Ko SprueOne Posted June 4, 2023 Share Posted June 4, 2023 True about being distracted. If I'm distracted I'll read through five or six pages then realize I don't know what I just read and have to go back and read it over again 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metronome Posted June 4, 2023 Share Posted June 4, 2023 1 hour ago, fat ralphy said: @Ko SprueOne my ADD is hella bad and if there is too much going on around me I literally have a sidebar of thoughts running through my mind as I read. Night time tends to be the best because I am tired but unfortunately that also means it takes me a long time to finish books. I like to read with background music that isn't lyric heavy, helps keep me on track Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ko SprueOne Posted June 4, 2023 Share Posted June 4, 2023 Yes, background music sans lyrics seems actually helpful in absorbing the content of the reading Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KILZ FILLZ Posted June 4, 2023 Share Posted June 4, 2023 On 5/30/2023 at 4:39 PM, KILZ FILLZ said: I am 3/4 of the way through and still have no idea what’s going on The last like 4 chapters were the reveal a-la fight club. Not sure what I was expecting lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fat ralphy Posted June 4, 2023 Share Posted June 4, 2023 I might try that music thing - I want to read the Dune books before the next movie comes out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.yuck Posted June 5, 2023 Share Posted June 5, 2023 @metronome wool is in my to read stack. I don't really read a lot of fiction but it was highly recommended to me. Let me know how you like it. @fat ralphy I want to start carving out time to read at night again. I was chugging through books while I was out of work earlier in the year. It felt good. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KILZ FILLZ Posted June 5, 2023 Share Posted June 5, 2023 @fat ralphyclassical, low voluum 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KILZ FILLZ Posted June 5, 2023 Share Posted June 5, 2023 @mr.yuckmake the time man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.yuck Posted June 5, 2023 Share Posted June 5, 2023 10 minutes ago, KILZ FILLZ said: @mr.yuckmake the time man I got straight bogged down in some information dense book a few months ago. I tossed a book mark in that hoe and never went back to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KILZ FILLZ Posted June 5, 2023 Share Posted June 5, 2023 18 minutes ago, mr.yuck said: I got straight bogged down in some information dense book a few months ago. I tossed a book mark in that hoe and never went back to it. toss that bitch on top the toilet tank and make it happen captn 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metronome Posted June 5, 2023 Share Posted June 5, 2023 19 hours ago, mr.yuck said: @metronome wool is in my to read stack. I don't really read a lot of fiction but it was highly recommended to me. Let me know how you like it. @fat ralphy I want to start carving out time to read at night again. I was chugging through books while I was out of work earlier in the year. It felt good. Wool has been a great page turner. Good read, and a good friend of mine was on the production team for Silo. I would recommend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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metronome Posted June 8, 2023 Share Posted June 8, 2023 On 5/29/2023 at 7:28 PM, metronome said: Finished. Next up: Wrapped up the Wool omnibus. Back to Joe Abercrombie: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KILZ FILLZ Posted June 8, 2023 Share Posted June 8, 2023 Giving this a second shot 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted June 14, 2023 Share Posted June 14, 2023 The king is dead. Long live the king. RIP Cormac McCarthy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ko SprueOne Posted August 21, 2023 Share Posted August 21, 2023 On 6/3/2023 at 5:04 PM, Ko SprueOne said: Finished, The Eighth Day, Dianne K. Salerni. It is YA Fiction and I almost put it down but it was D&D enough to keep me interested. Also, interesting is that the author made an eighth day between Wednesday and Thursday which is also where Burma puts their eighth day. Actually they have two Wednesdays. The Wednesday after the regular Wednesday is a ‘dark’ Wednesday similar to how this story describes the eighth day as well Now starting a non fiction, Lexicon Devil, The Fast Times and Short Life of Darby Crash and The Germs. By Brendan Mullen with Don Bolles and Adam Parfrey. Finished Lexicon Devil. Filled in and supported a lot of names, places, and times that I've always heard about but now confirmed and in perspective. Reads like a fckin novela, lots of gossip. I guess that's what a biography is tho. Someone and others writing [talking] about someone else. . . Reading pattern of: fiction-nonfiction-fiction-nonfiction Now starting, The Texas - Israeli War = 1999. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schnitzel Posted August 21, 2023 Share Posted August 21, 2023 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metronome Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 Some recents that I've finished 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 Almost done. Not sure if it'll get a "meh" or a "whoa I didn't see that coming. " 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KILZ FILLZ Posted September 9, 2023 Share Posted September 9, 2023 Finished // Starting 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALIgula Posted September 9, 2023 Share Posted September 9, 2023 On 6/8/2023 at 10:36 AM, KILZ FILLZ said: Giving this a second shot Nice... we read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in high school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KILZ FILLZ Posted September 9, 2023 Share Posted September 9, 2023 1 hour ago, CALIgula said: Nice... we read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in high school. I’ve been reading it on my lunch breaks at work. Really like his writing style and it’s easy to get through, but the subject matter is so dark I need to take it in kinda small doses. Shits so unbelievably fuckinh bleak. So tragic so many people actually lived through that. That being said, I am really enjoying the book. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metronome Posted September 10, 2023 Share Posted September 10, 2023 Finished this up: And currently reading: & 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ko SprueOne Posted September 11, 2023 Share Posted September 11, 2023 On 9/9/2023 at 5:22 PM, metronome said: Finished this up: A Place Called Waco, how was this? My brother and I visited the property compound right after the burn out. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metronome Posted September 11, 2023 Share Posted September 11, 2023 David Thibodeau's view is pretty heavily Koresh biased, as you'd expect. Some nice insights though that came from the inside. I read Gary Noesner's book a few years ago (one of the FBI negotiators at Mt Carmel). Koresh was a giant piece of shit for several reasons but what the agencies did to those people is fucked. @Ko SprueOne 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ko SprueOne Posted September 11, 2023 Share Posted September 11, 2023 5 minutes ago, metronome said: Koresh was a giant piece of shit for several reasons but what the agencies did to those people is fucked. Truth and truth 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wyeast Posted September 13, 2023 Share Posted September 13, 2023 I’ve climbed or climbed up and snowboarded down a lot of these from Lassen up to Baker so it’s really cool to read up on how they form etc. biggest takeaway is that at some point one of these baddies is going to wake up again and wipeout a big chunk of something between NorCal and Canada. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metronome Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 Currently: & 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Knight Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 @metronomeThe Secret History is high quality dark academia. I was a fan. Curious on what you think Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metronome Posted October 8, 2023 Share Posted October 8, 2023 Finished reading it last night. I read her book The Goldfinch years ago without really knowing who she was, and then a little while ago I listened to a podcast series about Bennington College and a bunch of the young writers that came out of that graduating class so I decided to give this one a shot. Really good, like, really really good. One of those things where she wrote a 10/10 on her first go and was never able to recapture it in her later stuff. A lot of the characters are loosely based around people she went to school with and I found that interesting. @Dark_Knight 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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