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Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)

Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2022 8:20 pm
by featherboa
new cormac this year i heard

Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)

Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2022 8:30 pm
by cxwx
featherboa wrote: Tue Apr 12, 2022 8:20 pm new cormac this year i heard
They’ve been saying that for a few years now. I just hope “The Passenger” isn’t posthumous.

EDIT:

Stella Maris? Haven’t heard of that until today.

Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)

Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2022 9:46 pm
by FVBTVS
read the road and child of god recently for the fist time. doing blood meridian now.

is it too violent for me?! :?

Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)

Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2022 11:53 pm
by cxwx
FVBTVS wrote: Tue Apr 12, 2022 9:46 pm read the road and child of god recently for the fist time. doing blood meridian now.

is it too violent for me?! :?
Dancing dancing dancing …

Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2022 8:02 am
by featherboa
blood meridian is the best

Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2022 10:13 am
by FVBTVS
i think i need to not read it so close to bedtime :lol:

Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)

Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2022 2:34 am
by cxwx
“Heavy Water” (short stories) - Martin Amis

“Janitor On Mars” stands out.

Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)

Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2022 8:27 pm
by cxwx
"The Sword Of The Lictor" - Wolfe

My favorite of the saga so far.

I'm about halfway through "The Master And Margarita" - Mikhail Bulgakov

Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)

Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2022 12:17 pm
by FVBTVS
cxwx wrote: Fri Apr 22, 2022 8:27 pm "The Sword Of The Lictor" - Wolfe

My favorite of the saga so far.
that entire run when he encounters the alzabo and little severian and the zoanthropes and typhon lives in my head rent free

Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)

Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2022 12:39 pm
by FVBTVS
maybe more rent controlled i should say

Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)

Posted: Sat May 07, 2022 7:21 pm
by cxwx
“The Citadel Of The Autarch” - Gene Wolfe

Bravo.

Should I read the fifth book or just stick with the original four.

Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)

Posted: Sat May 07, 2022 7:40 pm
by FVBTVS
urth of the new sun is insane

yes read it

Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)

Posted: Sun May 08, 2022 8:21 am
by featherboa
started shadow of the torturer again

Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)

Posted: Sun May 08, 2022 5:24 pm
by cxwx
I started “Urth….” last night.

Almost done with “The Magic Christian” - Terry Southern. If I was a billionaire I think I’d act exactly like the asshole in this book does.

Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)

Posted: Tue May 10, 2022 9:11 pm
by featherboa
from the group chat:

The fuck is a cacogen the fuck is a nenuphar

A little past halfway and I feel like so far it’s just a strange fevered dream

I am so absolutely confused reading this book
This book is like jodorowskt

That book is so fucking bewildering I don’t think you can spoil it unless it’s for like pre alcoholism [redacted]

“Smilodon” haha



Tried to read again
It’s painful
Like is this translated from some other made up language*
The grammar and structure is like a 2 year old found a thesaurus

haha*

Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)

Posted: Sat May 14, 2022 12:44 am
by cxwx
About halfway through Urth Of The New Sun.

It keeps making me think of The House On The Borderland

Re: Latest book you read (1-10 scale)

Posted: Thu May 19, 2022 9:28 pm
by Honky Kong 64
FVBTVS wrote: Sat Apr 23, 2022 12:17 pm
cxwx wrote: Fri Apr 22, 2022 8:27 pm "The Sword Of The Lictor" - Wolfe

My favorite of the saga so far.
that entire run when he encounters the alzabo and little severian and the zoanthropes and typhon lives in my head rent free
Fuck yes.

Somehow I didn’t read Urth and went right into Long. Just finished Short so I’ll probably do it now.

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

Posted: Sun May 22, 2022 8:22 pm
by Necrometer
i make it through like 5% of urth of the new sun, wait a month or two, do another 5%

this is not a sound strategy

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

Posted: Mon May 23, 2022 10:09 pm
by Honky Kong 64
Soldier series. DO IT

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

Posted: Tue May 24, 2022 11:49 pm
by cxwx
“The Horla” - Guy De Maupassant
“Autoportrait” - Édouard Levé
“Too Loud A Solitude” - Bohumil Hrabal

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

Posted: Mon May 30, 2022 3:12 am
by cxwx
Mostly done with “No Longer Hunan” - Osamu Dazai

I’m not very well versed with most science fiction , is Olaf Stapledon worth investing time in?

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

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2022 3:45 am
by cxwx
“Dark Neighbourhood” - Vanessa Onwuemezi

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

Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2022 4:14 am
by cxwx
“Sacred Families” - Jose Donoso
“Watt” - Beckett

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

Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2022 8:25 pm
by cxwx
"Flee" by Evan Dara - meh/10

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

Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2022 8:44 pm
by MPD
ive read at least a dozen Stephen King books this year ive never read before!