what are you reading? - Page 269

ilduclo · 01.24.2019, 04:09 PM

puffballs and immature destroying angels look awfully similar. Just sayin'

Rob Instigator · 01.24.2019, 04:12 PM

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Originally Posted by ilduclo

puffballs and immature destroying angels look awfully similar. Just sayin'

for sure. I am extra careful.

Dr. Eugene Felikson · 01.25.2019, 12:08 AM

Ignored everything else I brought w me this trip to restart reading The Name of the Wind

pony · 01.28.2019, 04:38 AM

I'll start reading Joanna Walsh's Break.Up today. A bunch of girls in a little IG bubble I am in recommended it. It's been published on Semiotext(e), so I have high hopes.

AND, lemme rant: why don't have bookstores around here any Ingeborg Bachmann books???? I mean, it's german language and Ingeborg is amazing, WAHT IS GOING ONNNN

demonrail666 · 01.28.2019, 06:19 PM

Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian ... again

evollove · 01.28.2019, 07:14 PM

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Joanna Walsh's Break.Up

I'd read that.

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Originally Posted by demonrail666

Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian ... again

Because you can never seem to finish it?

!@#$%! · 01.28.2019, 08:10 PM

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Originally Posted by evollove

Because you can never seem to finish it?

that happens to me with blood meridian. i get lost in the dictionary. so many unusual words

anyway i am working hard at catching up with the material universe and reading a lot of financial publications lately...

financial times, wall street journal, market news, barron’s, the economist... that’s aside from the nyt and the wapo as “regular” newspapers

hahahhahahahaa my head is gonna explode...

yes yes i will pare down eventually. but not today

!@#$%! · 02.07.2019, 03:39 PM

holy fuck, “february 9” is out already!

but here it’s still thursday lololol. ok future...

demonrail666 · 02.07.2019, 05:21 PM

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!

that happens to me with blood meridian. i get lost in the dictionary. so many unusual words

I skip the foreign language bits and usually just try and get the gist of the more obscure words without having to resort to the dictionary every 5 mins, so I suppose I've never read it 'properly' but reading it like that does at least mean I don't have much trouble finishing it and I've never felt like I've missed some key point. Although I'll admit I've always been into it more for the images he creates than for the point he's trying to make.

!@#$%! · 02.07.2019, 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by demonrail666

I skip the foreign language bits and usually just try and get the gist of the more obscure words without having to resort to the dictionary every 5 mins, so I suppose I've never read it 'properly' but reading it like that does at least mean I don't have much trouble finishing it and I've never felt like I've missed some key point. Although I'll admit I've always been into it more for the images he creates than for the point he's trying to make.

foreign? no. old-timey english words. like shillelagh (thats actually gaelic no?)

but that’s no longer a problem with the kindle. tap the word, blam

i should rebuy the book on kindle. paper was a mess!

Dr. Eugene Felikson · 02.07.2019, 05:34 PM

I've started wearing a fanny pack around my waist just so I can bring my book w me wherever I go. It's so nice to have a novel to keep me company in line at the grocery store or while my gf shops for clothes rather than staring at my phone

I'm still pecking away at Patrick Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind. Had to restart because i forgot what was happening, but I'm already back where I left off in just a couple weeks' reading. Took me like a whole year last time. Not smoking pot makes it so much easier to concentrate lol

demonrail666 · 02.07.2019, 05:36 PM

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foreign? no. old-timey english words. like shillelagh

Some of the dialogue is in untranslated Spanish so I'm guessing you were able to read that without thinking of it as 'foreign' the way I obviously do.

!@#$%! · 02.07.2019, 05:47 PM

not furrn in these here parts

vivo en la frontera

demonrail666 · 02.07.2019, 05:53 PM

There's actually a page on McCarthy's website that gives a page by page translation of all the Spanish. But the main characters in the book don't understand it either so, in a way, my not understanding it when I read it only mirrors their bewilderment when they hear it. That's my excuse, anyway.

!@#$%! · 02.07.2019, 05:59 PM

hahaha

oh, speaking of reading, ive been reading more shit about this corbyn dude

yikes!

i forgot if i posted you the link or not somewhere

!@#$%! · 02.07.2019, 06:03 PM

oh, this one!
https://www.economist.com/britain/20...g-a-bad-brexit

your thoughts on it? (just looking for perspective)

demonrail666 · 02.07.2019, 07:46 PM

There's a paywall for that article but I imagine it's about Corbyn drawting flack from his party and supporters over his less than transparant views on the EU.

Most Labour MPs and almost all of Corbyn's core support-base are vehemently pro-Remain while a very large percentage of traditional Labour voters, who really don't like Corbyn at all, voted to Leave. That was a problem in and of itself but it's complicated even further by the nagging suspicion that Corbyn was actually pro-Leave all along but remained silent about it to keep the 'Corbynistas' on side and the Party (at least in terms of its MPs) united.

