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kleinbl00  ·  3806 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Kleinbl00's Red Pill Reading List: Geopolitic

It has been in my Audible library since November 2009.

I have yet to even attempt it.





user-inactivated  ·  3805 days ago  ·  link  ·  

hey can you see this comment? i'm pretty sure mute is broken

thenewgreen  ·  3806 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I read about 30 pages tonight and I'm immediately gripped by the writing. A lot of people have said it takes a lot of "work" but I find the writing extremely easy and almost familiar. Reminds me of Hemingway in the sense that he doesn't waste words. There's nothing that drives me out of a novel more than seemingly extemporaneous writing. This seems crafted, but in a way where I don't see the hand of the craftsman -if that makes sense?

Give it a whirl, I'm really digging it. I feel like I'm there.

b_b  ·  3805 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I had trouble in the beginning dealing with his lack of quotation marks and odd punctuation. It makes the reading flow in a different way, which I don't mind now that I feel comfortable with it, but I found the dialogue hard to follow in parts, especially conversations between more than two people, of which there are a few.

thenewgreen  ·  3805 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I agree, the lack of quotation marks took a little bit to get used to but it didn't take long. I don't want to yet refer to specific parts but there were definitely moments where I had to reread to get an idea of who was talking.

The scenes and the dialog are so "of an era" that I feel very emersed. First time in a while that I can't wait to get home to read again.

humanodon  ·  3805 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, same. The way that the dialogue occurs and how the characters are sometimes introduced reminds me of walking into a room and sitting down, just doing my own thing and then looking up to realize there is someone else in the room and has been since before I entered.

kleinbl00  ·  3806 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Cranking through Nate Silver's "The SIgnal and the Noise" at the moment. It's kind of the anti-Black Swan, which I fucking hated. I owe myself some fiction but I just can't get there.

thenewgreen  ·  3806 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If you finish the Signal and the Noise, check out Blood Meridian we're about to read it for the book club. You ever read any Cormac McCarthy? This is my first.