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

featherboa · Post by **featherboa** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 11:17 am

like, into your brain?

fallbacktostone · Post by **fallbacktostone** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 11:53 am

featherboa · Post by **featherboa** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 2:37 pm

pro eliza

altars of radness · Post by **altars of radness** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 6:16 pm

fallbacktostone wrote:i just downloaded 3 books by thomas pynchon in like, all told, probably less than 8 seconds..

That's cool. Let us know if you spend less than a year reading them.

Gay for Cock · Post by **Gay for Cock** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 7:28 pm

I finally got off my ass and read the last few stories in the Library Of America collection of H.P. Lovecraft stories. 10/10 It had a story or two that felt like he was just following a formula, but overall I loved it.

I started On the Road by Kerouac. It's making me realize I need to finish my sentences with Wow! or Man! or Phew! or Whooee!

featherboa · Post by **featherboa** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 9:20 pm

electronicham wrote:I read Johnny Mnemonic today on my iPhone while waiting at the dentist. Story ruled. I never saw the movie.

badgevvrecker · Post by **badgevvrecker** » Wed Sep 05, 2012 6:13 am

reading a stephenson novel for the characters is like reading the encyclopedia for the narrative: you're the one doing it wrong here, not the book.

d.hellion · Post by **d.hellion** » Wed Sep 05, 2012 8:10 am

Broken - William Cope Moyers

7/10

he was a white crack-head relapsed a bunch and gots a happy life NOW

MeatGrease · Post by **MeatGrease** » Sat Sep 08, 2012 10:50 pm

pooptastik · Post by **pooptastik** » Sun Sep 16, 2012 12:00 pm

currently reading:
Mark Twain "Letters From The Earth [uncensored writings]"
King James Version "The Holy Bible" haven't read this since i was a little kid and i never read the King James version, so far i feel like this is a quite pussified compared to the Roman Catholic version.

solidaritywithfruit · Post by **solidaritywithfruit** » Sun Sep 16, 2012 9:14 pm

American Tabloid - Ellroy
10

NANOplague · Post by **NANOplague** » Sun Sep 16, 2012 11:23 pm

The Pirate King - 4
Worst R.A. Salvatore and worst Drizzt book ever. Hopefully The Ghost King will be better.

Honky Kong 64 · Post by **Honky Kong 64** » Thu Sep 20, 2012 11:01 am

TheDOAD wrote:DUNE.

10

Yeah man. Yeah.

solidaritywithfruit · Thu Sep 20, 2012 11:12 am

I wanna read that shit again now

This Means War · Post by **This Means War** » Thu Sep 20, 2012 7:27 pm

Sarah Silverman - The Bedwetter - 7/10
Tracy Morgan - I Am The New Black - 8/10
Henry Rollins - Solipsis - Shed

Henry Rollins - Roomanitarian - More Shed

altars of radness · Post by **altars of radness** » Sun Sep 23, 2012 7:06 pm

Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck/10

Same as any Pynchon - when it's lucid and straight it's as poignant, funny, brutal and sensitive as anything I've read. The rest of the time it's like one of the rockets in the book landing just inside my forehead. It's devastating, but for me the cerebral devastation takes a little away from the emotional devastation.

I've said this before, but I'm done with Pynchon. In the time it took me to read GR, I could have read four or five other books and probably gotten more out of each of them.

solidaritywithfruit · Post by **solidaritywithfruit** » Sun Sep 23, 2012 7:15 pm

time in the zone

fallbacktostone · Post by **fallbacktostone** » Mon Sep 24, 2012 6:13 am

i guess no one(bored) felt the urge to post about bret easton ellis and his semi hilarious faggy tweets about dfw?

fallbacktostone · Post by **fallbacktostone** » Mon Sep 24, 2012 6:45 am

yeah it was probably me

canon.docre · Post by **canon.docre** » Thu Oct 04, 2012 11:34 am

polished off The Stand. Typical lackluster climax but an enjoyable read. Meandering through a dozen or so pages of the wheel of time before bed every night. First pass, first book. It kind of takes the edge off my dnd cravings.

Honky Kong 64 · Post by **Honky Kong 64** » Thu Oct 04, 2012 12:10 pm

canon.docre wrote:Meandering through a dozen or so pages of the wheel of time before bed every night. First pass, first book. It kind of takes the edge off my dnd cravings.

Books 2-6 are epic.

altars of radness · Post by **altars of radness** » Thu Oct 04, 2012 7:40 pm

Julian Barnes - Staring At the Sun

Barnes' last book was great, but this one's horrendously boring. I guess a recurring theme with Barnes is average/dull people wrestling with spiritual/existential problems that they know are beyond them, but SATS just comes across as sub-Paulo Cuehlo philosophical dreck for dumb old ladies. Gee, what does happen after we die? Beats me, but I couldn't wait for the characters to die so they could find out. 3/10

Kurt Russell's Beard · Thu Oct 04, 2012 7:52 pm

F. Murray Sandyclam wrote:
altars of radness wrote:Pynchon
Never understood the lure.

Me either. I think people just really badly want a genius writer to happen on us, and they tried to make him fit the bill, since he has a mythology built in (recluse thing). He has some funny writing. But it's hollow and inconsequential, especially now. He was hyped 30 years ago. But his work does not hold up. Just my opinion...Pynchon devotees don't hate on me!

Friendly Goatus · Post by **Friendly Goatus** » Sun Oct 07, 2012 1:07 am

Blood Meridian - fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffuuuuuuck.

I don't know why I didn't read this until now. I've had the book for something like 6 years. It used to be the surface I'd rail pills off of... little did I know what was inside would blow my mind even more.

riley-o · Post by **riley-o** » Sun Oct 07, 2012 1:34 am

Pynchon is wonderful

All six of Frank's Dune books are mandatory

Bret Easton Ellis licks the bag

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My opinion is meaningless; I haven't read anything in months because I've been too busy with summer and work and training

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and playing video games

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