gramps

typically I don't read multiple books at a time, but I'm at a nice place in life right now:

Reading these all at once seems ill-advised.

Anyway I just finished

And now am doing a bit of revisiting.

Christ. 10char

I've decided to break Sufu radio silence to say the between this bullshit and that pic where's dressed like a Fauntleroy vesion of Voldo from Soul Calibur, RnR is currently the worst member of this board.

Anyone here using Chocamine? What's the crash like? Is it a genuine appetite suppressant?

Revisiting this, inspired by Dave Hickey.

Well then I'll have to do some independant investigation. I'll get back to you with the results.

EDIT: also im curious, Baeyer-Drewson, after reading Bolano did you venture into Neruda? If so what did you think?

In my completely uninvited opinion, Neruda is worth reading because otherwise you'll have a big gap in your Big Bag of South American Lit. But as far as poetry goes, I think it's a bit romanticized. There's a lot of other Spanish language poetry I like over it. If you're looking for somewhere to go after Bolano, I'd recommend Cortazar. After you read Hopscotch you'll see where a lot of Savage Decetives is taking from, and it's a absolutely showstopping book.

But be aware that you're roving pretty far into DudeLit territory.

His poetry's brutal but the Raw and the Cooked is a fun book.

I took a course and don't regret it.

Don't be "intimidated" by Pynchon (though I doubt either of you actually are.) GR is no Ulysses, it's "difficulty" is a different kind, it's energetic and funny and emotional before it's obscure or academic. I can't imagine regretting picking it up at any time. Just my two.

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I liked both, especially Bluets.

Please educate me. Convoluted storyline that needs to be unravelled by following each characters appearances separately?

Oh, at the beginning of the book there's a cheeky page of instructions that looks something like this:

Second time around, reading it linearly this time.

Wow, new McCarthy covers are awful.

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Must be from next season, which means they ARE a lot like Russells, but cost a million dollars and have been dubbed the...oh, let's see...the BIVOUAC.

This book, man, this fucking book. I mean, interesting but at the end of day, you just want to know HOW she broke out of the klink. And of course, in the end, you get shafted.

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David Hume, British Empiricist by day, sufu scammer by night.