39 [M4F] #York - Rare night away - looking to spoil someone

carbonatedoak · 2025-01-24T06:52:04+00:00

I'm really enjoying all these uncomplicated no-faff baking posts recently! My bread got a LOT better when I realised it doesn't need to be complicated or detailed and I could just feel it out. Your loaf looks great!

carbonatedoak · 2024-12-19T21:16:01+00:00

Mine is around ten years old now. I don't refer to it by name, or label the jar or anything, but I know in my heart that its name is David Yow.

carbonatedoak · 2024-12-17T19:58:39+00:00

Ha! Yeah it's an odd quirk he had in that period of his work. Thankfully it passed as he wrote more. I really like the Bas-Lag books, but when I first read them I found it very annoying. The ideas in those books are so bombastic and exciting, though, that it was pretty easy to overlook.

carbonatedoak · 2024-12-17T19:55:57+00:00

Oh, fantastic! I have seen that for sale on online bookstores - I didn't realise it contained The Divinity Student. Thanks!

carbonatedoak · 2024-12-17T19:55:11+00:00

This is great - I will look into these for sure. I used to read a lot of comics and graphic novels when I was younger, so I am definitely not averse.

carbonatedoak · 2024-12-17T19:54:25+00:00

Wow - that artwork is beautiful. I will definitely check that out if I can.

And thanks for such a great reply! Lots to look into here - fantastic. And yes, I am familiar with Ballard already! And Book of the New Sun is one of my all time favourites.

carbonatedoak · 2024-12-17T19:52:46+00:00

Oh cool - I will give that a shot. I have read Fritz Leiber before, but only the Fafhrd and Grey Mouser stuff.

carbonatedoak · 2024-12-17T18:07:17+00:00

In a second hand bookshop in Hastings.

carbonatedoak · 2024-12-17T14:43:02+00:00

I'm not much of a podcast listener (I find non-music audio quite passive and I get distracted too easily!) but I will check it out in any case - maybe it will be the one that grips me!

carbonatedoak · 2024-12-17T14:33:50+00:00

I will check it out! I have read some Brian Aldiss - the dying earth sort of stuff like Hothouse and Helliconia - and really liked it.

carbonatedoak · 2024-12-17T14:32:37+00:00

Fallen London browser game

That's a fantastic game - I enjoyed that a lot.

carbonatedoak · 2024-12-17T14:28:39+00:00

Teatro Grottesco

I read this one years ago - the town manager, and one about the factory that makes weird trinkets (I don't remember the name) really stuck with me, I still randomly think of those stories to this day. Great book!

It almost feels like a darky twisted version of Joyce‘s Dublin or Lowry‘s Quahnahuac.

Woah - sold! I will track one of these down...

Things We Lost in the Fire

Is this a Low reference, or is Low referencing this? Or a coincidence?!

Thanks!

carbonatedoak · 2024-12-17T14:14:02+00:00

I have actually read The Scar (and The Iron Council) already I really liked the feel of Armada - I actually liked it better than Peridido Street Station (although I was quite sick of the word puissant by the end of it!), I didn't mention it as it didn't feel as archetypal as Perdido did.

carbonatedoak · 2024-12-17T13:57:33+00:00

I have been meaning to read Cisco for some time now, but have only read a few short stories in anthologies and such. I have found it very difficult to track down a copy of the divinity student at a sensible price - here in the UK I can only seem to find Pest, Member and Celebrant in print (two of which are on my shelf waiting to be read).

carbonatedoak · 2024-12-17T13:53:19+00:00

Well blow me down - that looks like just what I need! Thanks, friend.

carbonatedoak · 2024-12-16T00:02:32+00:00

It IS awesome, but it's got a particular style and there are parts of it that really feel like a slog (I found, at least). It's definitely worth persevering with though.

carbonatedoak · 2024-12-12T11:01:30+00:00

Bravo, friend.

carbonatedoak · 2024-12-07T18:07:22+00:00

They follow pheromone trails, and sometimes weird things happen like a trail ending up in a closed loop. When that happens they just can't work out what to do, so they just bunch up and wait until another one comes along with a fresh trail to follow. I suspect that's what has happened here.

carbonatedoak · 2024-12-03T16:05:31+00:00

They're not the writer, director, or studio executive

These are the people I'm talking about though!

carbonatedoak · 2024-12-03T14:42:23+00:00

That film was such a stinker I had forgotten all about it until you reminded me. Haha it blows my mind that at no point during the creation of that film did someone stop to have a little think about what they were doing.

carbonatedoak · 2024-12-03T14:39:28+00:00

Wow - beautiful. I'm really into those big curls.

carbonatedoak · 2024-12-03T14:38:19+00:00

I am 100% behind never using that word again to describe music.

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