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Post by stxdpr on Feb 3, 2021 12:06:50 GMT
Downloaded Skyrim again. Time to have a look for some mods and see if there will be more enemies than just draugr.
Lunchtime walk as government mandated, until we get the South African strain and we are all locked in?
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Post by Sheep2 on Feb 3, 2021 12:06:54 GMT
Crankcaller
I will seek it out.
Pynchon
No. I read about 100 pages of Gravity's Rainbow. Not for me.
The incestuous concentration camp Nazi porn was not my idea of entertainment.
Maybe if you are high it might seem profound rather than merely unpleasant
Also David Foster Wallace
I gave up on Infinite Jest. I am not a big fan of tennis.
If you want to read a vaguely intelligent american novelist Philip Roth is pretty good. I quite liked John Updike as well. I'd also recommend Gore Vidal. Though I preferred his essays to his novels, but thenovels are pretty good.
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Post by crankcaller on Feb 3, 2021 12:08:39 GMT
Which edition though?
Top 5 Bible editions...
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Post by lazybones on Feb 3, 2021 12:14:06 GMT
Also got to pondering whether I have read V by Thomas Pynchon or not. I think I have, but it would of been over 10 years ago. I remember being thoroughly confused by one of his books. Going back to it and flicking through, it is hard to tell. What is the best book? I'm thinking of getting Mason & Dixon, or Gravity's Rainbow, neither of which I think I have read. I have Against the day, but I hear that one isn't as good, and I've read bleeding edge, which was merely passable.
I think my two favorite books might be:
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates, and Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse.
The Kindly Ones, by Jonathan Littel is also up there. And Perfume and The Pigeon by Patrick Suskind ...
I also really like America Magica: When Renaissance Europe thought it had conquered Paradise, by Jean-Marc De Beer and Jorge Magasich-Airola ...
Sorry. Excessive Bold ...
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Post by Sheep2 on Feb 3, 2021 12:17:04 GMT
Which edition though? Top 5 Bible editions... I don't think the Manics have aged very well for the most part. |
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Post by Sheep2 on Feb 3, 2021 12:19:10 GMT
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Post by lazybones on Feb 3, 2021 12:31:42 GMT
I read David Foster Wallace's first book - The Broom of the System. I kind of hated it, I think because the sense of humour didn't quite click with me and I felt obliged to finish it (because a friend told me Infinite Jest was one of the best books he had ever read).
I wanted to hurl it across the room.
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Post by MrTiddles on Feb 3, 2021 12:32:38 GMT
I can't think of many comfort films. I've watched Dead Man's Shoes a few times, and The Empire Strikes Back. I sometimes think I might watch Excalibur again. You might like Two-Lane Blacktop, it's got James Taylor and Warren Oates in it. Relaxing, the perfect road movie for those who can't 'get on the road'. |
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Post by lazybones on Feb 3, 2021 12:37:15 GMT
I can't think of many comfort films. I've watched Dead Man's Shoes a few times, and The Empire Strikes Back. I sometimes think I might watch Excalibur again. You might like Two-Lane Blacktop, it's got James Taylor and Warren Oates in it. Relaxing, the perfect road movie for those who can't 'get on the road'.
This looks good.
Thanks!
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Post by Felice Landry on Feb 3, 2021 12:57:16 GMT
2 soft boiled eggs with soldiers for lunch.
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Post by Shenguin on Feb 3, 2021 13:01:51 GMT
Shenguin in the best tradition of plagerism taking his source material and just changing it *just* enough to sound like his own. I'm glad they didn't have the software checking for it when I was a student. Huh? I wrote that myself, after checking an online etymological dictionary. It should be illegal to be awake this early. Cheese and tomato sandwich. Might have a bag of crisps in a minute. |
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Post by Shenguin on Feb 3, 2021 13:05:13 GMT
What's going on? I'm not reading all that shit. I've got to go and do a 6y-o's maths work for her.
Nobody mentioned Kurt Vonnegut yet? I know it's mostly popular with male adolescents, but I'd have thought that would make it ideal for this place.
Pynchon can do one. So bad I'd rather read your* posts.
*Yes, yours.
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Post by amipal on Feb 3, 2021 13:11:47 GMT
Also got to pondering whether I have read V by Thomas Pynchon or not. I think I have, but it would of been over 10 years ago. I remember being thoroughly confused by one of his books. Going back to it and flicking through, it is hard to tell. What is the best book? I'm thinking of getting Mason & Dixon, or Gravity's Rainbow, neither of which I think I have read. I have Against the day, but I hear that one isn't as good, and I've read bleeding edge, which was merely passable.
I think my two favorite books might be:
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates, and Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse.
The Kindly Ones, by Jonathan Littel is also up there. And Perfume and The Pigeon by Patrick Suskind ...
