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Went to the bookstore to pick up The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy and the checkout lady goes "well there ya go, hope it's not too depressing."
McCarthy still the GOAT of big sad at 89 years old.
Yeah, The Road fucked me up. The funny thing about it is that I read it immediately after finishing an R.A. Salvatore Dungeons & Dragons novel. Salvatore is the king of overwriting, always one to use fifteen words when five would do, and the book was dumb. To go from that to a book that needed only 287 pages to rip out every one of my living guts was really something.
Went to the bookstore to pick up The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy and the checkout lady goes "well there ya go, hope it's not too depressing."
McCarthy still the GOAT of big sad at 89 years old.
Yeah, The Road fucked me up. The funny thing about it is that I read it immediately after finishing an R.A. Salvatore Dungeons & Dragons novel. Salvatore is the king of overwriting, always one to use fifteen words when five would do, and the book was dumb. To go from that to a book that needed only 287 pages to rip out every one of my living guts was really something.
McCarthy truly living the "brevity is the soul of wit" platitude from William Shakesman.
I remember reading a couple EU Star Wars books from Salvatore; he was one of my favorite writers from the EU pool, at least.
ended up with 40 books last year. the last few years blend together so much that looking back through my list, there are some i don't really remember at all. i'm not setting a number goal again this year, just going to continue trying to keep regular reading a habit. starting 2023 with the nineties by chuck klosterman.
please don't sit on my bed in your outside clothes - phoebe robinson the girls are all so nice here - laurie elizabeth flynn the midnight library - matt haig cannery row - john steinbeck you'll never believe what happened to lacey - amber ruffin and lacey lamar the startup wife - tahmima anam rock the boat - beck dorey-stein filthy animals - brandon taylor broken - jenny lawson last summer at the golden hotel - elyssa friedland afterparties - anthony veasna so long division - kiese laymon all the colors came out - kate fagan heavy - kiese laymon ever after always - chloe liese the sweetness of water - nathan harris the fifth season - n.k. jemisin sankofa - chibundu onuzo black cake - charmaine wilkerson klara and the sun - kazuo ishiguro the obelisk gate - n.k. jemisin how do i un-remember this - danny pellegrino the school for good mothers - jessamine chan how to be perfect - michael schur pachinko - min jin lee good intentions - kasim ali the sky is everywhere - jandy nelson we have always been here - samra habib hello molly! - molly shannon disorientation - elaine hsieh chou i'll show myself out - jessi klein where the crawdads sing - delia owens this time tomorrow - emma straub ten steps to nanette - hannah gadsby comedy comedy comedy drama - bob odenkirk all the women in my brain and other concerns - betty gilpin i'm glad by mom died - jennette mccurdy carrie soto is back - taylor jenkins reid the memory librarian - janelle monae you gotta be you - brandon kyle goodman
ended up with 40 books last year. the last few years blend together so much that looking back through my list, there are some i don't really remember at all. i'm not setting a number goal again this year, just going to continue trying to keep regular reading a habit. starting 2023 with the nineties by chuck klosterman.
please don't sit on my bed in your outside clothes - phoebe robinson the girls are all so nice here - laurie elizabeth flynn the midnight library - matt haig cannery row - john steinbeck you'll never believe what happened to lacey - amber ruffin and lacey lamar the startup wife - tahmima anam rock the boat - beck dorey-stein filthy animals - brandon taylor broken - jenny lawson last summer at the golden hotel - elyssa friedland afterparties - anthony veasna so long division - kiese laymon all the colors came out - kate fagan heavy - kiese laymon ever after always - chloe liese the sweetness of water - nathan harris the fifth season - n.k. jemisin sankofa - chibundu onuzo black cake - charmaine wilkerson klara and the sun - kazuo ishiguro the obelisk gate - n.k. jemisin how do i un-remember this - danny pellegrino the school for good mothers - jessamine chan how to be perfect - michael schur pachinko - min jin lee good intentions - kasim ali the sky is everywhere - jandy nelson we have always been here - samra habib hello molly! - molly shannon disorientation - elaine hsieh chou i'll show myself out - jessi klein where the crawdads sing - delia owens this time tomorrow - emma straub ten steps to nanette - hannah gadsby comedy comedy comedy drama - bob odenkirk all the women in my brain and other concerns - betty gilpin i'm glad by mom died - jennette mccurdy carrie soto is back - taylor jenkins reid the memory librarian - janelle monae you gotta be you - brandon kyle goodman
You need to finish N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy.
