Book Mobster

Comments

• Imipolex G

  2011-08-12 20:50:08

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  "I figure, people read books, right?"
  
  Not usually. But some of us do.
  
  I'm currently reading Time's Arrow by Martin Amis. It's...a little hard to describe. The narrative moves backwards in time rather than forward. Which is a little weird because, after I've been reading it for a while, it almost feels strange to have time moving forward as usual.
  
• PlutoniumFist

  2011-08-21 13:23:58

  Living tissue over endoskeleton.

  Forgot I made this. Herp.
  
  Had to put down The Damnation Game. Not that it wasn't interesting, but there are other things I want to get to. I'll pick it up again sometime.
  
  Time's Arrow: Sounds interesting. Is time moving backward a narrative device or part of the book's world?
  
• thespacephantom

  2011-08-21 16:50:30

  I'm reading Cannery Row. It's pretty good.
• Imipolex G

  2011-08-22 12:01:28

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  Well, it's like this: time moves forward normally in the book's world, but something in the main character's mind - not his main consciousness, but some kind of secondary consciousness - is passively experiencing it in reverse. Maybe this will eventually be explained.
  
• Unknown

  2011-11-19 02:25:43

  The user and all related content has been deleted.
• Viani

  2011-11-19 14:16:26

  ☭ B̤̺͍̰͕̺̠̕u҉̖͙̝̮͕̲ͅm̟̼̦̠̹̙p͡s̹͖ ̻T́h̗̫͈̙̩r̮e̴̩̺̖̠̭̜ͅa̛̪̟͍̣͎͖̺d͉̦͠s͕̞͚̲͍ ̲̬̹̤Y̻̤̱o̭͠u̥͉̥̜͡ ̴̥̪D̳̲̳̤o̴͙̘͓̤̟̗͇n̰̗̞̼̳͙͖͢'҉͖t̳͓̣͍̗̰ ͉W̝̳͓̼͜a̗͉̳͖̘̮n͕ͅt͚̟͚ ̸̺T̜̖̖̺͎̱ͅo̭̪̰̼̥̜ ̼͍̟̝R̝̹̮̭ͅͅe̡̗͇a͍̘̤͉͘d̼̜  ⚢

  

  Read "The Langoliers".
  
• Imipolex G

  2011-11-20 17:42:28

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  Hogfather. Thank you Aliroz.
  
• All Nines

  2011-11-20 19:24:57 edited 2011-11-20 19:26:31

  Lol Mienshao doesn't learn Hammer Arm!

  I put down Jim Butcher's Ghost Story for a while due to having lots of schoolwork and stuff to read for that (including Frederick Forsyth's The Odessa File, which is a terrible book, so don't get it, and Paradise Lost, which I greatly enjoyed until I found myself having to speedread it as a deadline approached and I had to write an essay on it), but now I'm picking it up again, and hopefully I can finish it before I need to read 1984 and write an essay on that.

  
  

  I'll be sure to get a bunch of books for Christmas, too. Though I have a bunch of other stuff I ought to read that's just lying around too, not least of which are A Feast For Crows and Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.
• Tnu1138

  2011-11-20 23:13:33

  I'm still getting through Dead Beat. Nowhere near Ghost story yet. Plan to read quite a few thigns. give Dracula a second Run. work on The Infernal City, Re-read Dracula. start on The Vampyr and Varney the Vampire. Go from there to 1984, Animal Farm, and Fahrenheit 451. Then get in to "Revolution: A Manifesto" by Ron Paul, "The Road to Serfdome" by Noam Chomsky. "The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx and "The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith.
• PlutoniumFist

  2012-01-15 17:42:54

  Living tissue over endoskeleton.

  The Book Mobster rises from the bottom of the harbor, casting off concrete shoes and eager for revenge.
  
  Went back to the library for the first time in a while, and while I wasn't able to find anything on my list (Snow Crash, House of Leaves, anything to do with The Shadow or Doc Savage, Lensmen) I did find some stuff that looks interesting.
  
  First off is the Mammoth Book of Pulp Action. It's just what it sounds like: a collection of pulp stories. I've checked it out before, but only made it through the first story. I'm going to give it another shot.
  
  Next up is Slan, which caught my eye only because of the little painting of a man who I thought was He-Man on the spine. Turns out that's a shrunk-down version of the cover art, which depicts He-Man holding a glow stick inside an old-school spaceship, and the book itself is regarded as one of the classics of golden age sci-fi. I've never heard of it, but I'm eager to see what it's like.
  
