It's lightweight for being written by someone with a Harvard PhD but poignant, unfortunately.
It's lightweight for being written by someone with a Harvard PhD but poignant, unfortunately.
On a Samuel R Delaney kick at the moment. Just finshed:
Brilliant.
Trying to finish this one before the tv show starts. It's my third go-round with it. Usually I devour King's stuff but I keep putting this one down and not picking it up again. Not sure why.
This is OK, neither great nor terrible: another book in the troubled young men vein. A kind of less vulgar, more cosmopolitan Chad Kultgen.
Just finished this. I feel like I missed something, it seemed like a pretty average SF/fantasy first-person narrative to me. There were things I liked about it; the prose was extremely strong, the imagery quite striking at times, the settings often dreamlike. But I still don't feel it lived up to the huge amount hype and admiration that surrounds it. The characters were vague, the plot was almost non-existent, there was absolutely no drama or narrative development. Not sure what I'm missing here.
So far it is pretty good. This guy was a real nutter It also has some interesting tidbits about the general atmosphere around that time in France.
Genial as always!
I've been out of the "Playing God" loop since around Dolly so I'm learning some pretty mind blowing stuff. The ethical questions, observations and implications are well handled.
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The Lyric books of NIN albums......
Not a fan of chapter books IMO
Dystopian fiction, only about 20 pages in so far.
Looking forward to starting this soon...
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh wow gotta put that on my list!!!! MUST READ. edit: it's getting some crap review, though. Richard's ego is legendary.
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I've been on a bit of a Palahniuk binge lately, went through Fight Club, Choke, and Invisible Monsters in the last 2 months, and now out of the last stack I've bought I'm down to Survivor and Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas. Not sure which to go after first, though.
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Survivor, Choke, Lullaby, Fight Club, and Invisible Monsters aren't bad. Didn't he recently put out a newly edited version of Invisible Monsters? Rant also has its moments. Actually, Fight Club and Lullaby are pretty damn good.
That said, from that point on Palahniuk suddenly transforms into what is quite possibly the worst author I've ever read. Snuff and Pygmy are the two worst books I've ever suffered through, and I actively resent the guy who wrote them.
So I guess I'm encouraging you to read Fear and Loathing.
Kim Stanley Robinson - 2314
There's not enough utopian sf
He used to be one of my favorite authors but Tell-All was disgustingly bad. Then I read Damned afterward and quite liked that so I guess he's just really hit and miss. I'm interested to see what the sequel to Damned will be like though considering he's never written a sequel before.
Just now starting Neil Gaiman's Ocean at the End of the Lane.
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Is the new Gaiman novel good? It's on my list once I get this trashy James Herbert novel over and done with.
I just read Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse, and I want more. What I love most about the book, although I also related deeply to the Steppenwolf (Harry) character, is the writing itself. Further recommendations anyone?
Damian is another good one. Kind of along similar lines i would say. My buddy gave it too me for my bday last year and he had all sorts of shit underlined in it which sort of further weirded me out more so than just reading it would have. If you liked Steppenwolf i should think you'd like this one as well.
Thanks, I've got that one. I also downloaded works from Fyodor, Burroughs, James Joyce, Kafka, Albert Camus, and others, but I'm pretty much shooting in the dark. I figured this list of the greatest German novels of the 20th century might be good as well: http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/syl.../1OQUNAA189QEJ
I've read the Rebel by Camus and thought that was pretty good, i think i have Kafka but have yet to read it, and of course i read naked lunch. Shooting in the dark is how i've collected a fair bit of random but also vaguely related books.
Just started the Thrawn trilogy. Oh man it's so good!
Okay, seriously... why did Penguin make these gorgeous editions of English classics??
TOO PRETTY!