I also really like America Magica: When Renaissance Europe thought it had conquered Paradise, by Jean-Marc De Beer and Jorge Magasich-Airola ...
Sorry. Excessive Bold ...
Do any of these books feature a man picking through a humid jungle in search of a lost mythical treasure, all the while hunted... or maybe haunted, by a dark presence? |
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Post by crankcaller on Feb 3, 2021 13:12:22 GMT
I'm surprised Hollywood hasn't tried to remake most of those films yet. Especially 'The Graduate' in these media milf/cougar loving times.
Zoom call one done.
Including some fucking library nerd in his gaming chair with PS4 and manga dvd cases on the shelf behind him. Was quite jealous of the setup. Sans the manga obviously.
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Post by stxdpr on Feb 3, 2021 13:16:31 GMT
Book chat, still not allowed to mention the third book in the series with maps, magic (sympathy) and a main character beginning with K?
How is the next GoT book going, I take it covid hasn't got him yet?
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Post by scubar on Feb 3, 2021 13:22:28 GMT
Fuck Rothfuss and GRRM. Neither of them have bothered writing anything for years. They should just come out and say they’ve lost interest.
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Post by Shenguin on Feb 3, 2021 13:28:48 GMT
Book chat, still not allowed to mention the third book in the series with maps, magic (sympathy) and a main character beginning with K? I have nothing to say. ftfy |
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Post by lazybones on Feb 3, 2021 13:29:27 GMT
America Magica hints at such things. It’s all about how early European explorers / invaders were imaginatively primed to find monsters in the New World because there had been people writing about monsters in Asia for the previous 200 years.
It is an excellent book.
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Post by gongfarmer on Feb 3, 2021 13:45:13 GMT
Book!
Anyone tried any Vernor Vinge? At one point i was quite taken with 'A fire upon the deep', but never could get to grips with the prequal, and it seems unavailable on Audiobooks so wasnt able to try it out as a commute timesink, back when that was possible. If you enjoy a rollicking but thought provoking space opera it might be up your street.
Eats!
Ham salad, 2 types of cheese, picallillilli, grapes and olives. The combination of grapes, olives and stilton is a win-treble.
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Post by tenthenemy on Feb 3, 2021 13:53:35 GMT
Hello.
Today I have made the pilgrimage to the German Embassy in this there London to have my passport renewed. Now that I've accomplished this mission I'm sitting on a draughty bench in Euston Station. I'm already cold and uncomfortable and still have another 2.5 hrs to kill before I can board the train home.
Send halp.
I'm going to find out whether there's anything open around here where it's at least warm.
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Post by Sheep2 on Feb 3, 2021 14:01:09 GMT
Gong
I read one Vernor Vinge and loved it. I've bought a second, but not read it.
I'x also recommend David Brinn, John Brunner, Greg Benford.
In fact pretty much all 70s sci-fi.
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Post by lazybones on Feb 3, 2021 14:02:14 GMT
Hello. Today I have made the pilgrimage to the German Embassy in this there London to have my passport renewed. Now that I've accomplished this mission I'm sitting on a draughty bench in Euston Station. I'm already cold and uncomfortable and still have another 2.5 hrs to kill before I can board the train home. Send halp. I'm going to find out whether there's anything open around here where it's at least warm. I suggest: Going to Ambala on Drummond Street, and buying a box of Indian confectionary. Maybe a bag of onion bhajis also. Boodiful. |
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Post by Melvazord on Feb 3, 2021 14:08:31 GMT
Looks like we're getting the clap again tonight, since an old man was exploited and then martyred.
One death is a tragedy, one million a statistic.
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Post by Felice Landry on Feb 3, 2021 14:10:11 GMT
I read the first 2 of:
"Zones of Thought series
A Fire Upon the Deep (1992)
A Deepness in the Sky (1999)
The Children of the Sky (2011)"
I think I enjoyed them.
Hope that helps.
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Post by tenthenemy on Feb 3, 2021 15:03:17 GMT
Hello. Today I have made the pilgrimage to the German Embassy in this there London to have my passport renewed. Now that I've accomplished this mission I'm sitting on a draughty bench in Euston Station. I'm already cold and uncomfortable and still have another 2.5 hrs to kill before I can board the train home. Send halp. I'm going to find out whether there's anything open around here where it's at least warm. I suggest: Going to Ambala on Drummond Street, and buying a box of Indian confectionary. Maybe a bag of onion bhajis also. Boodiful. Good idea, but I'm not hungry (I had a Cornish pasty earlier). Also, everything is takeaway only. Got a large coffee which I used to keep my hands warm, but now back on the station concourse. There's police at the entrance to the station that one has to convince of the necessity of one's journey. It's f*cking miserable and there are pigeons everywhere, including on the seat next to me. Pray for Tent Hen. |
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