What are you reading right now?

OccultHawk · 02-02-2021, 12:24 AM

Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas by Nicholas Pileggi

The basis for the Scorsese movie. First hand accounts of mobsters raising all kinds of hell and making crazy amounts on money back before Las Vegas became Disneyland Gambling Center.

It’s a little convoluted compared to the film. All the information is in there but Pileggi makes very little effort to connect the dots for you. Still, it’s incredible what those crazy mother****ers did. And it’s really something to try to wrap your head around all the skill sets these psychopaths had to have to pull all this **** off. Anyone who doesn’t think you have to be brilliant to be a successful criminal should read this.

AlanParker1989 · 02-02-2021, 08:28 AM

Flowers for Algernon
This took my breath away when I read it and it still pops up in my thoughts a few years later - so powerful and the way it is written is genius. There's one word on one page, that when it appears you know that the plot has drastically changed - just incredible.

OccultHawk · 02-02-2021, 08:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Mindfulness

My therapist makes me do assignment from this. It’s VERY practical and can be used independently or even better with a therapist. I’m not discouraging you from reading Freud but it’s academic and historical not like practical advice on how to walk your dog without a shotgun and ****.

Edmund J. Bourne
The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook

Love you mindy.

PS I’m by far the smartest person on the board and I know everything from apples to zygotes so it’s good to take my advice.

OccultHawk · 02-02-2021, 08:59 AM

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Originally Posted by AlanParker1989

Flowers for Algernon
This took my breath away when I read it and it still pops up in my thoughts a few years later - so powerful and the way it is written is genius. There's one word on one page, that when it appears you know that the plot has drastically changed - just incredible.

Church

OccultHawk · 02-07-2021, 07:07 PM

Submission by Michel Houellebecq

This is the greatest book I’ve read since American Pastoral

Unassailable

It takes time to see how deeply a book affects you but I’m thinking this might be in my all time top five.

adidasss · 02-07-2021, 07:46 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Submission by Michel Houellebecq

This is the greatest book I’ve read since American Pastoral

Unassailable

It takes time to see how deeply a book affects you but I’m thinking this might be in my all time top five.

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The book generated controversy and criticism for its portrayal of Islam.[9] In advance of the novel's publication, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls declared, "‘France is not Michel Houellebecq . . . it’s not intolerance, hatred, fear.”[10] Lydia Kiesling, writing for Slate, stated, "There is a way in which Submission is not, strictly speaking, Islamophobic. But it does Aylan Kurdi no favors."[11] The New York Times likewise argued Submission "plays on French fears of terrorism, immigration and changing demographics."[12]
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Some critics also suggested the novel promoted misogynistic views. Erik Martiny's review in The London Magazine highlighted that "gender hierarchy is presented in the novel as the essential backbone to a healthy, stable society."[15] Heller McAlpin's review for the NPR concluded with the line, "I'm hoping that women, at least, won't take this insulting scenario lying down," while Lydia Kiesling contextualized the book's depiction of women by stating Submission contains a "Evo-Psych 101 correlation of women’s worth with their sexual viability" prevalent in both Houellebecq’s work and his personal comments.[16][17]

OccultHawk · 02-07-2021, 07:53 PM

This book is layered. It’s like DeLillo and Huxley and Coetzee all coming at you at the same time. I’ve never read anything like it.

Did you get your copy 2312 yet?

adidasss · 02-07-2021, 08:17 PM

Not yet. Is there any anti-muslim propaganda in it?

OccultHawk · 02-07-2021, 08:30 PM

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Originally Posted by adidasss

Not yet. Is there any anti-muslim propaganda in it?

Besides the simple demand that the person holding the book actually has to be intelligent enough to read there’s nothing about it that’s discriminatory against Muslims.

**Exo** · 02-07-2021, 09:31 PM

Hiroshima
John Hersey

Figures to be a doozy.

02-02-2021, 12:24 AM	#7031 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas by Nicholas Pileggi The basis for the Scorsese movie. First hand accounts of mobsters raising all kinds of hell and making crazy amounts on money back before Las Vegas became Disneyland Gambling Center. It’s a little convoluted compared to the film. All the information is in there but Pileggi makes very little effort to connect the dots for you. Still, it’s incredible what those crazy mother**ers did. And it’s really something to try to wrap your head around all the skill sets these psychopaths had to have to pull all this ** off. Anyone who doesn’t think you have to be brilliant to be a successful criminal should read this. __________________ 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

02-07-2021, 07:07 PM	#7035 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	Submission by Michel Houellebecq This is the greatest book I’ve read since American Pastoral Unassailable It takes time to see how deeply a book affects you but I’m thinking this might be in my all time top five. __________________ 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

02-07-2021, 07:53 PM	#7037 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	This book is layered. It’s like DeLillo and Huxley and Coetzee all coming at you at the same time. I’ve never read anything like it. Did you get your copy 2312 yet? __________________ 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

02-07-2021, 08:17 PM	#7038 (permalink)
adidasss Slavic gay sauce Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Abu Dhabi Posts: 7,945	Not yet. Is there any anti-muslim propaganda in it? __________________ “Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.” - Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle. Last.fm

02-07-2021, 09:31 PM	#7040 (permalink)
Exo All day jazz and biscuits Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: NJ Posts: 7,354	Hiroshima John Hersey Figures to be a doozy. __________________ LastFM SUPREME POO BAH MODERATOR EXTRAORDINAIRE

02-02-2021, 08:28 AM	#7032 (permalink)
AlanParker1989 Groupie Join Date: Feb 2021 Location: USA Posts: 3	Flowers for Algernon This took my breath away when I read it and it still pops up in my thoughts a few years later - so powerful and the way it is written is genius. There's one word on one page, that when it appears you know that the plot has drastically changed - just incredible.