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I just started this the other night. I know there are a lot of Jason Molina fans here, has anyone read this yet? So far it's really good. I had tried to buy the hardcover but was having a hard time getting a copy so I went with the e-book for now.
I'm about halfway through (chronologically, he's just about to record The Magnolia Electric Co).

It's not the easiest read in that it's kind of linear reporting (Then he went here, then he met these people, then they played that show...) but it connects a lot of dots I was already aware of and ties his career together.

Funny, I realized yesterday that I've been dragging my feet on picking it up because I know things are about to get real sad.
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Finished (this year, although mostly in the past three months, since I finally started taking advantage of my kindle) INPO:

Little Children - Tom Perotta
Born to Run -Springsteen
Trouble Boys (replacements book)
Petty - Warren Zanes
Scar Tissue - Anthony Kiedis
Girl on a Train - Paula Hawkins
The Revolution was Televised by Alan Sepinwall
Bunch of Tobias Wolff short story collections
Tuesday Night in 1980 - Molly something or another
That Highway Kind short story collection Patterson's story is in
The Muscle Shoals Legacy of FAME - Blake Ells
Murder in the Bayou (book about the Jennings 6) and a handful of true crime books
What Happened to Alternative Nation by Stephen Hyden
What if We're Wrong by Chuck Klosterman
Meet Me in the Bathroom (the NYC music scene book)
On Fire - Larry Brown
American Junkie by Tom Hansen
A Jimmy Carter book about Palestine, can't remember the name

Re-read:
Revolutionary Road - Yates
The Ice Storm - Moody
Misery, Skeleton Crew - Stephen King
The Rabbit Factory - Larry Brown
Feel like Going Home - Guralnick
Wilco - Greg Kott

Queued up:
Bunch of John Updike, Wolff and Yates
Buy more true crime books
X by Klosterman
Giant of the Senate - AL Franken
Old, Weird America/Lipstick Traces - Greil Marcus
Secret History of Twin Peaks - Mark Frost
Our Band Could Be Your Life - Azzerad
On the road with Bob Dylan - Larry Sloman
Matthew Weiner's Mad Men Volume 1
Across the Great Divide - the Band book

My breaks at work have gotten a lil longer since I got to wear I could stand to read an ebook
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Smitty wrote:Old, Weird America/Lipstick Traces - Greil Marcus
You know how I feel about Marcus (I think) and Old Weird America is definitely worth your time, but Lipstick Traces? Let us know what you think if you make it through. Or even if you don't. That be some heavy lifting.
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I just started this the other night. I know there are a lot of Jason Molina fans here, has anyone read this yet? So far it's really good. I had tried to buy the hardcover but was having a hard time getting a copy so I went with the e-book for now.
I'm about halfway through (chronologically, he's just about to record The Magnolia Electric Co).

It's not the easiest read in that it's kind of linear reporting (Then he went here, then he met these people, then they played that show...) but it connects a lot of dots I was already aware of and ties his career together.

Funny, I realized yesterday that I've been dragging my feet on picking it up because I know things are about to get real sad.
Well, that was... unpleasant.

It's kinda silly to be so impacted by the loss of someone I never even met, but Molina's death was oddly hard for me. I found something about it particular disturbing and it kinda fucked me up a little for a while.

This was kinda like going out of my way to be re traumatized.
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I just started this the other night. I know there are a lot of Jason Molina fans here, has anyone read this yet? So far it's really good. I had tried to buy the hardcover but was having a hard time getting a copy so I went with the e-book for now.
I'm about halfway through (chronologically, he's just about to record The Magnolia Electric Co).

It's not the easiest read in that it's kind of linear reporting (Then he went here, then he met these people, then they played that show...) but it connects a lot of dots I was already aware of and ties his career together.

Funny, I realized yesterday that I've been dragging my feet on picking it up because I know things are about to get real sad.
Well, that was... unpleasant.

It's kinda silly to be so impacted by the loss of someone I never even met, but Molina's death was oddly hard for me. I found something about it particular disturbing and it kinda fucked me up a little for a while.

This was kinda like going out of my way to be re traumatized.
This is exactly why I've been putting off reading this for so long. I have a feeling it's going to leave me in a funk for days. I can hardly listen to most of his music without a hollow ringing in my heart - he had a way of making pain and darkness so visceral.
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Beebs wrote:Well, that was... unpleasant.

