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For a VERY interesting read, try 'Pihkal' and the follow up book 'Tihkal' -- based on a 'fictional' person who synthesized drugs back in the day. It's also a love story. It's wrote by Alexander Shulgin and Ann Shulgin.
Hint: it's a story based on their life, but it's 'fictional' - SERIOUSLY. great books!
It's been a little bit since I read this book, but I recommend it to everyone. One of my favorite books in years and years. If you're interested in early 20th Century, PNW settings then read this. Even if you're not interested in those things, fucking read this fucking great book.
Post by billypilgrim on May 19, 2014 13:48:37 GMT -5
I just finished The Goldfinch. If you were thinking about reading it after it won the Pulitzer Prize, but were holding out to get my opinion before you made a final decision, go ahead and read it. It's a long read (700 something pages on my Kindle app), but it's got amazing layers of detail and wildly flawed yet likeable characters. Plus it delves into big issues like what makes us happy and how we define "family" and the philosophical issues raised when "bad" deeds have "good" results. This is serious literature, but it has action and suspense and was nearly impossible for me to put down.
Post by Dave Maynar on May 19, 2014 13:55:12 GMT -5
Maybe posting about it here will guilt me into sticking with it more, but I am slowly but surely reading this right now. It's a fantasy book. I need to read a more serious book next.
I just finished The Goldfinch. If you were thinking about reading it after it won the Pulitzer Prize, but were holding out to get my opinion before you made a final decision, go ahead and read it. It's a long read (700 something pages on my Kindle app), but it's got amazing layers of detail and wildly flawed yet likeable characters. Plus it delves into big issues like what makes us happy and how we define "family" and the philosophical issues raised when "bad" deeds have "good" results. This is serious literature, but it has action and suspense and was nearly impossible for me to put down.
Have you read anything else by Donna Tartt? I read A Secret History right around the time The Goldfinch came out, just to see if her writing style was something I would like. I struggled to finish that book; it took me almost 6 weeks, I dreaded picking it up. She REALLY needed to utilize an editor for A Secret History. I'm torn on whether or not I should attempt The Goldfinch.
I just finished The Goldfinch. If you were thinking about reading it after it won the Pulitzer Prize, but were holding out to get my opinion before you made a final decision, go ahead and read it. It's a long read (700 something pages on my Kindle app), but it's got amazing layers of detail and wildly flawed yet likeable characters. Plus it delves into big issues like what makes us happy and how we define "family" and the philosophical issues raised when "bad" deeds have "good" results. This is serious literature, but it has action and suspense and was nearly impossible for me to put down.
Have you read anything else by Donna Tartt? I read A Secret History right around the time The Goldfinch came out, just to see if her writing style was something I would like. I struggled to finish that book; it took me almost 6 weeks, I dreaded picking it up. She REALLY needed to utilize an editor for A Secret History. I'm torn on whether or not I should attempt The Goldfinch.
No. This was the first book of hers I read. I'll admit, though, that I'm a fan of long involved novels. Tolstoy, Dickens, Wallace (I read Infinite Jest twice, but a decade or so apart).
Post by Dave Maynar on Jul 11, 2014 7:30:52 GMT -5
So much updating, I am finally back on track with actually reading after taking way too long off.
Promise of Blood was a pretty great fantasy novel. Things got cray at the end, so I am more excited about reading the next book in the series soon.
Next, I read Love Is A Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield. Honestly, I thought it was kind of uneven. I may have set my expectations too high, but I felt like some chapters didn't really help with the overall story.
Due to loving the series so far, I read The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta. Like I said in Now Watching, I liked it but felt it could have been more if he would have developed the characters/plot a little more.
I started Columbine by Dave Cullen yesterday. Modern history books are a dicey proposition since they lend easier to the author taking a more obvious stance on the subject matter and trying to make some sort of point with the writing. Things like violence in the media, gun control, etc. would be easy issues for this to happen with this book. One of the things that sold me was that, in addition to being incredibly well researched, many reviews cite Cullen for not politicizing the story.
finally starting this one for some light but hopefully interesting reading before roo!
2/3 of the way through this and enjoying it a lot. He's got a great perspective on the conflict between wanting to make something great and wanting to make something popular. And you don't get the sense - like in a lot of memoirs - that he's sugarcoating things to make himself look better. He seems comfortable talking about his fuck-ups as well as his successes. Plus, I like hearing the back story on some of the albums and songs I like.
Post by FuzzyWarbles on Jul 29, 2014 15:03:21 GMT -5
If you guys haven't yet you should check out David Byrne's How Music Works. It's a good look at history of music and it's origins, the influences in the building of different types of performance venues, insights into the record business, and some autobiographical sections on his start in music, his recordings, and the rise of neighborhood scenes including CBGB's.
We're all a mess of paradoxes. Believing in things we know can't be true. We walk around carrying feelings too complicated and contradictory to express. But when it all becomes too big, and words aren't enough to help get it all out, there's always music.
chicojuarz I read that about 6 or 7 years ago, and I thought it was great. I found out it was a Barbra Streisand movie right as I started, and almost abandoned ship. glad I didn't.
, because I hate happiness. 
, for the same reason. 
