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I'm a pretty fast reader so it's already a really shocking pace change for me, but I'm also finding this hard to do other things while listening, as opposed to music.
not sure if you are a podcast listener but when i'm into an audiobook i just listen when i'd otherwise be listening to podcasts. driving, walking, vacuuming, cooking, etc. but i also always have the kindle book too, so at night or on a weekend afternoon i just do regular reading.
yeah I was trying to do it while working and that was pretty tough lol
but it's harder on a level than watching TV is probably because there are a lot more audiocues (though other books might have music or a more vibrant speaker)
Post by Fozzie Bear on Jan 21, 2021 19:12:25 GMT -5
For fans of video games and/or quality non-fiction, I highly recommend two recent books I read:
Masters of Doom, which chronicles the rise and fall of the studio and key developers behind Doom, Wolfenstein 3-D, Quake, etc.
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, which tells the story of a game’s development in each chapter, including games such as Destiny, The Witcher 3, Shovel Knight, etc.
I'm a pretty fast reader so it's already a really shocking pace change for me, but I'm also finding this hard to do other things while listening, as opposed to music.
Castle was alright, definitely like the Trial and Meta more
did the Stranger (Camus) for audiobook #2, was great for this format
I think what I've settled on is for an audiobook I'd like 5o keep it no more than 6hrs, and more with a lean to monologue than world building, feel like that might be the key. hard to really fully imagine a world if you can only "read" it over so many times.
so keeping w that I am now doing The Myth of Sisyphus by Camus, got to passage about "theres a time when man turns 30" and let out an audible fuuuuck
Post by potentpotables on Jan 28, 2021 10:02:08 GMT -5
I just finished Know My Name, the memoir from Chanel Miller, the woman raped by the Stanford swimmer Brock Turner (who got a ridiculously light prison sentence, which led to the judge being recalled). I'm focusing this year on reading authors of color (notwithstanding reading The Rum Diary as my first book of the year). This memoir is very painful, and if you have been assaulted I would not recommend it for possible PTSD/trigger warnings, or at least I'd give the trigger warning. It really highlights the flaws in the system in a specific, personal way. I've certainly become more well-rounded in my thinking but in college I would not have understood why a woman wouldn't file charges in a case like this, and I'd recommend that anybody who has that view read this to get a better understanding of how the system disadvantages victims that come forward.
i've pretty much spent the entire month of january just reading to distract myself from everything else. i've got a big head start on my goal of finishing 50 books this year. i still have a bunch of things in my queue, but have enjoyed the recommendations from all of you and always appreciate more (i can keep 20 books in my library queue at once).
homegoing - yaa gyasi the death of vivek oji - akwaeke emezi my sister, the serial killer - oyinkan braithwaite kindred - octavia e. butler the body is not an apology - sonya renee taylor pet - akwaeke emezi dear girls - ali wong daisy jones & the six - taylor jenkins reid bloodchild and other stories - octavia e. butler notes of a native son - james baldwin freshwater - akwaeke emezi in a dark, dark wood - ruth ware transcendent kingdom - yaa gyasi
Post by 3post1jack1 on Feb 18, 2021 17:50:20 GMT -5
finished this one last night. interesting read because i first read it when i was in grade school. i continued on with the series back then and i think made it to book 3 before giving up. it was the first time i read a book series where i felt like the author was just dragging shit out and wasting my time, so little 6th grade postjack said fuck it.
but the series now is held in high esteem by a lot of people, and brandon sanderson finished it. and calling myself a fantasy fan i feel like i should give it another shot.
i enjoyed EotW. i remembered very little of it. i kind of remembered some of the characters and some of the big plot points that come later, but i didn't remember any aspects of their journey or anything like that, so it was like reading something for the first time. started book two last night. i want to read at least through book 4 and if i'm still in it then i'll continue on.
i'm taking extreme measures to avoid spoilers, per the instructions of a booktuber i like. hoping to have my mind blown at some point.
Post by potentpotables on Feb 18, 2021 18:25:07 GMT -5
Finished this about 10 days ago. It had a really difficult narrative style to follow - changing viewpoints/narrators, one unreliable, and the first 100 pages or so (of a 204 page book) it felt like nothing happened. The second half of the book is intense, tragic, and uncomfortable. It took me a few weeks to read a short book because of the narrative style.
As a treat, I read Jessica Simpson's 2020 memoir "Open Book" as a follow up. I read it in about six hours (not in one sitting). I am not ashamed to say I enjoyed the heck out of it.