  Crooked Man is another one that got my attention thanks to its cover (should you ever write a novel, just give it a pulpy cover and I'll read it). This one's about a New Orleans lawyer who gets mixed up in drug trafficking. The description makes it sound wacky. I like wacky.
  
  Last is Thomas Pynchon's Vinelands, in which I just found a cut-off bookmark encouraging me to participate in Lent in order to become eligible for a book club. Seems counter-productive to me.
  
• Imipolex G

  2012-01-15 17:45:35 edited 2012-01-15 17:46:35

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  Plutonium Fist
  
  Why do you read all the Pynchon I haven't
  
  Anyway, now reading Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami.
  
• PlutoniumFist

  2012-01-15 17:47:58

  Living tissue over endoskeleton.

  Because my library is a strange beast.
  
• Viani

  2012-01-15 17:49:08

  ☭ B̤̺͍̰͕̺̠̕u҉̖͙̝̮͕̲ͅm̟̼̦̠̹̙p͡s̹͖ ̻T́h̗̫͈̙̩r̮e̴̩̺̖̠̭̜ͅa̛̪̟͍̣͎͖̺d͉̦͠s͕̞͚̲͍ ̲̬̹̤Y̻̤̱o̭͠u̥͉̥̜͡ ̴̥̪D̳̲̳̤o̴͙̘͓̤̟̗͇n̰̗̞̼̳͙͖͢'҉͖t̳͓̣͍̗̰ ͉W̝̳͓̼͜a̗͉̳͖̘̮n͕ͅt͚̟͚ ̸̺T̜̖̖̺͎̱ͅo̭̪̰̼̥̜ ̼͍̟̝R̝̹̮̭ͅͅe̡̗͇a͍̘̤͉͘d̼̜  ⚢

  

  
  
  WHAT THE HELL IS THIS SUPPOSED TO BE AND WHERE IS IT FROM
  
• Imipolex G

  2012-01-15 17:51:00

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  It's Raphael the Raven, who appears in Yoshi's Island and some other Mario games.
  
• Anonus

  2012-01-15 17:54:53

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  (Admin Hat On)
  
  Tnophelia, try to tone down the left-fielder tendencies.
  
  (Admin Hat Off)
  
• Imipolex G

  2012-01-15 18:00:02

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  ASPARAGUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
• Viani

  2012-01-16 01:04:23

  ☭ B̤̺͍̰͕̺̠̕u҉̖͙̝̮͕̲ͅm̟̼̦̠̹̙p͡s̹͖ ̻T́h̗̫͈̙̩r̮e̴̩̺̖̠̭̜ͅa̛̪̟͍̣͎͖̺d͉̦͠s͕̞͚̲͍ ̲̬̹̤Y̻̤̱o̭͠u̥͉̥̜͡ ̴̥̪D̳̲̳̤o̴͙̘͓̤̟̗͇n̰̗̞̼̳͙͖͢'҉͖t̳͓̣͍̗̰ ͉W̝̳͓̼͜a̗͉̳͖̘̮n͕ͅt͚̟͚ ̸̺T̜̖̖̺͎̱ͅo̭̪̰̼̥̜ ̼͍̟̝R̝̹̮̭ͅͅe̡̗͇a͍̘̤͉͘d̼̜  ⚢

  

  left-fielder tendencies.
  

  ?
  
• Anonus

  2012-01-16 01:06:53

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  Stuff like waltzing in to ask what Imi's avatar is in an unrelated thread.
  
• Viani

  2012-01-16 01:22:31

  ☭ B̤̺͍̰͕̺̠̕u҉̖͙̝̮͕̲ͅm̟̼̦̠̹̙p͡s̹͖ ̻T́h̗̫͈̙̩r̮e̴̩̺̖̠̭̜ͅa̛̪̟͍̣͎͖̺d͉̦͠s͕̞͚̲͍ ̲̬̹̤Y̻̤̱o̭͠u̥͉̥̜͡ ̴̥̪D̳̲̳̤o̴͙̘͓̤̟̗͇n̰̗̞̼̳͙͖͢'҉͖t̳͓̣͍̗̰ ͉W̝̳͓̼͜a̗͉̳͖̘̮n͕ͅt͚̟͚ ̸̺T̜̖̖̺͎̱ͅo̭̪̰̼̥̜ ̼͍̟̝R̝̹̮̭ͅͅe̡̗͇a͍̘̤͉͘d̼̜  ⚢

  

  Oh, I thought you were talking about something political (left field being leftists)
  
• Imipolex G

  2012-02-14 22:22:08

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  NECRO
  
  
  
  Just because I liked this