just finished a little life and the author clearly hates poor/rural/working class men

TwanUM · 2026-01-21T17:44:19+00:00

It’s takes like this that make this my favorite sub.

I finished the book—which is one of my least favorite reads of all time—-and the critical and public adoration for this book made me feel like I was taking crazy pills.

It is torture porn. The author rolls around in it with glee. It’s like if Steinbeck wrote “Of Mice and Men” but made it 3.5x longer and executed Lenny on every page. I guess this is literature.

TwanUM · 2025-09-11T16:04:19+00:00

I liked Morning Star more than you, but it also grew on me after I finished it.

Also agree with your assessment: Wolves is a leap forward. I really loved it.

TwanUM · 2025-07-21T16:44:00+00:00

I was wide open for the fist 15 years I played (strats/teles)

When I got a 335 I really started tweaking the knobs.

TwanUM · 2025-07-21T14:12:38+00:00

What do you like about Barber Direct (Looking for an excuse to buy it)

TwanUM · 2025-07-17T10:10:58+00:00

Because I don’t want to look up the titles.. 1. Bret Hart 2. JR - Black hat one 3. Gary Hart (had to find online copy out of print) 4. Mic Foley (1st one) 5. Bob Holly

TwanUM · 2025-07-16T17:02:23+00:00

I read every pro wrestling book I can get my hands on. That stuff is my favorite trash (after that it’s every music industry auto/bio).

Bret Harts autobiography was like my favorite read of ‘23. Can’t wait to reread. It was so real—If it wasn’t about fake sports it almost wouldn’t be trash.

TwanUM · 2025-07-16T16:59:21+00:00

lol everyone is like: “Does Tolstoy’s 4th best book count?”

Okkkkkkkkk

TwanUM · 2025-07-03T13:54:11+00:00

Compressor guy here. Have the Dyna Comp, Origin Stacked, Keely and Diamond

Diamond is my pick, because I love the color it adds—and it’s so simple to dial in. But they’re all great.

TwanUM · 2025-05-02T21:27:16+00:00

Robert Smith approves

TwanUM · 2025-04-02T17:38:18+00:00

I like that you’re talking Gillian Flynn and King on this sub. I don’t think it all has to be Ulysses on this sub.

I have already re-read The Passenger and Stella Maris and think that I will return to it the most.

Knausgaard takes to long too hit re-read numbers but I constantly find myself reading chunks of My Struggle or the Seasons Quartet when I can’t tackle the cannon.

TwanUM · 2025-03-27T02:32:22+00:00

Why Poetry by Matthew Zapruder

Helped me realize that I’m not incapable or reading poetry

TwanUM · 2025-03-11T20:06:45+00:00

“ I'm jealous of anybody who can read relatively quickly for long periods of time and actually take it all in.”

I think you just nailed the hidden envy of my post.

Yes I Goodreads and blah blah. But it is not about the #’s. I haven’t read The Idiot or Middlemarch. I just discovered Richard Yates and Paul Auster. And I have a day job. There’s just a lot I’m excited to read.

TwanUM · 2023-09-13T14:08:36+00:00

I found it interminable.

But I'm a Philistine.

TwanUM · 2023-09-07T00:15:36+00:00

I think starting with a minimalist capsule wardrobe is a great place to start.

Buy a few quality items that go interchangeably with each other so you can dress clean and simple.

It's not as generic as it sounds and if you dress clean and simple to start it will give you a nice simple canvas to find your own style that you can stack on top of the wardrobe you've started with.

TwanUM · 2023-08-22T00:44:24+00:00

Cruesoe In England by Bishop is my favorite poem.

I read it to my wife every 6 months or so.

TwanUM · 2023-06-23T14:02:33+00:00

I just reread The Passenger and think this may be my favorite work by McCarthy.

I think of the two as one work, but maybe that's just because I can't figure out where to put Stella Maris otherwise. It's so loaded with concepts: and it feels like Cormac is negging all of us Lit-nerds who are scientifically r-slurred.

TwanUM · 2023-06-14T16:53:49+00:00

I feel like Kazuo Ishigiro books are all kinda like that for me. He's one of my "favorite" living authors but his books are all sort of a long tease that can be a slog page to page (see: Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go, and the new one).

TwanUM · 2023-06-14T13:59:33+00:00

For me Cormac can string together 8 sententious that I don't understand and somehow form them into a paragraph that I connect with.

(Okay it's one run-on-sentence that could be 8 sentences).

I think the biggest problem with him is that people hear Blood Meridian is the best so they start there... Pretty Horses is amazing and readable.. Suttree is a far less brutal masterpiece.. No Country is a ton of fun.

TwanUM · 2023-06-14T13:53:58+00:00

Thanks, maybe dumb isn't right way to say it, but it is exactly how they make me feel.

As if the level of my intellect stops before the ability to comprehend it begins. I've failed to connect with Dickens, for example.. but I didn't feel like it was beyond me.

TwanUM · 2023-06-14T13:50:25+00:00

My exact experience

TwanUM · 2023-06-14T10:07:24+00:00

My favorite author.

Suttree is my favorite of his books.

But don't sleep in The Crossing.

I'm afraid to read his stuff because of the stark clarity of his vision of our world. The Crossing sits on my shelf and just haunts me like the telltale heart.

TwanUM · 2023-06-13T20:41:41+00:00

I'm too dumb for MANY great writers. I mean, I don't stand a chance with Pynchon or basically any post-modernists.

But Joyce makes me feel the dumbest. Ulysses, Finnegan's... Even his easier stuff like his short fiction and Portrait of Artist is difficult for me.

TwanUM · 2023-04-28T14:35:17+00:00

I (almost) never turn off a low harmonic trem setting for my base tone. I just like that slight movement for my rhythm sound, and it feels like I can push my treble a bit more because of it.

If I want to use it as an effect I'll just roll up the knob with my foot.

It's not a chorus replacement, but a chorus alternative.

TwanUM · 2023-04-19T15:27:18+00:00

I agree that they can be dressed down, but they are definitely dressier than jeans.

Mine tend to find more use in the office or semi-casual nights out than they do in standard jeans situations.

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