What are you reading right now?

DwnWthVwls · 09-05-2019, 12:14 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

If you don't know what they are then you don't know that you're reading them and you were only ever saying you were cause you're a basic bitch.

Nah i was saying i was because thats what they are sold as.

innerspaceboy · 09-06-2019, 06:05 PM

Sometimes you just need to give yourself a little gift.

Brian Eno's A Year With Swollen Appendices was published in a single run 23 years ago. Highly collectible, the book combines Eno's diary with a collection of essays, short stories, and correspondences.

There are no known plans for republication, no official ebook on the market, and only a crudely-scanned PDF in the filesharing community, of which the footnote columns make OCR extraction to EPUB a most daunting undertaking.

Nonetheless determined, I plugged the ISBN into an aggregate rare book search engine, entered my target price, and registered to be notified as soon as a qualifying copy was listed for sale by any of several million sellers.

As my good fortune would have it, one turned up soon thereafter at a Goodwill thrift store in San Francisco listed for nearly half the average selling price. And the purchase benefited a charity. I ordered it on the spot.

With so many titles in my library dissecting and analysing Eno's work and philosophy, it's a real privilege to have this glimpse into the mind of the man, himself.

~~jwb~~ · 09-10-2019, 11:24 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

comics 4 lyfe

I've read Calvin and Hobbes.

**Frownland** · 09-10-2019, 11:48 AM

I think that Norm MacDonald is my favourite comic.

~~jwb~~ · 09-10-2019, 11:53 AM

If I'm being totally honest.. I don't think I've even seen a comic book in person. As in the super hero type... Since like I said I did read Calvin and Hobbes.

But honestly I always thought that was some outdated reference when I would see it on the Simpsons.

BassoonPlatoon · 09-21-2019, 11:32 PM

I have some obscure comic books that came packaged with random items and may or may not be canon, but other than that I don't think I have ever even seen a real comic book collection before.

OccultHawk · 09-23-2019, 09:57 AM

Word em up on Flannery O’Connor!

**Frownland** · 09-23-2019, 10:31 AM

The descriptions of the family in a good man is hard to find are hysterical.

**Frownland** · 09-23-2019, 11:29 AM

You do you and I know it's easier, but you're better off reading it than listening to an audiobook version. You'll absorb more of it when you're reading it at your own speed. It looks like your professor is making it worth your while with some good selections too. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/b...ame-reading-it

Sparknotes is great though.

OccultHawk · 09-23-2019, 12:43 PM

Definitely read it on your own first then see if your thoughts match the commentary in Sparknotes or Cliffnotes. There’s no shame in using those resources but take it in as personal experience with a work of art first. The people who write Sparknotes know their ****, that’s for sure.

09-10-2019, 11:48 AM	#6574 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	I think that Norm MacDonald is my favourite comic. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

09-23-2019, 10:31 AM	#6578 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	The descriptions of the family in a good man is hard to find are hysterical. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

09-23-2019, 11:29 AM	#6579 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	You do you and I know it's easier, but you're better off reading it than listening to an audiobook version. You'll absorb more of it when you're reading it at your own speed. It looks like your professor is making it worth your while with some good selections too. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/b...ame-reading-it Sparknotes is great though. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

09-10-2019, 11:53 AM	#6575 (permalink)
~~jwb~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jul 2019 Posts: 4,403	If I'm being totally honest.. I don't think I've even seen a comic book in person. As in the super hero type... Since like I said I did read Calvin and Hobbes. But honestly I always thought that was some outdated reference when I would see it on the Simpsons.

09-23-2019, 09:57 AM	#6577 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	Word em up on Flannery O’Connor!

09-23-2019, 12:43 PM	#6580 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	Definitely read it on your own first then see if your thoughts match the commentary in Sparknotes or Cliffnotes. There’s no shame in using those resources but take it in as personal experience with a work of art first. The people who write Sparknotes know their ****, that’s for sure.