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hutch

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Re: Books
« Reply #390 on: January 07, 2019, 10:44:09 am »
I could see listening to the audiobook sometime but I like to read it cause I am interested in his writing and it’s easier to appreciate on the written page...

His personality really comes through...

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Re: Books
« Reply #391 on: January 07, 2019, 10:45:05 am »
Reading Tweedy


Excellente
I just got back into it after the holidays and loving it too

I know I'm not old school...but listening to the Audio-book and actually having Jeff tell these stories is just great, his delivery is hysterical.  found my self laughing out loud in public spaces a few times from some of the passages

I'm in the middle of it and enjoying it as well. His stories of growing up a square peg in shitty depressed conservative small town America really ring true. Plus, my wife thinks I look like him.
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Re: Books
« Reply #392 on: March 05, 2019, 01:01:20 pm »
looks interesting....

White
By Bret Easton Ellis
 
Combining personal reflection and social observation, Bret Easton Ellis's first work of nonfiction is an incendiary polemic about this young century's failings, e-driven and otherwise, and at once an example, definition, and defense of what "freedom of speech" truly means.


and boards most mocked musician is releasing this 3/21

Try This at Home: Adventures in Songwriting
Frank Turner

Looking forward to the Audible Unabridged edition read by Frank Turner
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Re: Books
« Reply #393 on: March 05, 2019, 01:16:37 pm »
"There There"
Tommy Orange
2018
Contemporary Native American fiction


Very well written


 

Re: Books
« Reply #394 on: March 29, 2019, 09:12:54 am »
 With nearly 10 million copies of Michelle Obama's autobiography “Becoming" sold,
 “this could become the most successful memoir ever.”

just saw she narrates the audio book...may have to check it out
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« Reply #395 on: May 24, 2019, 12:13:08 pm »
tonight! @PoliticsProse (conn. ave location)
 7pm-8pm, Free.  “Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder“ Filmmaker, actor, writer, visual artist and author John Waters in conversation with Stephen Thompson

looks interesting....

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By Bret Easton Ellis
Looks can be deceiving...got the Audio book because he narrates...not sure I can finish (1/3 way through) as it is just him whining about everything with a few cool stories inbetween
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hutch

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Re: Books
« Reply #396 on: May 24, 2019, 12:48:08 pm »
I hate autobiographical works that make me dislike the writer more than I did before I started


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Re: Books
« Reply #397 on: May 24, 2019, 12:58:58 pm »
how you folks aren't talking about Don Jr's forthcoming book is beyond me...
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« Reply #398 on: May 24, 2019, 01:32:59 pm »
how you folks aren't talking about Don Jr's forthcoming book is beyond me...
some good stuff out there
@jeremynewberger Donald Trump Jr.'s book is going to be the top selling book in the Beyond-Help section of Barnes & Noble.

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Plenty of copyright-expired classics to repurpose. Pride and Prejudice? The Idiot? Heart of Darkness? #donjrbooktitles
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Re: Books
« Reply #399 on: May 24, 2019, 01:44:40 pm »
how you folks aren't talking about Don Jr's forthcoming book is beyond me...
some good stuff out there
@jeremynewberger Donald Trump Jr.'s book is going to be the top selling book in the Beyond-Help section of Barnes & Noble.

@leexhemming
Plenty of copyright-expired classics to repurpose. Pride and Prejudice? The Idiot? Heart of Darkness? #donjrbooktitles


yup, a whole dumping ground of them here: https://theunitedstatesblues.com/donald-trump-jr-gets-bombarded-with-mockery-and-scorn-after-news-of-his-book-deal-leaks-out/
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Re: Books
« Reply #400 on: May 24, 2019, 01:59:28 pm »
If I admit that I'm currently reading a David Sedaris book, will I get publicly flogged by members of this board?

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Re: Books
« Reply #401 on: May 24, 2019, 02:06:20 pm »
As long as you are reading what is the problem?


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Re: Books
« Reply #402 on: May 24, 2019, 02:21:52 pm »
If I admit that I'm currently reading a David Sedaris book, will I get publicly flogged by members of this board?
Probably just me. And honestly, a few seconds in, all the vitrol will be off of you and onto that milquetoast bore. He's the literary equivalent of Modern Family on downers. He only exists so our bigoted septuagenarian aunts can claim cover for their evangelic hate by going, "but I am reading a book by a gay man!" Fuck David Sedaris.
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Re: Books
« Reply #403 on: May 24, 2019, 03:12:29 pm »
If I admit that I'm currently reading a David Sedaris book, will I get publicly flogged by members of this board?
Probably just me. And honestly, a few seconds in, all the vitrol will be off of you and onto that milquetoast bore. He's the literary equivalent of Modern Family on downers. He only exists so our bigoted septuagenarian aunts can claim cover for their evangelic hate by going, "but I am reading a book by a gay man!" Fuck David Sedaris.

Wait, David Sedaris is gay? And that's why we're supposed to hate him?

hutch

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Re: Books
« Reply #404 on: May 24, 2019, 04:08:47 pm »
Julian is just a hater....there is no rhyme or reason