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Ben O'Connell
@benjaminoc.bsky.social
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Dad, husband, promiscuous reader, former music geek, wannabe movie nerd, Montanan, NE DC Canine Knucklehead Ward co-founder, C-SPAN director of editorial operations
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Ben O'Connell @benjaminoc.bsky.social · 15h
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Ben O'Connell @benjaminoc.bsky.social · 1d
I am reading college application essays on 3 hours of sleep ama
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Ben O'Connell @benjaminoc.bsky.social · 2d
It’s very good. Sprawling yet nuanced.
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Ben O'Connell @benjaminoc.bsky.social · 2d
Curfew by Phil Rickman (holiday reading) and Beverly Gage’s G-Man
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Ben O'Connell @benjaminoc.bsky.social · 3d
And ruin *these* looks?
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Ben O'Connell @benjaminoc.bsky.social · 3d
Now, for a little holiday reading
Curfew by Phil Rickman
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Ben O'Connell @benjaminoc.bsky.social · 3d
The font size was readable in this edition, but I’ve seen mass market editions that would be completely impenetrable for me.
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Ben O'Connell @benjaminoc.bsky.social · 3d
Reading Samuel Beckett’s trilogy—Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable—is to live in a waking fever dream. Or, perhaps, especially the last book, a bad trip. I’ve read nothing like them before and must, someday in a distant future, read them again to process the experience.
Samuel Beckett’s THREE NOVELS
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Ben O'Connell @benjaminoc.bsky.social · 3d
Entering the homestretch
The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett, the third title in his Three Novels trilogy
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Ben O'Connell @benjaminoc.bsky.social · 5d
Thanks! I haven’t watched any of these. All now on my list.
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Ben O'Connell @benjaminoc.bsky.social · 5d
Loved that movie
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Ben O'Connell @benjaminoc.bsky.social · 5d
I haven’t, but it’s on my watchlist. I must have heard good things about it on a podcast?
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Ben O'Connell @benjaminoc.bsky.social · 5d
I don’t know Tourist Trap at all! Adding it to the list. I like the other two as well.
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Ben O'Connell @benjaminoc.bsky.social · 5d
Going under
Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett
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Ben O'Connell @benjaminoc.bsky.social · 5d
Alas, I’ve watched both. I liked them, though!
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Ben O'Connell @benjaminoc.bsky.social · 5d
What are the best ghosty/Halloweeny movies that I’ve not watched?
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Ben O'Connell @benjaminoc.bsky.social · 5d
I’ve read the first one and plan to read the others. It may well be your thing. The physical environment is integral to Peake’s vision.
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Ben O'Connell @benjaminoc.bsky.social · 6d
The reading, that is. The co-readers were always fun.
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Ben O'Connell @benjaminoc.bsky.social · 6d
I read Woods's translation of JOSEPH & HIS BROTHERS a couple years back with @ds228.bsky.social, @bibliopaul.bsky.social, @neglectedbooks.com, and some others. It was a worthwhile project if not always "fun."
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Ben O'Connell @benjaminoc.bsky.social · 6d
Gurnah was the most recent example for me, too. This century: Alexievich, Transtromer, Le Clezio, and Kertesz.
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Ben O'Connell @benjaminoc.bsky.social · 6d
No knock on the new guy, but I kinda like it when I’ve never heard of the winner.
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Ben O'Connell @benjaminoc.bsky.social · 6d
Have you read Peake’s Gormenghast books?
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Ben O'Connell @benjaminoc.bsky.social · 6d
Please tell me
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Ben O'Connell @benjaminoc.bsky.social · 6d
No seriously
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Ben O'Connell @benjaminoc.bsky.social · 6d
I finished MOLLOY and boy oh boy wtf
Samuel Beckett’s THREE NOVELS
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