Books
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@popvulture I felt like the hope in “The Road” felt tacked on and wasn’t necessary. Even as one holding that view, “Blood Meridian” is a bit too vile for me.
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@SKT yes it’s along those lines and he challenges Sapiens and other works along the way.
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I love Cormac McCarthy, but The Road felt overwritten and derivative to me. Not a popular opinion, I know, but I’ve read extensively in dystopian fiction and it just didn’t do it for me. Again, happy to be in the minority and I know lots of people who stare at me like I’ve gone mad when I share my opinion.
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Just finished a really good thriller.... The Island by Adrian McKinty
Next up: The Crossing. Cormac McCarthy. I can already taste the sand.
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This Miles Davis biographical graphic novel came with prints that I’ll probably frame up in a triptych and some vinyl. Just beautiful.
A shame that photo upload isn’t working.
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As I have a cat and love woolly jumpers, I need to learn how to darn woolly jumpers. This book isn’t about that, but came up in my searches and looked interesting. Not my kind of book usually, the notes on repairing denim just looked very cool, and the book is very nicely made. Only arrived this weekend, but I think I’ll enjoy looking through it.
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@TelemarkTumalo The Crossing is my favourite book… very underrated compared to his others!
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Just finished James Bridle's 'Ways of Being' about non-human forms of intelligence including animals and AI, making ar argument for solidarity and the building of things like wildlife corridors using gps data to encourage biodiversity. One startling story was about an old trial in the 16th C (I think) where a pig was found guilty of murder but her piglets were let off because of their age.
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@denim-dawg every few years I go back to it. Yesterday I did it because of inspiration I got from watching the episode 5.
It never gets old.
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@Karol love it. Read it when I was 17 going through 18 states on the east coast of USA. Didn’t need any other stimulus that the beautiful country, the people and this book. Write and live in the flow. Glad you like it too.
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Can you imagine the snark, vitriol, and comedy HST would be unleashing these days? RIP. My feeling is that he realized the better world briefly experienced and hoped for in the 60s would never materialize and just couldn’t accept it.
We have been deprived of our greatest social critics during the time that they’re most direly needed. HST, Carlin, even Zappa.
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Second week of COVID
But finally I had some time for the new ones
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I loved The Riddle of the Sands.
As for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, I just could not get on with it. I just felt that it was super dated and that Hunter was trying too hard. I reluctantly gave up.
The funny thing is that Riddle of the Sands was written in 1903, so is also super-dated, but fior some reason found it much more engaging....
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Dammit but I’m susceptible to some “self-help” stuff and dammit again that I liked this one. Basically reinforced my beliefs about how the modern world is killing us in thousands of ways as opposed to the relatively few ways that the ancient world tried to kill our ancestors (like predators, famine, environment). And it did make me want to spend less time sitting so there’s that.
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@flannel-slut I think it was you I was discussing The Kingkiller Chronicles with a few months ago...
Just dug out these playing cards I picked up on Pat's Kickstarter about ten years ago.
Don't have the original box sadly, but all of the cards are still there, I absolutely love the artwork!
