What are you reading right now?

The Batlord · 01-09-2017, 03:53 AM

Still gotta give my love to Carrie. It's relatively amateurish but the story tugs at your heartstrings.

**Janszoon** · 01-11-2017, 04:00 PM

Oh, and I'm reading this when I take breaks from War & Peace:

When You Are Engulfed In Flames—David Sedaris
So far it's not as funny as Naked (the only other book I've read by him), but I'm still enjoying it.

Trollheart · 01-11-2017, 05:40 PM

Still fitting in some reading time for Puzo's masterpiece when I can manage it. Just about to start Book II. End of Book one: "The War of the Five Families had begun". LOTR and GoT eat your hearts out!

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Originally Posted by Goofle

^ I've heard a lot of people talk about that book, but never that it was the greatest ever. I'm not doubting that many people do, just that I think it's one of those that split opinion - even if the reader has a certain respect or admiration for it.

This, however, was recommended very highly. I've been hearing lots about it for the past few years but it was Jordan Peterson placing it as his #1 recommend book (with regards to his intellectual development) that finally pushed me to start listening to it.

I'm thoroughly enjoying it so far. But I'm not far enough into it to give any kind of verdict.

I found it engaging at first then I got really bored with it. Probably didn't help that I had just wolfed my way through Nineteen Eighty-Four in three days. Again.

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Originally Posted by innerspaceboy

A tempting offer and a very fair price! Thanks for thinking of me but I've got some multi-hundred dollar book purchases in the works and I'm trying to reel in my recreational spending. I did just buy an Easton Press goldleaf leatherbound autographed edition of Ready Player One as a future surprise gift for my wife!

Shhhhh!

Rich bastard.

**Janszoon** · 01-11-2017, 05:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Still fitting in some reading time for Puzo's masterpiece when I can manage it. Just about to start Book II. End of Book one: "The War of the Five Families had begun". LOTR and GoT eat your hearts out!

I really should read that at some point. Are you enjoying it?

Trollheart · 01-11-2017, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

I really should read that at some point. Are you enjoying it?

Oh it is fantastic. And I've seen the movie. Of course. Doesn't spoil it in the least, except I can see Marlon Robert and Al in their roles. But superb stuff.

**Frownland** · 01-11-2017, 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

I found it engaging at first then I got really bored with it. Probably didn't help that I had just wolfed my way through Nineteen Eighty-Four in three days. Again.

Interesting, I found it engrossing. I had a little difficulty trudging through some of the denser sections of 1984 (the orthodoxy/unorthodoxy compare and contrast section that goes on for like fifteen pages was rough).

innerspaceboy · 01-11-2017, 06:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Rich bastard.

It's always funny when someone makes a remark like that, given my near-poverty lifestyle.

I get my groceries at Aldi, (Wegmans for poor people), live on a diet of PBJ and cereal for every meal, don't own a vehicle or a tv, design and produce most of my wardrobe myself, and my household income rides just above food stamp eligibility.

Still, through frugal lifestyle choices, (such as never having used a credit card in my life - if I don't have the cash, I don't spend it), I've managed to live in a cozy 1920s palace filled with rare treasures and antiques.

I'm a classy bastard.

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard · 01-11-2017, 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by innerspaceboy

live on a diet of PBJ and cereal for every meal

i relate

**Frownland** · 01-11-2017, 06:07 PM

Can't spell classist without class(i).

innerspaceboy · 01-11-2017, 06:13 PM

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Can't spell classist without class(i).

I am totally a classist

But not of fiscal class, (I detest capitalism in the first place). I suppose I'm a cultural and intellectual classist.

If a person doesn't embrace rationalism, skepticism, and actively support the arts and literature, then I really have little interest in them as a human being.

Total classist.

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