What are you reading right now?

The Batlord · 12-26-2021, 03:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

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Yeah me too. I never read anything through after MTD: I tried Violin, bloody hated it, so depressing. Pandora didn't interest me, never bothered with Marius or Armand or any of the others. Never read her witch cycle or mummy cycle, and have no interest in her "life of Christ" books. So like you say, those five and that's more or less it. I might at some point read the "new" Lestat books, but I wonder what is left after you've met God and the Devil? Got to be a comedown after that?

I'm curious about Atlantis but I'm also assuming the new Lestat books were cash grabs to try to get in on the Twilight hype. She just run out of ideas with the vampire books and even ended them with a lame crossover with the witch novels.

Which introduced me to her unsettling views on ****ing children. A very underaged teenage girl from the witch books had ****ed the very much adult dude protagonist but it was just framed as him cheating on his wife, who was related to the girl btw, but the wife forgave him cause he was a good guy or whatever the **** and the girl was a ho who ****ed everyone.

Then later I remember an interview with Anne Rice where she said something about how age is just a number and some kids are just mature for their age which gave me the impression she'd been molested when she was younger but thought it was fine.

innerspaceboy · 12-26-2021, 04:37 PM

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Originally Posted by rostasi

I devoured Firesign Theatre's catalog in my teens. The Bozos LP is one of my all-time favorite albums. And I have 25 of their records on my server and The Big Mystery Joke Book in PDF format, but I wasn't familiar with this text. Looking it up I see it was just published on December 6th. I do, however, have Pink Hotel Burns Down, the liner notes of which state that it is a recording from October 29, 1967 - The First Firesign Theatre "Magic Mushroom" Live Broadcast.

I'll have to pick up the new book!

rostasi · 12-26-2021, 05:19 PM

Been a fan for over 50 years and have all of the books and recordings available when they were originally released (including many, many hours of Radio Free Oz and the "...Joke Book you mentioned. Behind me, are even VHS tapes of their early work). Drove some people cRaZy in school back then, but most of them would come over to the house just to listen to them again and again. This is just the latest release you can get. I think I have everything they've ever offered on their webpage: t-shirts, bumper stickers, license plate holder, books, various collections, etc - incl. some that aren't even there anymore. If you consider buying just one thing, then I'd recommend their "Duke Of Madness Motors" collection! Also, the ...Magic Mushroom book comes with a DVD-ROM too. Check Bandcamp as well.

innerspaceboy · 12-26-2021, 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by rostasi

Been a fan for over 50 years...

Marvelous! Thank you! I remember having an epiphany walking home from class one summer afternoon when I was suddenly struck by the solution to the riddle about the porridge bird.

The operative word in the riddle is, "HIS egg..."

The answer to the riddle is, male porridge birds don't lay eggs. The logic bomb of the question is what crashed the President.

At least that's my interpretation.

I've always revered Firesign for their old time radio studio techniques and surrealist humor. Brilliant stuff.

rostasi · 12-26-2021, 05:59 PM

Clem was a hacker from way back.

< Next: you need to discover The Fourth Tower of Inverness
and other Jack Flanders / Ruby, etc. ZBS Media titles.
Also, a 50-year love affair!>

innerspaceboy · 12-30-2021, 06:19 PM

Saw an xkcd comic referencing Prof. Lawrence Lessig's seminal text, Free Culture which inspired me to take it back off the shelf and read it again. I was delighted to see him directly acknowledge Richard Stallman's Free Software, Free Society, of which I have a signed copy, as Stallman was the father of the Copyleft movement and his book paved the way for Lessig's work and the founding of Creative Commons.

For a book on the history and future of copyright law penned by a lawyer, the text is surprisingly inspiring and accessible. And though it was published back in 2004, it's still arrestingly relevant today.

FETCHER. · 01-05-2022, 11:30 AM

Ernest Cline - Ready Player Two. I’m enjoying what I have read so far but have had to remind myself to pick it up and get reading. Really wondering where the storyline is going to go. I am only around 100 pages in, generally don’t like the first stage of a book because I worry that it’s going to be ****. Has anyone here finished it?

jadis · 01-07-2022, 04:27 PM

Of Foucault's academic mentors, all of whom were major figures in their own right, Dumezil is probably my favorite so far. Fascinating exposés of Roman religious ideology placed in the broader context of what he reconstructs as the Indo-European civilization. Difficult to follow at times because he could read over 30 languages and was very adventurous with etymology (not to mention various pantheons of deities and details of that sort) but worth it overall.

BassoonPlatoon · 01-07-2022, 11:42 PM

The Walking Dead Book 1. Where it all begins....again.

ando here · 01-08-2022, 05:49 PM

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Originally Posted by jadis

Of Foucault's academic mentors, all of whom were major figures in their own right, Dumezil is probably my favorite so far. Fascinating exposés of Roman religious ideology placed in the broader context of what he reconstructs as the Indo-European civilization. Difficult to follow at times because he could read over 30 languages and was very adventurous with etymology (not to mention various pantheons of deities and details of that sort) but worth it overall.

Haven't dipped into Foucault in ages. But it's good to see a reference - and a mentor to boot. Thanks.

12-26-2021, 05:19 PM	#7423 (permalink)
rostasi . Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 4,007	Been a fan for over 50 years and have all of the books and recordings available when they were originally released (including many, many hours of Radio Free Oz and the "...Joke Book you mentioned. Behind me, are even VHS tapes of their early work). Drove some people cRaZy in school back then, but most of them would come over to the house just to listen to them again and again. This is just the latest release you can get. I think I have everything they've ever offered on their webpage: t-shirts, bumper stickers, license plate holder, books, various collections, etc - incl. some that aren't even there anymore. If you consider buying just one thing, then I'd recommend their "Duke Of Madness Motors" collection! Also, the ...Magic Mushroom book comes with a DVD-ROM too. Check Bandcamp as well. Last edited by rostasi; 12-26-2021 at 05:24 PM.

12-26-2021, 05:59 PM	#7425 (permalink)
rostasi . Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 4,007	Clem was a hacker from way back. < Next: you need to discover The Fourth Tower of Inverness and other Jack Flanders / Ruby, etc. ZBS Media titles. Also, a 50-year love affair!>

01-07-2022, 04:27 PM	#7428 (permalink)
jadis Music Addict Join Date: Jun 2021 Location: dont ask Posts: 1,360	Of Foucault's academic mentors, all of whom were major figures in their own right, Dumezil is probably my favorite so far. Fascinating exposés of Roman religious ideology placed in the broader context of what he reconstructs as the Indo-European civilization. Difficult to follow at times because he could read over 30 languages and was very adventurous with etymology (not to mention various pantheons of deities and details of that sort) but worth it overall.