Fairly dense but elucidating if (like me) you're relatively ignorant of where/how various religious ideas originated. Reading now about the variety of theological constructs from across Europe and India that sprang from the same proto-Indo-European origins. I had no idea.
― Bobby Buttrock (Old Lunch), Saturday, 6 January 2018 00:14 (six years ago) link
Took me a little while to write this lot up but:
Fyodor Dostoevsky – Crime & PunishmentMuriel Spark – The Prime of Miss Jean BrodieKevin MacNeil – The Brilliant and ForeverAngela Carter – The Magic ToyshopRay Celestin – The Axeman’s JazzPaul Beatty – The SelloutYaa Gyasi - HomegoingJohn Cheever – The Complete StoriesJoan Didion – Slouching Towards BethlehemJohn Dos Passos – USAMichaelangelo Matos - The Underground Is MassiveAnita Brookner – Hotel du LacGabriel Garcia Marquez – Love In The Time of CholeraElmore Leonard – Freaky DeakyEimear McBride – The Lesser BohemiansBarney Norris – Five Rivers Met On A Wooded PlaneSana Krasikov – The PatriotsJulian Barnes – The Noise of TimeRob Duncan – Psychedelia and Other ColoursAlan Sillitoe – Saturday Night and Sunday MorningGeorge Saunders – Lincoln In The BardoJohn Darnielle – Universal HarvesterNaomi Aldermann – The PowerZadie Smith – On BeautyDon DeLillo – Mao IIJohn Le Carre – Smiley’s PeopleDavid Stubbs – Future DaysMariana Enriquez – Things We Lost In The FireStephen King – The StandDanilo Kis – HourglassEmile Zola – La Bete HumaineTom Wolfe - Bonfire of the Vanities
Good year!
― Matt DC, Sunday, 21 January 2018 20:13 (six years ago) link
Some of you people are machines. The poster 'one way street' reading 129 books in 2017 is both awesome and insane. I think one year I read 52 books (one a week), but I was unemployed for half of the year. Now I barely average two books a month.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:44 (six years ago) link
A chunk of those 129 appear to be graphic novels, if that makes any difference.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:47 (six years ago) link
i only read 30 books last year & i feel like i was slacking
reading the Michael Wolff book now, v good fan fic
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:48 (six years ago) link
No more than 40. That's counting honest books only. Would have been more but July was lost.
― alimosina, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 18:31 (six years ago) link
(This month looks to be unimpressive too.)
― alimosina, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 18:32 (six years ago) link
By participating these "What did you read" threads for the past five years or so, I now know I recently average about 45 books a year.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 18:34 (six years ago) link
I read >cough< about 250 books, no way am I typing all those up
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 00:51 (six years ago) link
How much time do you read per day, James?
― jmm, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 00:55 (six years ago) link
Maybe 3-4 hours if it's a work day (public transport, lunch break, insomnia)
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 05:34 (six years ago) link
I believe I read much slower than the average person, which is depressing. There's no chance I'm reading a whole book in one sitting, no matter how light or easy it is.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Saturday, 3 February 2018 00:46 (six years ago) link
I fear I might be incapable of reading as fast as the people I hope to catch up with.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 3 February 2018 01:02 (six years ago) link
I will read no more for ever
― Some Dusty in Here (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 February 2018 01:53 (six years ago) link
There's no chance I'm reading a whole book in one sitting, no matter how light or easy it is.
I seldom finish a book in one sitting. Its fine, this is not a competition.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 3 February 2018 12:50 (six years ago) link
read Hard to be a God this week, the translation was iffy and the conversion to ebook was shoddy but it's a fine piece of work
― drugs don't kill people, poppers do (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 3 February 2018 12:53 (six years ago) link
put it in your 2018 list :)
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 3 February 2018 12:54 (six years ago) link
haha wasn't even checking thread titles :)
― drugs don't kill people, poppers do (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 3 February 2018 12:55 (six years ago) link
how tf can you finish a book in one sitting unless it's like <150 pages i read Universal Harvester in two sittings in one dayread Noah Cicero's new (excellent) poetry collection in two sittings over two days, but that's one I could've easily read in one sittingDarcie Wilder's book last year, I think that was three sittings?idk
what have y'all read in one sitting? genuinely curious. and impressed. my bum would go numb
― flappy bird, Saturday, 3 February 2018 22:43 (six years ago) link
This one, as orig. posted on an ILM Eagles thread, think it's A Good Day In Hell:
Also I picked up Felder's hefty Between Heaven and Hell in the library, and read the whole thing that afternoon, which never happens. Gist: his father comes off as a self-made, self-righteous, self-torturing workaholic and skinflint, and Don follows suit during his Eagles years, with infinitely more bucks and perks than blue collar Dad ever had, of course. Furthermore, Dr. Phil, he somewhat recreates his own defiant-dependent teen relationship with Dad, now played by Henley and Frey.When he finally gets his ass fired, after having papers served in the studio, he actually calls back, all crying---"Try to seek some higher ground in this, Fingers," Frey counsels, and the ex-Mrs. Felder fervently seconds.So he does, with this book of excellent anecdotes (also careful references to ongoing litigation), from early years in Florida---girlfriend accuses him of stepping out with blondes, who turn out to be pre-facial hair, though tressed-for-success Gregg and Duane)[;"Tommy" Petty is his guitar student; Stephen Stills is "the funniest kid I ever met," passing through town while running away from military school, back to his parents (though every kid I knew back then who was sent to military school, was sent for a good reason); Bernie Leadon is his local connection to the budding El Lay country rock scene.Also lots of good stuff about "The Gods," as everybody who worked with and for the Eagles called Henley and Frey; supposedly many of these--even the Gods themselves, individually---called Felder up to trade the latest atrocity stories.But I also get, in terms of more perhaps unintended reveals, that the Gods were trying to keep their associates' and their own assholes-with-money tendencies somewhat in line, at least for the sake of making even more money (by keeping up the musical standards, for instance). Nevertheless, Felder and I are somewhat respectful of, for instance, Joe Walsh's working out his frustrations on whole floors of hotels (and he lasted longer than any non-God in the line-up, I think, so maybe the mayhem helped).
― dow, Sunday, 4 February 2018 02:30 (six years ago) link
When he finally gets his ass fired, after having papers served in the studio, he actually calls back, all crying That is, Felder had papers served on Frey (for the first time).
― dow, Sunday, 4 February 2018 02:32 (six years ago) link