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

Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2023 10:56 am
by Honky Kong 64
FVBTVS wrote: Fri Jun 02, 2023 10:27 am last night while i was on a long drive home my friend called me after he finished Urth of the New Sun and we talked for a couple hrs trying to piece together what h :@: ppened

10/10
Still saving this one.

featherboa wrote: Fri Jun 02, 2023 7:46 am just started neuromancer which i've somehow never read. the ebook is in bold which is annoying
Go get yourself some nice vintage paperback editions stat!

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

Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2023 11:26 am
by featherboa
good call

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

Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2023 4:30 pm
by cxwx
Anyone read William Kotzwinkle? “The Fan Man” and “Doctor Rat” were recently recommended to me.

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

Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2023 6:49 pm
by featherboa
Holes - Sachar 9

i got neuromancer from the libary and it's much more pleasant to look at

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

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2023 4:06 am
by THE KILL
yeah there's a million different editions; mine's butt-ugly:

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look at that balding cunt with his stupid shades....

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

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2023 1:34 pm
by cxwx
featherboa wrote: Fri May 05, 2023 4:15 pm stella maris - 10
Rest in peace

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

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2023 3:18 pm
by Eight Bit Alien
The fatwah finally got him eh

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

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2023 4:10 pm
by cxwx
Ken M wrote: Tue Jun 13, 2023 3:18 pm The fatwah finally got him eh
That was Rushdie

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

Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2023 6:41 pm
by cxwx
cxwx wrote: Fri Jun 02, 2023 12:15 pm Reading The Flanders Road while drinking.
Coming close to the end of this. Is the Jewish character named "Blum" supposed to be a parody of Leopold Bloom? Even though they are nothing alike.( or maybe they are supposed to be alike? With all the mentioning of cuckolding. Hard to tell with everything written so oblique. And Ulysses is already a parody of The Odyssey so maybe it's supposed to be super meta-post modern faggotry) Seems like a lot of the characters names are jokes ("Wack" etc.)

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

Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2023 8:59 pm
by featherboa
Red Shirts - Scalzi

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

Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2023 3:41 pm
by cxwx
featherboa wrote: Sat Jun 24, 2023 8:59 pm Red Shirts - Scalzi
Did you ever finish The Kid In Yellow?

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

Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2023 4:21 pm
by featherboa
yeah that one ruled

i say TA FUKK! in my head all the time

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

Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2023 4:45 pm
by cxwx
:tup2:

I haven't checked out his second novel yet. I heard it's not as good.

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

Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2023 8:50 pm
by cxwx
About 1/5th through "Dr Rat". The person who recommended it to me couldn't finish it and everyone they know who's read it said it fucked them up. I hope I go insane.

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

Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2023 9:31 pm
by featherboa
Bewilderment - Powers

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

Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2023 9:35 pm
by featherboa
that reminds me, I read Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
and forgot to write it down
I could read more Pratchett

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

Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2023 9:51 pm
by cxwx
The same guy at work also gave me his spare copy of Nikki Sixx's "The Heroin Diaries" ( hi Zerohero! :yerma: ) I've been reading bits and pieces of. I traded him my copy of Burroughs "Junky"

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

Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2023 8:34 pm
by MPD
174 pages into my Moms 50 year old paperback copy.

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

Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2023 7:08 pm
by featherboa
That's the one I have :tup:
There's a shiny box with runes on it to hold the three bo0ks

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

Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2023 11:12 pm
by Necrometer
piranesi 8.2/10 I really liked this! ethereal and sort of motivated me to be less miserable all the time

song of the cell 7/10 it’s good but not EVERYTHING is a “cellular” disease. it would be like a cookbook that kept calling all the ingredients & processes “molecular” :roll:

why we sleep 5/10 this author is full of shit about half this stuff. there’s this funny podcast called if books could kill, dedicated to trashing pop phenomenon airport books, and I’m praying they tackle this book one day

urth of the new sun - i won’t even rate this because i did such a bad job with it. at some point i sort of gave up hope and let it wash over me. 95% of my book intake is audio, and in this case it afforded me the insane experience of getting the story fed into my brain while in semi-conscious. would recommend! the think with the giant woman (?) was already like a fever dream and i managed to have this taken to a new level…

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

Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2023 11:10 am
by cxwx
Necrometer wrote: Tue Jul 04, 2023 11:12 pm piranesi 8.2/10 I really liked this! ethereal and sort of motivated me to be less miserable all the time
It's on my reading list, maybe I should bump it up.
Necrometer wrote: urth of the new sun - i won’t even rate this because i did such a bad job with it. at some point i sort of gave up hope and let it wash over me. 95% of my book intake is audio, and in this case it afforded me the insane experience of getting the story fed into my brain while in semi-conscious. would recommend! the think with the giant woman (?) was already like a fever dream and i managed to have this taken to a new level…
Read "The Obscene Bird Of Night"

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

Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2023 8:58 pm
by FVBTVS


:awesome: :pizza:

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

Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2023 9:09 pm
by Eight Bit Alien
The movie Hunter Biden doesn't want you to see >:o

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

Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2023 9:23 pm
by FVBTVS
godamnit wrong thread

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

Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2023 1:06 am
by Necrometer
I don't think I've seen a dude who looks more like the "yes" chad meme