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[Dr. Medulla]

Soule's Daredevil run was a bit of a downer after Waid's.

Haven't especially been taken by any DD since Waid. It all seems warmed-over Miller without much purpose beyond "Daredevil exists to suffer."

[Kory]

Soule's Daredevil run was a bit of a downer after Waid's.

Haven't especially been taken by any DD since Waid. It all seems warmed-over Miller without much purpose beyond "Daredevil exists to suffer."

I hear the current Zdarsky run has been pretty good, but I haven't finished the Soule run yet.

[Dr. Medulla]

Soule's Daredevil run was a bit of a downer after Waid's.

Haven't especially been taken by any DD since Waid. It all seems warmed-over Miller without much purpose beyond "Daredevil exists to suffer."

I hear the current Zdarsky run has been pretty good, but I haven't finished the Soule run yet.

I find it pretty boring, frankly. Matt gives up DD-ing after he accidentally kills someone and then it's a big ol' search for internal truth to find his way back to being a champion of justice, etc. These stories could be good if they weren't one after the other of putting Matt thru some kind of existential wringer.

[Dr. Medulla]

Soule's Daredevil run was a bit of a downer after Waid's.

Haven't especially been taken by any DD since Waid. It all seems warmed-over Miller without much purpose beyond "Daredevil exists to suffer."

I hear the current Zdarsky run has been pretty good, but I haven't finished the Soule run yet.

I find it pretty boring, frankly. Matt gives up DD-ing after he accidentally kills someone and then it's a big ol' search for internal truth to find his way back to being a champion of justice, etc. These stories could be good if they weren't one after the other of putting Matt thru some kind of existential wringer.

Zdarsky's Spider-man ltd series that ages him in real time from the 1960s was really good, tho.

[Silent Majority]

5) For Your Eyes Only - Ian Fleming. Audiobook. Didn't get as much out of this one as I did the previous collection of Bond short stories. I don't see how professional reviewers manage. "I just wasn't in the mood, no idea if it was good or bad."

[Dr. Medulla]

5) For Your Eyes Only - Ian Fleming. Audiobook. Didn't get as much out of this one as I did the previous collection of Bond short stories. I don't see how professional reviewers manage. "I just wasn't in the mood, no idea if it was good or bad."

They have a big file of boilerplate reviews to insert titles and authors and the like. Or they just pretend they read it go from the imagined text.

[Dr. Medulla]

Finished Rip It Up and Start Again today and I'm more charitable this time around. That is, I found individual chapters (essays, really) fairly compelling, tho the book as a whole lacks a cohesive argument or sensible connecting tissue. Yeah, he says post-punk is defined by its vanguardism, a quest for moving forward, and I generally agree. But it involves ignoring a lot of stuff that involves looking backwards. And the inclusion of bands like Orange Juice or New Pop groups like ABC are headscratchers if vanguardism is the argument. Plus the claim that after 1984 music became more retro than futurist again requires selectiveness to fit the claim. Very much a mixed bag, but, as I said, I liked it more this time.

New tub book:

Following up my rewatching of The Exorcist, I'm re-reading one of my favourite novels, Blatty's sequel (and the basis for Exorcist III, itself a strong flick).

[Silent Majority]

6)Leninism Under Lenin - Marcel Liebman. Paperback. An argument that Leninism was pretty decent for a little while, but that outside the eight months or so after 1917 there was an immediate degradation of of events. A mass invasion by Western capitalist powers and counter revolutionary elements within are given as the reasons for the authoritarian moves. It was always within him, this sympathetic book proves. He railed against the bureaucracy his bureaucratic mind created while despising the anarchists and left communists who pointed towards a freer society. I've got the guy now, I don't have a need to read any more. Brilliant research, well written.

[tepista]

Finished Rip It Up and Start Again today and I'm more charitable this time around. That is, I found individual chapters (essays, really) fairly compelling, tho the book as a whole lacks a cohesive argument or sensible connecting tissue. Yeah, he says post-punk is defined by its vanguardism, a quest for moving forward, and I generally agree. But it involves ignoring a lot of stuff that involves looking backwards. And the inclusion of bands like Orange Juice or New Pop groups like ABC are headscratchers if vanguardism is the argument. Plus the claim that after 1984 music became more retro than futurist again requires selectiveness to fit the claim. Very much a mixed bag, but, as I said, I liked it more this time.

New tub book:

Following up my rewatching of The Exorcist, I'm re-reading one of my favourite novels, Blatty's sequel (and the basis for Exorcist III, itself a strong flick).

In Spanish? Bueno!

[tepista]

I finished ear-reading Dracula and now started on the novella, Carmilla, but I didn't realize this one is a "dramatization" and it's kinda like a play. Lame? or OK? I don't know, I don't like it as much though. Only 3 hours.

[Dr. Medulla]

Finished Rip It Up and Start Again today and I'm more charitable this time around. That is, I found individual chapters (essays, really) fairly compelling, tho the book as a whole lacks a cohesive argument or sensible connecting tissue. Yeah, he says post-punk is defined by its vanguardism, a quest for moving forward, and I generally agree. But it involves ignoring a lot of stuff that involves looking backwards. And the inclusion of bands like Orange Juice or New Pop groups like ABC are headscratchers if vanguardism is the argument. Plus the claim that after 1984 music became more retro than futurist again requires selectiveness to fit the claim. Very much a mixed bag, but, as I said, I liked it more this time.

New tub book:
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Following up my rewatching of The Exorcist, I'm re-reading one of my favourite novels, Blatty's sequel (and the basis for Exorcist III, itself a strong flick).

In Spanish? Bueno!

This the actual cover of my copy:


Fuck-ton of effort on that design.

[Olaf]

[Marky Dread]

You wrote a book about Vikings fighting Raccoons?

[Olaf]

You wrote a book about Vikings fighting Raccoons?

Yes. In my heart.

[Marky Dread]

You wrote a book about Vikings fighting Raccoons?

Yes. In my heart.