#1108

Cryptonomicon was groundbreaking for me…dodo will have a hard time competing-thnx for the tip yo!

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#1109

Edison, Martenot, Zinovieff, Moog, Buchla, Cahill …
A really entertaining and instructive book

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#1110

It’s great, isn’t it. Are You My Mother is as good, so I’d recommend that to you, too.

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#1111

I love all of her books! The Dykes to Watch Out For collection is pretty great as well.

Just looked for my signed copy of Fun Home and couldn’t find it :frowning:

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#1112

Started “Conversations with Iannis Xenakis” last night. I really didn’t know much of his specific history (like I knew he was an engineer/architect, but not that he worked with Le Corbusier), plus all the Greek post-war resistance stuff…so the first chapter - a Q&A/biography - was super interesting.

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#1113

Read Don Paterson’s short book of poems of the same name yesterday. This one was one of my favourites. One was a tongue-in-cheek love poem to an IDM artist, which I suspect lines would make a great crowd for.

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#1114

About to finish James Salter’s The Hunters. What a book; brilliant on masculinity, ambition, and flight, and beautifully written. Geoff Dyer has written about it here; I wrote about a favourite paragraph from the beginning of the book here.

#1115

I feel like somewhere on a music forum (maybe here?), people posted about The Witch Elm by Tana French. I read a page or two and was really underwhelmed, put it away for months. Read the first 60 pages last night and am still really not impressed.

Can anyone speak to whether this gets better? I just feel like the writing style and ‘voice’ of the narrator isn’t very interesting/compelling. I mean, if the story gets good, I’ll stick with it, and maybe I will regardless as I’m not the type to stop mid-book, but something about it is not clicking with me.

#1116

I’m kind of feeling that way about the k-punk book. Maybe I should have gone with Capitalist Realism, or maybe Mark Fisher just doesn’t speak to me.

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#1117

Just started Autonomous by Annalee Newitz. Only 70 pages in and loving it. Interesting world, unique Canadian perspective on synthetic bio and a post climate change world.

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#1118

yes, this book by Varga is very informative on many aspects of Xenakis.
If you are interested more about Xenakis’s thought along with the social/historical circumstances of the time and many biographical info, you can read also “Xenakis” by Nouritza Matossian.

#1119

An Interface for a Fractal Landscape by Ed Steck (ugly duckling presse, just released). Ed is a friend and a brilliant poet and I was thrilled to find this at a local bookshop today.

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#1120

Changing my mind a bit about Fisher. Much of the beginning of the book is referencing things I am not familiar with nor interested in, and I was afraid it was all going to be like that. But I did just have a “wow” moment (where he compares Frank Miller’s dreary tiresome grimdark Batman to “capitalist realism”) and while most of the best bit was a quote from someone else, that made an impression.

(I’m not a Batman fan either, but wacky Adam West Batman being replaced by the trite depressive Dark Knight is just sort of cultural background information.)

Why yes, I would like a way out of “lesser evil” politics/socioeconomics…

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#1121

I had finished watching this video, when I nonchalantly sashayed over to lines and was surprised to see you discuss the same topic/book.

here’s the video:

*I’m also about 50 pages into the book (though I’ve put it down for the time being to read a few other things)

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#1122

I’m pretty sure I first heard about it here, possibly in this very thread :grin:

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#1123

Currently reading Charles Ives: A Life with Music. Fascinating discussion of Ives and his compositions.

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#1124

currently - this:

also, this:

[one’s a short story collection. the other is an essay collection. interestingly, I’ve seen pretty sizable passages repeat in both book — which was an entertaining surprise…]

#1125

I love reading! I recently wrote a short essay / blog post A Program of Reading Better:

Here are a few of the books I read last year:

I include summaries of each of these books in the blog post.

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#1126

Currently:

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#1127

Just finished:

So far this might be the best of the Culture novels I’ve read. It’s kind of a slow burn until it isn’t, but the whole thing is compellingly both weird and human.

Next on my list:

and then perhaps

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