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

Yeah, most likely.





user-inactivated  ·  3805 days ago  ·  link  ·  

testing can you see this

humanodon  ·  3805 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Had to click "commenter muted here" to see it.

user-inactivated  ·  3805 days ago  ·  link  ·  

okay, thanks. i am pretty sure i'm not even supposed to be able to post here lol

humanodon  ·  3805 days ago  ·  link  ·  

No worries. I'm not really sure about the mechanics of the whole ignore/mute functions. I am surprised that this comment appears "muted" to me, even though I haven't muted you.

user-inactivated  ·  3805 days ago  ·  link  ·  

mk is working on clarifying it on the page where the functions can be applied. basically ignore will prevent you from being notified about someone's posts, and mute is supposed to block people from posting under your submissions, while collapsing all previous posts by them for anyone who is looking. obviously the blocking needs to be worked on a bit ;o

humanodon  ·  3805 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You know, it's really interesting seeing how hubski is developing as time goes on.

thenewgreen  ·  3806 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Just picked up Blood Meridian today. I look forward to cranking out a good chunk of it this weekend.

kleinbl00  ·  3806 days ago  ·  link  ·  

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.

humanodon  ·  3806 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I've had it for a bit. It requires a lot of attention to read. I think I like it so far, now that I've had a chance to acclimate to the vernacular and the construction.

thenewgreen  ·  3806 days ago  ·  link  ·  

We can talk more about it in the proper thread, but I actually don't think it's all that difficult to read... yet. I'm only 30 pages in.

humanodon  ·  3806 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ok, I'm just saying that the use of pronouns kind of fucks me up, as do some of the constructions. Though, the fact that I typically read late at night doesn't help.