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

[father of lies]

The 12th Planet - Zechariah Stitchin - HAHAHAHAHAHA/10

[mithrandir]

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami

this book was amazing! not even sure how to categorize this...cyber punk? post-modern? a unique narrative on the subconscious thats half hardboiled fiction and half a mysterious fairytale? I can't wait to read more of this guy's books,

[Whee of the Dead]

Pet Sematery - 6 out of 10. Kings narrative and the concept were strong, but the plot itself was lacking (I hate it when external forces control characters actions etc.) and the magic of the burial site would've been a lot more fun had they not explained it.

[Admiral Dick Fart]

Fast Food Nation - 7/10 - Loved what was there but it felt like the book could've been longer, even with the additional footnotes at the end.

[father of lies]

God Is Not Great - Hitchens - 7 I guess

Meh.

[MANTIS]

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami

this book was amazing! not even sure how to categorize this...cyber punk? post-modern? a unique narrative on the subconscious thats half hardboiled fiction and half a mysterious fairytale? I can't wait to read more of this guy's books,

I really love this book and this author. Need MOAR!

[EEEOOOEEEOOOEEEOOO]

Anna Tsing - Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection 9/10

Introduces a whole new vocabulary for thinking about globalization. It's also very well-written for an anthro book.

[mithrandir]

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami

this book was amazing! not even sure how to categorize this...cyber punk? post-modern? a unique narrative on the subconscious thats half hardboiled fiction and half a mysterious fairytale? I can't wait to read more of this guy's books,

I really love this book and this author. Need MOAR!

I'm now on, Kafka on the Shore, and afterwards will come, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

[Scumfucker]

Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis - 7/10 - This pretty much takes the style Ellis had worked on in his previous books to its logical high point and conclusion. Sometimes I wondered what the hell was going on and when he was going to get to the point, but about halfway through I realized that IS the point, the reader is supposed to feel as disoriented as Victor does. I'm glad I read it after his other stuff (other than Lunar Park, which I plan to tackle in the future) otherwise this book would've had me in over my head.

This was my favorite Bret Easton Ellis until I read Lunar Park. Lunar Park is his best work. All his other books build up to Lunar Park. The book actually starts with short synopses of all his novels. He casts himself as the main character. He explains what was going on with him as he wrote the madness that is Glamorama. He explains what it's like to be a literary brat packer. LUnar Park has some of the funniest, and scariest moments of all his books. It's his most coherent work.

Both Glamorama and Lunar Park are tentatively planned to be films in the future. Roger Avary (who directed The Rules of Attraction) has the rights for Glamorama. Glamorama seems like a very difficult book to turn into a movie in my opinion. Lunar Park is actually the most cinematic in writing.







Hollywood - Charles Bukowski 10/10 I don't know what it is about his writing that makes it so fucking good. This was especially fun to read because I'm living in LA, and I know who he's talking about when he mentions (with changed names ) Werner Herzog, Jean Luc Godard, Mickey Rourke, and Faye Dunaway. There's cameos by David Lynch and Isabella Rosselini. There's also cameos of Sean Penn and Dennis Hopper. His writing is just really fun to read. I really prefer his later era work. His early shit is John Fante worship (which is also very good but just not original in any way). He really came into his own with Post Office and Hollywood.

[father of lies]

Dr. Bloodmoney - PKD - 8

SPOILERSPOILER_SHOW

The first time the furry necromancer fetus does battle with the psychokinetic cybernetic flipper baby, I got a hell of a case of the willies.

Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said - PKD - 9

SPOILERSPOILER_SHOW

What the fuck? I was convinced that Kathy was Alys, but after the epilogue, I don't know. What the FUCK?

Ubik - PKD - 10
Monstrously, horridly beautiful.

I guess there's going to be an Ubik movie. Production starts soon.

[Hotchka!]

like pretty much every pkd i read i really liked the first chapter of ubik and then it fell off for me. kinda just came across like some quantum leap episode.

[father of lies]

Sometimes, sir, your posts make me very upset.

[Hotchka!]

Sometimes, sir, your posts make me very upset.

first chapter was hysterical and really awesome and then it seemed gone

same with scanner darkly

from the few i read it always seemed like he spent more time on the first chapters and i was told its common practice for authors to submit that to the publishers for the pay advance

[father of lies]

NOW HE'S TALKIN SHIT ABOUT A SCANNER DARKLY GUYS DO SOMETHING

[Hotchka!]

NOW HE'S TALKIN SHIT ABOUT A SCANNER DARKLY GUYS DO SOMETHING

fucking sacred cows

from what i understand he wrote at a pretty quick pace and the work seemed to suffer for it

[father of lies]

I think your mom stabbed you in the head with a hangar, and your bran suffers for it. First Night of the Living Dead, and now PKD!

[Hotchka!]

I think your mom stabbed you in the head with a hangar, and your bran suffers for it. First Night of the Living Dead, and now PKD!

rooted in great ideas but mediocre execution

[Phritz]

I think your mom stabbed you in the head with a hangar, and your bran suffers for it. First Night of the Living Dead, and now PKD!

rooted in great ideas but mediocre execution

pssst, now add something about gwar!!!

[father of lies]

Pipe down, pinko!

[Phritz]

FIGHT!! FIGHT!! FIGHT!!

[Mr. Budd]

I own one of four hundred and twenty-five copies of Marcel Schwob's Children's Crusade printed in English on Japanese paper. It's about 50 odd pages of beautiful symbolist historical prose. Aka La croisade des enfants in Franchenese.

Everyone should read any part of Alfred Jarry's Pataphysical library contents.


Baudelaire, un tome d'Edgar Poe, traduction 23
Bergerac, uvres, tome II 25
L'Evangile de Saint Luc, en grec 29
Bloy, Le Désespéré 31
Bloy, Le Mendiant ingrat 35
Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 38
Darien, Biribi 40
Darien, Le Voleur 43
Desbordes-Valmore, Le Serment des petits hommes 46
Elskamp, Salutations, dont d'angéliques 50
Elskamp, Enluminures 54
Un volume dépareillé du Théâtre de Florian 57
Un volume dépareillé des Mille et Une Nuits, traduction Galland 59
Grabbe, Scherz, Satire, Ironie und tiefere Bedeutung 61
Kahn, Le Livre d'images 65
Kahn, Le Conte de l'Or et du Silence 69
Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror 74
Maeterlinck, Pelléas et Mélisande 75
Maeterlinck, Aglavaine et Sélysette 78
Mallarmé, Divagations 80
Mallarmé, Vers et prose 81
Mendès, Gog 83
L'Odyssée, édition Teubner 89
Péladan, Babylone 90
Rabelais 95
Jean de Chilra, La Princesse des ténèbres 98
Jean de Chilra, L'Heure sexuelle 101
Henri de Régnier, La Canne de jaspe 104
Rimbaud, Les Illuminations 109
Schwob, La Croisade des enfants 111
Ubu Roi 114
Verlaine, Sagesse 115
Verhaeren, Les Campagnes hallucinées 118
Verne, Le Voyage au Centre de la Terre 122

[The Schwartz]

reread Watchmen 10/10
I've read lot of places saying that freshening up on this makes the movie tranlsate a lot better
definitely looking forward to it, only a few more hours

[neckbeard]

Still working on Don Quixote. I like it, but my pace is really slow on this one.

[Mr. Budd]

Still working on Don Quixote. I like it, but my pace is really slow on this one.

Which translation? If it's the Burton Raffel - read Gargantua and Pantagruel at the same pace next.

[Nissos]

I"ve been reading The Golden Bough. quite interesting. 7/10.