head. No matter what I’m doing, my brain seems to automatically try its hand at said thing. If I’m reading comic books, I think of comic book characters I would create if I were in that field (I probably have a whole multiverse of bad ideas saved up at this point). When I’m thinking about music a lot, I can’t help but come up with imaginary bands and artists and labels and albums... alternative histories, and so on. I do the same with books and movies. Make shit in my head. Never actually make anything though. Well... I do write all the time and I have made tons of music, but not the kind of stuff that I do in my imagination. This is probably indicative of some kind of borderline spectrum disorder, honestly. Probably means I’m crazy or worse. |
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11.09.2017, 04:34 PM | #4768 |
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finished 100 Edible Mushrooms https://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2017/...mushrooms.html
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11.09.2017, 05:11 PM | #4769 |
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I really like finding great authors. Really dislike finding them after their deaths "Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives." |
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11.09.2017, 05:42 PM | #4770 |
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11.09.2017, 06:35 PM | #4771 | |
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11.09.2017, 06:36 PM | #4772 | |
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11.10.2017, 11:06 AM | #4773 |
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Growing up poor in rural Spain. Published in 1942, so there's Franco and the church pretty much in control, brutal, but with a surprising amount of humor & so well written.
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11.10.2017, 11:15 AM | #4774 | |
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11.10.2017, 11:19 AM | #4775 |
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Chirbes "On the Edge" for a contemporary view of a similar story
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11.13.2017, 09:42 AM | #4776 | |
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HAHAHHA! I told you I read only 4-5 novels a year! I slam my brain against grad-level science and reference books for the most part. ahhaa. I told you I wuld finish BOTNS, and I will! sonic promise. I will finish the second book by xmas.
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11.13.2017, 10:07 AM | #4777 |
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i don’t understand finishing a book you started because “you have to”
i did too much of that in grad school— ruined reading for me, for years life is too short to read books that cease to interest you, especially when it’s for leisure — i’m rereading this: a great book for where i live. i’m sure more people will need it where the earth is going |
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11.13.2017, 11:21 AM | #4778 | |
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Yeah, but each book is only like 100 pages! Jesus! Just read the thing! It’s all supposed to be one book anyway. Cripes! It’s the fact that you read such heavy material that I know you are up to it. It’s because of that that I recommended it to you. I told you, I’ve only met one other person who’s finished it. Anyway. Fucking Christmas bitch. |
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11.13.2017, 11:28 AM | #4779 | |
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Well BOTNS is the best thing ever. If Gene Wolfe were a more well-known author, this thing would be taught in grad level philosophy courses. Makes Lord of the Rings look basic. I’ve just never had anyone to talk about it with is all. Anyway, Rob read the first volume (was published in four volumes), and said he loved it. And he hasn’t even scratched the surface of the story, so I wanted him to finish the COCKSUCJING THING BECAUSE I HAVE NO CONTROL OVER ANYTHING! |
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11.13.2017, 11:55 AM | #4780 | |
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so what you’re saying is... potshots are free for all? as for that book i think if he loved it as much as he said he would have continued one time i skipped an organic chemistry exam because i was way too deep into a cortázar book (hopscotch). i fucking lied to the teacher, claimed i was sick. i can’t read cortázar these days anymore but when i got the bug i got the bug and i got it bad. — im gonna go look at the first pages of this book you say and see if it’s true. but if LOTR is your benchmark... i don’t know. |
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