# All about books! **URL:** \ **Category:** Off-topic\ **Created:** [May 31, 2018, 6:21am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/all-about-books/2758 "2018-05-31T06:21:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![yrface](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/yrface/32/11793_2.png) [@yrface](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/yrface)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2018, 9:12pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/all-about-books/2758/41 "2018-06-03T21:12:44Z")
> [@milanfahrnholz](#): > > Fo **u** cault´s Pendulum Yeah that was the first one I read. It’s really dense, I think I understood maybe 80% but I still enjoyed it. Maybe it’s easier for you guys, but when he switches between 4 different languages its a challenge for me. ---
**Author:** ![Ema](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/ema/32/14101_2.png) [@Ema](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Ema)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2018, 9:13pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/all-about-books/2758/42 "2018-06-03T21:13:01Z")
Speaking about Eco, did anybody of you heard about Luther Blissett and Wu Ming? @milanfahrnholz, @yrface, @all ---
**Author:** ![milanfahrnholz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2018, 9:15pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/all-about-books/2758/44 "2018-06-03T21:15:25Z")
Focault´s Pendulum is a really funny satire where conspiracy theories lead into parnoia. A topic that is still hot these days maybe more than ever. I noticed many people didn´t get that. I loved the fact that people dubbed Focault´s Pendulum “the thinking man´s da vinci code” in recent years, because it´s really fitting. I also loved Name Of The Rose and Baudolino AKA Medieval Forrest Gump. > [@Ema](#): > > Luther Blissett and Wu Ming? Don´t think so. ---
**Author:** ![Ema](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/ema/32/14101_2.png) [@Ema](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Ema)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2018, 9:20pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/all-about-books/2758/45 "2018-06-03T21:20:21Z")
> [@yrface](#): > > > [@milanfahrnholz](#): > > > > Fo **u** cault´s Pendulum > > Yeah that was the first one I read. It’s really dense, I think I understood maybe 80% but I still enjoyed it. Maybe it’s easier for you guys, but when he switches between 4 different languages its a challenge for me. Hmhmmmm I’m afraid I have to admit I’m not the same as some years ago. I have read some Italo Svevo and some James Joyce after High school, but I don’t think I’d still be able now. Same for Javier Marias (Book of The Year 2002 with Tomorrow in The Battle Think on Me). I have read three books by him. The first easiliìy, the second hardly, the third with big effort. I didn’t have the courage to face a fourth. It’s a shame, since Tomorrow is unbelievable. ---
**Author:** ![Ema](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/ema/32/14101_2.png) [@Ema](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Ema)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2018, 9:26pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/all-about-books/2758/46 "2018-06-03T21:26:17Z")
There was a legend about Eco in the eighties in Italy. Some said that it was a nom de plume for a secret society made of historians, philosophers, writers, semioticians, and one actor (the guy with the beard). Well, [Luther Blissett](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Blissett_(nom_de_plume)) and [Wu Ming](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Ming) are basically the same thing, but for true. Check them out. Their style is declaredly inspired by Eco. ---
**Author:** ![yrface](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/yrface/32/11793_2.png) [@yrface](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/yrface)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2018, 9:27pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/all-about-books/2758/48 "2018-06-03T21:27:41Z")
> [@milanfahrnholz](#): > > I also loved Name Of The Rose and Baudolino AKA Medieval Forrest Gump 😆 That’s a good one for Baudolino. I also like The Island of the Day Before. I started Prague Cemetery but never finished that for some reason… must have run out of brain cells. ---
**Author:** ![milanfahrnholz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2018, 9:29pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/all-about-books/2758/49 "2018-06-03T21:29:32Z")
I enjoyed reading Baudolino from the very first page since it starts with a mention of my home town where a crusade was started. Also I find the history of King Frederick greatly engrossing. ---
**Author:** ![Gffp](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/gffp/32/12183_2.png) [@Gffp](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Gffp)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2018, 9:32pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/all-about-books/2758/50 "2018-06-03T21:32:58Z")
Ah, regarding Regensburg… do you know if those are efficient? [https://shop.mosquitocontrol.eu/en/Against-Tiger-Mosquitoes/BG-Mosquitaire-against-tiger-mosquitoes.html](https://shop.mosquitocontrol.eu/en/Against-Tiger-Mosquitoes/BG-Mosquitaire-against-tiger-mosquitoes.html) They have been developed by the local University. (sorry for the off topic) ---
**Author:** ![milanfahrnholz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2018, 9:34pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/all-about-books/2758/51 "2018-06-03T21:34:49Z")
I have no idea. ---
**Author:** ![PiecesOfKate](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/piecesofkate/32/93_2.png) [@PiecesOfKate](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/PiecesOfKate)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 11:40am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/all-about-books/2758/53 "2018-06-04T11:40:39Z")
So who’s Joe R Lansdale? > [@Ema](#): > > I have a record of the dates in which I have read a good half of all the books I have read… I think I can make a game… > > Best book of the year, from 1984 to 2018! So is the game to guess your best books from those years? > [@milanfahrnholz](#): > > American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (remember my first avatar?) I love that book, and avatar 🙂 > [@milanfahrnholz](#): > > The Big Sleep by Ramond Chandler (the classic hard boiled detective story) I’ve not read that but one of my favourite quotes comes from it: ‘It was as dark as a truckload of assholes.’ > [@milanfahrnholz](#): > > Marionettes Inc. by Ray Bradbury (somehow that ending twist stuck with me) I don’t actually think I’ve read that one… I’m too scared to Google it in case it tells me the twist! Is it a short story? ---
