beerwolf Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 I think unless you're reading it as a teenager On The Road is pretty shite. Not exaggerating but On The Road lasted about a dozen pages. The other two were perhaps mid-way before my patience finally ran out. Perfume by P Suskind was the one before these and was a 9/10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KovalainenFanBoy Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 Saramago's "Blindness" is turning out to be pretty bad... Was expecting it to be more insightful than it is, considering the author deems it an 'essay'. Turns out it's just a run-of-the-mill apocalypse story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keanu reeves Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 reading kingdom come by ballard but it's a lot less interesting than what i'm used to from him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beerwolf Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 (edited) cwmbrancity, just ordered Blood Meridian Edited February 6, 2017 by beerwolf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 Finished PKD's Martian Time-Slip. It was OK. It was a slow build, it had some good descriptive trippy scenes surrounding an autistic boy, but the antagonist and protagonist were too two dimensional.I started PKD's Dr. Futurity right after and it was already engrossing 2 chapters in. I've been focusing on PKD's novels for the past 5 years and I still can't get enough of the time manipulation, precogs, telepaths, future drugs, androids, paranoia, alternate realities, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebraska Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 btw: can't wait for this to be released Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dumplings Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 The Samurai by Shusaku Endo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tec Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 Slaine The Horned God - Simon Bisley is the boss, totally awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QQQ Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 The Samurai by Shusaku Endo.any good? was reading about him the other day and i'm interested in reading something of his. i recently finish The Left Hand Of Darkness which was pretty good, though one strech of the story lasted way too long and got far too repetitive. the first half of the novel was better. reading The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QQQ Posted February 9, 2017 Share Posted February 9, 2017 fin: The Little Sister reading: Money by Martin Amis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KovalainenFanBoy Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 So Saramago's Blindness was pretty bad, I might have to read the novel that earned him a Nobel just to see if it's just me or the guy really isn't that much. It was supposed to be this amazing insight into human nature and it's just a subpar apocalyptic novel with sappy writing, run-on sentences and a dozen proverbs and sayings per chapter. "Everyone went blind and some people became real cunts and the world went to shit" well gee whiz give this man a Nobel goddamn. "Well maybe even if we aren't blind we are blind either way cause we dont LOOK at stuff real deep" god DAMN!! Now on to McCarthy's The Road Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bechuga Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 Reading DNA: The Secret of Life by James Watson, which is for research (copy is stuffed with post-it notes). Also bought a copy of the complete works of Shakespeare from the same charity shop, a thousand page hardcover I don't suspect I will read soon but looks impressive. At work, reading Granta 106, which features short stories by Eleanor Catton and Ha Jin. Pretty good, might get more of these Granta magazines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doublename Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 (edited) @span I remember thinking Death With Interruptions was better than Blindness, but that's not saying a whole lot. Edited February 12, 2017 by doublename Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doublename Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 (edited) Any of you mans read[ing] Lincoln at the Bardo? I ended my preorder (hardcovers are stupidly expensive) and joined the long af wait list at the library. Edited February 15, 2017 by doublename Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keanu reeves Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 i finished it today. it's pretty good, little bit cutesy in places but most saunders is like that. i don't think it's a good place to start with him and the format is really weird, like a transcript and then long passages written in the style of nicholson baker's human smoke, with primary source documents serving as fodder for the narrative. it's very pomo, but good. if you like saunders this is a lot better than his recent short story collections, which were a dead end for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hello spiral Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 Never heard of him, he sounds interesting. Good place to start? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keanu reeves Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 civilwarland in bad decline and pastoralia are his first two collections and also his best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hello spiral Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QQQ Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 i burned through Money in less than 2 weeks. nearly 400 pages long but barely felt half that. i gotta read some more of his stuff. next up: Forbidden Colours (Yukio Mishima) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 Dr. Futurity devolved into typical sci-fi time travel tripe. It's one of PKD's earliest novels, so it's not too surprising. Halfway through Vulcan's Hammer and it's a promising simple set up - all world governments give complete control to an intimidating supercomputer to solve the world's problems while a group of people are trying to destroy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doublename Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 (edited) Reading: The Power Broker: Robert Moses & The Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein also just picked up a used copy of Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles And The Imagination Of Disaster by Mike Davis, but idk when I'll get around to it. Edited February 20, 2017 by doublename Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misc Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 Finally finished Mason & Dixon. It was brilliant and i already miss hangin out with them. Such fun characters. Now started Dune cause like i've gotta read it at some point init. It's alright so far, but the contrast between pynhcon's writing and this is kinda jarring. Sorta feels like it was written in an A-level english class. The man said this. The woman was surprised. "Oh no!" said the woman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hello spiral Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 ^ yeah I felt the same way about Dune. Great ideas and story; terrible, flat/formulaic writing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QQQ Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 Dune is so dull. i dropped it maybe 3/4ths through. huge disappointment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doublename Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 (edited) Frank Herbert's prose reads almost exactly like GRRM's to me. Granted, it's been a while since I read either. Edited February 20, 2017 by doublename Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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