I loved the Great Gatsby, I think the prose is perfect, I feel like the narrator Nick just speaks to me. But I can completely understand why people read it and are left feeling underwhelmed.
I’m still working up my courage to tackle Infinite Jest, I really enjoyed Consider The Lobster, which a lot people said to read first as a gateway into DFW.
perhaps i was a bit dismissive about the book as a whole but i loved the writing style and the description of the characters.
Fuck, this was so good.
Here’s an old radio dramatisation of the foundation trilogy.
Haven’t listened to it yet so don’t know if it’s any good.
Amazing! What an achievement. Congrats man
I’ll take one, will PM you in a bit
I’d love to write a book, it’s definitely on the list of things to do before I die. I just don’t know what to write about. Sometimes I think I should just invent some characters and just see what happens.
What’s your process @anon86856945?
That Sem Rubio book about Mark Gonzales is brilliant. Interviews with other people in it too, like Neil Blender, Jim Thiebaud, Jason Lee, Mark Suciu, Jason Lee, Tony Hawk, Kaws and all sorts of other folk.
Loads in it too, I thought it’d be a ‘one Polaroid snap for every two pages’ book but it’s lively as fuck.
I’m still waiting for mine to show. I pre ordered but received an email on release day to let me know they (Amazon) were having trouble sourcing it.
You’ll all be relieved to read that I had an update this morning to tell me that it has been dispatched and will cost £9.99 less.
Got mine from the Palomino, which I’d recommend if anybody was thinking about buying it.
Big up Nick and all he does for skateboarding.
That is a very good call.
I wouldn’t dream of using Amazon for skateboard hardware but (even though they moved on from books only a long time ago) still go there by default for book searches.
Sadly photography books are top of my ‘don’t need to buy in this current climate’ list. Would’ve had this, that 93 one and the 2 ari ones otherwise.
Oh yeah I forgot to message you. PM me your deets and I’ll take one!
I’ve been burning some holiday this week so had lots of time sitting around doing nothing. Just finished The Stand by Stephen King, was pretty good but glad it’s over with. 1300 pages about a plague wasn’t what I needed right now.
Yesterday I read half of A Confederacy of Dunces, trying to decide if I hated it or if I thought it was ok. I decided I hated it so I put it down. I don’t see what all the fuss is about, there is some hilarious dialog but his journal entries are so long and boring that I couldn’t keep my eyes on it. It’s like Napoleon Dynamite got old and fat and decided to write something, but not I’m a good way. It closed my valve…
Now I’m on One Hundred Years of Solitude, which has been on my list for ages.
Bern meaning yo say for about a week that it’s blown my mind that your name isn’t max.
Where’s the best place to buy your book. I’m sure you’ve already put this somewhere like 6 posts up.
Book arrived! Cheers, looks sick. Have a couple more ahead of it in the queue but will let you know what I think when I get to it!
Nuts, I meant to ask for a copy. Do you have any left @anon86856945?
New skateboard kids’ book:
https://www.shookbop.com/products/six-year-old-sidney-the-skateboarding-boy-pre-order-by-dan-bryant
Enjoyed this a lot, following a @vital recommendation. I was mostly wanting to read the stuff about Glastonbury 2000, the last festival I will ever go to, but the rest is great. Massive memories of what U.K. skating was like at the turn of the millennium, when things started to get a bit strange.
Thought I’d take the hit and pay the £300 or so this usually goes for. Seems to have gone up a bit ffs.
Edit: Found it for £160. Why is stuff priced like that on Amazon sometimes? It’s not like you can haggle.
