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Just a heads up that Adonis Rogers' Dating Tips don't load ('Oops, we couldn’t find that playlist.'). Great, baffling reads otherwise!

unimaginable-heights 3 years ago

oh :/ they work fine here so i don't know what to do :(

pikemalarkey 3 years ago

Okay, Privacy Badger was blocking it. All good now :)

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pikemalarkey readingproject

3 years ago

I was reading the 'favourites' page and that passage in Foucault's Pendulum was precisely the one that made me refuse to read it. Now I feel that maybe I was too hasty in dismissing it...

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readingproject 3 years ago

I’ve heard others say the same thing. But be patient with it. The first chapter sets up the story well and the rest is really intriguing. Eco can be a little heavy with erudition, but this is actually a lighter read than The Name of the Rose in my opinion.

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readingproject 3 years ago

Maybe I need to pick a better quote

readingproject 3 years ago

And I’ve neglected that page for a long while. I haven’t even added Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin series yet!

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pikemalarkey 3 years ago

I think I was also quite young and judgmental when I first came across it. Will give this a real go at the next opportunity!

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pikemalarkey ratshack

4 years ago

Thanks for the follow : ) I know nothing about programming (short of some beginner HTML) but I like the Daily Finds page!

ratshack 4 years ago

Thank you! I had a good time poking around on your site and reading the poetry. I was also determined to find the photo of your teeth promised on the homepage and was very proud when I did so. Time well spent :)

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unimaginable-heights pikemalarkey

4 years ago

Hey of course you can "borrow" my idea, it doesn't really belong to me hehe :) it makes me well happy to see people put in the effort to make these little directories, as I think they're one of the best ways of encouraging discoveries of new sites. Love what you're doing btw. Have you read The Corrections? I'm reading it now, some of it is set in Lithuania but I think it might not be a very accurate depiction.

pikemalarkey 4 years ago

Cheers! Perhaps it doesn't, but I figured courtesy doesn't cost anything :) I will work the link page into my next site update. I haven't read The Corrections. It seems to have picked up some awards, but do you recommend it based on what you've read so far?

unimaginable-heights 4 years ago

Yeah I'm really enjoying it actually! If you can see past the Lithuania stuff. It's not the only thing in the book that seems wildly unrealistic though, it's a kind of interesting blend of hyper-realism and almost-surrealism. And even though it's written in the third person there seems to be an element of "unreliable narrator".

unimaginable-heights 4 years ago

I think it's partly to show that we can never know what other people are going through and how the world looks from their perspective, and so it's very hard to make moral judgements. The whole feel of the book is feverish. And also really bleak and hollow. It's good!

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pikemalarkey 4 years ago

Thanks for going into detail, sounds intriguing. I'll add it to my book list. Something I heard about making judgements recently and liked: if you are judging someone, you don't understand the totality of influences that are working on them. So the book sounds like it would be my kind of thing :)

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pikemalarkey nohappynonsense

4 years ago

Oh hai, glad you're back!

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