What are you reading?

[Nemkris]

Has anyone read Lord Valentine's Castle by Robert Silverberg? I don't even like movies but I think this story would be pretty good in a film format if well made.
I read it more than a decade ago but I still remember it because the world was so interesting. It's sci-fi but technology is barely used outside of space travel and some machine that punishes criminals by giving them nightmares. The government is basically the Holy Roman Empire with Prince-electors.
Maybe it's just nostalgia but it had such a good vibe.

 

[$lave]

 

[mochi]

today i'm going to think about reading harassment architecture and then not download it and forget about it by tomorrow

 

[resu]

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@DonDonPatch explain!

 

[Moonlight-Moonlight]

@DonDonPatch explain!

he's describing NPCs, clearly

 

[resu]

I could never see the appeal in Pound. He seems to me much too self-indulgent.

 

[$lave]

I could never see the appeal in Pound. He seems to me much too self-indulgent.

i get the opposite impression, have u read his radio speeches?

 

[$lave]

today i'm going to think about reading harassment architecture and then not download it and forget about it by tomorrow

ive read it a couple times, there’s a few fun essays in there. Like with bam u can finish it in an hour or 2.

He does have a few entries where he goes into how he’s feeling from not sleeping for hours on end, mimicking the way Hunter S. Thompson described his experiences with drugs. I found these tedious. The ending is also very underwhelming

 

[braus]

I'm reading Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun and a collection of W. B. Yeats' Poetry.

 

[resu]

i get the opposite impression, have u read his radio speeches?

No, I knew of them but never read them. Their style reminds me of Thomas777, though lol. And I don't mean that he's a self-indulgent thinker. I like both him and Eliot, but not as poets.