I'm reading this right now and like it very much.
I have it on my Kindle, but I'm still not finished with all the Chuck Tingle books.
To avoid spoiling Murder in the Orient Express, I did finish that.
That's a good idea: somewhere there's a list of books that will be spoiled by reading this. Maybe I'll see if I can find it and add that to the post.
Oh no wait, I thought you had linked that already.Here.
Goddamnit I'm gaslighting myself now.
David Letterman spoiled the Sixth Sense for me. I guess if there's a big reveal, you should maybe see it in the first couple of years it's out or not watch Top 10 lists.
Damnit, now you spoiled that Top 10 list for me.
I don't think you can really spoil Ocean's Eleven because it makes no sense anyway.
It does make sense. It just isn't clever enough.
Anyway, I may read along but won't contribute. I've only read maybe 1/10 of that list.
I just read a goodreads review of a different book of literary analysis that complained that the book under review was superficial while at the same time revealing that the review author skimmed all discussions of stories they hadn't read in order to avoid spoilers.
This is why I hate Goodreads. It's a pile of sludge, but totally dominates SEO for "$BOOK review".
I like to stand outside nurseries shouting, "The monster at the end of the book is just Grover."
EoS is great, but haven't we learned not to do reading groups for books written by people who know about the blog?
You people caused the zombie Heidegger outbreak?
Did anybody figure out from this comment
http://www.unfogged.com/archives/comments_16590.html#2015422
that I'm reading this book?
Well, at least someone reads my comments with the attention that they deserve. Thanks, Mossy!
17: I think there were problems specific to that book that wouldn't be a problem with this book. I think.
It's been nearly a decade for me and longer for others. We're all going to hate each other at some point for some reason regardless of what we read.
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In Deighton's Declarations of War one of the stories is a stream-of-consciousness piece from the POV of a RAF fighter pilot during an engagement, c.1940. Anyone remember the title? Contents here, if it helps.
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26: Here are some story summaries. "Adagio" maybe?
LOVE LOVE LOVE this book, bought it early in the summer and it was a fantastic, witty, enlightening and joyful read. HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!!
Oh good, this has been sitting in my to-read stack for a few weeks now (physically sitting, physical stack. I can see the Cheshire Cat right now from my chair. Hi kitty). Also I can finally read Mildred Pierce, assuming that the book surprise and the movie surprise are homologous. Analogous?
30: Did you not want to read the Mildred Pierce book because it would ruin the surprise in the movie? But now that the Tobin book has ruined the surprise of the movie you can go ahead and read the book? I think I saw the end of the old Mildred Pierce movie on TV once. So, the surprise was ruined for me except that I pretty much forgot about it until the discussion in the Tobin book reminded me.
It's more that I already have the book and don't know how to watch movies. I am familiar with the no-budget Sonic Youth video.
NMM to a free Manafort or a loyal Cohen.
Anyone got a link to a site that breaks down the charges he was found guilty of and those that they were deadlocked on that is not the NYT or the WP?
35: Here's one from TPM, which has been all over this story.
Ah thanks, I've been reading TPM and I'm a Prime subscriber but I missed that.
What I really love about Mildred Pierce, 1945 movie edition, is the opening 10 minutes or so, tbh.
EoS is great, but haven't we learned not to do reading groups for books written by people who know about the blog
^^^ This. It is fine to talk smack to McArdle. But, on the very rare chance that there is something I would want to critique about this book, I have no desire to do it on here. And anyone who does is an a-hole.'
What if we each read a story in the spoiler list and then spoil it?
We should read a book by somebody dead and so horrible that empathy won't be a concerned. Sartre?
Is being surprised a transformative experience?
OT: The future is passing now and somebody wants me to send money to a Venmo name. Is there any possible way to do this with paypal?
The answer is apparently "No", despite all the movies having bullshit about believing in myself.
So a few people have read it already, a few people have been meaning to read it, a few people think this is a terrible idea, and no one wants to summarize a chapter?
FWIW, I don't think a book group needs chapter summaries necessarily. I can post a sentence and still have a discussion thread. But together with the other factors seem to point towards not undertaking the book at all.
I'm not completely kidding about 41, but maybe I'm looking for an excuse to read Brighton Rock.
I'm assuming the LB can't offend the dead.
I still haven't forgiven everyone for "Thinking Fast and Slow".
You're still thinking about it?
I invented a special System 3 to think about it, built entirely of rage and resentment.
48: THE STARTLING CONCLUSION IS THAT CANDY IS BAD FOR YOUR TEETH
Hi! I would like to participate. I just bought it!
Happy to summarise a chapter or two if need be?
57. System 4 is made of procrastination, pedantry,and intermittent obsessiveness about details unlikely to matter. It prefers to discuss morally relevant contemporary questions.
I'd also be happy to take a chapter. As far as the concerns upthread, although the academy is often terrible (Ronell thread), my general experience doing grad school in English was that we'd discuss other people's arguments all the time, to or near their faces, without it ever getting personal or hurtful or less than collegial. ("Trouble," as in "I'd like to trouble this assumption," was the weirdest bit of vernacular.) Anyhow, I do think it's perfectly possible to discuss the book on the blog without typing on eggshells.