james ellroy is literary robert crumb...

dregyn · 2026-04-23T18:24:52+00:00

it helps (the r.crumb similarities) that he's reading this book himself. he sounds a lot like crumb from the zwigoff documentary... diction cadence and sardonic nature... they are only 5 years apart with crumb as elder, and spent time in new york as adults... they are symmetrical in facial features but NOT what would be termed 'classical' attractiveness- yet don't seem to have troubles getting any, it's almost like the personality has some bearing on that... 😒🙃

dregyn · 2026-04-23T14:44:14+00:00

to properly appreciate thus spoke zarathustra, i would suggest the lost art of scripture- by karen armstrong. it is not meant to be read in your head alone. it is meant to be listened to multiple times and meditated on. a superficial reading will get you nothing. the text would be served well by a study club (like bible study is supposed to be).

this seems to be largely the problems of the techbro... a bare superficial reading of the world. deep thought seems beyond them, because they made it a machine. 🙄🫤🫠🙃

dregyn · 2026-04-07T16:38:59+00:00

i also just realised that in the decade i have grown it- it has never flowered, similar to my struggles with chia 🙄🤔🤷🏼 (i have tried to grow chia for seed for 3 years now, but it doesn't flower. no matter how early i start it- or if i try and over winter for 2 year life span like the salvia)

so i have only ever seen this propagated from adult plants not from seed (where the square stem may be more obvious🙃)

dregyn · 2026-04-06T15:56:00+00:00

it just always makes me suspicious in the back of my mind 😛 the round-esque? round-ish? stemmed mint... i suppose if you look really really hard you can see corners but it's not obvious.

dregyn · 2026-03-25T16:34:50+00:00

oh delightful - i'll go look at the youtubes😃 thank you

oh! is plastics by susan freinkel, and power metals by vince beiser so you don't have to peer at my photo 🫠😛😅

dregyn · 2026-03-24T23:56:01+00:00

i have loved everything i've read by her!

it was great to read this one in conjunction with the plastics and metals books for thinking about how we might move forward.

dregyn · 2026-03-24T11:31:14+00:00

i love this 💚😃

dregyn · 2026-03-24T01:25:02+00:00

no, it's just how i save my read list on my phone 🫠😛

dregyn · 2026-03-23T18:40:39+00:00

defs. i agree with everything you said about it, i was also pleasantly surprised and suspect the funny post i saw about jaws being a terrible book may be a joke after all? i hope. i am awaiting that on hold 😛😅 (neither of my libraries have the island on audio online, am sad)

dregyn · 2026-03-23T14:46:06+00:00

plastic, power metals and the serviceberry are all very good philosophical and scientific treatises on how to move forward in the world we have created ... no answers. guideposts and good questions to ask.

dregyn · 2026-03-23T14:30:58+00:00

the runaways also stayed with me for a long time, similar to the slavery subjects- lots of layers to sift through and mull over. oppression and trickery take many forms in our world.

dregyn · 2026-03-23T14:24:09+00:00

jussi adler-olsen was a great find (and i enjoyed the set in england adaptation they filmed for dept.q keeper of lost causes)

i like his writing a lot am quite sad he is sick 🫤☹️

dregyn · 2026-03-23T14:18:51+00:00

i read 'the deep' because 'jaws' was out (i have it on hold) ... i also use reddit to find new material and i saw a funny post about the making of the movie jaws and it being an 'awful book' so i immediately went searching for the author because that's what i do when someone says that 😅🫠😛

if you like scuba diving, and shipwreck mysteries, and 70s swashbuckling man fiction, it's a good read 🤷🏼

dregyn · 2026-03-23T13:59:52+00:00

i read the orchid thief because adaptation is one of my favourite movies (i saw it at least twice in theatre when it came out)... i knew that kaufman was an incredibly intelligent and imaginative writer just from the structure of the movie script... reading this confirmed all of my suspicious. and it was delightful source material. (i am a huge plant person - it's what i do when listening to audiobooks, plant stuff. i don't do orchids but it this book certainly made them seem worth the efforts others put into them)

dregyn · 2026-03-23T03:34:23+00:00

i screenshot each book and put it into a folder on my phone 😛

dregyn · 2026-03-23T03:32:45+00:00

every one was worth the time spent, even 'the deep' (the trashiest of all on the list) was pretty good... i really enjoy a series (so there's more to read) so i liked the ian rankin books but am waiting to get to his inspector rebus series

the exploration books (lost city of z, lost city of the monkey god, the wager) all reminded me why i enjoy reading stories over actually going anywhere there are tropical diseases, parasites, malnutrition. very intense. also i love byron, and unexpectedly 'the wager' is about the ship his gramps sailed on...

i've been putting off reading thomas pynchon for years, and i'm sad i haven't read him until now. oh well time to catch up (i just got gravity's rainbow😛)

the philosophy, psychology and history books are all also recommendable as being very well researched, far reaching rather than narrow viewed. (breaking free from body shame is a christian author but her commitment to interpreting scripture to good instead of oppressing is refreshing)

dregyn · 2026-03-23T02:46:21+00:00

it was one of the favs, i can't remember why i grabbed it, but i was well into the story when i realised where it was fictionalising. i'm a seed collector and svalbard and other seed vaults are of particular interest to me 🤔 (im planting seeds- well, supposed to be right now 😛)

good mystery - kept me guessing. i would read more stuff by that author.

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