prdctvsm Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 free .pdf /10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keanu reeves Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 gave up on gaddis. reading satantango by krasznahorkai, which is very good so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auditor Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 Just started rereading Roadside Picnic, don't think I finished it last time and I farkin love Stalker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doublename Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 The next William Gibson joint is called Agency, comes out in early 2018 and Hilldog won the election - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/25/books/sci-fi-writer-william-gibson-reimagines-the-world-after-the-2016-election.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keanu reeves Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 description sounds convoluted as hell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KovalainenFanBoy Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 (edited) The story unfolds in two timelines: San Francisco in 2017, in an alternate time track where Hillary Clinton won the election and Mr. Trump’s political ambitions were thwarted, and London in the 22nd century, after decades of cataclysmic events have killed 80 percent of humanity. subtle i'm actually halfway through Pattern Recognition atm and enjoying it Edited April 26, 2017 by span Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bechuga Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 (edited) Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: David Foster Wallace Biography by DT Max. Surprised to find it's not so much a glowing tribute but a page by page destruction of DFW and the 'nice guy' image. DFW sounded naive as hell (and mostly crazy). Still a fan though. Edited April 28, 2017 by Bechuga Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KovalainenFanBoy Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: David Foster Wallace Biography by DT Max. Surprised to find it's not so much a glowing tribute but a page by page destruction of DFW and the 'nice guy' image. DFW sounded naive as hell (and mostly crazy). Still a fan though. sounds interesting. half a year after finishing IJ i keep finding myself thinking man that was a damn good book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bechuga Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: David Foster Wallace Biography by DT Max. Surprised to find it's not so much a glowing tribute but a page by page destruction of DFW and the 'nice guy' image. DFW sounded naive as hell (and mostly crazy). Still a fan though. sounds interesting. half a year after finishing IJ i keep finding myself thinking man that was a damn good book Yeah. Not many books stick in my mind after reading them but that one does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tec Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 Into The Woods by John Yorke. If I keep reading books about writing I don't actually need to do it right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auditor Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 Rereading stories in The Wine-Dark Sea by Robert Aickman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ignatius Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: David Foster Wallace Biography by DT Max. Surprised to find it's not so much a glowing tribute but a page by page destruction of DFW and the 'nice guy' image. DFW sounded naive as hell (and mostly crazy). Still a fan though. sounds interesting. half a year after finishing IJ i keep finding myself thinking man that was a damn good book Yeah. Not many books stick in my mind after reading them but that one does. the long interview book is a good bio of DFW since it's all his own words/conversations.. the movie was actually pretty good too. i thought it was pretty endearing and the book is a good 'getting to know you for a minute' type experience whereas the biography i read is like a portrait or something.. very flat.. but it was so long ago.. i think if you want to know DFW just read his books in order they were published. you can see by "Oblibvion" what's going on in there.. and then after he died.. "The PAle King" and things i've read about it.. how he was "writing to escape boredom" because his meds didn't work and he was depressed as fuck. anyway.. title of the road trip interview book is below. "Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bechuga Posted May 1, 2017 Share Posted May 1, 2017 Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: David Foster Wallace Biography by DT Max. Surprised to find it's not so much a glowing tribute but a page by page destruction of DFW and the 'nice guy' image. DFW sounded naive as hell (and mostly crazy). Still a fan though. sounds interesting. half a year after finishing IJ i keep finding myself thinking man that was a damn good book Yeah. Not many books stick in my mind after reading them but that one does. the long interview book is a good bio of DFW since it's all his own words/conversations.. the movie was actually pretty good too. i thought it was pretty endearing and the book is a good 'getting to know you for a minute' type experience whereas the biography i read is like a portrait or something.. very flat.. but it was so long ago.. i think if you want to know DFW just read his books in order they were published. you can see by "Oblibvion" what's going on in there.. and then after he died.. "The PAle King" and things i've read about it.. how he was "writing to escape boredom" because his meds didn't work and he was depressed as fuck. anyway.. title of the road trip interview book is below. "Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace" I've read that, one of my favourite books and one of the few I've reread. The problem is that he seemed to have a resistance towards telling the truth--ironic for someone obsessed with 'sincere and direct involvement'--so how much of his own words you can believe is tricky (Lipsky repeatedly catches DFW out in that book, who asks him to stop the tape several times out of anger / annoyance). Even his non-fiction has been confirmed to be largely made up. A strange mix of desire to show off and insane guilt at having shown off. Then again, how much of anything any of us say can be truly believed? And the non-fiction is entertaining so perhaps it was better it was falsified. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bechuga Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 (edited) Thomas Pynchon is 80 today. Happy Birthday, you nearly impossible to read but magnificent bastard! https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2017/may/08/thomas-pynchon-at-80-eight-reasons-to-celebrate-his-birthday Also, it's nearing on four years since his last book. Hopefully another is coming out, but considering he's covered all the major time periods of the last few centuries, what is left for him to write? Edited May 8, 2017 by Bechuga Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hello spiral Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 Ugh no more just yet pls I have 3 to read still Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bechuga Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 You're still on those? Pff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KovalainenFanBoy Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 going by what I read about Pattern Recognition I thought it was going to be a DeLillo-esque kind of novel, what with a lot of analysis of its themes and people calling it 'postmodern'... but it turned out to be a fairly standard mystery novel with some interesting themes working as a setup/background. still an entertaining book but not nearly as interesting as I thought Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweepstakes Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 going by what I read about Pattern Recognition I thought it was going to be a DeLillo-esque kind of novel, what with a lot of analysis of its themes and people calling it 'postmodern'... but it turned out to be a fairly standard mystery novel with some interesting themes working as a setup/background. still an entertaining book but not nearly as interesting as I thoughtYeah I enjoyed it but I don't remember it being mindblowing. It's been more than 10 years since I read it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doublename Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 Yeah that about sums it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dingformung Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 i confirm now reading: adorno - minima moralia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bechuga Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor. Follows 13 years of life in a small village after a young girl goes missing, and the subsequent time after her disappearance. Written in a detached third person narration in short sentences but turns surprisingly emotional at times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bechuga Posted May 20, 2017 Share Posted May 20, 2017 The Spy who came in from the Cold by John le Carré. Very good. Have a lovely leather bound omnibus copy of his early spy work (5 novels in total), and reading them will be a treat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bechuga Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 The Spy who came in from the Cold by John le Carré. Very good. Have a lovely leather bound omnibus copy of his early spy work (5 novels in total), and reading them will be a treat. Was a very good read, definitely holds up some fifty years later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echolalia Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 Just finished Savage Detectives by Bolano. Life changing stuff and will make the reader question their own way of life. His books make you want to live in a way true to yourself nothing tainted or noone to pander to. Then read Adult World I and II by Foster Wallace which tells you more than you ever needed to know about the examined relationship between a married couple. So american and reminiscient of the husband jacking off with the porn stars panties over his face in Little Creatures. His books are like macroscopic views of society. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echolalia Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 Also in the savage detectives Bolano praises DeLillo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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