hello spiral Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 I read Joe Hill's NOS4R2. It's pretty terrible. Way too long, reads like YA fiction. Steals a LOT of stuff from his dad's books. Even makes an in-SK-Universe reference like his dad does, linking this story to one of his dad's books. After that I read Adam Neville's The Ritual. A good read, I have ordered a few more of his books. I dunno if anyone remember's Allie Brosh's Hyperbole and a Half blog which then turned into a book? Well the follow up book which was promised 7 years ago just dropped. A lot of people thought she was dead or had turned into the webcomic world's Harper Lee/Salinger. This one is called Solutions and Other Problems and it is very funny and very dark. The multiple chapter section on her BF's dog dying of liver disease has way more irl lol funny moments that something like that has any right in having. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh Mughnus Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 Just now finished Anthony Bourdains kitchen confidential... ;( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hello spiral Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 5 minutes ago, Hugh Mughnus said: Just now finished Anthony Bourdains kitchen confidential... ;( Good book, deserves a reread. Been at least 10yrs since I last did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh Mughnus Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 1 minute ago, hello spiral said: Good book, deserves a reread. Been at least 10yrs since I last did. Definitely - my version had some annotations etc, I think it was released in 2014 or so? Definitely shouldn’t be limited to those in the industry (as it was originally intended). Very sad about his situation and passing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KovalainenFanBoy Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 halfway through kaufman's antkind, feels like the joke's ran its course. diminishing returns. might drop it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hello spiral Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 11 minutes ago, KovalainenFanBoy said: halfway through kaufman's antkind, feels like the joke's ran its course. diminishing returns. might drop it Get on GR lad. The original and best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDEM Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 4 hours ago, hello spiral said: I dunno if anyone remember's Allie Brosh's Hyperbole and a Half blog which then turned into a book? Well the follow up book which was promised 7 years ago just dropped. A lot of people thought she was dead or had turned into the webcomic world's Harper Lee/Salinger. This one is called Solutions and Other Problems and it is very funny and very dark. The multiple chapter section on her BF's dog dying of liver disease has way more irl lol funny moments that something like that has any right in having. Yeah, I member Hyperbole and a Half and loved it, will have to check out the new one, but not without some trepidation, as I'm hardly the same person now who loved that book seven years ago and frankly did kind of forget about her in the meantime. But I know that at the time I found it funny as hell. 2 hours ago, KovalainenFanBoy said: halfway through kaufman's antkind, feels like the joke's ran its course. diminishing returns. might drop it I liked the first half better, and the whole thing could have used some trimming down, but I guess it wouldn't really be Kaufman without the megalomaniacal (and in parts self-indulging) monumentality. I found it best to only read a couple of pages per day, and every time I go back to it, there are always some details I don't remember; it's almost like the darn thing keeps changing on me, like when you're familiarising yourself with a new Autechre record. The sheer amount of stuff in there is insane and can be sort of overwhelming. So in a way it's the gift that keeps on giving for me, but I fully understand people dropping it after a couple hundred pages. It's certainly not for everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d-a-m-o Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 "Les fous du son" great book about the use of electricity for sonic purpose and the inventors from Edison to nowadays. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KovalainenFanBoy Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 (edited) Antkind has now devolved into the most sophomoric, unfunny Trump parody one could imagine Edited December 19, 2020 by KovalainenFanBoy why is this required Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryptowen Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 The Death & Life of Great American Cities - torn between "Jane Jacobs has some real interesting ideas regarding dynamic structure which could be applied to many different areas of life" and "Jane Jacobs admires the hustle & bustle of urban landscapes in a way that feels dated but I can't quite put my finger on it" Capital as Power - good shit, very dense. Makes me want to read Veblen next in my economic research Creative Evolution (in french, just started) Che Guevara's Guerilla Warfare (this shit is tight) ((on a purely academic level of course)) Sanity, Madness & The Family by R D Laing (they should put a trigger warning on this shit yo) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Cryptowen Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 top books of 2020, in no particular order: deleuze & guattari - anti-oedipus oswald spengler - decline of the west (probably the only thing from my "absorb the alt right's reading list so i can better critique them" project that was actually interesting) karl marx - capital 1/2/3 (a real slog to get through but i'm glad i did) che guevara - guerilla warfare (do i get the t-shirt now?) 90s nick land/ccru/accelerationist shit (nothing in particular, just the overall vibe) the world as will & representation (strong disagree with his conclusions but it's beautifully written) jacques ellul - propaganda (scary shit) hp lovecraft (again more just the overall vibe) i read close to 100 books this year though so i'm probably fogetting a lot of really big ones Spoiler worst book: xenofeminist manifesto. early 2010s was truly a garbage aesthetic now that we have some distance from it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nil Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 On 9/28/2020 at 6:20 PM, Extralife said: XX by Rian Hughes Fantasic postmodern sci-fi. Loved it. