What Book Did You Read Last Night??? (4 Viewers)

[Lili Marlene]

I'm currently trying to think of a way of not offending a co-worker when I have to explain why the terrible book she recommended me as lifechanging was awful.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Write her an essay on it and ask her for feedback

 

[Lili Marlene]

I might just show her this thread tbh

 

[IFF]

I'm currently trying to think of a way of not offending a co-worker when I have to explain why the terrible book she recommended me as lifechanging was awful.

co-worker, thats hard as you have to see them every day.
if you didn't like your friends screenplay that they worked 8 or 9 months on, you can just avoid for 7 months and hope they forget that they sent you it to read.

lets see
"it ended too soon" - codeword: it ended before it got any good
"there was one thing i didn't like about it" - the one thing being the whole thing
"the bits i was awake for blew my mind" - wondering why i continued reading it.
"it made me cry" - that i spent my money on it - doesn't work if she lent it to you

that reminds me, i have 5 people i need to get in contact with

 

[pete]

I'm currently trying to think of a way of not offending a co-worker when I have to explain why the terrible book she recommended me as lifechanging was awful.

just avoid her until she's fired

 

[rettucs]

I'm currently trying to think of a way of not offending a co-worker when I have to explain why the terrible book she recommended me as lifechanging was awful.

lie and say you liked it. thats what I'd do

 

[pete]

Or, you know, be honest?

 

[Lili Marlene]

NO.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Well that didn't go great. Let this be a lesson to you all when it comes to books: honesty is never the best policy.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

What happened, ffs?

 

[hermie]

Just finished The Crying of Lot 49. I think I might not be smart enough for Pynchon. Although I did enjoy it nonetheless; the characters, the wit and the prose.

Starting into Updike's Rabbit, Run now.

 

[Jim Daniels]

Just finished The Crying of Lot 49. I think I might not be smart enough for Pynchon. Although I did enjoy it nonetheless; the characters, the wit and the prose.

Starting into Updike's Rabbit, Run now.

I'm almost finished this too. Found myself having to read sections out loud in my head (if you know what I mean) to make sense of the narrative. As with Inherent Vice (the movie) I'm now not even trying to follow the plot, but am just enjoying the ride. Not sure if I could take one of his longer efforts though.

 

[hermie]

I'm almost finished this too. Found myself having to read sections out loud in my head (if you know what I mean) to make sense of the narrative. As with Inherent Vice (the movie) I'm now not even trying to follow the plot, but am just enjoying the ride. Not sure if I could take one of his longer efforts though.

Ha, yeah totally get that. And I might be the same with something like Gravity's Rainbow. Wasn't that unanimously selected by the jury for the Pulitzer prize but the board rejected it because it was 'unreadable'?

 

[rettucs]

I'm almost finished this too. Found myself having to read sections out loud in my head (if you know what I mean) to make sense of the narrative. As with Inherent Vice (the movie) I'm now not even trying to follow the plot, but am just enjoying the ride. Not sure if I could take one of his longer efforts though.

Pynchon is a waste of time.

Life's too short like.

If I have to spend eternity somewhere after I die I might read him then.

 

[Jim Daniels]

Ha, yeah totally get that. And I might be the same with something like Gravity's Rainbow. Wasn't that unanimously selected by the jury for the Pulitzer prize but the board rejected it because it was 'unreadable'?

That's hilarious if it's true!

 

[hermie]

That's hilarious if it's true!

Pretty sure yeah. There was no award given in '74
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Just finished The Martian by Andy Weir about an astronaut who gets stranded alone on Mars and has to improvise in order to survive until NASA can rescue him. Good little read - I finished it in a couple of days. Nerdy and very funny.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Billy Idol takes all the drugs and has sex with everyone for about 15 years and then....stops. Ridiculous, highly quotable, very clever and very dumb at the same time, much like his music really. Entertaining stuff.

 

[hermie]

Looking forward to Kim Gordon's memoir

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

I've just started Fathers & Crows by William Vollmann and I think it'll probably be the best thing ever.

I finally finished this one this evening (Fathers & Crows by William Vollmann). It was deadly but I think it'd have been better if I hadn't taken two months to read it. it was almost 1000 pages in hardback though, pain in the holding it up to read. I was sure I had ordered a paperback edition.

TITLE: FATHERS AND CROWS
AUTHOR: WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN
PUBLISHER: VIKING; 990 PAGES; $30
THE BOTTOM LINE: The second bleak volume in a relentlessly pessimistic novel cycle about the coming of white men to North America.

At the age of 32, novelist William Vollmann displays the exasperating immaturities of a precocious teenager. He is a self-mythologizer who refers to himself with heavy irony as "William the Blind." He is utterly and humorlessly self-absorbed and believes his own sensibility to be unique. He rolls out for display every nut and grain that he has squirreled.

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