It's kinda silly to be so impacted by the loss of someone I never even met, but Molina's death was oddly hard for me. I found something about it particular disturbing and it kinda fucked me up a little for a while.

This was kinda like going out of my way to be re traumatized.
I'm not finished yet but I get what you mean. I've spoken about Molina with Will Johnson a few times and he can't help but tearing up when he talks about him.
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Speaking of Molina, I'm assuming most of y'all have seen Jason Groth's 2009 tour journal. If not:

http://groakus.tumblr.com/
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Amazing writing... Philip Marlowe - lives life his way and takes shit from no-one. What's great about these books is that they never date, the cars, guns, police, society may be set in the 1940s, early '50s, but its still reads fresh.

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Amazing writing... Philip Marlowe - lives life his way and takes shit from no-one. What's great about these books is that they never date, the cars, guns, police, society may be set in the 1940s, early '50s, but its still reads fresh.
One of the best books ever written, and the one that got me onto gimlets whenever I felt blue, or nostalgic and blue.
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One of the best books ever written, and the one that got me onto gimlets whenever I felt blue, or nostalgic and blue.
:D :) :P That's hilarious! Almost all of these Noir novels feature a HELL of a lot of drinking and smoking. Practically everyone is a smoker, and drinking throughout the day was normal! I remember in one book the investigator went to a doctor at his surgery, and the doctor sat him down and offered him a cigarette (and had one himself) :D :ugeek:

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Been doing some reading while on summer vacation, next up is the new Jason Bourne book.

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Finally! Been wanting to read this since it came out. Our library never had it in, there was a long waiting list, so I just always moved on to the plethora of books that always await in my "to be read" stack. Found a cheap used book in a used store here in town last week. Started it on Friday and finished it last night. Such a great read, so worth the wait and even better than I expected (and having read years of glowing praise I had pretty high expectations).
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Definitely one of his best "Post-accident" efforts
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Zip City wrote:Definitely one of his best "Post-accident" efforts
I could barely put it down. Read over 400 pages the first night.

I was the world's biggest King fan up to the Talisman (read every single thing up to and including Talisman) but for some reason I don't recall I stopped reading him after that one. What have I missed that is "must-read"?
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whatwouldcooleydo? wrote:What have I missed that is "must-read"?
OMG, please no. There are probably 3, maybe more "sub-threads" w/in this thread just on King, his best periods and his must reads. Please say we don't have to do it again.
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Firs read or re-read? I loved, loved, loved this the first 2 times i read it. Picked it up a few years ago after a long hiatus and liked it but felt kind of let down compared to my memories. You?
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beantownbubba wrote:
whatwouldcooleydo? wrote:What have I missed that is "must-read"?
OMG, please no. There are probably 3, maybe more "sub-threads" w/in this thread just on King, his best periods and his must reads. Please say we don't have to do it again.
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whatwouldcooleydo? wrote:
beantownbubba wrote:
whatwouldcooleydo? wrote:What have I missed that is "must-read"?
OMG, please no. There are probably 3, maybe more "sub-threads" w/in this thread just on King, his best periods and his must reads. Please say we don't have to do it again.
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beantownbubba wrote:Too holier than thou?
In this case, no.
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Firs read or re-read? I loved, loved, loved this the first 2 times i read it. Picked it up a few years ago after a long hiatus and liked it but felt kind of let down compared to my memories. You?
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whatwouldcooleydo? wrote:
beantownbubba wrote:
whatwouldcooleydo? wrote:What have I missed that is "must-read"?
OMG, please no. There are probably 3, maybe more "sub-threads" w/in this thread just on King, his best periods and his must reads. Please say we don't have to do it again.
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Smitty you are one readin' mother fucker.

I read one at a time. Very slowly.
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How was this one?

These (non fiction deep dive into unusual topic) are the kind of books I really want to like but rarely do. Don't think I even finished Stiff.
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Rocky wrote:Smitty you are one readin' mother fucker.

I read one at a time. Very slowly.
I can't remember a time when I wasn't reading two or three books, but since I finally warmed up to reading ebooks I've been knocking some down.
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How was this one?

These (non fiction deep dive into unusual topic) are the kind of books I really want to like but rarely do. Don't think I even finished Stiff.
I've yet to be disappointed by Mary Roach. She is both informative, entertaining, and very "readable" for lack of a better word. "Grunt" is typical of her output.
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started this one last night

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