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51075314-xx Finished The Three-Body problem series days ago (amazing reading !), and just grabbed a digital copy of XX. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Extralife Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 8 minutes ago, Nil said: Finished The Three-Body problem series days ago (amazing reading !), and just grabbed a digital copy of XX. I had so much fun reading this. Highly recommended. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryptowen Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 recently: an audiobook of thorstein veblen's theory of the leisure class kenneth waltz's theory of international politics jacques ellul's the technological society rereading a thousand plateaus (opening to completely random pages each time, as suggested) randomly flipping thru marx's grundrisse, various works of aristotle, lacan, heidegger in similar fashion also a bunch of pdfs on evolutionary biology, systems theory, the history of the mp3 file format 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Limo Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 39 minutes ago, Extralife said: I had so much fun reading this. Highly recommended. Me three. Just finished it as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milkface Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enthusiast Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke - it’s great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryptowen Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 i'd like to read the three body problem at some point. in general i want to expose myself to more chinese media to get a better sense of the country. it feels weird that they make up like 1/5th of the global population & yet the only exposure i get to the culture is through propaganda (both kinds). also it'd be nice to read some fiction. not counting the hp lovecraft story collection, i think the last fiction book i read was neuromancer back in 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcofribas Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 @Cryptowen nice to see someone digging Ellul, he’s underrated imo. absolutely love his crotchety vibe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryptowen Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 2 minutes ago, Alcofribas said: @Cryptowen nice to see someone digging Ellul, he’s underrated imo. absolutely love his crotchety vibe. i've really enjoyed what i've read of his so far! "crotchety" is definitely a fitting word (there's this prevalent feeling of "oh right this was the shit that had ted kaczynski trippin" throughout), but at the same time it all feels very insightful. i remember when i was reading propaganda last spring there were several points where i had to take breaks, it was making me so uncomfortable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcofribas Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 5 minutes ago, Cryptowen said: i've really enjoyed what i've read of his so far! "crotchety" is definitely a fitting word (there's this prevalent feeling of "oh right this was the shit that had ted kaczynski trippin" throughout), but at the same time it all feels very insightful. i remember when i was reading propaganda last spring there were several points where i had to take breaks, it was making me so uncomfortable. yeah he's incredibly ahead of his time in many ways. he has some tedious works (he loves to complain about marxism) but his books on technology are so good. i hadn't read his stuff in a long time but last year i picked up "the political illusion" which i'd had on my shelf for years and i was like "damn this mf could see into the future." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prdctvsm Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryptowen Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 *book has pattern, system, or organization in the title* my brain: bru u should go talk to her Spoiler i've started in on Jean Gebser's The Ever-Present Origin. Liking it so far. Reminds me a lot of Spengler, but with a stronger emphasis on the systematizing potentials revealed by aesthetic development, and less emphasis on the inevitable decline of large societies 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Limo Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 Just finished Curzio Malaparte's "Kaputt" , in which the author alternates descriptions of lavish dinners with ambassadors, noblemen and high ranking Nazis with stories about atrocities he witnessed as a war correspondent on the Eastern front. Not a fun read, but very good. The sequel (sort of), "The Skin", about the American invasion of Italy in 1943, is also very good and a bit less heavy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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