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

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The Drawing of the Three - 10

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Fugue State - Brian Evenson 8.9/10

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fuck Gravity's Rainbow.

It's because you're a bitch.

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hows your dad?

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hows your dad?

He's a piece of shit.

"The Wastelands" is the best of the Dark Tower. Hope you enjoy it.

Namaste

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you've matured!

[riley-o]

I’m wearing a gravity’s rainbow shirt today

[featherboa]

hell yeah

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There was some SNL skit where Charli XCX says she loves Gravity's Rainbow. Like I'm supposed to believe she reads anything beyond instagram stories, sorry if I'm a dick.

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you've matured!

Stop editing your posts.

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The solitary twin - harry Mathews 6.5-10

I enjoyed the last third but it mostly got on my nerves.

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Shoot The Piano Player - David Goodis - 8.5 - Only knew this from the Truffaut film which pretty much took the source material and made a playful romp that was a loving homage to film noir. This is much different. Hard boiled and fatalist. A life of a thousand stabbing knives. Briskly paced but not rushed and never cops out.

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https://www.vanityfair.com/style/story/ ... -exclusive

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oh god no why

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wish i had a muse

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Reading John Hawkes "The Cannibal" I guess a lot of people don't like his later stuff as it's too obtusely post modern? ( The Blood Oranges, The Lime Twig ) I'm enjoying this so far, I guess he worshipped Vladimir Nabokov. Very lyrical style without being as extreme as Nabokov can get.

I'm also reading Nick Cutter's ( nome de plume ) "The Troop" which is a pulp horror reduction of Lord Of The Flies crossed with a story about genetically engineered super tape worms that turn the host into living garbage disposables so I guess that's ironic.

I'm also drunk

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He Died With His Eyes Open - Derek Raymond 7/10

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I really like joy williams but i just got to the middle of the quick and the dead and i need her actually do something different with it

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The Postman Always Rings Twice - 8.5 - James M. Cain

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Eva's Man - Gayl Jones 8.5/10

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Bimbos Of The Death Sun - Sharyn McCrumb 7/10
Pretty funny, not at all what I expected. Too light and fluffy to rank it anything higher.

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Holy shit. There's an unabridged version of The Obscene Bird Of Night being published? I don't think I could handle a re-read.

preordered thanks for the heads up. sounds like its not a huge amount of new material but i could stand to reread it

Donoso's own life events around the writing of this book are nuts. He started writing it and didn't know what exactly he was trying to accomplish and gave up on it to teach in Colorado. He developed a severe ulcer and ended up in a hospital and needed surgery. He didn't realize he was allergic to morphine and when given the drug went completely insane for 15 days. After he recovered he was able to finish the novel.

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Into The War - Italo Calvino 7/10

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