Latest Gene Wolfe book you read (1-10 scale)
- cxwx
- clown shaped void that used to be a human being
- Posts: 7465
- Joined: Thu Apr 05, 2018 8:17 pm
- Location: Fifty Island Water
Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)
“Nightwork” Christine Shutt - 6/10
“Well” Mathew McIntosh - 8/10
“Well” Mathew McIntosh - 8/10
- cxwx
- clown shaped void that used to be a human being
- Posts: 7465
- Joined: Thu Apr 05, 2018 8:17 pm
- Location: Fifty Island Water
Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)
“The Passion According To G.H.” - Clarice Lispector 7/10. Feels like reading something in between Thomas Bernhard and Sartre. I think I prefer her to either.
- cxwx
- clown shaped void that used to be a human being
- Posts: 7465
- Joined: Thu Apr 05, 2018 8:17 pm
- Location: Fifty Island Water
Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)
“Almanac Of The Dead” - Leslie Marmon Silko 8.8/10
Would make a great miniseries.
Would make a great miniseries.
-
- Wandering Johnny!
- Posts: 6941
- Joined: Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:17 pm
- cxwx
- clown shaped void that used to be a human being
- Posts: 7465
- Joined: Thu Apr 05, 2018 8:17 pm
- Location: Fifty Island Water
Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)
I started reading “Nova” by Samuel Delaney. There are characters in it who talk like Yoda. This was published nine years before Star Wars was in theaters.
EDIT: there’s also a poison tooth, but “Dune” predates this by a few years
EDIT: there’s also a poison tooth, but “Dune” predates this by a few years
Last edited by cxwx on Thu Oct 28, 2021 3:45 pm, edited 1 time in total.
- cxwx
- clown shaped void that used to be a human being
- Posts: 7465
- Joined: Thu Apr 05, 2018 8:17 pm
- Location: Fifty Island Water
Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)
“Vanishing Point” - David Markson
For some reason I enjoyed this much more than “This Is Not A Novel” even though they are virtually identical. Maybe because this one is more obviously a meditation on death.
For some reason I enjoyed this much more than “This Is Not A Novel” even though they are virtually identical. Maybe because this one is more obviously a meditation on death.
- cxwx
- clown shaped void that used to be a human being
- Posts: 7465
- Joined: Thu Apr 05, 2018 8:17 pm
- Location: Fifty Island Water
Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)
“A Brief History Of Seven Killings” - Marlon James 8.8/10
“Jesus’ Son” - Denis Johnson 7.7/10
I’m thinking of doing nonfiction November
I have in mind: “And The Band Played On”, “Fear And Loathing On The Campaign Trail 72” and “Fight…” ( Eugene Robinson)
Not sure if I’ll get through all three as there’s other odds and ends I’m trying to finish plus “The Recognitions”
“Jesus’ Son” - Denis Johnson 7.7/10
I’m thinking of doing nonfiction November
I have in mind: “And The Band Played On”, “Fear And Loathing On The Campaign Trail 72” and “Fight…” ( Eugene Robinson)
Not sure if I’ll get through all three as there’s other odds and ends I’m trying to finish plus “The Recognitions”
- cxwx
- clown shaped void that used to be a human being
- Posts: 7465
- Joined: Thu Apr 05, 2018 8:17 pm
- Location: Fifty Island Water
Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)
“And The Band Played On” - Randy Shilts 9/10
- cxwx
- clown shaped void that used to be a human being
- Posts: 7465
- Joined: Thu Apr 05, 2018 8:17 pm
- Location: Fifty Island Water
Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)
I started Eugene Robinson’s “Fight…” book. It’s fun but kind of feels like one of TNBW’s tall tales.
- pooptastik
- Too Many Sads Too Many Regrets
- Posts: 10846
- Joined: Fri Aug 03, 2007 9:27 am
- cxwx
- clown shaped void that used to be a human being
- Posts: 7465
- Joined: Thu Apr 05, 2018 8:17 pm
- Location: Fifty Island Water
Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)
![Thumbs Up :tup:](./images/smilies/thumbsuptesttw2.gif)
I don’t think I’ve read anything more suffocating.
