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Eivind August wrote:

Loved this.

UC would you recommend Octavia Butler? (Probably yes based on the quantity you've read lol)

I'm reading To The Lighthouse at the moment and very much enjoying it. Other than that been reading a lot of Iain Banks.

I mean, yeah, but it's very light reading compared to the other stuff I have to read for classes, like Woolf (TTL is one of my all time favourites). I'm writing my paper on science fiction and human rights, which is why I'm going through a lot of her work. I like it, but it's not Shakespeare.

Kindred is really freaking good though. As far as neo-slave narratives go, it's up there with Toni Morrison's Beloved, even if it includes a bootstrap paradox/casual loop (depending on how you theorise time travel).

UglyCasanova wrote:(depending on how you theorise time travel).

Quantum diviside that shit.
Infinite possibilities at every action; infinite universes created from each and every possibility.

The Dark Tower books by Stephen King. Book 2 had some slow going. I will continue for now to 3.

Re-reading House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski. Last time I read it I was 18/19 (summer of 2011) - I'm about 50 pages in and I'm actually enjoying the ridiculous microanalysis parts of the book, which I think I just glazed over without truly comprehending back then. The 5 page essay on Echo was pretty amazing and very fun to read in a state of late-night stoned delirium.

UglyCasanova wrote:

This should be your new avatar.

monkeydancer wrote:

Eivind August wrote:

Loved this.

I mean, who doesn't love Dick?

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Booo.

how's this?

Last week I finished the Morrissey autobiography on a dare from my wife, read Robert Chambers' King in Yellow collection and today decided I would re-read all the Discworld books from start to finish, but then started on Raising Steam as it's the only one on my Nook at this time.

Stranger in a Strange Land

(or: How Space Jesus Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Sex)

Still on "The Dancer" by Colum McCann. I really love it, but I'm really bad at finding time for reading. Mostly my lust for storytelling is satisfied by movie/TV show streaming or audio books.

In the audio book department I just finished The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu and really fucking loved it. Very nihilistic hard SF. Not a great stylist or mind-blowing story-teller but I liked how the path for humanity seems to rely mostly on spitefulness and solitary acts of loathing in his vision of the future. I would've imagined chinese authorities to disapprove of stuff like this, but apparently no.

baremountain wrote:Re-reading House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski. Last time I read it I was 18/19 (summer of 2011) - I'm about 50 pages in and I'm actually enjoying the ridiculous microanalysis parts of the book, which I think I just glazed over without truly comprehending back then. The 5 page essay on Echo was pretty amazing and very fun to read in a state of late-night stoned delirium.

This us on my re-read list as well. Ive read it three times and it seems like the less worried I was about trying to stay oriented to the story the morr I was able to appreciate the details like you were saying. Enjoy it

I just finished Blink by Malcom Gladwell and I'm still debating how much I buy into his mindset.

Also have like 100 pages left in Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe. Interesting to see race/cultural relations from multiple societal perspectives portrayed in America in the 80s given the racial climate over the past few years.

I got Will Oldham on Bonnie "Prince" Billy up next on the docket.

murakami is the best, finally some free time to sit down with this