11.08.2019, 04:44 AM | #5761 |
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Nearly finished reading Dune. I first read this about 17 years ago and thought it was enjoyable but that was it. I'm certainly enjoying it a lot more second time round. Most likely because I'm getting more the subtleties of the novel as opposed it being just a simple hero story. Supposedly the new film is going to be split into two but I've not the foggiest as to where that split is going to be. Has anyone read any of the sequels? Sounds like in just better off leaving it at this book.
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11.08.2019, 07:15 AM | #5764 | |
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i read the whole lot some ages ago (the paleozoic) and it was up and down, but nevertheless enjoyable. some of it i have completely forgotten, some i haven’t and it’s amazing. i’d say go on till you can’t go on. there’s enough material in those volumes to make everyone’s head spin. how much or how long depends on the person. i’d say go to at least book 3. but i loved book 5 (heretics). eta: some in-betweens you might have to skim through to get to the good parts |
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11.11.2019, 01:21 AM | #5765 |
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Finished off Red Dwarf earlier. Still, as always, chipping away at IT.
Not sure what to start next.
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11.11.2019, 08:45 AM | #5766 |
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Started a new Charli Jane Anders book last night and I think I might continue it. I loved All The Birds in the Sky, like, a lot.
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11.11.2019, 05:36 PM | #5767 |
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Settled on the fitting "Goodbye 20th Century" Sonic Youth book as well as "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" of which I know what movies it bred.
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11.12.2019, 08:30 AM | #5768 | |
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I read Goodbye 20th almost as soon as it came out. I thought I heard rumblings that there were inaccuracies of some sort in the book, which wouldn’t surprise me, but... I dunno. Been a while now. I enjoyed it but didn’t think it was particularly well-crafted writing-wise. Fun to read about SY though. |
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11.12.2019, 08:31 AM | #5769 |
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Also, Do Androids Dream if Electric Sheep? is quite different form Blade Runner and has, like, almost no connection it BR 2049 whatsoever, just in case that’s what you’re expecting.
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11.12.2019, 09:33 AM | #5770 | |
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Given how little I've seen either movie, there's nothing to wreck there.
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11.12.2019, 10:29 AM | #5771 |
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picked this up at a Library sale for 50cents, film of this was fantastic, book is interesting in that it has many of the same characters, yet slightly different plot lines and the soon to be film makers 1st person POV
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11.12.2019, 03:39 PM | #5772 | |
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11.13.2019, 08:00 AM | #5773 |
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I just bought these, now I should perhaps also start reading them:
Paul McGee - How Not To Worry: The Remarkable Truth of How a Small Change Can Help You Stress Less and Enjoy Life More Mark Manson - The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life And also Do Androids Dream if Electric Sheep? apologies for being a copycat I second the recommendation to watch the movie, the original. I don't think I saw the remake yet. But I obviously haven't read the book yet either and a cookbook called the Stubible, no sorry I mean stewbible
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11.20.2019, 07:35 AM | #5774 |
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very good and slightly sickening—such great emptiness a fast read too, always a plus—maybe took a couple of hours? great understated prose, not flowery, but lets you move forward, forward, forward in a stream. that the narrative is so vague and ambiguous and contradictory is a huge plus—this isn’t bothered with a lot of facts or descriptions but rather with the point of view about them. not so much made of opinions as of... responses, maybe? this is the first bolaño i manage cover to cover, i swear. i started a book of short stories once and dropped it halfway. this one was very straightforward. |
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11.20.2019, 08:47 AM | #5775 |
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Try Nazi Literature in America, then Savage Detective, then 2666
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11.20.2019, 09:18 AM | #5776 |
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i have 2666 and it’s gonna be my 2nd attempt at his novels now. i tried literatura nazi some years ago but i didn’t make progress with it. i think it was en inglés, and that bothered me? but who could recall now, and it doesn’t matter. anyway, yeah. original text ftw.
i sorta wanna reread novelita lumpen instead, and make notes abut the way he narrates. |
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11.24.2019, 09:23 PM | #5777 |
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Jules Joanne Gleeson - Gender Abolition in the 21st Century
More than a little tempted to print this out at home to scare my parents.
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11.24.2019, 10:00 PM | #5779 |
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anyway, holy shit, this stuff:
great not-little book. it’s fat, and heavy, and quite spectacular |
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Apparently: 42,493! As part of over 22 million texts, they're doing a fucking great job.
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