As a treat, I read Jessica Simpson's 2020 memoir "Open Book" as a follow up. I read it in about six hours (not in one sitting). I am not ashamed to say I enjoyed the heck out of it.
i read this a few months ago too and enjoyed it. it was definitely too long, but quick and silly anyways. just finished mariah carey's new-ish memoir yesterday and recommend that if you're looking for something kind of similar (though mariah is clearly just a better writer).
As a treat, I read Jessica Simpson's 2020 memoir "Open Book" as a follow up. I read it in about six hours (not in one sitting). I am not ashamed to say I enjoyed the heck out of it.
i read this a few months ago too and enjoyed it. it was definitely too long, but quick and silly anyways. just finished mariah carey's new-ish memoir yesterday and recommend that if you're looking for something kind of similar (though mariah is clearly just a better writer).
I put a hold on it at the library at the same time as the Jess book, its more popular it seems.
I just finished my favorite author's newest book last week. I would actually be pissed off at him if he hadn't already come out and said that there will be more books to follow this most recent trilogy as it didn't really end.
My book reading has been rough recently. About two thirds of the way through this book blind date from the ladyfriend. It's really good. You go in expecting another adventure book, but the author does a great job of painting the entire picture of everything that was going on to make the run happen including the original American exploration of the canyon and damage at a dam upstream at the time of the run.
As a return blind date, I got the ladyfriend House of Leaves which may cause her to hate me but risks are fun sometimes.
On deck: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters
finished this one last night. interesting read because i first read it when i was in grade school. i continued on with the series back then and i think made it to book 3 before giving up. it was the first time i read a book series where i felt like the author was just dragging shit out and wasting my time, so little 6th grade postjack said fuck it.
but the series now is held in high esteem by a lot of people, and brandon sanderson finished it. and calling myself a fantasy fan i feel like i should give it another shot.
i enjoyed EotW. i remembered very little of it. i kind of remembered some of the characters and some of the big plot points that come later, but i didn't remember any aspects of their journey or anything like that, so it was like reading something for the first time. started book two last night. i want to read at least through book 4 and if i'm still in it then i'll continue on.
i'm taking extreme measures to avoid spoilers, per the instructions of a booktuber i like. hoping to have my mind blown at some point.
so i've made it through book 3, The Dragon Reborn. it's been quite a slog. i don't know how anyone can think these books are anything other than objectively bad. i'll admit things got a bit better in the last third of book 3, when one of the characters (Matt) actually starts acting like a human being who responds to stimuli and has at least a shred of self-awareness, but all the other characters are wildly overconfident dummies.
Jordan consistently uses one of my pet peeve storytelling devices of stringing along a plot line conflict that would not exist if character A and character B would just tell each other what they've learned. unfortunately none of the characters trust anybody, even their oldest friends or new friends who have repeatedly proven their good intentions. actually when they do put trust in someone it's clearly the person that is Big Bad in disguise.
and while i appreciate these books were written well before ASOIAF made grimdark the new genre standard, back when fantasy was much more YA focused, I still can't help but be pulled out of what little immersion I was experiencing when i read something that reminds me these 18-20 year old characters don't seem to know what sex is. they consistently blush when they even think about kissing or having a dance with a member of the opposite sex. on the other extreme i actually hate it when fantasy authors try to do sex scenes, but there is a middle ground that authors like Brandon Sanderson pull off, wherein the sex happens "off screen" so to speak and that works just fine.
but i'm not going to stop reading. if nothing else i'm enjoying being a hater. but i am going to space the books out a bit so i don't go crazy. and who knows, maybe the characters will grow a bit and i'll be surprised.
finished this one last night. interesting read because i first read it when i was in grade school. i continued on with the series back then and i think made it to book 3 before giving up. it was the first time i read a book series where i felt like the author was just dragging shit out and wasting my time, so little 6th grade postjack said fuck it.
but the series now is held in high esteem by a lot of people, and brandon sanderson finished it. and calling myself a fantasy fan i feel like i should give it another shot.
i enjoyed EotW. i remembered very little of it. i kind of remembered some of the characters and some of the big plot points that come later, but i didn't remember any aspects of their journey or anything like that, so it was like reading something for the first time. started book two last night. i want to read at least through book 4 and if i'm still in it then i'll continue on.
i'm taking extreme measures to avoid spoilers, per the instructions of a booktuber i like. hoping to have my mind blown at some point.
so i've made it through book 3, The Dragon Reborn. it's been quite a slog. i don't know how anyone can think these books are anything other than objectively bad. i'll admit things got a bit better in the last third of book 3, when one of the characters (Matt) actually starts acting like a human being who responds to stimuli and has at least a shred of self-awareness, but all the other characters are wildly overconfident dummies.
