what are you reading now?

[...]

Been aimlessly flitting between lots of stuff that just made me wonder what the actual point of reading is - just pointless vapid, narcissistic publishing - look at me, I made a book, it’s got no plot and the characters are me and my mates and we’re totally solipsistic but we went to university and can drop names and talk about art and philosophy…just dead stuff.

Maybe you've read too much Jenks. Take a break from the books.

 

[luka]

watch a bit of telly. do a sudoku. talk to the kids.

 

[...]

Paul Lynch was the straw that broke Jenks's back.

 

[Clinamenic]

Play some video games while listening to MIT lectures

 

[version]

Play some video games while listening to MIT lectures

The Lawnmower Stan.

 

[wg-]

I have been trying to read The October Surprise by Gary Sick, about the theory that the people involved to try and get Reagan administration in persuaded Iran to keep hold of kidnapped American hostages so Reagan could beat Carter in the election

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Don't really believe it but it's a fun little caper

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Tried reading some Dickens lately as well but found him mostly insufferable

 

[version]

I have been trying to read The October Surprise by Gary Sick, about the theory that the people involved to try and get Reagan administration in persuaded Iran to keep hold of kidnapped American hostages so Reagan could beat Carter in the election

1980 October Surprise theory - Wikipedia

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Don't really believe it but it's a fun little caper

Did you not see that bloke who was involved come out and admit a few months ago?

 

[jenks]

Maybe you've read too much Jenks. Take a break from the books.

Cheers for the advice.

 

[wg-]

Yeah Ben Barnes isnt it. The Iranian president at the time said it happened as well, apparently.

Good documentary on Netflix now- Octopus Murders- that touches on it.

This book is a bit flakey though, it doesn't read like its true to me.

 

[version]

Been aimlessly flitting between lots of stuff that just made me wonder what the actual point of reading is - just pointless vapid, narcissistic publishing - look at me, I made a book, it’s got no plot and the characters are me and my mates and we’re totally solipsistic but we went to university and can drop names and talk about art and philosophy…just dead stuff. Then I picked up Faulkner’s Light in August which i’d never got round to and it felt like that Television lyric ‘ I saw lightening strike itself’ or something similar. Proper electric writing.

Which were the shit ones you were reading before the Faulkner?

 

[jenks]

watch a bit of telly. do a sudoku. talk to the kids.

There’s a lot of cycling on Eurosport to keep me occupied.

 

[jenks]

Which were the shit ones you were reading before the Faulkner?

These all annoyed me - haven’t finished them all as they were irritating me.
Maybe my tolerance has waned.

 

[jenks]

These all annoyed me - haven’t finished them all as they were irritating me.
Maybe my tolerance has waned.

Plus a couple of anthologies of very uneven writing - Autofiction stuff that just feels like a bad diary.

 

[kid charlemagne]

reading junky by burroughs rn... wonder how many this book influenced to become a junky

 

[Murphy]

you’d be amazed how many haven’t read it

 

[kid charlemagne]

well on that hand, ij wonder how many junkys that book could send to rehab and cure

 

[Murphy]

It’s fallen out of circulation if anything, bit like the “grains” it depicts and heroin/diamorphine itself has almost been completely overhauled as a purchasable option

 

[kid charlemagne]

i could pass it around drug infested areas and see if anything changes

 

[Murphy]

It still has currency, go for it Kid

 

[luka]

i do actually have a friend that decided to be a junkie after reading junkie.

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