*What book are you reading? (part 2)

[Idris2002]

Nirvana were shit, and they should have been recognised as shit from the beginning. That poor eejit might still be alive for one thing.

I am currently reading Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day. One of those things that shouldn't work but does.

 

[Manter]

Dead Funny, Telling Jokes in Hitler's Germany. By Rudolph Herzog.

Is v interesting, doesn't fall into the telling an anti hitler joke was resistance to the nazis trap. Read Hammer and Tickle earlier in the year too. Seems to be a new sub-genre of history....

 

[TruXta]

Nirvana were shit, and they should have been recognised as shit from the beginning. That poor eejit might still be alive for one thing.

I am currently reading Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day. One of those things that shouldn't work but does.

Fuck off you grumpy old dolt. That Pynchon's one I haven't read yet.... I think. What's it about again?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

It is a bit metal the first one. The third is great, sounds much better than the previous two. Especially the drums.

Really?
I am sure it's on the internet, I will have a listen.

 

[TruXta]

Really?
I am sure it's on the internet, I will have a listen.

http://grooveshark.com/#!/album/In+Utero/114770

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Nirvana were shit, and they should have been recognised as shit from the beginning. That poor eejit might still be alive for one thing..

I'm not a huge fan, but there is no doubt that they were a much better quality, and natural progression from the other mostly tuneless grunge / hardcore acts that went before them.
DGC were looking for something to tap the disenchanted youth. I don't think they thought Nirvana would take off more than Sonic Youth did with them, and they could have probably done without the sudden game change. Nevermind sounds too polished to me but they recorded that in the way that they wanted, relatively cheaply, before the big shots got involved.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

http://grooveshark.com/#!/album/In Utero/114770

That's not a download is it?

 

[TruXta]

That's not a download is it?

Streaming.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Streaming.

Ok.

I'll have a listen after Sliver, I have not put that on since back then either. Now this one I do remember liking. I think I even took it to the disco so that they would put it on.

 

[Orang Utan]

i only really liked bleach. after that they got progressively more soft and emo, reaching a nadir with an acoustic album.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Streaming.

Ok.
I don't like it. The singles have a guitar sound like mud.
The first two songs sound ok but they are not great songs.
Sounds like a disjointed mess for the most part. It's more 'alt' in places than I expected, but it very boring.
Yeah the drums sound pretty good when they are dominating.

 

[TruXta]

Ok.
I don't like it. The singles have a guitar sound like mud.
The first two songs sound ok but they are not great songs.
Sounds like a disjointed mess for the most part. It's more 'alt' in places than I expected, but it very boring.
Yeah the drums sound pretty good when they are dominating.

Horses for courses. It's not something I listen to very often. Must be years since I last heard it.

 

[DotCommunist]

incesticide only stands the test of time

and pynchon is a cunt. Vineland was good though, trippy.

 

[TruXta]

incesticide only stands the test of time

and pynchon is a cunt. Vineland was good though, trippy.

Gravity's Rainbow is great. Not for everyone, but I enjoyed it.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

incesticide only stands the test of time
.

Not listened to that, but as I recall it is all the old bootlegs we used to listen to before or around the time of nevermind.
Vaselines covers and the like.
I was a huge Vaselines fan in the 80s so enjoyed that.

 

[Frances Lengel]

Too many bananas in the first bit of Gravity's Rainbow.

 

[nogojones]

James Ellroy - Hollywood Nocturnes

 

[izz]

re-reading Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson

 

[Thraex]

Thank Minerva! I've just finished the book on Nero I was reading...very good, but I was itching to start Ben Aaronovitch's third book in the 'Rivers of London' series - Whispers Underground - that I bought last weekend. Just about to start it

 

[starfish]

Mischief by Ed McBain. The 45th book in the 54 book 87th Precinct series.

 

[TruXta]

Dunno, could probably do with reading some non-fiction.

 

[May Kasahara]

Rodinsky's Room. It's really good but I have been reading it for ages Can't remember the last time a book took me so long to finish.

 

[Yu_Gi_Oh]

Gender Trouble by Judith Butler.

 

[ebonics]

Rereading some Love and Rockets, and some Asimov short stories. Listening to Consider Phlebas in the car, so that's a retread, too. I've got loads of new stuff to be reading, but can't seem to make a decision on which one.

 

[Thraex]

"Jamrach's Menagerie" - Carol Birch, very enjoyable, so far.

 

[Greebo]

Professor Unrat - Heinrich Mann. Not bad so far. It just happened to be on the Elm Park Tavern's windowsill and readable while pissed.

 

[Orang Utan]

Joe Abercrombie - The Blade Itself
John Lanchester - Capital
Iain M Banks - The Player Of Games
and Herzog on Herzog.
I just gave up on Will Self's Umbrella. Another time!
Just downloaded some of Sax 's Fu Manchu pulp novels too. Lolracism.

 

[idumea]

Moominvalley in November. Not even slightly twee, it's surprisingly dark and psychologically acute. Lots of loneliness and despair.

 

[nogojones]

Just finished Voltaire's Letters on England and starting Giles MacDonogh's After the Reich. Looks like I could be on this one for a while

 

[QueenOfGoths]

China Mieville - Un Lun Dun. Only just started it but am hooked