Jordan consistently uses one of my pet peeve storytelling devices of stringing along a plot line conflict that would not exist if character A and character B would just tell each other what they've learned. unfortunately none of the characters trust anybody, even their oldest friends or new friends who have repeatedly proven their good intentions. actually when they do put trust in someone it's clearly the person that is Big Bad in disguise.
and while i appreciate these books were written well before ASOIAF made grimdark the new genre standard, back when fantasy was much more YA focused, I still can't help but be pulled out of what little immersion I was experiencing when i read something that reminds me these 18-20 year old characters don't seem to know what sex is. they consistently blush when they even think about kissing or having a dance with a member of the opposite sex. on the other extreme i actually hate it when fantasy authors try to do sex scenes, but there is a middle ground that authors like Brandon Sanderson pull off, wherein the sex happens "off screen" so to speak and that works just fine.
but i'm not going to stop reading. if nothing else i'm enjoying being a hater. but i am going to space the books out a bit so i don't go crazy. and who knows, maybe the characters will grow a bit and i'll be surprised.
Your post has me intrigued bc I read the books in the mid to late 90s, so I was in my teenage years reading them. I wonder how older me would react to the books now. Probably not as positively. I can't remember if I've mentioned it before, but one thing that got me back in the day was how Jordan described every attractive lady as plump. I mean, get a thesaurus, man.
so i've made it through book 3, The Dragon Reborn. it's been quite a slog. i don't know how anyone can think these books are anything other than objectively bad. i'll admit things got a bit better in the last third of book 3, when one of the characters (Matt) actually starts acting like a human being who responds to stimuli and has at least a shred of self-awareness, but all the other characters are wildly overconfident dummies.
Jordan consistently uses one of my pet peeve storytelling devices of stringing along a plot line conflict that would not exist if character A and character B would just tell each other what they've learned. unfortunately none of the characters trust anybody, even their oldest friends or new friends who have repeatedly proven their good intentions. actually when they do put trust in someone it's clearly the person that is Big Bad in disguise.
and while i appreciate these books were written well before ASOIAF made grimdark the new genre standard, back when fantasy was much more YA focused, I still can't help but be pulled out of what little immersion I was experiencing when i read something that reminds me these 18-20 year old characters don't seem to know what sex is. they consistently blush when they even think about kissing or having a dance with a member of the opposite sex. on the other extreme i actually hate it when fantasy authors try to do sex scenes, but there is a middle ground that authors like Brandon Sanderson pull off, wherein the sex happens "off screen" so to speak and that works just fine.
but i'm not going to stop reading. if nothing else i'm enjoying being a hater. but i am going to space the books out a bit so i don't go crazy. and who knows, maybe the characters will grow a bit and i'll be surprised.
Your post has me intrigued bc I read the books in the mid to late 90s, so I was in my teenage years reading them. I wonder how older me would react to the books now. Probably not as positively. I can't remember if I've mentioned it before, but one thing that got me back in the day was how Jordan described every attractive lady as plump. I mean, get a thesaurus, man.
ha, yeah Jordan must love the plump ladies. and he generally uses the same phrasing over and over, the now infamous "skirt smoothing" and "braid tugging". i was prepared for that so it hasn't bothered me that much. he also gets shit for carefully describing what every character is wearing in detail but i don't mind this so much. it's the storytelling and character development choices that bother me the most. it's like the books have zero heart, and fantasy stories really need heart and friendship. even if that takes a long time to get to, once characters finally connect and realize they respect or care for each other it's always a great moment. i know i keep bringing up sanderson but he is great at this, as is GRRM.
and i suspect a lot of the admiration people have for these stories come from having read them as teenagers. which is totally fine and i don't ever want to shit on anybody's joy. a piece of art doesn't have to be perfect to bring enjoyment, and there is a part of me that suspects as i push on through the series that i'll develop at least a fondness for it. but i don't think i'll ever consider it great.
