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Salem_is_tired said:
Does anyone uses Audible here? I was thinking about a subscription, but it is quite expensive and I don't really know if it would be good choice for the long run.
What platform/app/subscriptions you use/have to listen to audio books? And what do you think about them?
So far I only tried Spotify, and I really like it. They have a student discount what you can use for 3 years (If I remember correctly) for 2.49 euro, and a family pack for 6 account costing around 8 euros. The music is more prominent than the books of course, but you can still find some gems (Nothing too new, mostly classics but with a surprisingly big variation).
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I have an audible account.. I love it. I have 317 titles in my library and a fuck ton of time on since 2020
 
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darvocet21 said:
I've never met anybody who's read Naked Lunch all the way through. Maybe that's because the crowd I hang out with isn't that intellectually stimulating

You can't go wrong with Junky and Queer.
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I read Naked Lunch twice. Didn't make any more sense the second time, but it's a fun read nevertheless. Junky is OK. Haven't read anything else by him.

Currently reading Bad Dog, a collection of short stories by Tom Piccirilli.
 
I'm also reading my monthly issue of The Sun magazine (not to be confused with the British tabloid)...it's published in Chapel Hill, NC and contains nonfiction, fiction, and B&W photography. Also contains zero ads.
Excellent magazine.

www.thesunmagazine.org

The Sun Magazine

In each issue of The Sun you’ll find some of the most radically intimate and socially conscious writing being published today. In an age of media conglomerates, we’re something of an oddity: an ad-free, independent, reader-supported magazine.
www.thesunmagazine.org www.thesunmagazine.org
 
jasperkent said:
I read Naked Lunch twice. Didn't make any more sense the second time, but it's a fun read nevertheless. Junky is OK. Haven't read anything else by him.

Currently reading Bad Dog, a collection of short stories by Tom Piccirilli.
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That's kind of the point with Naked Lunch. It's about a man whose drug use is so heavy that he comes completely disjointed from any sense of reality.
If you liked Junky, the sequel, Queer, is also pretty good.
 
jasperkent said:
I read Naked Lunch twice. Didn't make any more sense the second time, but it's a fun read nevertheless. Junky is OK. Haven't read anything else by him.

Currently reading Bad Dog, a collection of short stories by Tom Piccirilli.
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It's not supposed to make sense; the disjointed, stream-of-consciousness style is meant to represent his complete descent in drug-induced psychosis/insanity
If you liked Junky, it's worth reading Queer, which is the sequel (and was forbidden from publication for, I think, ~40 years)
 
Finished Coin Locker Babies - 3 stars - Bits I really enjoyed but also bit's that just seemed to drraaaggg. I feel like (as is often the case with Ryu Murakami) it needed editing, like just making it 10-15% shorter and cutting out some filler would have really helped. I honest cannot make my mind up an this writer. This book was in the middle for me. I did not enjoy In the Miso Soup, which I read after hearing how disturbing it was, but apart from one scene, it felt VERY slow. The only other book of his I have read is Piercing which I loved.

Speaking of Murakami, has anyone read Audition? Especially if you've seen the movie, too? I have seen the movie, but not read the book. How do they compare? I watched the movie back in like 2007 so don't remember much, apart from (kiri, kiri, kiri, kiri, kiri, kiri) the ending and the vomit bit, but I remember nearish the end it gets super confusing regarding what's real or not. Does the book clear things up any?
 
ChemicallyEnhanced said:
That's kind of the point with Naked Lunch. It's about a man whose drug use is so heavy that he comes completely disjointed from any sense of reality.
If you liked Junky, the sequel, Queer, is also pretty good.
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ChemicallyEnhanced said:
It's not supposed to make sense; the disjointed, stream-of-consciousness style is meant to represent his complete descent in drug-induced psychosis/insanity
If you liked Junky, it's worth reading Queer, which is the sequel (and was forbidden from publication for, I think, ~40 years)
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OK, I get it. 😉
 
everything i've ever read was trash :(

i look at a book now and it's a bunch of babble written by an idiot
 
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire

I preordered it last year, prior to publishing, but despite that have only just started reading 😄
 
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