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Barker's Books of Blood Volumes 4-6 - 7.5
McCammon's Swan Song - 7
McCammon's Swan Song - 7
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Murakami - Kafka on the Shore 7/10
Larson - The Splendid and the Vile - 8/10
Vonnegut - The Sirens of Titan 7.5/10 — liked this a lot more in my 20s than I did now. Probably a personal failing rather than growth. Haha,
Kafka - The Metamorphosis 9/10
Clarke - 2001 9/10
Larson - The Splendid and the Vile - 8/10
Vonnegut - The Sirens of Titan 7.5/10 — liked this a lot more in my 20s than I did now. Probably a personal failing rather than growth. Haha,
Kafka - The Metamorphosis 9/10
Clarke - 2001 9/10
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Motherless Brooklyn - Johnathan Lethem 10/10
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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.
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preordered thanks for the heads up. sounds like its not a huge amount of new material but i could stand to reread it
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read Stoner last week and its still lingering and i cant read anything else yet
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Rainbow in the Dark: The Autobiography - 6
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only the thing about the maloik was cute
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only the thing about the maloik was cute
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Hermann Hesse - Narcissus and Goldmund 9.5/10
I’ve thought a lot about longing vs control in the last few years and this is a really beautiful reflection on the connection between both to emotion and logic. Their connection to life and death also. I’ll be the first to say that I’m a moron even before the CTE who probably got all the wrong ideas from it though haha
I’ve thought a lot about longing vs control in the last few years and this is a really beautiful reflection on the connection between both to emotion and logic. Their connection to life and death also. I’ll be the first to say that I’m a moron even before the CTE who probably got all the wrong ideas from it though haha
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The only Hess I've read is Siddhartha. I'm sure I'm
the bigger moron.
the bigger moron.
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Koontz Cold Fire 5.5
Koontz Hideaway 6
Burdekin Swastika Night 7
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Burdekin Swastika Night 7
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8/10"The Cement Garden" - Ian McEwen
I'm surprised this hasn't made its way on the list of trans-hysteria "groomer" books yet. I guess it's too under that radar even though it was made into a movie and Madonna sampled it in a song.
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You act like you think you got wiser blood than anybody else
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F O'Conner is probably the single greatest short story writer in modern history. (I mean I still have to read Chekhov. ) Who else is better? Borges? Dafuck outta here.
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Anyone read any Alice Munroe?
The stories are like: Divorcee has lunch with her mother
But they're Written.
I'm not like a devotee or anything but I read one or two.
The stories are like: Divorcee has lunch with her mother
But they're Written.
I'm not like a devotee or anything but I read one or two.
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You should try some Gary/Gari Lutz. It's almost like a parody of when people complain about "post modern". They write the most unbearably navel gazing "flash fiction" imaginable. Probably my least favorite author.
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I'm 80% Prince of Nothing and I kind of want to give up. Not gonna finish the trilogy.
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Yup, that's a good one. I found a complete short stories collection of hers awhile back ( at least I believe it's her full collected works )
Kind of hard to pick a favorite of any of her stuff. "A good man is hard to find" is probably the most jarring. The little kid at the lake one the most depressing and the lady with her bull problems the funniest. ( the titles escape me at the moment )
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If it wasn't for O'Conner I'd have to pick George Saunders, and then I'm going third place William Saroyan or Vonnegut for short stories.
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Prince of Nothing The Darkness That Comes Before - 6
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Literary nerds are shitting their pants over this Jon Fosse short story "A Shining" I might have to buy a copy as I can't find any on the web to steal it from.