I do, I remember I once hitchhiked across Europe and my ride put on Stadium Arcadium. I almost died. And when it was over, the real surprise came. It's a double CD.
I think RHCP is the best musical example of 'Awful taste, great execution' (for me). Good musicians, but it makes my fucking skin crawl.
Weyts got the post at the end of 2019. You can see the problem spiral completely out of control under his lead. Maybe someone in his cabinet should look into how his predecessor curbed the rise of vacancies.
Regift it. Maybe find someone who enjoys chewing on those strips of blown-out truck tires that you find on the side of the highway!
It’s as diverse as the demographic that uses Tiktok, so not very. But I think youtube serves a more diverse audience. Love seeing youtubers who seamlessly switch from fantasy and young adult to classics and back again.
As a non-Brazilian, I’d like to add Os Sertões (Rebellion in the baclands) by Euclides da Cunha. That one messed me up for weeks.
I often feel blessed with a “small” language as my native tongue. We have a very strong tradition of (mostly) excellent translations and readers here are generally very curious about stuff that was written in different countries and cultures.
For those of you who speak Dutch: check out Roger Van de Velde. He was in prison and institutions for almost all of his adult life and wrote some truely amazing work.
Uitgeverij Vrijdag recently republished some of it. I can recommend ‘Scheiding van goederen’ and ‘De knetterende schedels’.
That was a nice read. Publishing sorely needs more of this.
I really hate the hit-or-miss strategy of many publishers of the last three decades. Publish ten books fast and hope one takes off and makes up for the others. It’s not fair to the talent that gets smothered by all the crap that surrounds it, it fosters a kind of clickbaity-approach to writing, and then there’s the massive amounts of wasted paper…
‘Whatever works’ is always the best rule. I kind of started doing it because I hated going to peoples houses, glancing at every single book in their bookshelves - as every sane person does - asking about a title and hearing ‘oh, I haven’t read that one’.
I try to do it before I even touch it. 😊
The best way to do that is to select your next reads by relying on your own previous reading (that gets easier as you read more), or on the opinions or recommendations of people that know you very well or have very similar tastes.
I haven't abandoned a single book in years. The few times I was tempted to throw something aside, it was because I was misled by hype (and comparisons that seemed promising but didn't deliver), or - most commonly - because someone gave it to me as a present.
I have a strict set of rules, and I've managed to hold on to them for over 15 years now.
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