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Metamorphoses - 10

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 6.5/10 this certainly made me appreciate Blade Runner more; it's a killer adaptation of a so-so book. as always, the premise is absolutely killer. but I felt like a lot of themes were well-developed but then never had any sort of payoff. the climax and denouement were totally underwhelming... it all felt too thick with irony for a story that seemed sincerely interested in exploring ethics, humanity, etc.

featherboa wrote:Perfidia - 9

is the ending better than the stinker of blood's a rover?

molloy- 10

Geeheeb wrote:

featherboa wrote:Perfidia - 9

is the ending better than the stinker of blood's a rover?

I don't remember how any of these end, or what happens in the middle, or beginning... Doesn't that one end with

elephants gerald wrote:molloy- 10

That's a book. Haven't read anything like that since I was a youngin' with no rent bills.

I gave doad a black dahlia murder paper back for christmas* and he hasn't read it yet.

*some years I buy a bunch of $0.01 bux books off amazon. Gave out a bunch of Bester, Howard, and Ellroy.

The Book of the New Sun - Sword and Claw - 8/10.....The second story was better than the first. I ordered the second half of the Book of the New Sun. I will probably read all the tertiary stories associated with it just because I was literally able to get drawn into that world.

featherboa wrote:I gave doad a black dahlia murder paper back for christmas* and he hasn't read it yet.

GOD DAMNIT DOAD

The Epic of Gilgamesh - 10

Liam Spengler wrote:The Epic of Gilgamesh - 10

Great stuff. Paul Goodman - Growing Up Absurd 9/10

The Road - 10/10 of the McCarthy books I've read this is the most boiled down to its core components. Not as relentlessly brutal as Blood Meridian but more emotionally crushing.

Cosmopolis - 9/10 my favorite DeLillo book so far?? (Ducks hurled trash) No where near the scope of underworld of course while being a fourth of its length but this is so much more focused than any of his other books I've read (maybe it just seems that way because I saw the movie first). Libra will be up next for DeLillo.

Read The Crossing

featherboa wrote:Read The Crossing

Already did. And Cities of the Plain.

The Secret History of Twin Peaks - 7.5

"White Teeth" - Zadie Smith 9/10 a lot of fun. The English soap opera version of David Foster Wallace. I know that makes it sound like complete shit.

The X-Files Anthology Vol. 3: Secret Agendas - 7

"Libra" by Don DeLillo 9/10

Old Buddy wrote:

Liam Spengler wrote:The Epic of Gilgamesh - 10

Great stuff.

The Decameron - 9

On the Trail of the Assassins - 8

Mona Lisa Overdrive - William Gibson - 7.5/10 (I should have read all three Sprawl books one after the other instead of over the span of 6 years )
One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand - Luigi Pirandello - 7/10
The Maimed - Hermann Ungar - 7.5/10 (Picture a Jofa getting abused bondage style everyday)
The Man in the High Castle - PKD - 9/10
Dr. Bloodmoney - PKD - 8/10
Now Wait for Last Year - PKD - 7/10
Flow my Tears, the Policeman Said - PKD - 7/10
The Sword of the Lictor - Book of the New Sun 3 - Gene Wolfe - 6/10
The Citadel of the Autarch - Book of the New Sun 4 - Gene Wolfe - 7/10

let us now praise famous men - 10

"Point Omega" by Don DeLillo 7/10

"Woes Of The True Policeman" by Roberto Bolaño 8/10

a couple of things by mieville:

three moments of an explosion 8.5/10 this is a collection of short stories, but it feels like an array of premises he decided not to expand into books. half of them have no real ending, which is pretty annoying but not so much that it negates the flailing creativity on display. definitely a must-read if you enjoy his stuff and the short story format. a few perfect tales for sure.

kraken 6.5/10 this is my least favorite of his (not counting iron council, which I bailed on early). it culminates really satisfyingly (as did PSS and the scar) but the middle of the book was an overload of under-described characters that seemed weird for the sake of being weird instead of contributing to something bigger. part of this is my fault - I tuned out to some extent midway through the audiobook, but I really can't imagine it being a lot better if I'd been paying more attention.

"The Handmaids Tale" by Margaret Atwood 9/10