What are you reading right now?

WWWP · 01-26-2020, 11:44 PM

House of Leaves is cool as ****

Lisnaholic · 01-27-2020, 07:10 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

... my grandmother was always "meema" cause she's my grandmother and she gets called whatever I called her as a child...

^ Is that a thing that people do in the US? I always thought it was a unique name invented by Sheldon Cooper.

I called my mom "Mum" until my adult sisters made the switch to "Mother" at which point I became self-conscious about what I was saying, and pretty much avoided calling her anything. (so not something I am particularly proud of.)

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Originally Posted by innerspaceboy

I’ve been reading texts on Brian Eno for years, and thought it might be a good idea to start tracking all of the books in my library. I compiled data from biographical websites, from my Goodreads account, and my physical and digital libraries and secured copies of books from around the world to build as complete a library as I was able.

^ This is so completely the opposite of how I select books!

For decades, I too used to choose books on a pretty logical, follow-up-on-that-topic, basis, but now this is my usual selection technique: go to the one place in my city that has second-hand English-language books and buy something that I consider to be remotely readable by my standards. This method turns up a real scattershot of random material, and although I haven't come across The Last of The Mohicans, I entirely approve, and a while ago found and finished Little Women, which is kind of similar league I guess - though weed gets no mention.

And, yes, Mindfulness, Eno is a legend, mainly for being a pioneer of ambient music. He reached that exhaulted status after starting out with Roxy Music and then making a couple of nice poppy/rock solo albums. Here's a tongue-in-cheek track from before his serious commitment to ambient:-

^ "I never got a letter back"

WWWP · 01-27-2020, 09:27 AM

When I get my hands on a new book it's usually either a copy recommended to me and passed on by a friend or a thrift store find. This weekend I found this, which I selected entirely based on title + cover:

What's more, there's an inscription from the author!

Any guesses on what this book might be about?

Mindy · 01-27-2020, 09:45 AM

that book looks good

I think its about him painting sad times in his life and thats why the tears are colorful. interesting find.

Im reading some chapters today 7-11, in this book called " The last lecture". its pretty good

The Batlord · 01-27-2020, 09:54 AM

What a corny inscription.

WWWP · 01-27-2020, 09:57 AM

Some might say I inherited Libby's fuck book

OccultHawk · 01-28-2020, 03:37 PM

That might be worth a little something Wolf

Derrick Parker
Notorious C.O.P.: The Inside Story of the Tupac, Biggie, and Jam Master Jay Investigations from NYPD's First "Hip-Hop Cop"

This has the shortcomings you’d probably expect: self-promoting, slightly disjointed, unnecessarily repetitive... but it does have some interesting inside information on how the police (especially NYPD) investigated hip hop celebrities. Also, as a fan, the author has very solid understanding of hip hop and why certain artists are iconic. He has good taste.

YorkeDaddy · 01-30-2020, 06:58 AM

I've been reading The Terror by Dan Simmons and enjoying it. About some dudes in the 1800's that go on an expedition to find the Northwest Passage and their boats get trapped in ice. The expedition actually happened and everybody died, but Dan Simmons puts a bit of horror monster influence in their which I appreciate. The novel is bleak as **** and I'm glad I'm reading it during the winter because the descriptions of cold are just profound and I can physically feel it. The book got turned into a series on AMC that I plan to watch after finishing, I've heard it's great.

**Frownland** · 02-02-2020, 12:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

I started it yesterday and have to force myself put it down it's so engrossing. Insanely well written and has that hard to pin down style that makes me love Sebald but in a different voice (or a couple).

Just finished it, what a ****ing experience. Loved the self reference and the footnote labyrinth in chapter nine as well as all of the word puzzles and red herrings that probably weren't red herrings. I want to read it again to try to decode it some more, really figure out if there's any meaning to those lists, find all of the connotations of k and x, dig into the Whalestone letters more, and see if there's a way to find the content of the burned pages based on the index or if there's some kind of other message tucked away there. Pretty late in the book, one of the footnotes referenced the community college that I went to and that made me feel like I was losing myself to the book like Johnny was, but I think that mostly came from how well this book puts you in the shoes of all of its narrators in both direct and indirect ways.

Up next: Contact by Carl Sagan

OccultHawk · 02-03-2020, 04:02 PM

Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati by Robert Anton Wilson

Took me a while since I read it piecemeal

I’d say a lot of counterculture mythology started here.

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Mindy ask me about cosmology Join Date: Oct 2016 Location: Milky Way Galaxy Posts: 9,045	that book looks good I think its about him painting sad times in his life and thats why the tears are colorful. interesting find. Im reading some chapters today 7-11, in this book called " The last lecture". its pretty good __________________ https://www.instagram.com/shhons_meme_agency

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OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	That might be worth a little something Wolf Derrick Parker Notorious C.O.P.: The Inside Story of the Tupac, Biggie, and Jam Master Jay Investigations from NYPD's First "Hip-Hop Cop" This has the shortcomings you’d probably expect: self-promoting, slightly disjointed, unnecessarily repetitive... but it does have some interesting inside information on how the police (especially NYPD) investigated hip hop celebrities. Also, as a fan, the author has very solid understanding of hip hop and why certain artists are iconic. He has good taste. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

02-03-2020, 04:02 PM	#6770 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati by Robert Anton Wilson Took me a while since I read it piecemeal I’d say a lot of counterculture mythology started here. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html