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03-06-2019, 11:07 PM | #151 |
Minion of Satan
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"Fuck Murakami"
-buzzard |
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03-07-2019, 12:41 AM | #152 |
Consume my pants.
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03-07-2019, 12:51 AM | #153 |
Just Hook it to My Veins!
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sun also rises is boring af
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03-07-2019, 01:24 AM | #154 |
full of longing
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i certainly favored it less than the others on that list. best was grapes.
np: to the lighthouse |
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03-07-2019, 07:26 AM | #155 |
Just Hook it to My Veins!
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03-07-2019, 07:29 AM | #156 |
Just Hook it to My Veins!
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rbg i thought you liked murakami? why don't you put the mischievous buzzard in his place.
and yeah grapes of wrath pwns. and yeah sun also rises was boring. for whom the bells toll or for whom the bell tolls was better, if i remember correctly. |
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03-08-2019, 10:31 AM | #157 |
Janis Jopleybird
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Whelp, just found out a very kind and generous coworker's favorite author is Ayn Rand and I have to cut him out of my professional life forever
I'm currently reading Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann and the style reminds me a lot of Devil in the White City; very engaging for the most part but I'm also getting bored for stretches? cork_soaker, Light in August might be my favorite book |
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03-08-2019, 10:36 AM | #158 |
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man i just can't get into faulkner
i realize this is a personal failing and am ashamed of myself ps fuck ayn rand |
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03-08-2019, 10:54 AM | #159 |
Janis Jopleybird
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I found his writing pretty impenetrable (don't, Took) until I took a class on him in college, and the professor's enthusiasm was infectious
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03-08-2019, 04:53 PM | #160 |
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"There were strangers in the group" by SonicJohnny
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03-08-2019, 05:33 PM | #161 | |
Just Hook it to My Veins!
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03-08-2019, 08:29 PM | #162 | ||
Ownz
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that’s what someone with a broke dick would say. you, son, will never rise.
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ps fuck ayn rand haters, who are typically either woke posers or havent read ayn rand |
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03-08-2019, 08:30 PM | #163 |
Ownz
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woke posers who havent read ayn rand*
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03-08-2019, 09:32 PM | #164 |
Just Hook it to My Veins!
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i've read atlas shrugged
it sucks |
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03-08-2019, 10:25 PM | #165 |
Ownz
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READ IT AGAIN BITCH
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03-08-2019, 10:25 PM | #166 |
Ownz
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just kidding
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03-08-2019, 11:54 PM | #167 |
Minion of Satan
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A girl named Susie Bird i met in 1999 at a church lock-in traded me some Rand (probably Shrugd) in exchange for my old school fellowship of the ring, the pre-peter jackson one, with the green cover the paperback part of that set of three with the hobbit u could get from the scholastic book club
As like a loan Never read Shrugd, never got my book back, and Susie Bird never siamesed my dream |
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03-08-2019, 11:55 PM | #168 |
Minion of Satan
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So instead i'm reading the never-ending story
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03-09-2019, 10:04 AM | #169 |
Minion of Satan
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Yesterday, I read Child of God by Cormac McCarthy.
It was pretty fucked, but clearly a page-turner. I've yet to find a book of his I didn't like. |
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03-09-2019, 10:35 AM | #170 |
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how many of his have you read?
me just three (road, meridian, outer dark) but i plan to read more. |
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03-09-2019, 10:42 AM | #171 |
Minion of Satan
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I've now worked my way through Child of God, Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain, No Country for Old Men and The Road.
At this point, it feels very much like a no-brainer to track down and have a go at the rest. |
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03-09-2019, 10:46 AM | #172 |
Minion of Satan
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It's definitely The Border Trilogy that stands out to me as his best, by the way.
Soon after reading the lot of them in sequence, I went on a horse trek through the mountains and desert and the combined experience now ranks as one of the most senescent of my times. |
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03-09-2019, 11:09 AM | #173 |
Just Hook it to My Veins!
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sounds cool as hell. how long was the trek?
yeah i think border trilogy might be my next. i just need to find them all in one volume and read them on paper because my eyes are falling out from all this staring at a screen nonsense. i think, maybe, you were the one who recommended cormac to me in the first place? |
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03-09-2019, 11:21 AM | #174 |
Minion of Satan
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We ended up going with the full day option, though I'd love to return and do the multi-night edition in winter after our gaucho guide explained that you will sometimes loop back to find puma tracks following your trail.
Pretty sure I've already posted my favorite snap from our voyage, so here's my traveling companion's Instagram effort. |
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03-09-2019, 11:28 AM | #175 |
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legendary!
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03-09-2019, 11:36 AM | #176 |
Minion of Satan
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It might have been Byron "McCarthy Reader" Barnes that recommended doing Blood Meridian after the Trilogy, come to think of it.
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03-09-2019, 06:39 PM | #177 |
Minion of Satan
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Whenever I read any cormac mccarthy I begin subconsciously to write like the worst version of him. The last time I read him I sat thereafter in the dark and held my pillow in my two arms and I felt more than smelled the rainsquall building and the sky oozed bruiseblue through the dusty blinds cocked just ajar and I knelt and I wrote in my dogeared sewer some not unpretty lines about what I thought was life but instead was the inability to see past myself.
Just awful, I'm the same way with DFW and footnotes |
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03-09-2019, 06:58 PM | #178 |
Minion of Satan
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Hey, now. Recycling posts has got to be against some kind of rule.
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03-09-2019, 07:31 PM | #179 |
Minion of Satan
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Remastered / reissued
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03-09-2019, 07:56 PM | #180 |
Just Hook it to My Veins!
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yeah i thought that post seemed eldritchly familiar.
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