Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking. so sad. RXTT's Intellectual Journey continues with a book that hits REAL close to home, Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking. https://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2019/...has-never.html

fucking shit, this is your best review ever man.

thank you.

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/5295602-michael

Thanks man. Means a lot. Please share or disseminate if you like....

I have an account on goodreads, but then I realized it was just doubling up the work I put in to the blog. hahahha/

Has anyone here read Rip It Up and Start Again, by Simon Reynolds? Post-punk history that I'm enjoying from the first two chapters

“why big pharma is diving into gene therapy”

https://www.barrons.com/articles/why...py-51551493752

have not heard of it....

Yeah, really good. Seem to remember his chapter on SY being a bit anti, but makes a fair argument.

Went to the Tiny Town Library Sale today. It’s a great way to find cheap versions of authors you’ve wanted to read, but didn’t want to pay much for, since you may not like them

Scored

Things Fall Apart -Chinua Achebe
The Deal Breaker-Edwidge Danticat
The Black Book-Orhan Pamuk

Plus a few from authors I already have read...

The Outsider-Richard Wright
Troll Nation -Amanda Marcotte
No Good Alternative & No Immediate Danger-William T Vollmann

Any Vollmann fans on here? He’s a wordy fucker, for sure, but I’ve always loved his prose.

I haven't visited Goodreads in months. I reviewed some books. I obviously don't read as much as you guys though!

Finished a Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsey (1920) https://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2019/...920-still.html very cool old proto-sci fi book.

Finally finished Frankenstein. I'm definitely going a lot slower this year.


Started "The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture is Reinventing Capitalism" and I purchased these:


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i started reading that book once because harold bloom once called it the best novel ever or something

it’s supposed to be a great gnostic treatise or something

i got tired of the multiple eyes and murders and abandoned it 2/3 of the way

harold bloom was much more enamored of gnosticism than i’ll ever be and probably understood the referent of all that crazy imagery

I would not have got it at age 23. I have read a lot of gnostic writings and books about gnosis and the various states of being that the Voyage to Arcturus is actually talking about.

I just finished re-reading Alfred Bester’s classic, “The Stars my Destination,” and now I’m looking for something new, slimming through samples on Kindle.

This looks good. I saw the author speak a while back, and I’m enjoying the sample. Might dive in:

looks interesting, but a lot of current Middle Eastern history seems to stem from times way before that. If he doesn't go back at least to 1920, I think it's missing a lot

oh nice. i got nothing of it unfortunately.

who is 23?

Just meaning, 23 years ago I would not have understood what I understand at 46.