- Joined
- Dec 12, 2017
- Messages
- 6,593
- Reaction score
- 2
I started a job where there's a lot of down time at a desk. I found myself just browsing the same old sites over and over and over until my brains were leaking out of my ears. I haven't been a reader since I was a teenager, but I recently got a new iPad so I started sticking epubs on there and reading to break up the monotony of YouTube and Reddit all day.
I finished A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy O'Toole over Monday and Tuesday. I love this book, it's hilarious. The backstory of the book is a bummer though - the author wrote it in the 60s, no one was interested in publishing it, and he fell into a depression and committed suicide in 1969. His mom finds a manuscript for Confederacy in his belongings and continues to shop it around in her son's memory, finally handing it to an author who got in published in 1980, and it won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1981 and became a classic. So this poor guy never got to see the success of his brainchild.
Over Wednesday and Thursday I read The Four Agreements book that Rogan recommended, which I didn't take much out of, and a book an art history, because every time I watch Jeopardy and they have a question about art I have no clue what the fuck they're talking about.
I'm now halfway through The Time Machine Did It by former Simpsons writer John Schwartzwelder and I'm laughing like an idiot by myself at the desk here. It's fucking hilarious, and I found a joke in there that Louis CK stole for one of his specials.
Let me know what you're reading or any book recommendations. I'm up for anything - fiction or non-fiction. History, politics, humor, whatever.
I finished A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy O'Toole over Monday and Tuesday. I love this book, it's hilarious. The backstory of the book is a bummer though - the author wrote it in the 60s, no one was interested in publishing it, and he fell into a depression and committed suicide in 1969. His mom finds a manuscript for Confederacy in his belongings and continues to shop it around in her son's memory, finally handing it to an author who got in published in 1980, and it won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1981 and became a classic. So this poor guy never got to see the success of his brainchild.
Over Wednesday and Thursday I read The Four Agreements book that Rogan recommended, which I didn't take much out of, and a book an art history, because every time I watch Jeopardy and they have a question about art I have no clue what the fuck they're talking about.
I'm now halfway through The Time Machine Did It by former Simpsons writer John Schwartzwelder and I'm laughing like an idiot by myself at the desk here. It's fucking hilarious, and I found a joke in there that Louis CK stole for one of his specials.
Let me know what you're reading or any book recommendations. I'm up for anything - fiction or non-fiction. History, politics, humor, whatever.