Your post has me intrigued bc I read the books in the mid to late 90s, so I was in my teenage years reading them. I wonder how older me would react to the books now. Probably not as positively. I can't remember if I've mentioned it before, but one thing that got me back in the day was how Jordan described every attractive lady as plump. I mean, get a thesaurus, man.
ha, yeah Jordan must love the plump ladies. and he generally uses the same phrasing over and over, the now infamous "skirt smoothing" and "braid tugging". i was prepared for that so it hasn't bothered me that much. he also gets shit for carefully describing what every character is wearing in detail but i don't mind this so much. it's the storytelling and character development choices that bother me the most. it's like the books have zero heart, and fantasy stories really need heart and friendship. even if that takes a long time to get to, once characters finally connect and realize they respect or care for each other it's always a great moment. i know i keep bringing up sanderson but he is great at this, as is GRRM.
and i suspect a lot of the admiration people have for these stories come from having read them as teenagers. which is totally fine and i don't ever want to shit on anybody's joy. a piece of art doesn't have to be perfect to bring enjoyment, and there is a part of me that suspects as i push on through the series that i'll develop at least a fondness for it. but i don't think i'll ever consider it great.
I can go with that assessment. I just remembered I never actually finished the last book in the series which came out in 2013. I got annoyed halfway through with the pacing and read the plot summary on Wikipedia. Probably says a lot about the change in my perspective on the series over the years, so yeah, better to look back on the early books as good to great rather than have that idea smashed by a reread.
Post by 3post1jack1 on Sept 27, 2021 10:17:22 GMT -5
John Le Carre - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
finished this last night. i'd previously read three other George Smiley novels: A Murder of Quality, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, and The Looking Glass War. The books are only connected in that they take place in the same world with some of the same characters. While it's not necessary to have read the previous books before Tinker Tailor, I'm glad I did, because Tinker Tailor is not sympathetic to it's audience. It's a convoluted story and he throws all sorts of trade terms at you that you can only define via association (or googling certain terms like I did). I really had to make an effort to read this one carefully and slowly so I didn't miss anything. At the end it does lay the whole story out, but reading it slowly made it much more enjoyable.
anyway it's a great spy novel, a nice counterpoint to the sexy and adventure filled world of James Bond. No larger than life type characters in Le Carre's world, in fact it's mostly bureaucrats slowly figuring things out by reading through files and connecting dots. Which doesn't sound very exciting, but it is, and there are well-placed scenes of intense action as well. Le Carre paints a picture of the spy world which is dreary and drab and very english. The streets are always wet and it's always cold and few of the characters are good or bad, regardless of which side of the wall they are on.
highly recommended if you are interested in the "literary" side of the spy genre.
i haven't seen the 2011 movie but i understand it is excellent. looking forward to it!
i didn't accomplish much of anything this year, but i officially met my reading goal! shoutout to my local library for getting me through it. i wanted to read 50 books (not an insane amount, but definitely more than i've ever read in a year) and i'm currently on #54. not setting a number goal for next year, but going to try and keep up with the habit.
homegoing - yaa gyasi the death of vivek oji - akwaeke emezi my sister, the serial killer - oyinkan braithwaite kindred - octavia e. butler the body is not an apology - sonya renee taylor pet - akwaeke emezi dear girls - ali wong daisy jones & the six - taylor jenkins reid bloodchild and other stories - octavia e. butler notes of a native son - james baldwin freshwater - akwaeke emezi in a dark, dark wood - ruth ware transcendent kingdom - yaa gyasi homesick for another world - ottessa moshfegh the meaning of mariah carey - mariah carey the mothers - brit bennett conversations with friends - sally rooney sleepovers: stories - ashleigh bryant phillips severance - ling ma the disaster tourist - yun ko-eunun a very punchable face - colin jost everything i never told you - celeste ng minor feelings: an asian american reckoning - cathy park hong good company - cynthia d’aprix sweeney the nest - cynthia d’aprix sweeney punch me up to the gods - brian broome the wreckage of my presence - casey wilson yearbook - seth rogen the housewives: the real story behind the real housewives - brian moylan ¡hola papi!: how to come out in a walmart parking lot and other life lessons - john paul brammer detransition, baby - torrey peters beloved - toni morrison the museum of rain - dave eggers infinite country - patricia engel this will all be over soon - cecily strong crying in h-mart - michelle zauner eat a peach - david chang it never ends: a memoir with nice memories! - tom scharpling malibu rising - taylor jenkins reid fledgling - octavia e. butler beautiful world, where are you - sally rooney i want to be where the normal people are - rachel bloom notes on grief - chimamanda ngozi adichie how y'all doing? misadventures and mischief from a life well lived - leslie jordan somebody's daughter - ashley c. ford no name in the street - james baldwin reborn in the usa: an englishman’s love letter to his chosen home - roger bennett you have a match - emma lord memoirs and misinformation - jim carrey aftershocks - nadia owusu clap when you land - elizabeth acevedo she of the mountains - vivek shraya a darker shade of magic - v.e. schwab
i didn't accomplish much of anything this year, but i officially met my reading goal! shoutout to my local library for getting me through it. i wanted to read 50 books (not an insane amout, but definitely more than i've ever read in a year) and i'm currently on #54. not setting a number goal for next year, but going to try and keep up with the habit.
