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EEEOOOEEEOOOEEEOOO wrote:Can't it be both?

i think being genuinely that crazy would preclude you from using it to troll as i think trolling has to be intentional

i haven't finished a book in ages

sorry about this thread, it deserves better

gelatinous cube wrote:
Hah, I saw that today (via Andrew Sullivan).

Same, I love the Daily Dish. It's usually a huge act of resistance not to re-post 80% of his posts here or on FB.

Chevalier Mal Fet wrote:

gelatinous cube wrote:
Hah, I saw that today (via Andrew Sullivan).

Same, I love the Daily Dish. It's usually a huge act of resistance not to re-post 80% of his posts here or on FB.

Yeah, if I accomplish nothing else over a given day, I will usually at least have read most every post from Sully.

Monsignor Quixote - Graham Greene: 8/10

Did not expect much from this despite being crazy about Greene. Really touching piece with the usual heavy dose of moral uncertainty and sadness.

Maxim issue 163 (July) - 0/10

Cover story says Rose Huntington Whitely's lips saved the world. Too bad they didn't save this stupid fucking issue. There was a card inside the magazine that gave me $500 for Red Star Worldwear. That was pretty cool, I ordered like 9 pairs of sunglasses.

There's an article in here that's supposedly about juicing a snake. That's fucking awesome because you could watch it try not to die while it spun around in a blender. I tried to read it but there was a cologne sample that made my thumb flip to the wrong page. I read the wrong page and I got pissed off.

The entire world is just a big giant commercial brake. It's just corporations trying to get you to buy shit you don't even need and causing autism at an increasing rate. This issue gets 0 out of 10 because of that.

-Gary

Fall of Giants by Ken Follett

good WWI novel, I need to read some of Follett's earlier works.

What is Anarchism? - Alexander Berkman 8.5/10

Christi-Anarchy - Dave Andrews 8
A new friend is friends with the author and might have lived with him in Australia if I am not mistaken, so he has a box of these books. Another short easy one. Very readable. Stuff I'm already familiar with, but probably a very good, readable overview.

Chomsky - Hopes and Prospects
8/10
Philp Roth - The Counterlife
8.4/10
Milan Kundera - The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
3/10
Moby Dick
As a novel: 9/10
As a story: 9/10
As storytelling: 4/10
McCarthy - All the Pretty Horses
9.5/10
John Dos Passos - The 42nd Parallel
6/10

altars of radness wrote: McCarthy - All the Pretty Horses
Re-read this as I'm planning on reading the rest of the Border Trilogy

A House for Mr Biswas - VS Naipaul - 10/10
probably overlong but i can't find it in me to care

Chariots of The Gods - 8.7

Carlos Castaneda's Don Juan's Teachings - 9.7

the national wrestling alliance: the monopoly that strangled pro wrestling

9/10

tons of facts and names. way old school.

Book: Ecstasy through Tantra - 7/10 - Informative, placing the seemingly perverse in "magickal" realms.

Audio: Stumbling on Happiness - 8/10 - Very entertaining and informative. Was surprising to hear a good perspective of happiness (as very fabricated and fickle).

I am 1/4th, volume-wise through Carl Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln: The War Years

This is what I live for when it comes to reading history, insanely rich in detail in describing both the big stories and the little stories interspersed with excellent illustrations and exhibits from the time period, mostly in the form of political comics running in magazines it never occurred to me had been around so long (Vanity Fair, among others). There is really an emphasis on telling the story through the ridiculous amount of facts and first hand accounts informing the author's fly on the wall imagination.. The other major players of the period on both sides are given equal treatment, and some characters are dug out of obscurity and found remarkably in pivotal roles. Sandburg is alternately empathetic and vicious towards Lincoln and the rest of the cast as the situation demands. Excellent and intriguing stuff, on the same level as The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich or Parting the Waters: America in the King Years

10/10

Tobacco Road - Erskine Caldwell - 6/10
social conscience obscured by exploitation of stereotypical lathered-up hicks, fuckin and prayin
Good line though, after one of the hicks hits a black dude with a car and kills him, old guy strokes his chin thoughtfully: "yep, niggers will die, alright"
High Rise - JG Ballard - 8/10

Bored013 wrote: Under the Dome - 5/10, way too fucking long, some good ideas, the usual exploration of white trash small town shit. You've also read THIS book before.

I've read maybe 60% of what I guess you could call 'Nu-King' (minus the Dark tower) and I definitely liked this one the most. I didn't mind the length but in typical King fashion, the ending is kind of botched. The explanation of the Dome came and went so quickly that after investing so much time in the book it was irritating to have everything explained away so briefly. However, it would make for a truly awesome television show.

A Dance With Dragons - 9

Read a bit this weekend:

Who Killed Marilyn: Were the Kennedys Involved? - 8/10

Moby Dick - 10/10

The Inferno - 12/10

From Ape To Man: A Study In Evolution - 9/10

Birth Of A Nation (Aaron MacGruder graphic novel) - 6/10

Mona Lisa Overdrive - 7.5/10

any Don Quixote experts on here that can assist a comrade with a preferred translation or edition?

IMPORTANT

fallbacktostone wrote:any Don Quixote experts on here that can assist a comrade with a preferred translation or edition?

IMPORTANT

John Ormsby

I wouldn't ignore any advice from Chad.

The Ringworld Engineers by Larry Niven - 8.6

Chad wrote:

fallbacktostone wrote:any Don Quixote experts on here that can assist a comrade with a preferred translation or edition?

IMPORTANT

John Ormsby

mr. budd used to insist on charles jervis and he loved that book a lot