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

Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2022 1:17 pm
by cxwx
Fictiones - Borges
Junky - WS Burroughs
Ada - Nabokov
Candide - Voltaire
Train Spotting - Welsh
Girl With Curious Hair - DFW
Whores For Gloria - Vollmann
Butterfly Stories - Vollmann
The Passenger / Stella Maris - McCarthy

Now reading: Flannery O’Oconnor - collected short stories.

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

Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2022 8:18 pm
by MPD
40 pages into this brick.

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fucking rules.

fuck the northeast.

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

Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2022 8:51 am
by featherboa
ffff i'm stuck in Grace of Kings and I just want to read The Passenger. Don't say anything about it.

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

Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2022 1:56 pm
by cxwx
To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

Debating if I should read Katherine Dunn’s “Toad” considering someone dug out of a file cabinet and published 6 years after she died, and there’s no indication it was something she actually planned to release. Geek Love is one of my favorite novels.

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

Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2022 7:17 pm
by cxwx
cxwx wrote: Fri Dec 23, 2022 1:56 pm Katherine Dunn’s “Toad”
Some one gave it to me for Christmas so I guess that settles it.

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

Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2022 10:58 pm
by Honky Kong 64
cxwx wrote: Sun Dec 11, 2022 1:17 pm Fictiones - Borges
Junky - WS Burroughs
Ada - Nabokov
Candide - Voltaire
Train Spotting - Welsh
Girl With Curious Hair - DFW
Whores For Gloria - Vollmann
Butterfly Stories - Vollmann
The Passenger / Stella Maris - McCarthy

Now reading: Flannery O’Oconnor - collected short stories.
How did you like Ada? Maybe my favorite Nabokov.

How were the new Cormacz?

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

Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2022 11:11 am
by FVBTVS
finally reading and almost done w Hunger by Knut Hamsun

its owning so hard

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

Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2023 4:40 pm
by cxwx
I replied to Honky Kong in a PM to avoid spoiling anything for Solidaritywithfruit. I didn’t realize “Hunger” was such a short book so I’m bumping it up on my reading list.

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

Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2023 5:01 pm
by FVBTVS
it's short but it owns and its even a little uneven

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

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2023 12:21 pm
by FVBTVS
i guess im a bit of a cormac mccarthy mark now. i was extremely foolish to ignore this dude for so long

i just started suttree and it is just ridiculous. his ability to maintain a steady paced & dense lyrical prose is so stupid. obviously the gear and tone is different from this to blood meridian but that poise in the text is identical. the feet of his voice are never once out of position. its so fucking stupid :lol:

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

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2023 3:03 pm
by cxwx
Outer Dark is probably my favorite McCarthy.

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

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2023 2:38 am
by cxwx
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller 10/10

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

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2023 9:02 pm
by i am a burn victim..
i wish torben was my dwarf ‘ ‘ but nardwaur was in another castelan llull 1324 ‘ mona flamboyant ‘ emerald ray letter never sent ruvn ‘

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

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2023 9:12 pm
by i am a burn victim..
should i just make all the threads for tbe next 15 years for you guys ans then leave ‘ the final one wjll save yoyr life but you wont listen anyways az

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

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2023 9:32 pm
by cxwx
Hey Rob. I’m getting around to Apes Of God someday.

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

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2023 11:07 pm
by featherboa
cxwx wrote: Thu Jan 19, 2023 2:38 am Catch-22 - Joseph Heller 10/10
I was super into this a long time ago. I was wondering if it still rules.

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

Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2023 7:42 am
by featherboa
The grace of kings - 6

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

Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2023 11:18 am
by featherboa
just read first page of passenger. oh yeah, that's the stuff.

grace of kings read like a translated chinese history textbook

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

Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2023 1:14 pm
by cxwx
featherboa wrote: Fri Jan 20, 2023 11:18 am just read first page of passenger. oh yeah, that's the stuff.

grace of kings read like a translated chinese history textbook
Reread the first page again, and then the first italicized section again after ( if ) you read Stella Maris.

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

Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2023 4:10 pm
by cxwx
Reading Pedro Paramo

It’s not difficult prose wise but I’m having a very hard time keeping track of who is who and how we’re getting from place to place but I assume that’s intentional.

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

Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2023 10:03 pm
by Honky Kong 64
Suttree fucking rules. Cormac goes off into these prose spirals that are so bleak and effortless I find myself re-reading passages multiple times. The Green Fly Inn scene from Orchard Keeper lives rent free in my head.

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

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2023 7:57 am
by featherboa
The Passenger
I don't understand how books like this can exist

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

Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2023 8:00 pm
by cxwx
featherboa wrote: Fri Jan 27, 2023 7:57 am The Passenger
I don't understand how books like this can exist
Read “Libra” - DeLillo

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

Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2023 3:33 pm
by cxwx
Homesick For Another World - Ottessa Moshfegh 9/10

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

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2023 11:14 am
by cxwx
The Collected Stories Of Amy Hempel