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re-reading Star Wars Empire Strikes Back From a Certain Point of View. the new one which is Return of the Jedi From a Certain Point of View comes out later this year in August or September
and Wheel of Time Path of Daggers paperback which I just got in the mail a half hour ago earlier today
My new thing is that once a month I'm going to Barnes & Noble and buying $20 worth of books. In June I got the junior novels for "Elemental" and "The Little Mermaid" (remake) and the D-Day story in the "I Survived" series (stories of historical wars and tragedies from a random person's POV)
I've not been reading much, so much as writing my own book. It's a history of Nintendo funnily enough. Almost got up to the DS launch and I'm around 560 pages down.
Going through the Brandon Sanderson Cosmere at the moment, just finished reading all the Stormlight books, then went Elantris and now have gone back to the Mistborns (They were the first ones I read of his and it got me hooked)
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I read a book about the role of the plastic/chemical industry in East Germany as a means of propaganda, ideological pragmaticism, national pride, etc. It offered some decent food for thought but a lot of it is about as dry as one would expect. Still worth reading if you have the same kind of brain that draws me to these kind of niche cultural studies. I ordered a kitschy rooster-shaped plastic eggcup off ebay and, appropriately, it broke during transit because of how low quality and brittle their consumer goods tended to be.
Otherwise I'm reading White Noise for a third time, and just started Blackshirts and Reds. My new job has me back at graveyard shift hours (fulltime) so I'm trying to get back into the habit of reading instead of coming home to play PS2 games until I pass out. Everything in moderation.
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the third book of the Shadow Trilogy the original sequel to the Willow movie
Murder of Willie Lincoln. an odd alternate history fiction book i got from the dollar tree store recently
and the new Star Wars Return of the Jedi From a Certain Point of View hardcover book
so I bought into the hype XD
I've had an on-and-off interest in trying out Scott Pilgrim for the longest while now, though never acted upon it for one reason or another (I was too young to properly appreciate them, I went off reading for a very long time; that kind of thing). However, with the recent trailer for the Netflix anime adaptation looking as fantastic as it is, my curiosity has been fully reignited and, after finding them for a great deal at a local bookstore, I finally took the plunge and grabbed as many as I could find.
Going to be starting Vol.1 either tomorrow or the day after and god: I absolutely cannot WAIT.
(also yes I'm aware I'm missing 2 and 4; the store I went to didn't have them in stock but I've already got another shop ready to go in a week's time 😁)
@Fizza I can’t remember when exactly I started reading them (it was around volume 3-5 maybe) but it was described to me as an indie-punk guy plays video games and fights a lot so I picked them up and then having to wait a long year for the last volume to finally come out. It’s probably the best use “makes a lot of references” story going, you read something like Ready Player One and it’s just like it is vomiting references for the sake of it (and a lot of times uses them against the ideas they represent) whilst Scott Pilgrim feels like the bands and games that get mentioned are interwoven into the characters lives.
I’ve been thinking about double dipping and buying the coloured versions.
@jump I just finished the 1st one in a single day earlier this week and was instantly hooked; the artstyle is really nice, it establishes a ton of things in a very digestible way and the writing/characters so far has been top-notch. It definitely feels like it ended a bit too quickly for my taste (I was really starting to get into it right around the end of Vol. 1) but I suppose that's what the other books are for XD
but yeah: loved SP1 and I cannot WAIT to binge the rest of the series before the Netflix series comes out (bought the two books I was missing the nanosecond I finished Vol. 1 at that XD)
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I'm really excited for the NYRB translation of Chevengur. Platonov is the non-antisemitic, antifascist version of Solzhenitsyn. The Foundation Pit comes highly recommended, if you don't mind relentless bleakness (but it;s in no way nihilistic).
I'm toying with the idea of reading every Don DeLillo novel. Part sunken cost fallacy, part because I think when DeLillo is good he's really good. I've already read White Noise (twice), Mao II, Cosmopolis, Underworld, Point Omega, End Zone, and some of Libra.
There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet.
There's an unfortunate number of otherwise intelligent modernist writers who endorsed fascism and/or antisemitism, Ezra Pound and TS Eliot among them iirc. Both were American expats so go figure. I guess it's to be expected from such a volatile historical era.
If anything it just makes writers like Fallada and Zweig more heroic.
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