just bought the ebook, hope the formatting is up to scratch.
― what if bod was one of us (ledge), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 15:53 (five years ago) link
What about the audiobook?
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 15:56 (five years ago) link
Is this the thread or do we need a new one bc I’m liable to start tnite
― Mordy, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 16:10 (five years ago) link
i was unsure, there may already be one
― the late great, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 16:17 (five years ago) link
A friend of our family, a 17-year-old girl, asked us all what our favorite novels were. I said this one and she asked to borrow it. I tried to warn her away from it but she insisted, so she's got one of my 2 copies. She got about 250 pages in pretty much lost interest.
― CPAP Makers Scrambling After New ILX Sub-board Unveiled (WmC), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 18:04 (five years ago) link
i mean huge credit to her getting 250 pages in
― Mordy, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 18:18 (five years ago) link
I have a copy and have read like ten pages. i'm in.
― adam the (abanana), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 23:44 (five years ago) link
I’m in. (famous last words, pvmic etc.)
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 21:32 (five years ago) link
― what if bod was one of us (ledge), Tuesday, March 26, 2019 8:53 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
lol yeah i wish, though it's not horrible as those things go. quite a few very silly spacing/pagebreak errors throughout though, and one paragraph in the final chapter is repeated twice and i had to check it against my print copy, as things were kind of unraveling by that point anyway
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 01:11 (three years ago) link
anyway, best book i've ever read
its good
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 02:51 (three years ago) link
[ernest newboy voice] i couldn't possibly tell you if it's good or not
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 02:53 (three years ago) link
Brad, I really liked your substack essay on this
― rob, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 15:43 (three years ago) link
https://hologramofthesenses.substack.com/p/escalator-over-the-hill
Met Chip over the weekend because we were booked to read together. Honor of my life, he tickled my shoulder and took lots of pictures of the audience's hands and postures? Then he read a damning review of 'Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders,' then a chapter from that book. It was excellent.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Monday, 28 March 2022 12:41 (two years ago) link
Amazing!
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 28 March 2022 12:54 (two years ago) link
Cool! I think ex-ILX0r Casuistry may have met him once as well, iirc.
― The Central Rockaliser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 28 March 2022 13:10 (two years ago) link
Oh that's so nice! I've noticed he frequently describes his characters' hands so that one doesn't surprise me. I emailed with him about a blurb once when I worked in publishing but that was as close as I got
― rob, Monday, 28 March 2022 13:29 (two years ago) link
aww this is so wonderful
my old college lit professor is writing his biography and i couldn't be more thrilled :)
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 28 March 2022 14:11 (two years ago) link
Very cool. I thought about ilxor love for him while we were sitting waiting for his Uber home. He lives only ten minutes away from me.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Monday, 28 March 2022 15:17 (two years ago) link
awww that rules
― donna rouge, Monday, 28 March 2022 15:42 (two years ago) link
I will never not love this book. I read it for the first time in my early teens. That was probably a great time and an awful time to read it. It made a powerful impression on me, probably as much as any novel ever has, in terms of shaping my ideas of what fiction, and life itself, could be. Returning to it in my middle age was a revelation, an almost unique experience of telescoping time.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 28 March 2022 17:46 (two years ago) link
thinking about a reread.
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 14:31 (one year ago) link