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by **Eli Katz** » Thu May 10, 2012 8:23 pm

Victorian Squid wrote:I'm reading some Dutch zen detective stories.

Was it reviewed recently in the New York Times?

I think I read about this.

by **Victorian Squid** » Thu May 10, 2012 8:33 pm

Eli Katz wrote:Was it reviewed recently in the New York Times?

I think I read about this.

Van de Wetering? I don't know, there might be something new out. He's been dead for a few years.

http://www.avramdavidson.org/wetering.htm

by **Eli Katz** » Thu May 10, 2012 11:04 pm

Victorian Squid wrote:
Van de Wetering? I don't know, there might be something new out. He's been dead for a few years.

http://www.avramdavidson.org/wetering.htm

Sounds fascinating.

Are you reading it in the original Dutch?

by **Victorian Squid** » Fri May 11, 2012 6:35 am

Eli Katz wrote:Sounds fascinating.

Are you reading it in the original Dutch?

I am reading it in the original Dutch while jump-roping in double-Dutch.

So there. :wink:

by **bkthomson** » Fri May 11, 2012 7:30 am

Snobs.

by **Victorian Squid** » Fri May 11, 2012 7:59 am

bkthomson wrote:Snobs.

Farm trash. Go play with your cornhole, farm trash!

(This is my new generic Midwesterner/Hoosier insult. If you would be so kind as to rate the level at which it stung you on a scale of 1-10, this would greatly help our product development team.)

by **bkthomson** » Fri May 11, 2012 8:22 am

Victorian Squid wrote:
Farm trash. Go play with your cornhole, farm trash!

(This is my new generic Midwesterner/Hoosier insult. If you would be so kind as to rate the level at which it stung you on a scale of 1-10, this would greatly help our product development team.)

Gawd, I hate Cornhole. Well really the name than the game, since I do not play the game. I first encountered Cornhole when I lived in Cincy. I was working in my lab and one of my co-worked comes in and say come on they are playing cornhole out side. Being from Michigan I never heard of Cornhole and had to ask him to stop explain what it was hoping that it was not as bad as the name sounded. Well it was not what I thought it was but it was still pretty bad, and could not fathom why it was not called the bean-bag toss then I remembered we were close to the Kentucky border which I then justified as as an imported name from state.

by **Victorian Squid** » Fri May 11, 2012 8:28 am

bkthomson wrote:
Gawd, I hate Cornhole. Well really the name than the game, since I do not play the game. I first encountered Cornhole when I lived in Cincy. I was working in my lab and one of my co-worked comes in and say come on they are playing cornhole out side. Being from Michigan I never heard of Cornhole and had to ask him to stop explain what it was hoping that it was not as bad as the name sounded. Well it was not what I thought it was but it was still pretty bad, and could not fathom why it was not called the bean-bag toss then I remembered we were close to the Kentucky border which I then justified as as an imported name from state.

I totally understand, I've only been back in the Midwest for several years, I moved away when I was young and it pre-dated the so-called "cornhole game" craze--when I was a kid in the Midwest, a "cornhole" was colloquially a part of the anatomy where the sun don't shine. So the first time I heard someone say they were going to play the cornhole game with their kids, I couldn't believe what I had just heard.

by **HNutz** » Mon May 14, 2012 9:09 pm

Only a few chapters in, but Unholy Knights is FUN!

by **Chris** » Sun May 20, 2012 1:57 pm

About to finish up A Drink Before The War by Dennis Lehane.

Been meaning to read these books for a while, as my only prior exposure to these characters was in the movie adaptation of Gone, Baby, Gone.

This one was good. A very quick read.

Going to start on Darkness, Take My Hand next.

by **Punchy** » Tue May 22, 2012 2:40 pm

by **Punchy** » Thu May 31, 2012 7:21 am

by **Chris** » Thu May 31, 2012 7:42 am

Punchy wrote:

Read The City & The City next. It's his best one.

by **Punchy** » Thu May 31, 2012 8:11 am

Holland Oats wrote:
Read The City & The City next. It's his best one.

I've already got 'The Scar' underneath it on my pile. I'll read that pseudo-trilogy first, before I read any others.

by **Zero** » Thu May 31, 2012 2:52 pm

Holland Oats wrote:
Read The City & The City next. It's his best one.

Agreed. I'd recommend splitting up the trilogy because they're all long, dense books and you run the risk of fatigue if you just plough through them one after another. Embassytown is similarly hard to grasp at points.