homegoing - yaa gyasi the death of vivek oji - akwaeke emezi my sister, the serial killer - oyinkan braithwaite kindred - octavia e. butler the body is not an apology - sonya renee taylor pet - akwaeke emezi dear girls - ali wong daisy jones & the six - taylor jenkins reid bloodchild and other stories - octavia e. butler notes of a native son - james baldwin freshwater - akwaeke emezi in a dark, dark wood - ruth ware transcendent kingdom - yaa gyasi homesick for another world - ottessa moshfegh the meaning of mariah carey - mariah carey the mothers - brit bennett conversations with friends - sally rooney sleepovers: stories - ashleigh bryant phillips severance - ling ma the disaster tourist - yun ko-eunun a very punchable face - colin jost everything i never told you - celeste ng minor feelings: an asian american reckoning - cathy park hong good company - cynthia d’aprix sweeney the nest - cynthia d’aprix sweeney punch me up to the gods - brian broome the wreckage of my presence - casey wilson yearbook - seth rogen the housewives: the real story behind the real housewives - brian moylan ¡hola papi!: how to come out in a walmart parking lot and other life lessons - john paul brammer detransition, baby - torrey peters beloved - toni morrison the museum of rain - dave eggers infinite country - patricia engel this will all be over soon - cecily strong crying in h-mart - michelle zauner eat a peach - david chang it never ends: a memoir with nice memories! - tom scharpling malibu rising - taylor jenkins reid fledgling - octavia e. butler beautiful world, where are you - sally rooney i want to be where the normal people are - rachel bloom notes on grief - chimamanda ngozi adichie how y'all doing? misadventures and mischief from a life well lived - leslie jordan somebody's daughter - ashley c. ford no name in the street - james baldwin reborn in the usa: an englishman’s love letter to his chosen home - roger bennett you have a match - emma lord memoirs and misinformation - jim carrey aftershocks - nadia owusu clap when you land - elizabeth acevedo she of the mountains - vivek shraya a darker shade of magic - v.e. schwab
I read "How to Write One Song" by Jeff Tweedy recently. Nothing earth shaking, but a fun read and a great way to get your toes wet if you have ever wanted to try your hand at song writing or get into or back into poetry. Filled with the wit and wisdom you would expect from Tweedy, the filler in between the lyric writing instruction made it worth the read for me as well.
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.
Post by piggy pablo on Dec 31, 2021 15:27:30 GMT -5
My dad always gets me an Amazon gift card for Christmas (using his air miles, I believe lol) so I'm once again trying to figure out what to do with that. Ordered a good number of books already, many for Kindle because they're cheap. These are all from deep cuts' YouTube video on music book recs, which feels a little basic but oh well:
Ocean of Sound: Ambient Sound and Radical Listening in the Age of Communication (David Troop)
As Serious as Your Life: Black Music and the Free Jazz Revolution 1957 to 1977 (Val Wilmer)
Comfortably Numb (alternatively Pigs Might Fly): the Inside Story of Pink Floyd (Mark Blake)
And then the one I bought in hardcover was Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music 1968 to the Present (JR Moores). There were some complaints in the Amazon reviews about a lot of acts getting left out of this tapestry, including MC5, Rainbow, Deep Purple, and so on, which I also find annoying because I think those are pretty important bands, (how do you leave out Rainbow, who originated Monsters of Rock, which later became Download Festival? How do you leave out MC5, who begat Rage Against the Machine?) But I imagine it will be a fun read nonetheless.
There was a book that came out this year called Major Labels that I'm looking at, which is sort of a broad history of pop music spanning seven genres (country, rock, punk, pop, hip hop, dance and r&b). Also looking at some Alex Ross stuff.
Any recs on a Grateful Dead book, specifically? I'm looking mainly at Playing with the Band and the Jerry book that his roadie wrote that I think they're basing that Jonah Hill movie on (Home Before Daylight).