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Rampaging on more Science Fiction to start 2023. Already read books 8 and 9 in The Expanse series so that is now complete. Literally finished Andy Weir’s book Project Hail Mary in the last hour. So fucking good. I think I enjoyed it even more than The Martian and that book wails.
Rampaging on more Science Fiction to start 2023. Already read books 8 and 9 in The Expanse series so that is now complete. Literally finished Andy Weir’s book Project Hail Mary in the last hour. So fucking good. I think I enjoyed it even more than The Martian and that book wails.
It was one of my favorite books I read last year! I am in a sci fi/fantasy book club and it was our December pick. I made us start out the meeting by everyone drawing what they thought Rocky looked like. lol
Rampaging on more Science Fiction to start 2023. Already read books 8 and 9 in The Expanse series so that is now complete. Literally finished Andy Weir’s book Project Hail Mary in the last hour. So fucking good. I think I enjoyed it even more than The Martian and that book wails.
It was one of my favorite books I read last year! I am in a sci fi/fantasy book club and it was our December pick. I made us start out the meeting by everyone drawing what they thought Rocky looked like. lol
I thought the Rocky description was pretty easy. Andy Weir provides such great detail that I always have a good mental picture of what he’s covering. I just looked at some google results and my mental image was pretty close. I can’t wait to see this in movie form.
Rampaging on more Science Fiction to start 2023. Already read books 8 and 9 in The Expanse series so that is now complete. Literally finished Andy Weir’s book Project Hail Mary in the last hour. So fucking good. I think I enjoyed it even more than The Martian and that book wails.
I’m a big science fiction fan but over the years I’ve accumulated a lot of books that have ultimately sat on the bookshelves collecting dust. So, I’ve been making a concerted effort to finish several SyFy series I have started over the years and also read other prominent books I’ve failed to tackle. So far in 2023, I’ve been pretty successful:
Q1 2023 The Expanse Book 8 (Tiamat’s Wrath) - James S.A. Corey The Expanse Book 9 (Leviathan Falls) - James S.A. Corey Watchmen - Alan Moore (reread) The Golden Key - George MacDonald (reread) The Dog Stars - Peter Heller Artemis - Andy Weir Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein Red Rising Book 4 (Iron Gold) - Pierce Brown
Currently Reading: Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein
For Q2 I already have a few books lined up on the bookshelf in my personal queue waiting to be read:
Red Rising Book 5 (Dark Age) - Pierce Brown Seveneves - Neal Stephenson Prelude to Foundation - Isaac Asimov Forward the Foundation - Isaac Asimov
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God these guys fucking rip. Loving touch is about a 500 cap and it was not full, but I managed to get a little mosh going. Honestly I'm no sure if there's a better vocalist in rock right now and I know that's crazy to say but Luke is just so fucking good. What he's managing to do on guitar while singing is also mad impressive. They played a good amount from the new album but peppered in the hits. 5/5 show for me.
Paramore / Bloc Party - Rocket Mortgage Arena, Cleveland, OH
I don't know a ton of Bloc Party's music but they were a perfectly adequate opener for Paramore. Decent energy, good instrumentalism, and fun dancey songs.
Hayley is the best she's ever been, imo. She's all over the stage with some really fun dancing the whole entire show, without compromising her vocals of course. Earnest as ever with her crowd banter. Stage production is sick. The live versions make me like the new album more. She whips out a song from her solo album and they also let Zach feature a Half-Alive song. Setlist leaves a tiny bit to be desired from the old true punk pop stuff, but for a band that's been putting out legitimate hits for this long, that's to be expected. A nice representation from After Laughter which is great for my tastes. 4/5 overall.
Post by Fitter Happier on Jun 5, 2023 17:38:55 GMT -5
Reading Norwegian Wood by Murakami and really enjoying it. Feels really good to read fiction again after tons of psych stuff and studying for the EPPP. Not quite Wind-up Bird, but still really solid.
Post by RyDolla$ign on Jun 6, 2023 13:15:05 GMT -5
Finally finished A Day of Fallen Night (prequel to the very popular The Priory of the Orange Tree) and really enjoyed it even though it took me forever. Not usually a fantasy guy so it was a different, but cold read. Goal is 35 books this year, I’m a little behind but so far have…
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel (sooooo good) Ganbare! Workshops on Dying by Kataryna Boni A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney The People We Keep by Allison Larkin Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Finishing up A Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraqib. Highly recommend checking him out, writes a lot about growing up as a Black, Muslim kid in the punk/emo scene and just a great culture writer overall.
