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#637957 - 05/31/16 03:42 AM
Re: What are you reading?
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Porn Fucking Master
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I finished underworld recently (don dellio). Was good but felt a little like the beginners version of something like infinite jest. I'm thinking next book will be battle Royale or the rest of Clive barkers bibliography that I never got around to reading 20 years ago
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#637973 - 05/31/16 10:37 AM
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Bukkake Boy
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^ This. The doorstop mentality is the Achilles heel of American literature, even though I know that American culture in general has a "go big or go home" ethos. Still, it would be nice if more critics and authors realized that greatness is frequently a question of luck as well as skill, and if an author simply does his best, he might get lucky and knock it out of the park once or twice over the course of his career.
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#637978 - 05/31/16 11:42 AM
Re: What are you reading?
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Demon Spawn
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I forget the author, but he was popular and wrote books with titles like 'Chesepeake' and 'Hawaii' and his novels were huge simply to encompass vast plots and enourmous amounts of research. It was very popular, workmanlike writing and his books sold wildly. But your Fosters and DeLillos seem to largely extrapolate techniques of poetry and short fiction to absurd lengths. I love Foster but mainly for his nonfiction essays and occasionally his short stories and I prefer shorter forms in general because I do most of my reading on the toilet like my Dad.
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#637988 - 05/31/16 04:16 PM
Re: What are you reading?
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Porn Jesus
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^ James A. Michener was the author. Never read it, but I think his novel, "Alaska," was sposed to be pretty good.
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#638018 - 05/31/16 08:25 PM
Re: What are you reading?
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Yes, thank you. Michener. My Dad read that stuff. He also had a paperback of John Hersey's 'Hiroshima' on the bookshelf which captured my fancy at a young age. A slim volume on a subject whose scale can't be overstated, which is the scale I prefer.
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#638703 - 06/19/16 05:46 AM
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Porn Jesus
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I'm in a rut. Recommend something in the Sci Fi/Fantasy genre for me. I have tons of the stuff unread but can't seem to get motivated.
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#638707 - 06/19/16 09:11 AM
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#638717 - 06/19/16 02:45 PM
Re: What are you reading?
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Porn Jesus
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Lol Ugggggghhhhhhhhh
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#639279 - 07/16/16 04:32 AM
Re: What are you reading?
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Whoremaster
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I'm in a rut. Recommend something in the Sci Fi/Fantasy genre for me. I have tons of the stuff unread but can't seem to get motivated. Leigh Brackett's Sword of Rhiannon. Influenced by Robert E. Howard but more consistently written, vivid, colorful and pacey. Right now reading Lawrence Osborne's Hunters in the Dark. A Greenish literary thriller set in Cambodia.
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#639327 - 07/18/16 05:57 AM
Re: What are you reading?
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#640158 - 08/17/16 01:39 PM
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Demon Spawn
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Read the entirety of Derf Backderf's comic book about his highschool friend Jeffrey Dahmer ('My Friend Dahmer') at the Barnes & Noble in Akron yesterday. Drank 2 iced cappucinos. Stared at ladies. Why do girls in bookstores dress so sexy comparatively?
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#640342 - 08/21/16 06:58 PM
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Demon Spawn
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Good comic book, you should have bought it cheapskate? That's a legitimate criticism but in my defense I'm not a part of the free downloading/pirating generation and libraries predate all of that by a long time and anyway we are in the midst of the death of one thing and the birth of something else as far as all media is concerned so I don't really consider myself a part of the problem or any problem really. Except for pornography and what that means, I'm completely implicated in that and I hate myself for it. ![drunky drunky](/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/default/drunky1.gif)
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#640364 - 08/22/16 11:34 AM
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Porn Jesus
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Mein Kampf. The edition that was given to POWs .
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#640369 - 08/22/16 03:48 PM
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Demon Spawn
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Auf Deutsch or translated into English? Some of the Fuhrer's flourishes get lost in translation I've heard.
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#640386 - 08/22/16 09:51 PM
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Porn Jesus
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English. I grabbed it on the suggestion that the Stalag version is the more accurate translation out there.
