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 Post subject: Re: What are you currently reading?
PostPosted: Fri May 18, 2018 1:11 am 
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Anyway, top ten, not necessarily in order:

2666 (Bolaño)
White Noise (DeLillo)
Beloved (Morrison)
Ulysses (Joyce)
The Emigrants (Sebald)
Swann's Way (Proust)
The Awakening (Chopin)
The Sonnets (Berrigan)
Ficciones (Borges)
Suspended Sentences (Modiano)

This has remained extremely consistent over the years. I like that about you.


I kept it mostly to fiction, and I've been reading more poetry and non-fiction over the past few years.

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its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.


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Mickey wrote:
washing machine wrote:
Mickey wrote:
Anyway, top ten, not necessarily in order:

2666 (Bolaño)
White Noise (DeLillo)
Beloved (Morrison)
Ulysses (Joyce)
The Emigrants (Sebald)
Swann's Way (Proust)
The Awakening (Chopin)
The Sonnets (Berrigan)
Ficciones (Borges)
Suspended Sentences (Modiano)

This has remained extremely consistent over the years. I like that about you.


I kept it mostly to fiction, and I've been reading more poetry and non-fiction over the past few years.

Let's get a look at your top ten nonfiction.

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 Post subject: Re: What are you currently reading?
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washing machine wrote:
Mickey wrote:
washing machine wrote:
Mickey wrote:
Anyway, top ten, not necessarily in order:

2666 (Bolaño)
White Noise (DeLillo)
Beloved (Morrison)
Ulysses (Joyce)
The Emigrants (Sebald)
Swann's Way (Proust)
The Awakening (Chopin)
The Sonnets (Berrigan)
Ficciones (Borges)
Suspended Sentences (Modiano)

This has remained extremely consistent over the years. I like that about you.


I kept it mostly to fiction, and I've been reading more poetry and non-fiction over the past few years.

Let's get a look at your top ten nonfiction.


Something like:

Open Veins of Latin America (Galeano)
The Shock Doctrine (Klein)
Capitalist Realism (Fisher)
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Friere)
Teaching to Transgress (hooks)
Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature (Deleuze and Guattari)
Ecology Without Nature (Morton)
Debt: The First 5000 Years (Graeber)
Walled States, Waning Sovereignty (Brown)
Calamities (Gladman)

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its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.


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 Post subject: Re: What are you currently reading?
PostPosted: Fri May 18, 2018 3:07 am 
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 Post subject: Re: What are you currently reading?
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Oh I definitely wouldn't do that.

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its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.


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Oh I definitely wouldn't do that.

go on..

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 Post subject: Re: What are you currently reading?
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Oh I definitely wouldn't do that.

go on..


I mean it's certainly better than reading any of those charlatans whose names are being bandied about in G&D like Peterson and Sowell, but that's not a carefully constructed list by any means.

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its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.


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 Post subject: Re: What are you currently reading?
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Mickey wrote:
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Mickey wrote:
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Oh I definitely wouldn't do that.

go on..


I mean it's certainly better than reading any of those charlatans whose names are being bandied about in G&D like Peterson and Sowell, but that's not a carefully constructed list by any means.

Take it easy, lil' guy. I was just riffing on the strat method. I don't actually want to read your sophomoric volumes.

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 Post subject: Re: What are you currently reading?
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washing machine wrote:
Mickey wrote:
washing machine wrote:
Mickey wrote:
washing machine wrote:
Screen shotting this for later.


Oh I definitely wouldn't do that.

go on..


I mean it's certainly better than reading any of those charlatans whose names are being bandied about in G&D like Peterson and Sowell, but that's not a carefully constructed list by any means.

Take it easy, lil' guy. I was just riffing on the strat method. I don't actually want to read your sophomoric volumes.


Yes you do.

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its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.


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its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.


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 Post subject: Re: What are you currently reading?
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washing machine wrote:
Mickey wrote:
washing machine wrote:
Mickey wrote:
washing machine wrote:
Screen shotting this for later.


Oh I definitely wouldn't do that.

go on..


I mean it's certainly better than reading any of those charlatans whose names are being bandied about in G&D like Peterson and Sowell, but that's not a carefully constructed list by any means.

Take it easy, lil' guy. I was just riffing on the strat method. I don't actually want to read your sophomoric volumes.

Okay, maybe the Kafka one. And Ecology Without Nature.

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Here's a top five non-fiction from me that no one asked for

What It Takes: The Way to the White House by Richard Ben Cramer
Herzog on Herzog by Werner Herzog and Paul Cronin
Hiroshima by Jon Hersey
The Omnivore's Dilemma : A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck

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 Post subject: Re: What are you currently reading?
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Here's a top five non-fiction from me that no one asked for

What It Takes: The Way to the White House by Richard Ben Cramer
Herzog on Herzog by Werner Herzog and Paul Cronin
Hiroshima by Jon Hersey
The Omnivore's Dilemma : A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck


Forgot about Pollan, he would probably make a more considered top-10.

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its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.


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That was a good book, for sure.

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Taking a page from ST, if I had to do my next five, so to speak, it'd probably be:

The Battlefield Where The Moon Says I Love You (Stanford)
In The Heart of the Heart of the Country (Gass)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles (Murakami)
Leaving the Atocha Station (Lerner)
Never Any End to Paris (Vila-Matas)

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its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.


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Suspended Sentences (Modiano)

I've done The Black Notebook and Paris Nocturne and loved both. This is going to my next by Modiano. It was really between Suspended Sentences and Paris Nocturne the last time I picked on up.


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Suspended Sentences (Modiano)

I've done The Black Notebook and Paris Nocturne and loved both. This is going to my next by Modiano. It was really between Suspended Sentences and Paris Nocturne the last time I picked on up.


I haven't read a lot but this one really got me. It's haunting.

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its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.


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Mickey wrote:
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Suspended Sentences (Modiano)

I've done The Black Notebook and Paris Nocturne and loved both. This is going to my next by Modiano. It was really between Suspended Sentences and Paris Nocturne the last time I picked on up.


I haven't read a lot but this one really got me. It's haunting.

Nice. Looking forward to it.


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