[Pesqueeb]

Hey @Westy

You know, just in case you don't already have enough existential dread

Sixteen Years After ‘The Road,’ Cormac McCarthy Is Publishing Two New Novels (Published 2022)

This fall, Knopf will publish two interlinked books that are a thematic and stylistic departure for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Westy]

Hey @Westy

You know, just in case you don't already have enough existential dread

Sixteen Years After ‘The Road,’ Cormac McCarthy Is Publishing Two New Novels (Published 2022)

This fall, Knopf will publish two interlinked books that are a thematic and stylistic departure for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist.

www.nytimes.com

Dunno, we are rapidly approaching a point where being a character in a McCarthy book may be a better option than reality. "I survived a nuclear apocolypse with my son?" Sweet.

 

[Pesqueeb]

Dunno, we are rapidly approaching a point where being a character in a McCarthy book may be a better option than reality. "I survived a nuclear apocolypse with my son?" Sweet.

Ah.... See, this may be where you and I differ. That exact book is what I think of when I think "Man, surviving the apocalypse would suck.....". Not a fan of actual baby, baby back ribs.

 

[jonKranked]

 

[sunringlerider]

Reading this at the moment. Second book I’ve read from this dude. For sci-fi thriller stuff it’s pretty good.

 

[JohnE]

Just finished this. Not Dostoyevsky, but an interesting look into the world of pro hockey from a different angle than some of the other hockey books...

 

[jimmydean]

The house we rented had internet outage, so I stole my wife's book. It was much better than I anticipated.

 

[StiHacka]

Blindsight by Peter Watts

 

[Westy]

Snowflakes

When a barrier between truth and illusion grows stronger, a family’s trust crumbles in this arresting short story by the number one New Y...

www.goodreads.com

 

[Westy]

Cloud Atlas

It is rare for me to find a piece of fiction that I can tolerate yet enjoy. I am about halfway through Cloud Atlas and have no idea where this is going and don't really care. I find pretty much every aspect of it to be engaging and entertaining from prose to plot.

 

[boostindoubles]

I recently opened the cover of 'Wilderness of Mirrors' and am hoping to get into it this weekend.

 

[StiHacka]

It is rare for me to find a piece of fiction that I can tolerate yet enjoy. I am about halfway through Cloud Atlas and have no idea where this is going and don't really care. I find pretty much every aspect of it to be engaging and entertaining from prose to plot.

Try the Blindsight.

 

[Pesqueeb]

Just finished this. Was an interesting read.

Started this yesterday on the recommendation of a neighbor.

 

[boostindoubles]

The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life

Ordered. Hopefully it'll hold my attention better than the CIA.

 

[rideit]

As discussed in another thread, I am reading this. It’s crazy to be familiar with so much in the book.

Billionaire Wilderness

A revealing look at the intersection of wealth, philanthropy, and conservation

press.princeton.edu

 

[Fool]

Here is the most terrifying, relentless, compelling thing I've read in a while.

 

[Westy]

Hey @Westy

You know, just in case you don't already have enough existential dread

Sixteen Years After ‘The Road,’ Cormac McCarthy Is Publishing Two New Novels (Published 2022)

This fall, Knopf will publish two interlinked books that are a thematic and stylistic departure for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist.

www.nytimes.com

Was checking to see when that came out and realized I never read Sunset Limited, or even knew about it, and the associated movie. Anyway just finished it. Quick read and in some ways Cormac's darkest stuff, at least the most direct.

Dunno why but it put me into a good mood. I may agree with everything the professor says but I am more than happy to wake up to all this pointless bullshit every day. I'll take this finite suffering as I will still get infinite nothingness. Scarcity drives demand I guess.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

 

[Westy]

Looking forward to diving into some soul crushing existential dread

 

[johnbryanpeters]

The Glass Essay

The Glass Essay

Night drips its silver tap down the back. SHE She lives on a moor in the north. Spring opens like a blade there. I travel all day on trains and bring a lot of books— some for my mother, some for me including The Collected Works Of Emily Brontë. Whenever I visit my mother I feel I am turning into…

www.poetryfoundation.org

Sarah Chihaya: "A Glass Essay"

Sarah Chihaya reflects on breakups, reading Anne Carson, and “whaching.”

yalereview.org

 

[stevew]

probably 5th time listening to again....combined with reading....nine...a excerpt....i cry tears...