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#640486 - 08/27/16 06:16 PM
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Bukkake Boy
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Couldn't get through MK or Rosenberg's Myth of the 20th Century, they're such humourless, montonous screeds. When it comes to fascists I actually enjoyed Celine, Junger, D'Annunzio and Gentile. Yeah, I think we've covered this in a pm or a different thread , but intelligent is intelligent, and occasionally that quality transcends politics. I've been reading Nick Land, and the man is a genius, whatever his politics...
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#640498 - 08/29/16 06:46 AM
Re: What are you reading?
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Demon Spawn
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Couldn't get through MK or Rosenberg's Myth of the 20th Century, they're such humourless, montonous screeds. When it comes to fascists I actually enjoyed Celine, Junger, D'Annunzio and Gentile. Yeah, I think we've covered this in a pm or a different thread , but intelligent is intelligent, and occasionally that quality transcends politics. I've been reading Nick Land, and the man is a genius, whatever his politics... I have always wanted to read D'Annunzio. Struck me more adventurer than proto-fascist.
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#640514 - 08/29/16 03:25 PM
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Whoremaster
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I've been reading Nick Land, and the man is a genius, whatever his politics... Looked him up, sounds interesting, particularly his book on Bataille. Is he a true blue nihlist or is it just a cover for a garden variety racist?
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#640515 - 08/29/16 03:28 PM
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Demon Spawn
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Isn't nihilism always a cover for something?
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#640516 - 08/29/16 03:37 PM
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Demon Spawn
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^ Unless you're a P-Dub. Then the cover is Existentialism.
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#643091 - 01/01/17 08:58 AM
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Demon Spawn
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Bio of General Sherman. Most instructive. ![](http://forum.jerkoffzone.net/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=download&Number=58115&filename=Sherman.JPG)
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#643094 - 01/01/17 10:08 AM
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Demon Spawn
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Isn't that the pyromaniac guy?
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#643097 - 01/01/17 10:37 AM
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Demon Spawn
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^ Only if you're wearing a hood and have yourself lit a cross.
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#643114 - 01/01/17 04:19 PM
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He just wanted to let the South rise again.....from ashes.
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#644242 - 02/22/17 01:38 PM
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Confessions of a Reluctant Hater by Greg Johnson.
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#644273 - 02/24/17 11:13 AM
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Porn Jesus
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Silver and Golden age comics. I like pictures.
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#644832 - 04/02/17 09:34 AM
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They've got your mugshot posted at the security desk, don't they?
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#644834 - 04/02/17 09:39 AM
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I'm "upstanding", or at least able to stand up, ten hours a day, five days a week. Hence, why I remain employed.
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#644836 - 04/02/17 09:47 AM
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Demon Spawn
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As an unemployed fellow, you should find my suggested remedy instructive.
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#644850 - 04/03/17 05:43 AM
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Demon Spawn
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Windsock cashes out his 401K
Sock: So, how much is left in my account?
Teller: Mmmmmm... $4.01, K?
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#644959 - 04/11/17 10:00 PM
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The board software is derping it up as usual
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#644960 - 04/11/17 10:01 PM
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Porn Fucking Master
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Been reading Bolano, Pynchon, Cormac McCarthy and Gaitskill lately.
Not sure if I want to subject myself to 2666 or not.
Thinking I'll read some more Bukowski but not sure what to grab next as his bibliography is so huge. Maybe I'll check out the Vonnegut books I haven't already read.
I've read Infinte Jest, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Signifying Rappers, and Consider The Lobster. Which is the next DFW book I should pick up for when I'm feeling particularly wrist slitting?
I've got a love/hate relationship with DeLillo
Anyone read Samuel Delaney? I've yet to dive into any of his works, I hear he can be quite mind fucking
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#644976 - 04/13/17 01:28 AM
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Porn Fucking Master
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I was digging through junk in my house. Looking for books as my job is having a book drive and finding mostly shit ( I have a house mate ) and fighting with the other person to please let me get rid of the Patricia Cornwell's and twilight books and 10 year old cook books when I actually found some shit of theirs that is halfway decent, "We're ready for you mr Grodin" and Angela's Ashes. So I start reading a book at about 2 am after having 4 beers, seems like a good idea.
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#647697 - 10/12/17 08:43 PM
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