[Abyss]

Also, leper jokes.

[stone monkey]

What am I reading at the moment? Everything I own as I, and every other Civil Servant with an underlying condition, was sent home from work "for the forseeable future" It's a good job I own literally thousands of books.

I should do a blog: Tell Stone Monkey What To Read Next: "If I own it, I'll read it!"

What I'm actually reading at the moment is Warren Ellis' Injection. Picked up the hardback collection of every issue so far for only £20 (less than half price!) because it was damaged. It's still awesome.

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[Tsundoku]

Do you have any books where you look at them and go "WTF? How did that get there? Why on earth did I buy that? More to the point - why do I still have it?"

Read one of those next. Anyone can read something they like, it takes real commitment to read something you don't want to, where every instinct is screaming at you to put it down.
Besides getting through high school English that is.

Who knows - you may reconnect with your younger, more whimsical self. Or those relatives you always knew secretly hated you.

[Maark Abbott]

Tsundoku, on 18 March 2020 - 12:03 PM, said:

Do you have any books where you look at them and go "WTF? How did that get there? Why on earth did I buy that? More to the point - why do I still have it?"

Read one of those next. Anyone can read something they like, it takes real commitment to read something you don't want to, where every instinct is screaming at you to put it down.
Besides getting through high school English that is.

Who knows - you may reconnect with your younger, more whimsical self. Or those relatives you always knew secretly hated you.

This is a question I feel someone who is not dead inside should field, and so I step aside

[stone monkey]

My relatives were never secretive about their hatred of me; we're a big, happy, dysfunctional family in that regard. And I never look at a book wondering why I kept it, because I keep all my books.

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[Macros]

Starting Bring the Noise, a Klopp biography. One of the lads I work with gave it too me.
Felt like something simple and short. Don't read a lot of Bios

[Abyss]

Maark Abbott, on 18 March 2020 - 12:55 PM, said:

Tsundoku, on 18 March 2020 - 12:03 PM, said:

Do you have any books where you look at them and go "WTF? How did that get there? Why on earth did I buy that? More to the point - why do I still have it?"

Read one of those next. Anyone can read something they like, it takes real commitment to read something you don't want to, where every instinct is screaming at you to put it down.
Besides getting through high school English that is.

Who knows - you may reconnect with your younger, more whimsical self. Or those relatives you always knew secretly hated you.

This is a question I feel someone who is not dead inside should field, and so I step aside

Admitting you have a problem is the first step in dealing with it maark.

[Tsundoku]

Macros, on 18 March 2020 - 10:00 PM, said:

Felt like something simple and short.

Don't read a lot

@Maark
While I commend you for your noble sacrifice, please remember "noble sacrifice" can have another meaning. Especially if you're a small-R republican or French.

This post has been edited by Tsundoku: 19 March 2020 - 11:58 AM

[Maark Abbott]

Abyss, on 19 March 2020 - 03:58 AM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 18 March 2020 - 12:55 PM, said:

Tsundoku, on 18 March 2020 - 12:03 PM, said:

Do you have any books where you look at them and go "WTF? How did that get there? Why on earth did I buy that? More to the point - why do I still have it?"

Read one of those next. Anyone can read something they like, it takes real commitment to read something you don't want to, where every instinct is screaming at you to put it down.
Besides getting through high school English that is.

Who knows - you may reconnect with your younger, more whimsical self. Or those relatives you always knew secretly hated you.

This is a question I feel someone who is not dead inside should field, and so I step aside

Admitting you have a problem is the first step in dealing with it maark.

Don't worry, it won't affect my better judgement and therefore my hatred of stormbad.

Tsundoku, on 19 March 2020 - 11:56 AM, said:

Macros, on 18 March 2020 - 10:00 PM, said:

Felt like something simple and short.

Don't read a lot

@Maark
While I commend you for your noble sacrifice, please remember "noble sacrifice" can have another meaning. Especially if you're a small-R republican or French.

Don't get it.

[Tsundoku]

Think French Revolution and noble sacrifice a la Mme Guillotine.

[stone monkey]

There can be a sacrifice that is noble in spirit, or there can be the sacrifice of members of the nobility.

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[Morgoth]

stone monkey, on 19 March 2020 - 10:39 PM, said:

There can be a sacrifice that is noble in spirit, or there can be the sacrifice of members of the nobility.

Sometimes they're one and the same I'd say.

[Maark Abbott]

Guillotines are for Conservatives, and that's something I ain't.

[Tsundoku]

Huh, there you go. I would have figured you for a modern day Jacobin if anything.

Back on topic - currently reading Mark Lawrence's One Word Kill. Interesting so far, about 40% in.

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[Maark Abbott]

Tsundoku, on 20 March 2020 - 12:49 PM, said:

Huh, there you go. I would have figured you for a modern day Jacobin if anything.

Back on topic - currently reading Mark Lawrence's One Word Kill. Interesting so far, about 40% in.

I am lefty scum, me. Good 'an proppa.

As an aside, does anyone else use nerdy methodology for selecting books?

My usual method is select four at random in the TRP. Then a D4 is rolled.

[End of Disc One]

Maark Abbott, on 20 March 2020 - 01:14 PM, said:

Tsundoku, on 20 March 2020 - 12:49 PM, said:

Huh, there you go. I would have figured you for a modern day Jacobin if anything.

Back on topic - currently reading Mark Lawrence's One Word Kill. Interesting so far, about 40% in.

I am lefty scum, me. Good 'an proppa.

As an aside, does anyone else use nerdy methodology for selecting books?

My usual method is select four at random in the TRP. Then a D4 is rolled.

Mine is nerdy as fuck. I keep a list of my TRP with the date added, and a formula showing the # of days in the TRP. I use a random number generator to select a book so that the odds are weighted towards the books that have been in the TRP the longest.

[Mentalist]

I just have a list on my desktop I work down from.

I tend to alternate a doorstopper with something shorter and lighter. That's as systematic as I get.

[Macros]

Starting the Library at Mount Char.

Given the let down after the hype on Gideon the Ninth.....

[Abyss]

TRAIL OF LIGHTNING, Rebecca Roanhorse.
Post floodpocalypse urban fantasy with Indigineous American mythos.
The story itself is fairly standard, writing is solid, but the Indigineous elements really make it a treat to read. I so enjoy learning a new mythology.

[Mentalist]

Finished "Red Tide" .

Now I'm really bummed this series seems to be stuck in publishing hell.

Next I'll probably read another Reynolds... "Terminal World", I guess.

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