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According to the introduction to the book there have been quite a few interpretations made over the years about what 120 Days of Sodom is about but none are based on anything de Sade ever said about his work. The analyses all seem to be based on interpreting the text to fit contemporary thought of whatever era. I.e. most likely intellectual hot air (probably to excuse their enjoyment in reading it)

Blood Meridian is really dragging along despite being only like 350 pages.

I’m like four-fifths of the way through but it’s often quite a slog. I’m mostly just reading for this Judge Holden character, who is abjectly fucking terrifying and apparently based on a real individual who haunted the southern border collecting scalps and raining chaos and violence down on the world around him in the 1800s.

It's page 152 for me. (User Control Panel > Edit Options > Thread Display Options > Number of Posts to Show Per Page = 40 posts). More fun this way. :)

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I finished that motherfucker “Blood Meridian.”

It actually became quite gripping in the last third or so. Or maybe I got more used to the writing style.

Anyway, wow, what an apocalyptically depressing book.

The Judge Holden character is certainly the most compelling piece of it all, and he’s also the most well written character. Perhaps the ONLY character that’s “written” in any traditional sense. The other bodies occupying the book are mostly just that: bodies. Vessels. The Judge has a personality and it’s a frightful one.

I guess I didn’t hate it after all.

After a streak of books I didn't like, the last one I enjoyed was Alessandro Baricco's Oceane mare.
Currently reading Irmgard Keun's Das kunstseidene Mädchen, which I like quite a lot midway through. Jumping from one idea to another, combining futility and apparently well observed notes on everyday's life in 1931 Berlin for a girl trying to break through with not much more than self-confidence.

*posting to access hidden page*

I might read Last Night in Twisted River next

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Yeah, I guess Twisted River it is!

you can read this page directly if you're not signed in btw

seems to be a cookie monster (a cookie problem)

seems to be a sad situation

seems to need solvents

(huffing: don't do it)

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Twisted River is GOOD so far!

Twisted River was good, but perhaps not great.

Almost done with Norwegian Wood by Murakami.

Ombria in Shadow by Patricia McKillip
Death's Master by Tanith Lee (audiobook)

Finished Norwegian Wood. Very sad. Gotta read more Murakami, especially if he has other books like this.

Not sure what’s next.

Lonesome Dove, I guess! Big undertaking but so far so good.

The Speed of Sound: Breaking the Barriers Between Music and Technology: A Memoir by Thomas Dolby

Patricia McKillip is great; very dense and challenging reading, and very rewarding.

Which ones have you read by her?

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Mind The Gash celebrates resilience by slamming the abstract into the concrete. The tension that draws tight the fine line between internal struggle and external surety is visible in every line of this collection.

Jennifer Benningfield presents an intimate gathering of poems inspired by the gradual decline of her mother’s health. In them, readers will see the value of confrontation and the necessity of celebration. There is dark humor, there is absurd drama, and above all there is momentum—the momentum that makes us feel alive.

Jennifer Benningfield is a lifelong Marylander who has been under the (mostly) benevolent spell of words since receiving Green Eggs and Ham as a birthday present. Her writing can be found online at trapperjennmd.blogspot.com.


These are Jenn’s first published poems, given how things have been, it’s a bright light

Is this available vto buy?

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Yeah dude, MisterTrick had already posted the link. Pay attention!

Chipping away at The Omnivore's Dilemma.

The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace.

Finished Broom of the System.

Now I’m reading Wellness by Nathan Hill.

ALSO… Infinite Jest is one of the most incredible things I’ve ever read.