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[7 - No tomorrow]

The Whitey Bulger case is most interesting when considered in parallel with the career of his brother.

Yup, a bit like Tuco and his brother the priest in The Good, The Bad & the Ugly.

That said, you have to be a bit of a gangster to make it in Mass. politics. Especially back then.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Experimental Novels Everyone Should Read – Flavorwire

I read two of these. I didn't like C by Tom McCarthy at all but reading this article I'm not sure that I didn't just miss the point. I read the Sebald one too but I don't know that I'd call it experimental and his others were better.

@Bernie Lomax is always raving about the Ben Marcus one, and i'm always saying i'll read it but I never do.

maybe this time...

 

[David Kronenbourg]

@Bernie Lomax is always raving about the Ben Marcus one, and i'm always saying i'll read it but I never do.

maybe this time...

yeah, it's great. I picked up his most recent one recently, The Flame Alphabet, and I got 30 pages in. I just was not in the mood for language bending, experimental fiction so I read a good easily digestible crime novel instead

 

[Lili Marlene]

yeah, it's great. I picked up his most recent one recently, The Flame Alphabet, and I got 30 pages in. I just was not in the mood for language bending, experimental fiction so I read a good easily digestible crime novel instead

haha. Agatha Christie 4 life

I don't think i mentioned in my review of that book that I struggled about 3 quarters of the way through it before the language all suddenly clicked and i went back and re-read the entire thing over about an hour. It's mad when that happens.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Will anyone be reading Lena Dunham's book? I'm trying not to hate on it based on its description

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Experimental Novels Everyone Should Read – Flavorwire

I read two of these. I didn't like C by Tom McCarthy at all but reading this article I'm not sure that I didn't just miss the point. I read the Sebald one too but I don't know that I'd call it experimental and his others were better.

I liked C but I wouldn't be rushing to re-read it. Have the Sebald one but haven't read it yet. There are a few on that list that I've been meaning to read.

 

[hydromancer]

libraries
World's Largest indoor Photo: Strahov Philosophical Library, Prague - 40 Gigapixel 360º Panorama
Library of the Convento de Santo Domingo - Century XVI - Lima - Perú panorama in Peru - 360Cities
George Peabody Library panorama in USA - 360Cities
St Marys Library panorama in England - 360Cities

 

[hydromancer]

1001 Libraries to see before you die

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

1001 of them? ah here

 

[Lili Marlene]

1001 libraries to see before they are closed down because the internet has replaced them.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

The new James Ellroy book is currently winging its way to me...

Perfidia by James Ellroy review – crime fiction on a transcendental scale | Books | The Guardian

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Hilary Mantel hits back at critics of her Thatcher assassination short story | Books | theguardian.com

 

[Lili Marlene]

Job well done so, right?

 

[nooleen]

Hilary Mantel hits back at critics of her Thatcher assassination short story | Books | theguardian.com

next week: ian paisley butt plug short story

 

[David Kronenbourg]

David Cronenberg wrote a novel and it is out tomorrow. I get paid tomorrow so I'm going to buy it. Here's a review.

Review: David Cronenberg’s first novel could stand to be a bit more Cronenbergian · Book Review · The A.V. Club

 

[David Kronenbourg]

David Cronenberg wrote a novel and it is out tomorrow. I get paid tomorrow so I'm going to buy it. Here's a review.

Review: David Cronenberg’s first novel could stand to be a bit more Cronenbergian · Book Review · The A.V. Club

another review http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/books/review/consumed-by-david-cronenberg.html?_r=0

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Does anyone feel bad about downloading unauthorised e-books?

 

[David Kronenbourg]

I don’t own an e-book reader thing. I like the physical book.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Does anyone feel bad about downloading unauthorised e-books?

I download millions of them but I only read paper books

 

[jonah]

Where do yall download them? piratebay? I buy so so so many books that I don't feel that bad honestly, and I rarely read using my kobo thing anyway, but I guess to stave off the deficit, I should.