!@#$%! · 02.07.2019, 08:01 PM

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Originally Posted by demonrail666

There's a paywall for that article but I imagine it's about Corbyn drawting flack from his party and supporters over his less than transparant views on the EU.

Most Labour MPs and almost all of Corbyn's core support-base are vehemently pro-Remain while a very large percentage of traditional Labour voters, who really don't like Corbyn at all, voted to Leave. That was a problem in and of itself but it's complicated even further by the nagging suspicion that Corbyn was actually pro-Leave all along but remained silent about it to keep the 'Corbynistas' on side and the Party (at least in terms of its MPs) united.

yes! the article says he's been consistenty anti-EU since 1975. the newspaper is not saying he's drawing flack for it-- they're saying he has to triangulate more than the clintons ever did in order to appease his constituents. basically he's a proto-commie whereas majority of his young followers are remainers.

i am trying to figure out if i can trust this publication ha ha ha ha ha. i am generally in line with their ideas although i'm an absolute proletarian. but so far so good!

they don't talk too extensively about the "traditional labour voters who wanted to leave" so thanks for adding that.

everything with a grain of salt, you know. i've never been a man of faith, haaaa haaaa haaaaaaaaaaa

demonrail666 · 02.07.2019, 08:19 PM

The Economist is pretty much Left-Liberal. so if you're on-side with someone like Elizabeth Warren you'll be largely on-side with its general position.

demonrail666 · 02.07.2019, 08:28 PM

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!

yes! the article says he's been consistenty anti-EU since 1975. the newspaper is not saying he's drawing flack for it-- they're saying he has to triangulate more than the clintons ever did in order to appease his constituents. basically he's a proto-commie whereas majority of his young followers are remainers.

i am trying to figure out if i can trust this publication ha ha ha ha ha. i am generally in line with their ideas although i'm an absolute proletarian. but so far so good!

they don't talk too extensively about the "traditional labour voters who wanted to leave" so thanks for adding that.

everything with a grain of salt, you know. i've never been a man of faith, haaaa haaaa haaaaaaaaaaa

The article was probably written just before the real backlash took place.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/poli...-a4060256.html

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ilduclo invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 3,305	puffballs and immature destroying angels look awfully similar. Just sayin'
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01.25.2019, 12:08 AM	#5363
Dr. Eugene Felikson invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 7,571	Ignored everything else I brought w me this trip to restart reading The Name of the Wind
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01.28.2019, 06:19 PM	#5365
demonrail666 invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 18,510	Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian ... again
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02.07.2019, 03:39 PM	#5368
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,548	holy fuck, “february 9” is out already! but here it’s still thursday lololol. ok future...
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02.07.2019, 05:34 PM	#5371
Dr. Eugene Felikson invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 7,571	I've started wearing a fanny pack around my waist just so I can bring my book w me wherever I go. It's so nice to have a novel to keep me company in line at the grocery store or while my gf shops for clothes rather than staring at my phone I'm still pecking away at Patrick Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind. Had to restart because i forgot what was happening, but I'm already back where I left off in just a couple weeks' reading. Took me like a whole year last time. Not smoking pot makes it so much easier to concentrate lol
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02.07.2019, 05:47 PM	#5373
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,548	not furrn in these here parts vivo en la frontera
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02.07.2019, 05:53 PM	#5374
demonrail666 invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 18,510	There's actually a page on McCarthy's website that gives a page by page translation of all the Spanish. But the main characters in the book don't understand it either so, in a way, my not understanding it when I read it only mirrors their bewilderment when they hear it. That's my excuse, anyway.
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02.07.2019, 05:59 PM	#5375
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,548	hahaha oh, speaking of reading, ive been reading more shit about this corbyn dude yikes! i forgot if i posted you the link or not somewhere
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02.07.2019, 06:03 PM	#5376
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,548	oh, this one! https://www.economist.com/britain/20...g-a-bad-brexit your thoughts on it? (just looking for perspective)
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02.07.2019, 07:46 PM	#5377
demonrail666 invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 18,510	There's a paywall for that article but I imagine it's about Corbyn drawting flack from his party and supporters over his less than transparant views on the EU. Most Labour MPs and almost all of Corbyn's core support-base are vehemently pro-Remain while a very large percentage of traditional Labour voters, who really don't like Corbyn at all, voted to Leave. That was a problem in and of itself but it's complicated even further by the nagging suspicion that Corbyn was actually pro-Leave all along but remained silent about it to keep the 'Corbynistas' on side and the Party (at least in terms of its MPs) united.
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02.07.2019, 08:19 PM	#5379
demonrail666 invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 18,510	The Economist is pretty much Left-Liberal. so if you're on-side with someone like Elizabeth Warren you'll be largely on-side with its general position.
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