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Old 06.27.2019, 11:48 AM   #5661
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I pre-ordered this bad boy from Re-Search when it was announced. Awesome. Interview from 1985 unearthed in the reSearch archives.
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Old 06.28.2019, 02:14 PM   #5662
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Old 06.29.2019, 01:59 PM   #5663
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Old 07.02.2019, 01:23 PM   #5664
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Old 07.02.2019, 01:24 PM   #5665
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I am reading a book from 1897 called Instead of a Book, By a Man Too Busy to Write One: A Fragmentary Exposition of Philosophical Anarchism - Benjamin R. Tucker
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Old 07.03.2019, 12:02 AM   #5666
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Old 07.03.2019, 08:08 AM   #5667
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I NEED a new book.


Really want something dark and engaging and weird. Something that will suck me into it’s world.

Goddamn I hate having to look for books. Shit fuck.
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Old 07.03.2019, 08:11 AM   #5668
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I NEED a new book.


Really want something dark and engaging and weird. Something that will suck me into it’s world.

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Old 07.03.2019, 08:15 AM   #5669
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life's hard, ey?

Anyway, I'd love to help however my current read is football related so I can't say it's up your street. It's dark and engaging but not exactly the weirdest book in the case.
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Old 07.03.2019, 08:32 AM   #5670
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I NEED a new book.


Really want something dark and engaging and weird. Something that will suck me into it’s world.

Goddamn I hate having to look for books. Shit fuck.

Have you read Mark Danielewski's HOUSE of Leaves? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...ouse_of_Leaves
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Old 07.03.2019, 08:39 AM   #5671
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Anyway, I'd love to help however my current read is football related so I can't say it's up your street. It's dark and engaging but not exactly the weirdest book in the case.

What is it? (OK, scratch that ... I thought you were talking about a 'dark and engaging' book about football)
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Old 07.03.2019, 08:55 AM   #5672
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I am also reading Claw of the Conciliator - Gene Wolfe (1981)

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Old 07.03.2019, 09:19 AM   #5673
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Old 07.03.2019, 09:46 AM   #5674
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I NEED a new book.


Really want something dark and engaging and weird. Something that will suck me into it’s world.

Goddamn I hate having to look for books. Shit fuck.

Have you read The Box Man by Kobo Abe' ?

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Old 07.04.2019, 07:40 AM   #5675
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YES

I’ll want updates.

Power through the remaining books like one book. It’s best that way.
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Old 07.05.2019, 05:00 AM   #5677
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Blitzed through this book in the space of a couple of days. I can get why James o'Brien could rub people the wrong way. However, I don't think you can fault his logic. It's too easy to let people with opinions that are not opinions but absolute bollocks viewpoints lacking in any logic and letting them off saying "well I guess that's your views" when they're not. It's crap spouted but the newspaper rags and they repeat happily without thinking what's been said.
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Old 07.05.2019, 06:43 AM   #5678
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Blitzed through this book in the space of a couple of days. I can get why James o'Brien could rub people the wrong way. However, I don't think you can fault his logic. It's too easy to let people with opinions that are not opinions but absolute bollocks viewpoints lacking in any logic and letting them off saying "well I guess that's your views" when they're not. It's crap spouted but the newspaper rags and they repeat happily without thinking what's been said.
that sounds interesting and very useful these days

does it offer tools?
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Old 07.05.2019, 11:44 AM   #5679
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Don't know about tools per se. The guy is a talk show radio host who has a pretty good record of getting through to people's bullshit. That might not sound like much but how many times do you see an interview and you're waiting for the follow up question to the one the interviewee just avoided.

Anyway, the book is him writing about dealing with callers he talks to every day on different subjects from Brexit, to the favourite buzzword of morons "politically correct" and so on. I'm really enjoying it any road.

here's one he did with Rees-Mogg
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Old 07.05.2019, 12:14 PM   #5680
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Don't know about tools per se. The guy is a talk show radio host who has a pretty good record of getting through to people's bullshit. That might not sound like much but how many times do you see an interview and you're waiting for the follow up question to the one the interviewee just avoided.

Anyway, the book is him writing about dealing with callers he talks to every day on different subjects from Brexit, to the favourite buzzword of morons "politically correct" and so on. I'm really enjoying it any road.

here's one he did with Rees-Mogg
at 3:10 it made me explode with laughter

“it is...”

haahaaaha

i’ll watch the rest. thanks for sharing. more later.
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