Went to the bookstore to pick up The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy and the checkout lady goes "well there ya go, hope it's not too depressing."
McCarthy still the GOAT of big sad at 89 years old.
Yeah, The Road fucked me up. The funny thing about it is that I read it immediately after finishing an R.A. Salvatore Dungeons & Dragons novel. Salvatore is the king of overwriting, always one to use fifteen words when five would do, and the book was dumb. To go from that to a book that needed only 287 pages to rip out every one of my living guts was really something.
Just finished The Road about a month ago. One of the only books that has made me tear up (the final few pages).
Just started in on All The Pretty Horses. 1/6 through it and it is sublime and, unexpectedly, hilarious.
slowed down for a little while, but i've picked back up since the weather has been nice enough to just lay in the hammock reading for a bit in the morning. my library hold queue is full at the moment, but i'm always open to suggestions. mid year check in:
the invisible life of addie larue - v.e. schwab the nineties - chuck klosterman book lovers - emily henry last night at the telegraph club - malinda lo migrations - charlotte mcconaghy less - andrew sean greer sea of tranquility - emily st. john mandel once there were wolves - charlotte mcconaghy tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow - gabrielle zevin people we meet on vacation - emily henry i who have never known men - jacqueline harpman happy place - emily henry the seven husbands of evelyn hugo - taylor jenkins reid my last innocent year - daisy alpert florin the devil in the white city - erik larson the stone sky - n.k. jemisin is it hot in here - zach zimmerman turtles all the way down - john green how to blow up a pipeline - andreas malm
It's my intention to read considerably more than I typically do this year. A key reason for that is putting more of my focus on narratives (be them fictional or non-) and focusing less on inadvertently, mindlessly scrolling my phone or drinking alcohol out of boredom. I pretty much never read a single thing that was required of me in high school, so towards the middle of this past year I started to focus on those books that still appear to be ubiquitous.
Last year I read the following books; not a long list but still a good list for me. Other than the first two, it was my first time for everything else. Parenthetical where it's not a super fucking well-known book:
Dilla Time (Dan Charnas) Fight Club The Great Gatsby Lord of the Flies To Kill a Mockingbird Slaughterhouse-Five The Nineties (Chuck Klosterman) In Cold Blood
I have a juicy list of books to read this year and whereas I would usually be intimidated by such a list, I'm actually pretty damn excited. I kinda want to make a thread where I throw my reactions to them, or perhaps doing that in this thread would be more appropriate.
I just started reading The First Bad Man by Miranda July about 6 days ago that my sister-in-law sent me years ago that I'm only now getting around to. I'm already almost halfway done; it's quite good.
Just finished Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. I loved it. It tells the story of a boy handling a bad deck of cards that life throws his way. For me, it was The Catcher in the Rye meets David Copperfield set in the Appalachians. Very dark and depressing, but I couldn’t put it down. It won a Pulitzer last year.
Just finished Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. I loved it. It tells the story of a boy handling a bad deck of cards that life throws his way. For me, it was The Catcher in the Rye meets David Copperfield set in the Appalachians. Very dark and depressing, but I couldn’t put it down. It won a Pulitzer last year.
I’ve never read David Copperfield, but as I understand it, Demon Copperhead was wholly inspired by David Copperfield (right down to the name, which I didn’t actually pick up on until I was reading something about it after finishing). I also loved Demon Copperhead. It had been many years since I had read a Barbara Kingsolver book, but I read a few of them back in the day, and I’ve pretty much loved everything I have read of hers.
Post by 3post1jack1 on Jan 18, 2024 8:52:39 GMT -5
with the new netflix series coming i decided to reread The Three Body Problem and am absolutely ripping through it. crazy how readable a book that is mostly about computers and space radiation is.
i think it also scratches that neal stephenson itch for me. just technical info dump after technical info dump that is somehow super entertaining.
i'm probably not selling it real well but i promise it's a great book!
The company I work for recently moved everyone into a new office building that used to be a local community college. The school never did anything with all the books in the library so employees were allowed to take as many books as we wanted before they got rid of all of them prior to start of remodeling the building. I grabbed several self help, a thesaurus, and a few others. Currently reading October Sky from that stack. It's a memoir based on the life story of Homer Hickam, growing up in a small coal mining town in WV (I'm a WV native), and his desire to break a family cycle and get out into the world. He would later go on to become a NASA engineer, responsible for training astronauts, developing simulators, working on Hubble and the ISS.
