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I sorted through all the books I had stored away in the basement! I've got three out of seven boxes ready to ship off to greener pastures

Like... these pastures? Hmm?   

Where's your sense of poetic justice? They need to be run over repeatedly by a giant tiller

   
You, sir, are a god-damned genius.   

Quote from: Yoink on October 07, 2020, 01:46:37 am

People who spell the shortened version of "until" with an extra "L" instead of an apostrophe should be buried in a fuckin' desert with their hands and feet cut off.   

Buried till they die?

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*ominous spluttery whirring sound approaches*   




   

People who spell the shortened version of "until" with an extra "L" instead of an apostrophe should be buried in a fuckin' desert with their hands and feet cut off.   

Crime and Punishment is probably one of my (many) favourite books, though I read it about ten years ago now. Damn, that's a long time. Holy crap I am getting old.    
I never managed to get through Brothers. As for other Russian authors, I remember liking The Master and Margarita, though I'm not sure that was depressing enough for what you're after.


Anyway, I've read a few books lately. Currently I'm reading War by Sebastian Junger - it's basically written from the same notes and experiences he and another guy used to make the documentary Restrepo, which I was meaning to watch for a long time but found it was removed from Netflix.   
The book is pretty good, but after reading most of a book called Poppy by Gregor Salmon, I think I kind of prefer a linear, chronological type of non-fiction writing. I mean, Salmon was a bit unusual in that, rather than going with a dry account of big-picture kind of things, it's basically just a straight-up, rather personal account of Gregor's trip to Afghanistan in order to research the book, with the occasional informative digression.   

War (the book) was researched over a few visits throughout a year or so, and the scenes tend to jump around all over the place depending on what point the author's making or what phenomenon he wishes to explain, and it doesn't give specific dates so it is hard as heck to keep track of. Plus, once someone's been mentioned even briefly he apparently expects the reader to remember their name and who they hell they were - unless it's someone who has already been adequately described, in which case he sometimes gives you a wholly unnecessary refresher course on who they are, haha.   
It's still an interesting read, though. I just think I might have preferred the documentary, which seemed pretty great from what little I watched of it.   


Oh, and I read Looking For Alaska, which looking back doesn't seem like it was all that mind-blowing but it made me feel lots of feels at the time, so that's the main thing. Put it this way, I gave it a knee-jerk five-star rating on Goodreads right after finishing it, which says that I enjoyed it greatly.   
I'm here to do that, enjoy books, not dissect them critically.   

Before that, I read... uhhh... I can't remember. Oh, well quite a while ago there was Vernon God Little which immediately became a favourite. Cannot recommend it highly enough. Then more recently there was a book called White Noise by Don DeLillo which was pretty weird and claustrophobic but overall very good, even if I would have liked to see more of the characters.   

Also, the other day I happened upon a stall selling one dollar books for charity or some shit, and they turned out to have a great selection of lesser-known classics. I picked up a hardcover copy of The Mosquito Coast, a book I borrowed from a library and loved but never owned, amongst others.

My toothache is back and I mentioned it to my mother, since it's probably going to make me pretty irritable.   
She suggested going to a dentist. When I reminded her of the years-long waiting lists dentists always have, she clarified that she meant a private dentist. Oh, I laughed and laughed.   

Rocket League is free-to-play now, apparently. Hell yeah, I never bought it and haven't played in years.   
I've also been playing a fair bit of Spelunky 2, still, as well as a game called American Fugitive that I picked up whilst heavily discounted along with For the King (which seems kinda lame, though I only had a brief look). It's not that great, honestly, but it has the occasional kinda sweet moment.   
Pretty sure the monthly free Playstation + games should be out today, too, so I'll go have a gander at that.   

I tried medicating a toothache with booze, earlier. It didn't work too well, though I was pleasantly surprised it worked at all.   
Then I tried a coupla paracetamol and boom! No more toothache. Hooray. Now let's just hope it doesn't come back by the time I wake up.   


Also yeah, the thirst is real, pretty sure that's true for most everyone in these trying times.   

What a bunch of dorks.