What are you reading?

2016-06-27 at 7:16 AM UTC

#41

The Self Taught Man Black Hole

I'm still not releasing it. Some random person in the UK has the ONLY fucking copy I sold. I don't know who they are.

ON TOPIC: I am reading "The gods themselves" by issac asmiov. Really cool book, middle bit is the most interesting. Fucking love soft ones and hard ones.

2016-06-27 at 7:17 AM UTC

#42

The Self Taught Man Black Hole

Also I never posted a sample or first chapter anywhere.

2016-06-27 at 11:37 AM UTC

#43

The Self Taught Man Black Hole

Oh, I bet you feel so special now.

2016-06-27 at 11:42 AM UTC

#44

The Self Taught Man Black Hole

Some random person in the UK has the ONLY fucking copy I sold.

We need to track this guy down.

Facebook has this much saved from the pastebin link title. (This is the only text from the book in existence)

"I guess it worked, wasn't long after that when I had"

2016-07-07 at 5:17 PM UTC

#45

The Self Taught Man Black Hole

I never posted a chapter, any wayback machine efforts are in vain.

On topic, I've been trying to read Brave New World, I read 1984 a few months ago for the first time and this seemed like a good contrast. I can't get in the mood though, my mind is still swarming from finishing Issac Asimov's The Gods Themselves. I re-read part II 2.5 times. So fucking good, I just wish he wasn't so DRY for the rest of the book. It was hard to read at some points, didn't really enjoy part I much.

2016-07-07 at 5:21 PM UTC

#46

The Self Taught Man Black Hole

Off topic, post hitchhiked into conception plz.

2016-07-07 at 9:47 PM UTC

#47

The Self Taught Man Black Hole

Off topic, no.

Stop asking, it's unbecoming of you.

2016-07-11 at 3:22 AM UTC

#48

SBTlauien African Astronaut

Toff opic.

2016-07-11 at 7:40 AM UTC

#49

Lanny Bird of Courage

Asimov is one of my favorite genre fiction authors. His autobiography was really interesting, his non-fiction is pretty fun too. Despite it being considered his most significant work I never could finish the Foundation series, although I want to try again after hearing his own account of it, as well as those of others, about it being an analogy to Gibbon's Decline and Fall.

Also yes §m£ÂgØL you shit, post your book, it couldn't possibly be that bad. You have sufficiently lowered our expectations and you've been offered the largest sum of your literary career for it.

2016-07-12 at 12:39 AM UTC

#50

The Self Taught Man Black Hole

Asimov is one of my favorite genre fiction authors. His autobiography was really interesting, his non-fiction is pretty fun too. Despite it being considered his most significant work I never could finish the Foundation series, although I want to try again after hearing his own account of it, as well as those of others, about it being an analogy to Gibbon's Decline and Fall.

Also yes §m£ÂgØL you shit, post your book, it couldn't possibly be that bad. You have sufficiently lowered our expectations and you've been offered the largest sum of your literary career for it.

How do his other fiction books compare to the gods themselves? I really had a hard time choking down a lot of it. Like *insert scientists name here* trying to stop the electron pumps, not so much for the story but GODDAMNED THE DIALOGUE jesus christ. Beg this guy, reason with that guy, hey maybe this GUY will get it. I get the feels he was trying to add, but I think he took way too long in doing it. It was like reading the same shit for 20 pages. I'm sure you know what I mean. I liked hearing about moon food, or their moon sports, about the soft ones and their weird contour line emotional signs.

Still, I really fucking love the world he created, I just wish I'd have gotten to read more of it.

Also, fuck off m8. I've made more from my writing than 20 dollars.

2016-07-13 at 5:50 AM UTC

#51

Lanny Bird of Courage

How do his other fiction books compare to the gods themselves? I really had a hard time choking down a lot of it. Like *insert scientists name here* trying to stop the electron pumps, not so much for the story but GODDAMNED THE DIALOGUE jesus christ. Beg this guy, reason with that guy, hey maybe this GUY will get it. I get the feels he was trying to add, but I think he took way too long in doing it. It was like reading the same shit for 20 pages. I'm sure you know what I mean. I liked hearing about moon food, or their moon sports, about the soft ones and their weird contour line emotional signs.

