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

[cxwx]

Fictiones - Borges
Junky - WS Burroughs
Ada - Nabokov
Candide - Voltaire
Train Spotting - Welsh
Girl With Curious Hair - DFW
Whores For Gloria - Vollmann
Butterfly Stories - Vollmann
The Passenger / Stella Maris - McCarthy

Now reading: Flannery O’Oconnor - collected short stories.

[MPD]

40 pages into this brick.



fucking rules.

fuck the northeast.

[featherboa]

ffff i'm stuck in Grace of Kings and I just want to read The Passenger. Don't say anything about it.

[cxwx]

To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

Debating if I should read Katherine Dunn’s “Toad” considering someone dug out of a file cabinet and published 6 years after she died, and there’s no indication it was something she actually planned to release. Geek Love is one of my favorite novels.

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Katherine Dunn’s “Toad”

Some one gave it to me for Christmas so I guess that settles it.

[Honky Kong 64]

Fictiones - Borges
Junky - WS Burroughs
Ada - Nabokov
Candide - Voltaire
Train Spotting - Welsh
Girl With Curious Hair - DFW
Whores For Gloria - Vollmann
Butterfly Stories - Vollmann
The Passenger / Stella Maris - McCarthy

Now reading: Flannery O’Oconnor - collected short stories.

How did you like Ada? Maybe my favorite Nabokov.

How were the new Cormacz?

[FVBTVS]

finally reading and almost done w Hunger by Knut Hamsun

its owning so hard

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I replied to Honky Kong in a PM to avoid spoiling anything for Solidaritywithfruit. I didn’t realize “Hunger” was such a short book so I’m bumping it up on my reading list.

[FVBTVS]

it's short but it owns and its even a little uneven

[FVBTVS]

i guess im a bit of a cormac mccarthy mark now. i was extremely foolish to ignore this dude for so long

i just started suttree and it is just ridiculous. his ability to maintain a steady paced & dense lyrical prose is so stupid. obviously the gear and tone is different from this to blood meridian but that poise in the text is identical. the feet of his voice are never once out of position. its so fucking stupid

[cxwx]

Outer Dark is probably my favorite McCarthy.

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Catch-22 - Joseph Heller 10/10

[i am a burn victim..]

i wish torben was my dwarf ‘ ‘ but nardwaur was in another castelan llull 1324 ‘ mona flamboyant ‘ emerald ray letter never sent ruvn ‘

[i am a burn victim..]

should i just make all the threads for tbe next 15 years for you guys ans then leave ‘ the final one wjll save yoyr life but you wont listen anyways az

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Hey Rob. I’m getting around to Apes Of God someday.

[featherboa]

Catch-22 - Joseph Heller 10/10

I was super into this a long time ago. I was wondering if it still rules.

[featherboa]

The grace of kings - 6

[featherboa]

just read first page of passenger. oh yeah, that's the stuff.

grace of kings read like a translated chinese history textbook

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just read first page of passenger. oh yeah, that's the stuff.

grace of kings read like a translated chinese history textbook

Reread the first page again, and then the first italicized section again after ( if ) you read Stella Maris.

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Reading Pedro Paramo

It’s not difficult prose wise but I’m having a very hard time keeping track of who is who and how we’re getting from place to place but I assume that’s intentional.

[Honky Kong 64]

Suttree fucking rules. Cormac goes off into these prose spirals that are so bleak and effortless I find myself re-reading passages multiple times. The Green Fly Inn scene from Orchard Keeper lives rent free in my head.

[featherboa]

The Passenger
I don't understand how books like this can exist

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The Passenger
I don't understand how books like this can exist

Read “Libra” - DeLillo

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Homesick For Another World - Ottessa Moshfegh 9/10

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The Collected Stories Of Amy Hempel