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MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:

I just read the synopsis on "A Little Life" on Wikipedia and I'm calling it a shit book, the whole purpose of it is to encourage suicide and it depicts any attempt to lead a good life as being futile and the instant you begin to escape abject misery, the hand of God will personally reach down and squash you like a bug, so just lay down and die.

It's also very cliché, including Catholic church diddling and killing off the protagonist with a fatal car crash. I have no idea why people glob onto shit books like this.
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That faggot in the video "man carrying thing" is so fucking unsufferable. He's gotten fatter over the past few years. Fuck him. I hope he chokes to death on a cock.
 
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MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:

I just read the synopsis on "A Little Life" on Wikipedia and I'm calling it a shit book, the whole purpose of it is to encourage suicide and it depicts any attempt to lead a good life as being futile and the instant you begin to escape abject misery, the hand of God will personally reach down and squash you like a bug, so just lay down and die.

It's also very cliché, including Catholic church diddling and killing off the protagonist with a fatal car crash. I have no idea why people glob onto shit books like this.
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Come back when you've actually read it.
 
I read this 20 years ago but I still remember the Pyramids of Giza giving Joan of Arc an abortion. This is why I don't read alot of paperbacks, because it's a craps shoot if the writer is going to be good or not.
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Womble of Wimbledon said:
I haven't read it but I cannot see the name Colin Flaherty without replaying this video in my head...
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What an insufferable retard.
I hope I never have to hear his voice ever again.

NyQuilninja said:
I managed to score a physical copy of White Girl Bleed a Lot
Book by Colin Flaherty
It's an interesting read and it is well versed I can see why it isn't talked about much and it's hard to obtain a copy
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After watching the video linked by Womble, I can safely say that the book is probably garbage and its hard to obtain a copy because anyone who did read it threw it away immediately after.
 
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About 1/3rd through Howling Dark by Christopher Ruocchio. Not enjoying it as much as Empire Of Silence. For some reason events from the first book keep being reiterated like the author intends for people to just skip the first book which I'm finding annoying. Also sex scenes which are never good in books, especially sci-fi or fantasy. The main character does go on about a 2 page rant about how trannies should kill themselves because they're spiritually dead anyways so that was pretty based. Also funny because he autistically corrects people about using the wrong pronouns for the aliens.
 
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Womble of Wimbledon said:
I haven't read it but I cannot see the name Colin Flaherty without replaying this video in my head...
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I don't know what I just watched.
ScurvyRat said:
What an insufferable retard.
I hope I never have to hear his voice ever again.


After watching the video linked by Womble, I can safely say that the book is probably garbage and its hard to obtain a copy because anyone who did read it threw it away immediately after.
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I don't know it's a poorly edited interview. Here's a better interview. How about you read the book and see what you think.
 
Just finished Fall of Hyperion. Excellent wrap up to the first book. I know there's two more main books in the setting but it looks like it's a whole new story arc. Might wait to get a start on those browse the thread for recommendations next.
 
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Mr. Manchester said:
Just finished Fall of Hyperion. Excellent wrap up to the first book. I know there's two more main books in the setting but it looks like it's a whole new story arc. Might wait to get a start on those browse the thread for recommendations next.
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How'd you like that exposition dump at the end?
 
started reading pulp fiction again (and early-mid 20th century stuff in general that isn't postmodernist horseshit). while i'm doing this to bolster the ttrpg module i'm working on, it's been fun going through what i grew up reading and discovering how much good and enjoyable fiction there is. Like, I'm obviously gonna get through the Robert E Howard stuff, and then check up Doc Savage all over again. But I got to discover Harold Lamb and H Bedford Jones.

I kinda wish internet archival of pulps was better. It's nice that a lot of smaller publishers are reprinting a lot of this shit, including the stuff that I can't find on libgen/gutenberg. Hell, they're reprinting stuff from the long-running Argosy magazine nowadays, even if it ain't all findable on the usual suspects like libgen or gutenberg or internet archive or the high seas.

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This one looks fun.

"Twas the mightiest weapon the eyes of man had ever beheld; its mystic name meant “Ruler of Briton.” And from over the Northern Sea came a Viking’s thrall—the only man in the world who could wield that fearsome steel—to save good King Alfred and the homeland he scarce remembered."

