Hk47 Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 Biomega Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auxien Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 Been occasionally reading through Ligotti's Songs of a Dead Dreamer & Grimscribe combo via Kindle for the past 6 months, but have made barely a dent (haven't been in a reading mood at all until quite recently)...though I just bought and started John Langan's The Fisherman, which seems like it should be a solid/easy enough read to get me back in the groove of reading fiction. I work in a bookshop and had been planning for a couple of weeks to order in The Fisherman when I got paid, then the day before I went in a charity shop and found a mint copy of it for 3 quid, it was insane. Not read it yet. That cheap second hand already? It just came out like, not even 6 months ago I think? Serendipity though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tec Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 It was so odd, I thought I could only get it by ordering it from a US book supplier. I'd lived in the area a month so it was my first time in the shop and it was face out on a shelf or I probably wouldn't have seen it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwmbrancity Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 The Magus by John Fowles A bit Tales of the Unexpected, but its does the psychological reeling in of one of the main characters immensely. Is it madness or magic or both? Mint/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caze Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 Mona Lisa Overdrive was a lot better than Count Zero in the end, but still not perfect, spent a lot of time dealing with bullshit and then totally rushed the ending. Currently reading Time's Arrow by Martin Amis, was worried it was going to be a bit gimmicky (the story is entirely told in reverse (from the main character's death to his birth), and reverse as in watching a video in reverse, with the narrator even having to translate the backwards speech noises which takes him a while to figure out how to understand at first, and getting used to sucking shit into his ass and regurgitating food and reforming it into packets to return to the supermarket), but it's holding up so far, and it's a pretty short book so should be fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hello spiral Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 (edited) Time's Arrow is fucking lush The Magus by John Fowles A bit Tales of the Unexpected, but its does the psychological reeling in of one of the main characters immensely. Is it madness or magic or both? Mint/10 sweet m8, that one has been on my to-read shelf for a while now about 200 pages into Mason & Dixon. I keep putting off reading unfortunately. Might be one of those Pynchons I enjoy more the 2nd time round. That was true of Lot49 and Vineland. Edited January 13, 2017 by hello spiral Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hk47 Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 Finished Biomega... Great series, though I didn't enjoy it as much as Blame!... I'm still going to have to get Abara and Knights of Sidonia soon... But I went back to Saul Teukolsky's 'Black Holes, White Dwarfs and Neutron Stars-the physics of compact objects' - I've been trying to make my way through it for the last month. Gonna try to get to the end before I pick up any more manga. =o/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atom Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 I decided forgo Gravity's Rainbow for now and am currently making my way through Marc Van de Mieroop's A History of the Ancient Near East. It's actually pretty interesting so far. Afterwards I'll probably try to finally finish Ulysses & then tackle Gravity's Rainbow if school doesn't get in the way of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morfiannik Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 dfw's books is what im usually reading Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zkom Posted January 16, 2017 Share Posted January 16, 2017 Reread Ligotti's My Work Is Not Yet Done last week. It was even better than I remembered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bechuga Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 dfw's books is what im usually reading Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doublename Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 Reading - Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Smith The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson On deck - Transmigration of Bodies by Yuri Herrera Sudden Death by Álvaro Enrigue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KovalainenFanBoy Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 Reading - Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Smith The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson On deck - Transmigration of Bodies by Yuri Herrera Sudden Death by Álvaro Enrigue are you reading 3 books at the same time? I can't do that... I've thought about it sometimes but I just can't cycle between books unless it's non-fiction. It just feels wrong to be invested in 2 different stories at the same time for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caze Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 I used to do that all the time, back when I read lots and lots of books. Can only handle a single one at a time these days though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimpyLoo Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 dfw's books is what im usually reading Where's the drawing of him buying a gun to kill his crush's husband? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KovalainenFanBoy Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 what are you trying to say here, in a Wittgensteinian way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doublename Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 (edited) Reading -Song of Solomon by Toni MorrisonHis Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae SmithThe Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth DickinsonOn deck -Transmigration of Bodies by Yuri HerreraSudden Death by Álvaro Enrigueare you reading 3 books at the same time? I can't do that... I've thought about it sometimes but I just can't cycle between books unless it's non-fiction. It just feels wrong to be invested in 2 different stories at the same time for some reason. Yeah I'm usually reading a couple of novels and 2-3 nonfiction things at a time. I guess I do it to keep myself from wasting too much time online, or watching shows I only kind of half-way care about on Netflix. If I come across something particularly gripping, the other books tends to go on the back burner though. Edited January 19, 2017 by doublename Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimpyLoo Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 what are you trying to say here, in a Wittgensteinian way I'm saying DFW bought a gun in order to kill his crush's husband Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doublename Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 (edited) It's funny cuz he was reenacting a scene from a Don Delillo (DFW's fav author) novel. Edited January 19, 2017 by doublename Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bechuga Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 what are you trying to say here, in a Wittgensteinian way I'm saying DFW bought a gun in order to kill his crush's husband Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimpyLoo Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 It's funny cuz he was reenacting a scene from a Don Delillo (DFW's fav author) novel. I mean, does that novel also contain a scene with a professor sleeping with and stalking his students, or pushing an ex- out of a moving car? I bet it's all just scenes from his favorite books, and he was perfectly moral and rational, and it's all just performance art. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doublename Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 It's funny cuz he was reenacting a scene from a Don Delillo (DFW's fav author) novel.I mean, does that novel also contain a scene with a professor sleeping with and stalking his students, or pushing an ex- out of a moving car? I bet it's all just scenes from his favorite books, and he was perfectly moral and rational, and it's all just performance art. I wasn't making excuses for him. I'd like to think he wasn't even conscious of it, like a person who who looks back at a piece his writing (or music) only to realize it's all something he'd read or heard somewhere else years ago (shout out to Ian McEwan). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bechuga Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 (edited) It's funny cuz he was reenacting a scene from a Don Delillo (DFW's fav author) novel.I mean, does that novel also contain a scene with a professor sleeping with and stalking his students, or pushing an ex- out of a moving car? I bet it's all just scenes from his favorite books, and he was perfectly moral and rational, and it's all just performance art. edit: and don't forget that most of his non-fiction was made up, that's pretty important Edited January 19, 2017 by Bechuga Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimpyLoo Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 (edited) It's funny cuz he was reenacting a scene from a Don Delillo (DFW's fav author) novel.I mean, does that novel also contain a scene with a professor sleeping with and stalking his students, or pushing an ex- out of a moving car? I bet it's all just scenes from his favorite books, and he was perfectly moral and rational, and it's all just performance art. edit: and don't forget that most of his non-fiction was made up, that's pretty important Well good thing we didn't learn these things from his non-fiction, then! Doublename: sorry mate I literally have autism Edited January 19, 2017 by LimpyLoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KovalainenFanBoy Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 (edited) Wittgenstein used to beat kids when he was a teacher so I guess we must dismiss his thoughts entirely too btw thanks limpy for filling the Jev shaped hole in WATMM's soul Edited January 19, 2017 by span Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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