what are you reading now?

[kid charlemagne]

 

[kid charlemagne]

I’ve been curious about cosmopolis since I’ve never thought much of the film…. Seen it maybe once or twice

 

[ver$hy ver$h]

I’ve been curious about cosmopolis since I’ve never thought much of the film…. Seen it maybe once or twice

I liked the film, but prefer the book. Cronenberg didn't change much, it just works better as a novel. The dialogue's difficult to pull off on screen and the look was a bit bland and TVish.

 

[kid charlemagne]

Bruh look what I saw at this other store…. K punk! This guy is big time

 

[kid charlemagne]

 

[kid charlemagne]

@vershy versh i sat down and read the silence today.... pretty embaressing read.... amounts to too much of a forward retread of ideas better expressed in falling man, underworld, and white noise....Ordinary civilians faced with catastrophe, mustache commodity consumption, I’ve already read about this from you Don......

 

[kid charlemagne]

i did laugh when he just repeats the word "cryptocurrencies" 4 times over in the bottom half of the page, then ends that chapter with the line "Somewhere within all those syllables, something secret, covert, intimate."

 

[kid charlemagne]

having read the silence, falling man, libra, underworld, and white noise..... any essentials i should keep an eye out for in stores?

 

[ver$hy ver$h]

@vershy versh i sat down and read the silence today.... pretty embaressing read.... amounts to too much of a forward retread of ideas better expressed in falling man, underworld, and white noise....Ordinary civilians faced with catastrophe, mustache commodity consumption, I’ve already read about this from you Don......

Yeah, it's shit. Self-parody.

having read the silence, falling man, libra, underworld, and white noise..... any essentials i should keep an eye out for in stores?

The Names, Point Omega, Players, Mao II, Americana and Running Dog are decent.

 

[jenks]

+1 for Mao II

 

[IdleRich]

@vershy versh i am currently reading Pure War. i will finish tomorrow..... today i went to the store and picked up cosmopolis and the silence by delillio, as well as pop1280 by jim thompson.... have you read these?

Cosmopolis is good.. more of a novella though really. Never read Silence.

 

[IdleRich]

I’ve been curious about cosmopolis since I’ve never thought much of the film…. Seen it maybe once or twice

I don't think the film quite captures it somehow.

 

[IdleRich]

having read the silence, falling man, libra, underworld, and white noise..... any essentials i should keep an eye out for in stores?

Americana is the best I've read. I think DFW was inspired by it for parts of IJ.

 

[IdleRich]

By the way, The Counterfeiters by Gide was excellent, I don't know why I've never read him before. Somehow a hole in my knowledge... who can school me on Gide?

 

[.....]

what is mustache commodity consumption?

 

[IdleRich]

what is mustache commodity consumption?

I wondered that, concluded it was either

a) an auto correct error
b) something I totally failed to understand

 

[kid charlemagne]

maybe i had borrowed yalls heroin last night when writing that message.....

 

[ver$hy ver$h]

Americana is the best I've read. I think DFW was inspired by it for parts of IJ.

End Zone and White Noise are the ones he seemed to get the most from.

 

[IdleRich]

Specifically the radio stuff I was thinking

 

[ver$hy ver$h]

End Zone has all the precocious-students-talking-about-nuclear-war-and-generally-behaving-oddly-on-campus stuff from IJ. I think he got a lot of the tennis academy from that one.