Wait you guys pay for books?
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Of course. You should at minimum get them from the library so the author gets something. Stealing books is quite a bit different than stealing movies or tv imo.
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I just use my library and Libby
I even use my home libraries card at the library right next to my work. They let me check out 10 items as a guest there. Pretty sweet
The only books I’ve bought in the last 5 years is for my dad’s Xmas gifts or some of these Pulitzer Prize winners that aren’t anywhere. Stuff like Journey in the Dark or The Store
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Don’t worry. I buy a ton of books that I never read so it all balances out.
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Yup not gonna look it up but there was an old reddit thread about how to get library cards to the biggest libraries no matter where you live. I think that died out tho once people were like isn’t piracy easier than all of that?
I paid to join the Brooklyn public library for a few years. Had at least 5x the amount of stuff my local library network has. Went to renew last year and they no longer allow it.
Currently using Fairfax county public library. Not sure the cost but they do have some stuff my does not have so it’s worth it.
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I’ve heard if you can get a card for the main NYC library, it’s like John Wick going open season on books
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Anyone else reread books more than they feel they should? I reread the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich within a couple years of first reading it, why the fuck did I subject myself to that again?
I end up avoiding new titles because of this tendency. It’s not great.
I rarely read books again. So many books to read. Short list of books I’ve read multiple times (not all inclusive)
Killer angels
The things they carried
Entire dark tower series
Thousand autumns of Jacob de zoet
I’ve read maybe three books more than once. Too many books out there to do rereading IMO.
Highly recommend this. I loved it.
Since I know a bunch of you all are gamblers:
I’ll make a few remarks. I just love Thomas Pynchon. I think he might be the most clever and inventive SOB ever. If someone deserves to win it must be him or Rushdie. Or Don DeLillo. Good Lord I love him too.
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I know that White Noise got trashed on the movie thread, and by most reviewers. Well, I just reread it, and I can assure you that the book holds up.
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Starting in on my first King novel in a long time and with the opening lines, I see he is as disorganized and honest about it as ever lol
My problem—and I’m sure many writers have it, not just newbies like me—is deciding where to start.
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I love Alexandra Petri, the WaPost satire writer. I think she’s a genius.
I’d never read one of her books, and I grabbed Nothing is Wrong and Here is Why, which is a collection of her works mostly centering on Trump, and I had to first read it in small doses, and then set it aside. It was too much like doomscrolling on Twitter. I think reading one of her pieces every week is fine. Reading them one after another was killing me. I read a lot of depressing stuff (finished The Sixth Extinction not too long ago) but reading Petri back to back was too much.
I read the second one in the series - Seven Demons. Just a comic book world of evil doers. Remains fun.
I started a fantasy series called The Justice of Kings. Solid start. The main characters are a roving Justice and his Clerk (the story is told from the Clerk’s perspective) - they travel around the land upholding the King’s Justice, and there’s a lot of talk about fantasy law. It was kind of a mix between a murder mystery and a fantasy, which is a clever idea, but the murder mystery wasn’t very fulfilling. I’ll probably give the second one a try.
One I can read almost every year is The Sun Also Rises.
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There are around 5 or 10 books that I’ve read five or six times.
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
The Coming of the Third Reich
Hamlet
Heart of Darkness
Walden
Emerson: Mind on Fire
A Sand County Almanac
Probably a couple others that I am forgetting. It should be noted that I am kind of old, so some of these are like once every 7 years or so
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I do the same, there are a bunch of fantasy series I’ve read 2-4 times in the last 10 years.