i found three folded color polaroid prints quite ancient and faded featuring obscene acts so unique and so improbable that after a instant of surprise the performers no longer looked obscene or shocking but looked instead strangely comic and forlorn.

nobody i knew. all strangers. even the sheep dog.

john d macdonald "dress her in indigo"

 

[Da Peach]

I'm trying to read all the James Bond novels. Currently on From Russia With Love. Best one yet.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Studs Terkel, The Good War

 

[johnbryanpeters]

The storm of November 25-27 1950 grew to become the worst storm ever recorded over the United States. Coburn Creek, West Virginia, received sixty-two inches of snow. Records of minus 1 degree Fahrenheit were set in Louisville, Kentucky, and Nashville, Tennessee, and thirty inches of snow fell in Pittsburgh, bringing the steel industry to a half.

— George Dyson in Turing's Cathedral

 

[Pesqueeb]

 

[stevew]

this showed up

 

[Pesqueeb]

I've read it before, but right now I'm reading Dracula, but in "real time". Stumbled across this website (on Reddit, maybe?) that sends you the pages of Dracula "as they happen" since everything in the book is either a journal entry, newspaper article, etc, they happen on a certain day and you get the entries on that day. I think it's kind of neat. Today was the 4th chapter so if you wanted to start today you wouldn't be too far behind.

Dracula Daily | DraculaDaily | Substack

Get the classic novel Dracula, emailed to you in real time as it happens. Click to read Dracula Daily, by DraculaDaily, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

draculadaily.substack.com

 

[junkyard]

I've read it before, but right now I'm reading Dracula, but in "real time". Stumbled across this website (on Reddit, maybe?) that sends you the pages of Dracula "as they happen" since everything in the book is either a journal entry, newspaper article, etc, they happen on a certain day and you get the entries on that day. I think it's kind of neat. Today was the 4th chapter so if you wanted to start today you wouldn't be too far behind.

Dracula Daily | DraculaDaily | Substack

Get the classic novel Dracula, emailed to you in real time as it happens. Click to read Dracula Daily, by DraculaDaily, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

draculadaily.substack.com

if you like Dracula in this style. You should check out “the kolchak papers” by Jeff Rice. There are other books and a tv show from the 70’s.

 

[Westy]

Cormac McCarthy, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Road" and "No Country for Old Men," dies at 89

McCarthy gained prominence for his unflinching explorations of some of the darkest corners of the American landscape.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Natalie Diaz, Postcolonial Love Poems

 

[Fool]

Cormac McCarthy, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Road" and "No Country for Old Men," dies at 89

McCarthy gained prominence for his unflinching explorations of some of the darkest corners of the American landscape.

www.cbsnews.com

I'm finishing The Passenger right now. At least he mellowed out a bit there at the end.

I've read everything by him more than once. Absolute one-of-a-kind writer.

 

[mandown]

This was highly recommended but it’s been a snooze so far. I’m hoping it gets better.

 

[Westy]

I'm finishing The Passenger right now. At least he mellowed out a bit there at the end.

I've read everything by him more than once. Absolute one-of-a-kind writer.

Same. Hands down my favorite author. Glad he was able to complete The Passenger and Stella Maris. In some ways more chill than the rest of his work, still possibly his most sincerely dark stories.

 

[Pesqueeb]

RIP Cormac McCarthy, so long and thanks for all the existential dread.

 

[Westy]

 

[DaveW]

Apropos of this threads title... Enjoy it while you're still allowed to read.

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/11/1192034923/the-plot-thickens-the-battle-over-books-comes-at-a-cost

 

[Pesqueeb]

The strange, secretive world of North Korean science fiction

Unusual and often breathtaking, the genre is relatively unknown in the West.

arstechnica.com

 

[Pesqueeb]

 

[norbar]

So instead of recomendations I need to vent. Poland had a literall walled city where Soviet Officers stationed 1946-1993. There was a huge evacuation of Soviet Army post 89 that lasted 4 years. Zero books on the topic. Zero books on Foreign Inteligence in Poland evacuating in early 90s. Basically it's a historical black hole. Even the national "rememberence institute" has nothing.

 

[Pesqueeb]

So instead of recomendations I need to vent. Poland had a literall walled city where Soviet Officers stationed 1946-1993. There was a huge evacuation of Soviet Army post 89 that lasted 4 years. Zero books on the topic. Zero books on Foreign Inteligence in Poland evacuating in early 90s. Basically it's a historical black hole. Even the national "rememberence institute" has nothing.

Sounds like you just found your next creative project, to me.