Miscellaneous book trivia and stuff (2 Viewers)

[Lili Marlene]

I noticed a new section in Chapters called something like "Social media and Youtube" there over the weekend. Full of books by the likes of Felicia Day and those big-eyed youtube vloggers.

Just FYI.

Carrie Brownstein's book was in there for whatever reason.

 

[nooleen]

can we have a 'ffs' rating please pete

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

can we have a 'ffs' rating please pete

Not before we get a Death Star rating.

 

[nooleen]

what would you use a death star rating for? posts that turn out not to be a moon?

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

what would you use a death star rating for? posts that turn out not to be a moon?

For everything.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

The best British novel of all time: have international critics found it?

Has anyone read Middlemarch? I've never given it any thought at all. I've only read 4 or 5 of these and I didn't think any of those were that great.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

The best British novel of all time: have international critics found it?

Has anyone read Middlemarch? I've never given it any thought at all. I've only read 4 or 5 of these and I didn't think any of those were that great.

I've read 19 of them, most of them were ones I thought were grand but will never read again and had no lasting impact on me.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

read 7

 

[Lili Marlene]

16

and some of them were seriously bad. The Sense of an Ending, ugh

 

[nooleen]

"you insulted dan brown for being inarticulate...and yet we've got, uh, documentary evidence of you, failing to mock him coherently"

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[Denny Oubidoux]

Thanks goodreads

Sadly, I'm 16 books behind schedule on my 2015 reading challenge. I'll hardly catch up at this stage.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Russian Book Jackets from the 1930s

 

[Jim Daniels]

Russian Book Jackets from the 1930s

Deadly!

 

[Lili Marlene]

Enough's enough – authors can't work for free | Philip Pullman

fair play imho

 

[Lili Marlene]

One Man’s Impossible Quest to Read—and Review—the World - The New Yorker

The best books

Complete Review - The Best at the Complete Review

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Alright, for the day that's in it, here's a list of 10 books that have stayed with me my throughout my life. I wouldn't say this is my definitive top 10 because the list could change on any given day depending on my mood, and there's millions of books that I haven't read yet and that have yet to be written that could end up on there, but here you go:

1. Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
2. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
3. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
4. At Swim - Two Birds - Flann O'Brien
5. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
6. Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
7. The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles
8. Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor
9. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
10. Underworld - Don DeLillo

Hmmm, mostly American, mostly dark and weird as hell. He didn't make it on my list but special mention for James Ellroy whose LA Quartet, along with Blue Velvet, kick started my fascination with the dark side of American fiction, and for Denis Johnson who's my favourite writer working today.

 

[Lili Marlene]

I'm not sure I'm able to make a list like that. Too many books waiting to be read.... i could give it a shot I guess.

Novels only?

 

[David Kronenbourg]

I'm not sure I'm able to make a list like that. Too many books waiting to be read.... i could give it a shot I guess.

I picked those off the top of my head in 10 minutes, but ask me tomorrow and the list might be different. There's a few constants though.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Novels only?

Not necessarily but I guess I mainly read novels

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

What day is it?