Also like, downloaded a lot of Manly Wade Wellman works and went on to get a good chunk of the big classics of 20th century sci-fi writers (Clarke, Asimov, Smith, Vance, Bradbury, Strugasky).

there's a lot of epub/mobi editions of the various "megapacks" or "complete works" of older semi-forgotten writers. I want to check out H. Bedford Jones' "Grimjim" stories too.
 
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Also as a side, I ripped through Wodehouse's Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, one of his later novels about amiable wealthy man-about-town Bertie Wooster and his hyper-competent valet, Jeeves. Wooster's friend, Augustus "Gussie" Fink-Nottle's relationship with Madeline Bassett may be on the rocks which fills Bertie with terror because an unattached Madeline may try to attach herself to him as she has tried in the past, and Bertie is really put off by her being a real space cadet, if you grasp my meaning. She thinks and talks in overly sentimental, purple-prosey and syrupy ways.

"She's one of those soppy girls, riddled from head to foot with whimsy. She holds the view that the stars are God's daisy chain, that rabbits are gnomes in attendance on the Fairy Queen, and that every time a fairy blows its wee nose a baby is born, which, as we know, is not the case. She's a drooper."
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'I regret to inform you, sir, that Miss Bassett has insisted on Mr. Fink-Nottle adopting a vegetarian diet. His mood is understandably disgruntled and rebellious.'

I tottered. In my darkest hour I had never anticipated anything as bad as this. You wouldn't think it to look at him, because he's small and shrimplike and never puts on weight, but Gussie loves food.

Watching him tucking into his rations at the Drones [club], a tapeworm would raise its hat respectfully, knowing that it was in the presence of a master.

Cut him off, therefore, from the roasts and boileds and particularly from cold steak and kidney pie, a dish of which he is inordinately fond, and you turned him into something fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils, as the fellow said - the sort of chap who would break any engagement as soon as look at you.

At the moment of my entry I had been about to light a cigarette, and now the lighter fell from my nerveless hand.

'She's made him become a vegetarian?'

'So Mr. Fink-Nottle informed me, sir.'

'No chops?'

'No, sir.'

'No steaks?'

'No, sir.'

'Just spinach and similar garbage?'

'So I gather, sir.'
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I read Kazuo Ishiguro's The Unconsoled. Apparently it's quite divisive, and I can see why, but I really enjoyed it. I loved being carried off by the dryly comical prattling conversations and figuring out what the point of it all was. It's about a famous British pianist, Ryder, who travels to a European city where he is to participate in a cultural event in a few days. But almost immediately things take a turn for the surreal. Ryder has forgotten his schedule, doesn't recognize his wife and child at first, his hotel room turns out to be his childhood bedroom, the tram conductor turns out to be his childhood friend, one time he travels to a villa miles outside the city only to open a door and realize it's connected to the hotel. He's forever being waylaid by people asking him for favors, wasting time on trivialities, forgetting commitments he made, getting angry at people over nothing, not getting angry when he should. It's not amnesia or something, or even a dream Ryder's having, it's more like the whole thing is set completely in a dream world operating on dream logic. I'd recommend it if you liked The Remains of the Day (which I found thematically similar), and you have a bit of patience, and you like dry understated humor.
 
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glass_houses said:
I've taken Minette Walters' Acid Row into the loo. So far it deserves to be in there.
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Acid Row is still in the loo... as toilet paper. Why did this shit get so many good reviews? The characters are two dimensional cliches, and even though it was published in 2001, it's basically proto SJW shit. We have the prostitute with a heart of gold, the misunderstood nigger just out of jail and determined to go straight for the sake of his family, the self hating paedophile who really wants to be a good person but can't help the way he is, his misogynist father who is the real evil, and some moron doctor too dumb to live. And all of them are utterly unbearable. The book is supposed to cover a period of several hours. I'm halfway through, a riot has just started, and I'm sincerely hoping that everyone dies.

What a waste of paper. I need to stick to true crime.
 
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A book covering the cultural trend of the kung fu flicks in the 70s, but it goes off on some ridiculously progressive tangents and needs more structure. I'm thinking Grady Hendrix is to blame for that.
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Good to know. I was tempted to pick up a copy of that recently. Glad I didn't.
 
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