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

Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2022 9:16 pm
by cxwx
It’s not in any of his short story collections but a few years ago I found online somewhere the original “The Crate” that got turned into one of the shorts in Creepshow. It was by far one of those most fucked up things he ever wrote. You really felt like this thing could not exist in our universe and King was able to channel the feeling of the victims losing their mind directly into your brain while reading the story.














SPOILER

one slightly funny part was in the story the only part of the wife that isn’t eaten by the creature is her face while in the movie that’s the first thing it eats

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

Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2022 9:59 pm
by Eight Bit Alien
I gotta track that down. I really have a soft spot in my heart for his short stories, especially from that era. Skeleton Crew and Night Shift were both so fucking entertaining as a young lad <3

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

Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2022 10:03 pm
by Eight Bit Alien
I've barely touched anything SK has put out in the past 20 years... maybe four books total. I keep meaning to pick up one of those detective stories he put out but I never quite find myself doing it.

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

Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2022 10:37 pm
by MPD
james, you're clearly agitated.

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

Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2022 11:55 pm
by Necrometer

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

Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2022 5:04 pm
by cxwx
The Babysitter - Robert Coover
The Pilgrim Hawk - Glenway Wescott
Nog - Rudolph Wurlitzer
The Resurrectionist - James “Wrath” White
Elena Knows - Claudia Pinerio
Through The Arc Of The Rainforest- Karen Tei Yamashita
JR - William Gaddis

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

Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2022 4:25 am
by cxwx
The Iliac Crest - Cristina Rivera Garza
Shambleau and Others - C.L. Moore

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

Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2022 1:01 pm
by Honky Kong 64
Light in August - 7.5/10

First foray into Faulkner and was pleasantly surprised, especially with the way his segued into character povs and delved into compelling backstories.

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

Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2022 7:12 pm
by cxwx
Howl and other poems - Ginsberg
The End Of Alice - A.M. Homes
Readers Block - David Markson
Assisted Living - Gary Lutz
I Had Raised Dust - Daniil Kharms

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

Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2022 7:32 pm
by featherboa
Finally finished second pass of Book of the New Sun

Gonna read Urth of the New Sun this time around I think

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

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2022 2:54 pm
by cxwx
Cains Jawbone - Edward P. Mathers
Sum - David Eagleman
Locos - Felipe Alfua
Sickening [nonfiction] - medical DOCTOR John Abramson

I started Gene Wolfes “Peace”

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

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2022 3:57 pm
by featherboa
i don't feel like reading book 5

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

Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2022 10:32 pm
by Honky Kong 64
featherboa wrote: Sat Sep 03, 2022 7:32 pm Finally finished second pass of Book of the New Sun

Gonna read Urth of the New Sun this time around I think
Do the Soldier Series if you haven’t already.

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

Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2022 10:34 pm
by Honky Kong 64
electronichamz wrote: Mon May 11, 2015 10:01 pm The Thousandfold Thought (The Prince of Nothing Book 3) - R Scott Bakker. 9/10

This whole series was great. Bakker is a damn fine writer. Of all the fantasy I have read, I have never been sucked into a world like I have in this series. Definitely going for the next series.
On book one of this right now and totally in love with it.

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

Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2022 5:50 pm
by cxwx
Finnegan’s Wake - Joyce

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

Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2022 6:16 pm
by cxwx
Eyes - William H Gass
The Sisters Brothers - Patrick DeWitt
A Door Behind A Door - Yelena Moskovich

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

Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2022 6:56 pm
by FVBTVS
reading houellebecq and dont really love it that much. map and territory

i probably need a break from this type of guy in general

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

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2022 9:43 pm
by Honky Kong 64
Honky Kong 64 wrote: Sat Sep 17, 2022 10:34 pm
electronichamz wrote: Mon May 11, 2015 10:01 pm The Thousandfold Thought (The Prince of Nothing Book 3) - R Scott Bakker. 9/10

This whole series was great. Bakker is a damn fine writer. Of all the fantasy I have read, I have never been sucked into a world like I have in this series. Definitely going for the next series.
On book one of this right now and totally in love with it.
9

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

Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2022 10:28 am
by featherboa
Breath - Nestor
9

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

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2022 1:07 pm
by cxwx
Any Man- Amber Tamblyn

Started “the feral detective” my first Johnathan Lethem book, even though everyone says you should read “motherless Brooklyn”

“The Passenger” release date is 10-25-22

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

Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2022 11:34 pm
by MPD
down to The Cannibals/Danse Macabre.

:fonz:

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

Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2022 2:52 am
by cxwx
XX - Rian Hughes
Unclean Jobs For Women And Girls - Alissa Nutting
Company/Ill Seen Ill Said/ Worstward Ho/Stirrings Still/ [others] - Samuel Beckett

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

Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2022 9:10 am
by featherboa
Elatsoe - 8

Takes me a month to finish a YA now

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

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2022 8:00 am
by cxwx
Notice - Heather Lewis ( I can’t say I wasn’t forewarned this was rock bottom depressing. Worse knowing the author committed suicide.)

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

Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2022 8:58 am
by Honky Kong 64
The Warrior Prophet - 9