The Gods Themselves definitely leaned more "literary" (or maybe some imitation thereof) than his other work, much of which is characterized by pretty utilitarian prose, if that's what you mean. Have you read any of his collections of short stories? I, Robot is probably the most famous although it has no real relation to the film. The Foundation series is probably considered his largest project in world building and is again more A to B writing, which surprisingly doesn't really increase the pace of things.

Also, fuck off m8. I've made more from my writing than 20 dollars.

You said the the only copy of Hitchhiked into Conception you sold was to some English dude, as I recall it was selling for $4. I'm actually curious, have you sold some other piece of writing more successfully?

2016-07-16 at 12:03 AM UTC

#52

Malice Naturally Camouflaged

You said the the only copy of Hitchhiked into Conception you sold was to some English dude, as I recall it was selling for $4. I'm actually curious, have you sold some other piece of writing more successfully?

Oh, I remember him making a thread or post about working for one of those freelance writing websites.

2016-07-17 at 7:25 PM UTC

#53

The Self Taught Man Black Hole

I have a few articles floating around out there, and about a dozen books I brought back from the depths of illiteracy. None of the books have my name mentioned but a couple of the articles do. I helped do some writing/editing for a rehab program too, that was fun. Best money I made was 25/h+ editing an interview for the CEO of some bluray-related company. It keeps me from working on my own shit though, so I stopped doing it.

2016-07-17 at 9:10 PM UTC

#54

Lanny Bird of Courage

Huh, well that's cool. $25 an hour seems pretty great for a writing/editing gig for someone your age (or what I assume your age is). You couldn't do that and work on your own stuff nights and weekends or something? And it seems like you'd have to replace that income somehow, does a day job not get in the way or are you unemployed when you're working on your own stuff?

In any case, you're not fucking Kafka and your very sloppy personal life is already strewn all over these forums. You have an audience already invested in the book before reading a page, at least one of which is willing to pay. Whatever the quality of the writing is we want to read it, there's nothing to lose by posting it.

P.S. Has hydro read the book?

2016-07-22 at 10:12 AM UTC

#55

The Self Taught Man Black Hole

I dunno, I get worn out of MS WORD doing that kind of work, I need to keep writing fun and inviting, it started to feel like a chore. I still have two clients I occasionally do work for but yeah, I'm looking for a job right now. One that isn't min wage bullshit. I can work, come home, and relax with writing. Its hard to stay home, write, and stay at home relaxing with writing. Going to the library or outside to write doesn't do much to help that. Hydro has not read the book, I am considering releasing it to be honest. You're right, I have nothing to lose but my dignity and that has long gone.

2017-06-25 at 3:12 AM UTC

#56

gLAM gLAM Yung Blood [my anatomical seismological bailiffship]

I'm reading "The Complete Infidel's Guide to the Koran" right now. It's pretty good. Just finished Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Everything" and that was also good. Planning on re-reading the Neanderthal Parallax series next. what are you guys reading?

2017-06-25 at 4:29 AM UTC

#57

cerakote African Astronaut

reading the 2nd runelords story arc right now, "scions of the earth"

its good but not as good as the earth king story arc and has a mostly new set of characters

havent read any of the current book im on in weeks as ive been too caught up in drugs and vidya in the post graduation-pre work interim

2017-07-07 at 9:24 PM UTC

#58

The Self Taught Man Black Hole

Anybody read Harry Turtledove?

2018-10-18 at 9:45 PM UTC

#59

Zanick motherfucker [my p.a. supernal goa]

I'm rereading more closely The Mirror of Galadriel, a chapter in The Fellowship of the Ring, alongside corresponding sections of The History of Middle-Earth to try and discover just what the fuck is going on in her kingdom, why and how. She's a very complicated figure in the legendarium and I intend to form at least some conclusions about what her power represents.

2018-10-18 at 10:18 PM UTC

#60

mikeyagain African Astronaut [unalterably regard the persecutor]

OT.. Your mamas tats, OP..

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