Latest Gene Wolfe book you read (1-10 scale)

[featherboa]

a wizard of earthsea

what's the proper way to rate a kid's book?

10 fucking skulls

5 squirting juicy pricks

limp to erect [more cock action]

or just rate the sonofabitch like you would any other book.

I read the fuck out of that book

[BUNGVOX]

hell yeah....crank on that fucker.

paper cuts to the piss hole and foreskin.

currently reading 'the other hollywood: the uncensored oral history of the porn industry'

thus far 7 outta 10.

[Chad]

wide sargasso sea by jean rhys - 9

[Necrometer]

The Scar 9/10 This book was absolutely outstanding. Big thanks to Leon and Doad (or the ghosts thereof), since I am pretty sure I remember you two listing this book as a favorite. This is probably the pinnacle of written entertainment for me. The story was rolled out with more grace than I thought possible while keeping anticipation going strong. And some of the descriptions were phenomenal. I like how Mieville included the interludes where he could delve into full "poetry" mode without making the tone seem too disjointed overall. Great characters, great world, great tale.

[TheMooretician]

DUDE YES. Definitely check out Kraken as well, it also rules!

[Necrometer]

Will do! Not that excited about Iron Council, which is supposedly more political...

[featherboa]

why doens't doad recommend the skar to me?

[Necrometer]

neither of these instances was to me personally - it was a mention here or on FB iirc - and I might just be confused!

[Necrometer]

doadle post

[Femto]

Norwegian Wood.

Depressing and my first Murakami book. If his other work is similar, I think I'll enjoy it.

[featherboa]

Some people have forgotten how to read

[Ray]

Norwegian Wood.

Depressing and my first Murakami book. If his other work is similar, I think I'll enjoy it.

I've read a lot of his stuff and I'm not sure I'd call NW similar. It's by far his least "out there" major work, but it's likely you'll like his other stuff even more. Norwegian Wood might be my least favorite.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland ruled, I wasn't expecting something like that.

[Chevalier Mal Fet]

I've spent this winter comfort-reading my totem/classics, but prior to that:

John Steinbeck - Travels w/Charley - 6/10 - non-fiction American travelogue - he mentions some really cool places I would like to check out someday and the writing of course is pretty great - but nothing revelatory - it was pleasant and interesting in spots, read like an NPR program. Worthwhile. Not much more than that.

JG Ballard - The Complete Stories of - 10/10 - I picked up a shorter book of his short stories a while back and loved them, so basically read through this whole monster over the summer, into the fall. Contextually, it was right after a bummer of a break-up and I was in an alternately numb and questioning place personally this past summer. This book did not help in the most exquisite way.... it pretty much in an of itself justifies the whole notion of existentialist sci-fi, lots of very creative futures, with excellent meditations on music, art, sanity, claustrophobia and loneliness within them. I would recommend this to pretty much anyone, but perhaps in smaller bites.

Frank Herbert - Dune - 7/10 - I thought it was a lot of fun - read it on the plane and back from Greece, but I'm not particularly inclined to keep reading the series or anything.

Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep? - 8/10 - mostly fun for contrasting with Bladerunner, this is the first Dick I ever read, I would read more Dick.

Haruki Murakami - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - 5/10 - the quirky story kept me reading, the writing was okay and did shine in a few parts, the conclusion was pretty unsatisfactory to me. I'll give Murakami another shot at some point but wasn't terribly impressed, given all the hype.

[kelly]

Hard-Boiled Wonderland ruled

I've never thought about what books would be my top rated, but this is probably somewhere in the top 20-30 area? It's always a mention when someone asks what they should read, for sure.

[The Real MPD]

The Eye of the World - 10

[Honky Kong 64]

The Eye of the World - 10

HERE WE GO

[zombiehead]

[Honky Kong 64]

Goddamn it is that DLF?

[Necrometer]

cat's cradle 6.5/10 somewhere in the middle of this one I realized that Vonnegut is not so different from a rambling Abe Simpson and I think that sucked the life out of the rest of the book. I did love the reason/spirituality duality at the core of the story, and ice-nine is a really inventive device

[Fields of Shit]

Napoleon : A Life 9/10

I've been interested in the Napoleonic Wars after playing Risk and watching the brief PBS documentary on him several years ago. I picked the right time to seek a book as this new biography came out last year. The author Roberts is very pro-Napoleon but gives a balanced look at his eventful life and makes use of several of Napoleon's recently published 33,000 signed letters, clearing up a few misunderstandings, myths etc about the most written about person in history. Some of the parts I enjoyed were his relationships to his marshalls, plots on his life, tactics/strategy, his downfall and how he fucked up at Waterloo. I came away with the view that, in the end, he made so many unforced errors and ultimately beat himself. Good read.

[The Real MPD]

The Shadow Rising - 10
The Fires of Heaven - 9

[electronichamz]

Any of you fuckers on Goodreads that I don't have added? PM me your profile

[Honky Kong 64]

Gilead - 7.5

[electronichamz]

Boredom - Alberto Moravia 7.5/10

[featherboa]

pretty mad at ross for tricking me into reading a vampire steampunk pirate book

pretty dang good book though