- cxwx
- clown shaped void that used to be a human being
- Posts: 7465
- Joined: Thu Apr 05, 2018 8:17 pm
- Location: Fifty Island Water
Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)
"The Mongolian Conspiracy" - Rafeal Bernal 8/10
- cxwx
- clown shaped void that used to be a human being
- Posts: 7465
- Joined: Thu Apr 05, 2018 8:17 pm
- Location: Fifty Island Water
Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)
“The Trees” - Percival Everett 8.8/10
- cxwx
- clown shaped void that used to be a human being
- Posts: 7465
- Joined: Thu Apr 05, 2018 8:17 pm
- Location: Fifty Island Water
Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)
“Lord Of Dark Places” - Hal Bennett 9/10
- cxwx
- clown shaped void that used to be a human being
- Posts: 7465
- Joined: Thu Apr 05, 2018 8:17 pm
- Location: Fifty Island Water
Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)
“Cyclonopedia” - Reza Negarestani ???/10
What the fuck did I just read. A farce in the form of H.P. Lovecrafts Necronomicon reconstructed as a fake academic thesis. Or something like that, I guess.
What the fuck did I just read. A farce in the form of H.P. Lovecrafts Necronomicon reconstructed as a fake academic thesis. Or something like that, I guess.
- cxwx
- clown shaped void that used to be a human being
- Posts: 7465
- Joined: Thu Apr 05, 2018 8:17 pm
- Location: Fifty Island Water
Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)
"The Earlie King And The Kid In Yellow" - Danny Denton 10/10
One of the best things I've read all year
One of the best things I've read all year
-
- Wandering Johnny!
- Posts: 6941
- Joined: Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:17 pm
- cxwx
- clown shaped void that used to be a human being
- Posts: 7465
- Joined: Thu Apr 05, 2018 8:17 pm
- Location: Fifty Island Water
Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)
"Tenth Of December" - George Saunders 9/10
Shout out to Alters Of Radness for singing this guys praise if you're still lurking the board.
Shout out to Alters Of Radness for singing this guys praise if you're still lurking the board.
- cxwx
- clown shaped void that used to be a human being
- Posts: 7465
- Joined: Thu Apr 05, 2018 8:17 pm
- Location: Fifty Island Water
Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)
“Magnetic Field(s) - Ron Loewinsohn 9/10
Reads like a more focused DFW
“Phantoms” - Dean Koontz 7/10
This was mentioned in “Cyclonopedia” I recently read which is the only reason I decided to check it out. Was better than his usually schlock. The concept of a life form that is a mimic being able to absorb the collective intelligence and evil of humanity was interesting. This got made into a movie with Ben Affleck and Rose McGowan that is the epitome of late 90’s early 2000’s garbage.
Reads like a more focused DFW
“Phantoms” - Dean Koontz 7/10
This was mentioned in “Cyclonopedia” I recently read which is the only reason I decided to check it out. Was better than his usually schlock. The concept of a life form that is a mimic being able to absorb the collective intelligence and evil of humanity was interesting. This got made into a movie with Ben Affleck and Rose McGowan that is the epitome of late 90’s early 2000’s garbage.
-
- Wandering Johnny!
- Posts: 6941
- Joined: Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:17 pm
Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)
The Myth of the Spoiled Child
If you ever find yourself making a grouchy comment about participation trophies, you're a boomer
If you ever find yourself making a grouchy comment about participation trophies, you're a boomer
![Image](https://i.imgur.com/t5UF0Di.png)
- cxwx
- clown shaped void that used to be a human being
- Posts: 7465
- Joined: Thu Apr 05, 2018 8:17 pm
- Location: Fifty Island Water
Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)
“If It Bleeds” - Stephen King 7/10
“Pastoralia” - George Saunders 8.5/10
“Ice” - Anna Kavan 8.5/10
“Pastoralia” - George Saunders 8.5/10
“Ice” - Anna Kavan 8.5/10
-
- Wandering Johnny!
- Posts: 6941
- Joined: Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:17 pm
Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)
Hyperion
Been a long time. Trying to trick my brain into reading books again. I guess Dan Simmons sucks now. I don't know much about it.
Been a long time. Trying to trick my brain into reading books again. I guess Dan Simmons sucks now. I don't know much about it.
![Image](https://i.imgur.com/t5UF0Di.png)
- cxwx
- clown shaped void that used to be a human being
- Posts: 7465
- Joined: Thu Apr 05, 2018 8:17 pm
- Location: Fifty Island Water
Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)
I'm trying to get through Satantango before I (possibly) subject myself to a seven hour long movie. It's under 300 pages but feels like ten thousand.
- cxwx
- clown shaped void that used to be a human being
- Posts: 7465
- Joined: Thu Apr 05, 2018 8:17 pm
- Location: Fifty Island Water
Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)
“Perfume” - Patrick Suskind 9.5/10
-
- Wandering Johnny!
- Posts: 6941
- Joined: Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:17 pm