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Last mention of Goodreads

With much well placed enthusiasm I trust I share just this once more about what I'm doing over at Goodreads.

Beginning this wake period i'm documenting my reading journey in what may be laughingly called "reviews", they aren't obviously, a review looks at things objectively, I look at these books differently, in a manner of deep reverence, and gratitude, I need to think of them this way to finish them, it's not within my power to keep reading things I dislike, and even when I LOVE a book 9.6 out of 10 times I've as of yet never finished them.

All of that will slowly begin to fade in the wake of my thunderous cyclone of a reading plan, a venture so half-brained and ludicrous, that for a long long time all who gaze at it, my efforts, all dated with the time of day even will snicker, and not take seriously. It is a realization that will surprise me more than any who would spend more than just a few moments pondering the scope and delirious lengths it goes to, only that in a few short months of daily documentation will instill in minds the laying down of the concrete, and all the tar and yellow and white lines making a large complex of roads, and vehicles driving on them. The roads are the plan, the vehicles are the books.

Slowly, ever so slowly, and with a design that is perfected and made more pure as I progress each "review" may evolve into proper reviews.

When I look at a book's reviews at Goodreads, I find well written reviews and I feel like a schmuck who could never do it that well, but if I'm ever gonna be a voice that however most microscopically worthy of such great works, then I will have to work at it, to learn how to process information properly I will have to work it all out, and show the work in my "reviews".

Reading for me is thee thing, I shouldn't be posting anything else on SW for awhile now that i've gotten all this off my chest, and because some kind souls here may be interested, if I haven't repulsed them by now, may take a jolly glance every now and then at how epically this most assuredly crazy person is doing. Link below.


https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/163427904-jeff?order=d&sort=review&view=reviews

I very much enjoyed my latest chunk of time on SW, there's been a few that made my tenure this time well worth it, if it be ok, I make mention of the comedienne Bexsey, and the highly intelligent Miram as being people i'll never forget, even if I manage to break the addiction to this place, as well as my 2 dear friends bookerdana and Aliceinwonderland, thank you, and YoMamma who makes me smile and feel like i'm not that far gone. Peace, and this will be my sole pinned post for now. Gonna get rid of the old three, they were when ruminated on resembling a shambles in my effort to share the grand reading journey here, it has to be done on a reading based site. Thank you for understanding!!
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bookerdana · M
I'm really glad Kurt Vonnegut is still being read,some authors go in to a dormant period before being "rediscovered" by a new generation
GemApelJeff · 46-50, M
@bookerdana He's a fantastic author, and if ever dormant is just a sad comment on society ....:) I also have a huge hardcover of his short stories, may need to get his non-fiction at some point, there was a video where he was teaching how to write, and it was inspiring.
bookerdana · M
@GemApelJeff Happens all the time,man but they come back..several interviews on youtube...I always like to see my literary luminaries
GemApelJeff · 46-50, M
@bookerdana There'll come a day when someone says they're reading Stephen King, and the person they're talking to will say Stephen who??!!
bookerdana · M
@GemApelJeff Maybeeeee...hes stayed the course thus far


Heres Johnny😱
GemApelJeff · 46-50, M
@bookerdana He gets a lot of hate for his recent stuff though except the one about JFK of course. I plan on just doing classic King and would be alright if I didn't read much else from him, I tried Mr. Mercedes a couple times, and it's just not the same like some police procedural kind of vibe he was going for, but a little more spiced up I guess. The Shining is spooky! And I love the Kubrick rendition, only a true auteur can take liberty with a text. But in 3029 no one will know who he was or what he did until a little gypsy theater in 4611 puts on a play based on Thinner and the world rediscovers him!!
bookerdana · M
@GemApelJeff I read the one where there is an apocalyptic event and they find the anti Christ in Las Vegas..that last bit seemed a bit contrived...auteur is not a term that comes trippingly to my tongue..to me they're movies and film is the medium they are stored on..clearly I'm a hoi polloi extraordinare😒
GemApelJeff · 46-50, M
@bookerdana The Stand, for a withering review of that, Better Than Food, the coolest booktuber did that, I hated it when I watched the video!! .... that's too hoi polloi for me, I just like to know that the film I'm watching deserves to be immortalized in a museum, where skinny freckled teenagers debate about it in tuxedos.
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GemApelJeff · 46-50, M
@bookerdana Oh yeah, one of the few I finished was his much maligned Catcher in the Rye, I really dug that, had a moody quality I could identify with, I also think a lot of about big pop stars and how immoral they are .... just kidding thought I'd throw some red flags just for the heck of it!!
bookerdana · M
@GemApelJeff I remember reading Raise High the Roof beam,Carpenters and Seymour...John Updike is another fine author and literary critic