- The Obelisk Gate - N. K. Jemisin
- The Stone Sky - N. K. Jemisin
The broken earth books are pretty dang good
I just saw the intelligent black holes thread, and it reminded me of these books...
Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)
Posted: Fri May 10, 2019 12:23 am
by cxwx
“Glamorama”- Brett Easton Ellis - 10/10
Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)
Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2019 12:42 am
by cxwx
Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)
Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2019 8:33 am
by featherboa
Thick: And Other Essays - Tressie McMillan Cottom
Sea People - Christina Thompson (audio)
The Ballad of Black Tom - Victor LaValle (audio)
The Long Way to a Small - Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Necrometer wrote:Citadel of the Autarch 7/10 And now I'm done with Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun. I guess I never even rated Claw of the Cociliator? It was probably a 7 as well. Despite this series never really blowing my mind or adding up to much more than the sum of parts, it was consistently enjoyable & classy and I routinely found myself missing that world whenever I had been away from it for a while. Recommended that febtus dust the first book off, at least. Honky - you done yet?
Not yet but I need to finish. It's been calling me.
Well that took long enough. Finally finished this and really enjoyed it. Should I go for Book of the Long Sun or naw?
Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)
Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2019 5:05 pm
by MPD
Doctor Sleep - 7.5
Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)
Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2019 5:21 pm
by featherboa
Meaty - Samantha Irby (audio)
All the Birds in the Sky - Charlie Jane Anders
I must be becoming even more of a pussy in my old age, I found this depressing as shit.
Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)
Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2019 5:00 pm
by cxwx
“The Voyage Out” - Virginia Wolf 7.7
“The Picture Of Dorian Gray” - Oscar Wild 8.5
“Shark Skin Suit” - Tim Dorsey 8 (not bad for a hardcover in the $3 clearance pile )
“The World According To Garp” - John Irving 9.5
Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)
Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2019 5:05 pm
by featherboa
The Raven Tower - Ann Leckie
Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)
Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2019 11:14 am
by cxwx
The Brothers Karamazov.
I started crying during Illyusha’s funeral.
Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2019 11:56 am
by Necrometer
I'm almost done with Camus' Myth of Sisyphus, via audiobook. I'm not always totally paying attention to it, and it has the weird day-to-day effect of essentially outsourcing the background churning of existential crisis to a narrator's voice in my head (instead of via my own thoughts). I'll probably listen again at some point. it's comforting and horrifying! 10/0
Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2019 1:35 pm
by cxwx
I’ve only read “The Stranger”
Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2019 2:44 pm
by Necrometer
plague is better imo
Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)
Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2019 9:09 pm
by cxwx
“A Prayer For Owen Meany” - John Irving 10/10
Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2019 2:18 pm
by Honky Kong 64
cxwx wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2019 12:23 am
“Glamorama”- Brett Easton Ellis - 10/10
cxwx wrote: ↑Wed Dec 04, 2019 4:42 pm
Spacehamster I need backup here.
Better than less than zero
We might actually agree on something? I thought it was his best work. The only book of his I found somewhat weak was Rules Of Attraction. I haven’t read “White” yet.