**Author:** ![milanfahrnholz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 11:43am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/all-about-books/2758/54 "2018-06-04T11:43:24Z")
> [@PiecesOfKate](#): > > Joe R Lansdale The guy who wrote Bubba Ho Tep? > [@PiecesOfKate](#): > > I love that book, and avatar 🙂 I´d actually love to have a copy with that cover. Too bad it´s only on a british hardcover from 1991 (while the american original has just a photo of a guy who weirdly looks like Guy Pearce). > [@PiecesOfKate](#): > > I don’t actually think I’ve read that one… I’m too scared to Google it in case it tells me the twist! Is it a short story? It´s from The Illustrated Man collection, so I think you should know it. ---
**Author:** ![PiecesOfKate](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/piecesofkate/32/93_2.png) [@PiecesOfKate](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/PiecesOfKate)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 12:11pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/all-about-books/2758/55 "2018-06-04T12:11:01Z")
> [@milanfahrnholz](#): > > The guy who wrote Bubba Ho Tep? I’ve never heard of that, but just read a synopsis and it sounds amazing! > [@milanfahrnholz](#): > > I´d actually love to have a copy with that cover. Too bad it´s only on a british hardcover from 1991 (while the american original has just a photo of a guy who weirdly looks like Guy Pearce). I’m pretty sure my paperback has that cover… I just went to look but think it’s at my mum’s, tut. But still too bad for you I guess 😜 Here are my versions of some we’ve been discussing – could be interesting to compare. The one I’ve had to strategically overlap is Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk. It was great reading that on the train… ![DSC_0858](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/thimbleweedpark/original/2X/e/e960be37ccfde4ac05ccb5f9a594859b607b2d57.JPG) I’ve also just remembered that Choke is the one I got signed at the reading. It’s an ex-library book. He obviously didn’t know that and asked why it was covered in plastic 😑 > [@milanfahrnholz](#): > > It´s from The Illustrated Man collection, so I think you should know it. Oh, I have read it then. I’ve Googled it now – it seems vaguely familiar. I remember others more from that set of stories (and they’ve appeared in other of his books too I guess). Oh I’ve just remembered Kaleidoscope 😢 ---
**Author:** ![Guga](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/guga/32/14476_2.png) [@Guga](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Guga)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 1:33pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/all-about-books/2758/56 "2018-06-04T13:33:28Z")
> [@uriel](#): > > And I immediately thought, “hey, how come there’s no thread about books in TWP?!” 😱 Hey, there was one 😛 [Funniest books you've ever read](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/funniest-books-youve-ever-read/1396) But it was centered on suggestions on humorous books, because I like to laugh, and it’s very difficult to find humorous novels, and also because I like to write, but I like to write comedic stuff, and reading funny books gives me inspiration. ---
**Author:** ![milanfahrnholz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 1:40pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/all-about-books/2758/57 "2018-06-04T13:40:01Z")
Books I have read and have absolutly zero recollections of. Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections Henry Miller - Tropic Of Cancer Gael Garcia Marquez - 100 Years of Solitude 📖 🤷‍♂️ ---
**Author:** ![PiecesOfKate](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/piecesofkate/32/93_2.png) [@PiecesOfKate](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/PiecesOfKate)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 2:00pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/all-about-books/2758/58 "2018-06-04T14:00:08Z")
> [@milanfahrnholz](#): > > Books I have read and have absolutly zero recollections of. > [@milanfahrnholz](#): > > Gael Or of the author, it seems 😜 ---
**Author:** ![milanfahrnholz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 2:31pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/all-about-books/2758/59 "2018-06-04T14:31:31Z")
> [@PiecesOfKate](#): > > Or of the author, it seems 😜 And you also know who I was thinking of? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![PiecesOfKate](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/piecesofkate/32/93_2.png) [@PiecesOfKate](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/PiecesOfKate)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 3:27pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/all-about-books/2758/60 "2018-06-04T15:27:07Z")
> [@milanfahrnholz](#): > > And you also know who I was thinking of? 😉 You mean with ‘Gael’? No, I don’t… ---
**Author:** ![milanfahrnholz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 3:36pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/all-about-books/2758/61 "2018-06-04T15:36:41Z")
> [@PiecesOfKate](#): > > > [@milanfahrnholz](#): > > > > And you also know who I was thinking of? 😉 > > You mean with ‘Gael’? No, I don’t… Anyone? ---
**Author:** ![yrface](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/yrface/32/11793_2.png) [@yrface](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/yrface)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 3:36pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/all-about-books/2758/62 "2018-06-04T15:36:52Z")
> [@milanfahrnholz](#): > > Gael Garcia Marquez - 100 Years of Solitude 😆 What a coincidence… I did the opposite when I was talking to my wife about the actor Gael García Bernal, I accidentally called hom Gabriel Garcia Marquez 🤦‍♂️ ---
**Author:** ![milanfahrnholz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 3:39pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/all-about-books/2758/63 "2018-06-04T15:39:11Z")
I always have to think real hard not to make those mistakes when talking about either of them. I´m just glad there is no way to mix up the names of the director of 12 Years A Slave and the lead actor of Bullit… [Previous page](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/all-about-books/2758.md?page=2) [Next page](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/all-about-books/2758.md?page=4)