Edit: The book was made famous by the 1999 movie October Sky starring Jake Gyllenhaal
with the new netflix series coming i decided to reread The Three Body Problem and am absolutely ripping through it. crazy how readable a book that is mostly about computers and space radiation is.
i think it also scratches that neal stephenson itch for me. just technical info dump after technical info dump that is somehow super entertaining.
i'm probably not selling it real well but i promise it's a great book!
Just finished it yesterday! For me, space horror is usually effective due to the unknown and not having any idea what's going on. This book explained exactly how and why everything happens, and its' equally as terrifying!
Just finished Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. I loved it. It tells the story of a boy handling a bad deck of cards that life throws his way. For me, it was The Catcher in the Rye meets David Copperfield set in the Appalachians. Very dark and depressing, but I couldn’t put it down. It won a Pulitzer last year.
I’ve never read David Copperfield, but as I understand it, Demon Copperhead was wholly inspired by David Copperfield (right down to the name, which I didn’t actually pick up on until I was reading something about it after finishing). I also loved Demon Copperhead. It had been many years since I had read a Barbara Kingsolver book, but I read a few of them back in the day, and I’ve pretty much loved everything I have read of hers.
I need to try her other books. She is such a great writer!
with the new netflix series coming i decided to reread The Three Body Problem and am absolutely ripping through it. crazy how readable a book that is mostly about computers and space radiation is.
i think it also scratches that neal stephenson itch for me. just technical info dump after technical info dump that is somehow super entertaining.
i'm probably not selling it real well but i promise it's a great book!
One of my favorite series of all time. Books 2 and 3 get wild.
with the new netflix series coming i decided to reread The Three Body Problem and am absolutely ripping through it. crazy how readable a book that is mostly about computers and space radiation is.
i think it also scratches that neal stephenson itch for me. just technical info dump after technical info dump that is somehow super entertaining.
i'm probably not selling it real well but i promise it's a great book!
My best friend has been begging for me to read this. She is obsessed. I will try it soon.
I just started The September House, and I am not sure if this is my jam, so far.
with the new netflix series coming i decided to reread The Three Body Problem and am absolutely ripping through it. crazy how readable a book that is mostly about computers and space radiation is.
i think it also scratches that neal stephenson itch for me. just technical info dump after technical info dump that is somehow super entertaining.
i'm probably not selling it real well but i promise it's a great book!
One of my favorite series of all time. Books 2 and 3 get wild.
i actually never read book 2, but definitely will read 2 and 3 after i finish this re-read.
One of my favorite series of all time. Books 2 and 3 get wild.
i actually never read book 2, but definitely will read 2 and 3 after i finish this re-read.
IMO, book 1 is actually the weakest of the three which is saying something. If you have some physics background, the book titles can be a bit of a hint to what’s coming so don’t go becoming an amateur astrophysicist in the next month.
I was jaw dropped when they explained how the sophon was created on Trisloaris. I don’t remember all the details but them using the entire planet with the all the trisolarans with flags basically doing binary (my description isn’t good) was amazing. I was forced to take CS classes as part of my maths education and fucking hated it. This book scene was one of the first times anything computer science related made perfect sense to me and was actually interesting.
Post by jorgeandthekraken on Jan 18, 2024 14:01:10 GMT -5
Reading Lead Sister, a biography of Karen Carpenter by Lucy O'Brien.
As bad as women still have it, holy fuck, did the '70s suck. Imagine how much a female drummer with Karen's chops who could also sing as well as she did would be celebrated in music today. Instead, they forced her off the kit...and when she suffered her first serious health incident due to her anorexia, it was explained away as her being exhausted from "trying to keep up with the boys." Gross.
The company I work for recently moved everyone into a new office building that used to be a local community college. The school never did anything with all the books in the library so employees were allowed to take as many books as we wanted before they got rid of all of them prior to start of remodeling the building. I grabbed several self help, a thesaurus, and a few others. Currently reading October Sky from that stack. It's a memoir based on the life story of Homer Hickam, growing up in a small coal mining town in WV (I'm a WV native), and his desire to break a family cycle and get out into the world. He would later go on to become a NASA engineer, responsible for training astronauts, developing simulators, working on Hubble and the ISS.
Edit: The book was made famous by the 1999 movie October Sky starring Jake Gyllenhaal
incinnati Ohio babeyyyy
