What was the last book you read?
"1984" by Orwell. A classic and fascinating read.
shareThe Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Fuckin wild.
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Joy in the Morning, P. G. Wodehouse. What what what?
sharei just picked up 'the code of the woosters' from the library. i don't really know anything about wodehouse, but one of the hosts on a podcast i follow recommended wodehouse so forcefully i felt like i had to at least give him a try.
shareI hope he brings you as much laughter as he did (and still does) for me. Of course it all depends on the "psychology of the individual."
sharei probably won't get to it for a week or so - i'm in the middle of another book right now & am finding it to be a bit of a slog - but when i do, i'll pop back here to let you know what i think.
sharei'm about 80 pages in, and i'm enjoying myself a lot so far. i can't really say i've had a true lol moment, but it's very breezy and fun and amusing. i definitely think i will be reading a lot more of this.
shareDeath of a Lake by Arthur Upfield.
"DON'T TOUCH ME" BY HOWIE MANDEL,THEN "BORN STANDING UP" BY STEVE MARTIN,AND NOW IM STARTING "STILL FOOLIN' EM" BY BILLY CRYSTAL.
I READ ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY BIOGRAPHIES AT THIS POINT IN MY LIFE.
It’s been awhile since I read a novel but I think the last one I finished was Richard Yate’s Revolutionary Road. After that I started William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury but had difficulty understanding the narrator. I’ll probably give it a try again someday.
shareJesus christ man, if you are not a novel reader, don't fking start with Faulkner!
shareThat's funny. I've tried to think of myself as being literate and capable of handling challenging material.
But Pynchon cured me of that.
Heck, when I was in college I had no idea what the Faulkner short story The Bear was about. "It's about a Bear !" haha
holy crap, i tried reading a pynchon book late last year - crying of lot 49...
that is definitely one of the most impenetrable, dense things i've ever taken a stab at.
the younger me might have been able to get something out of it, back when my brain was a little more nimble and malleable.
i'm far too old and tired to be taking something like that in now.
What are your guys' thoughts on Amazon Kindle?
share> What are your guys' thoughts on Amazon Kindle?
Pros -- Instant delivery. Easier to search within a book than with a printed copy. You don't have to buy a Kindle to use it; the software is free and available for PC, Mac, et cetera. I use the app on my iPad. Buying a Kindle means you can also get digital subscriptions for newspapers and magazines, and those are easy to subscribe to and cancel. When I vacationed in London a few years ago, I subscribed to the London Times for a couple of months before my vacation and during it. Whether you use a Kindle or a different device, you can carry your entire digital library with you. You can attach your own notes and bookmarks with defacing the book; just delete them later if you like. If you use several devices your notes and such appear on all devices you use.
Cons -- You generally can't lend your books to other people as you can with a printed copy. Kindle allows lending of some books, but those are the exception rather than the rule. The software can sometimes be clumsy to use; e.g., a prior version for iPad made it very difficult to access footnotes. That's fixed, but the new version has flaws in accessing ones own notes and annotations. My Kindle program for my PC (Windows 7) stopped working after a software update a few months ago and hasn't worked since, and many other users have the same problem. If a new book is published for Kindle the formatting, et cetera are usually good quality, but when older books are converted to Kindle that's not always the case; sometimes the conversion is nothing more than an OCR scan, with the results ranging from mediocre to poor.
Overall I like it. I buy more Kindle books than printed books.
Thank you. Very informative.
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