There's so much business talk Mr Palahniuk. Thank you. I love Harmony Korine's model for creating art: "I'll do whatever I want and yell at people when Im doing it and I have no idea what I'm getting paid!" I don't know why he doesn't work with Hollywood any more.
My books will decorate the gold etched plates of spacecraft hurtling out of the stellar corona into the dark void of space. They will outlive the death of humanity. Never to be read again.
So much good stuff here. I especially agree with the idea of a book as a physical demonstration of love or affection. But the bit that made me laugh (and blush a little) was 'what's the point of reading Camus if no one can tell you're reading Camus'. Spot on! (especially if you're reading it in French)
Chuck, what would you say if I told you the reason I write is to impress you? To make you think I'm sorta cool. That'd be a sad reason, right? It's not the reason, I'm just musing a bit. I enjoy writing and I especially love it when a great sentence comes together.
Oh man, comic book store owners HATE Diamond. There are always miscounts and reorders and at least one box of the shipment is packed in such an idiotic way that everything inside is destroyed no matter how little care UPS puts into shipping them. I mean, much, how much care.
Hate me, maybe, but I’ve enjoyed listening to several audiobooks at double-time - though usually for “homework” titles, like a book club selection or because I’d never read The Shining and was visiting the Stanley Hotel
Way off topic, but youve shared the desire to jump on the grenade so that members of a group arent afraid to speak and get things wrong. This is part of being a "high centrality participant". A person who facilitates synchronized neural activity in a group. Creating connection. The study:
There's so much business talk Mr Palahniuk. Thank you. I love Harmony Korine's model for creating art: "I'll do whatever I want and yell at people when Im doing it and I have no idea what I'm getting paid!" I don't know why he doesn't work with Hollywood any more.
They're going to market us to death, and after that!
My books will decorate the gold etched plates of spacecraft hurtling out of the stellar corona into the dark void of space. They will outlive the death of humanity. Never to be read again.
I read a part of a story to my local writing group today, and it’s a pretty good feeling when people respond.
So… keep my pretentious bookshelf dusted, orderly, and clean and toss my kindle?
Guess it’s gonna be hard to top the infamous Martin Amis advance in this day and age, huh? Sigh.
And, thinking about it now, Stephen King’s “The Dark Half” is probably the completion of the ‘internal struggle trilogy’:
Misery, The Tommyknockers, The Dark Half.
E-books aren’t as fun to read either. Let me turn a page, damn it.
So much good stuff here. I especially agree with the idea of a book as a physical demonstration of love or affection. But the bit that made me laugh (and blush a little) was 'what's the point of reading Camus if no one can tell you're reading Camus'. Spot on! (especially if you're reading it in French)
Every so often someone reminds me why my generation trusts no one. It’s usually you.
Chuck, what would you say if I told you the reason I write is to impress you? To make you think I'm sorta cool. That'd be a sad reason, right? It's not the reason, I'm just musing a bit. I enjoy writing and I especially love it when a great sentence comes together.
Oh man, comic book store owners HATE Diamond. There are always miscounts and reorders and at least one box of the shipment is packed in such an idiotic way that everything inside is destroyed no matter how little care UPS puts into shipping them. I mean, much, how much care.
Another downside of Ebooks: How are you supposed to snoop on what people are reading on the subway?
BING BONG!!!!! 😢 😢 😢 I thought I’d never forget you, but I just had to google “inside out imaginary friend” to remember your name
Hate me, maybe, but I’ve enjoyed listening to several audiobooks at double-time - though usually for “homework” titles, like a book club selection or because I’d never read The Shining and was visiting the Stanley Hotel
Way off topic, but youve shared the desire to jump on the grenade so that members of a group arent afraid to speak and get things wrong. This is part of being a "high centrality participant". A person who facilitates synchronized neural activity in a group. Creating connection. The study:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8891270/
Pushy and chatty leaders actually separate individuals into themselves in a group setting.
Found the study via a new book called Supercommunicators.
An exhausted triple-sigh.