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I find that I prefer his earlier novels, like AMNESIA MOON, GUN WITH OCCASIONAL MUSIC and AS SHE WALKED ACROSS THE TABLE. I couldn't finish THE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE and had a bit of trouble with CHRONIC CITY too. MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN has been awesome, though. -
Pre-ordered and counting the days to Wise Man's Fear. I liked Name of the Wind a whole lot more than I expected so I'm jazzed for the second part of the story.
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Just finished a reread of Accelerando by Stross, and started The City & The City (my first foray into Mielville). And I have Brasyl by McDonald on it's way, looking forward to that one.
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- CommentAuthorundulatingungulate
- CommentTimeFeb 27th 2011
Jan Fries - Visual Magick
Really good, grounded, experiential guide to creativity, magic, art, and presence in the moment. -
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CommentAuthorWarped Savant
- CommentTimeFeb 27th 2011
Jim -- The City 7 The City was my first Mielville book too. Took a little bit to get into but by the end of it it had become one of my favorite recent books. -
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CommentAuthorCorey Waits
- CommentTimeFeb 28th 2011
Been reading Burroughs' Queer. Can't remember if I've listened to an audio book of it before, or if I just read big chunks of it in Word Virus, but I've definitely read chunks of it before. -
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A Wise Man's Fear - Patrick Rothfuss (after a disappointing reread of the Foundation series)
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i had to break from Didion's collected nonfiction (We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order To Live) so i got Nicolas Dickner's new one, Apocalypse for Beginners. i really adore his characters and their mundane actions, but get bored when the grandiose adventuring begins.
continuing along in the infraordinary-worship, i started my first re-read of DeLillo's White Noise. i love it almost but not quite as much as i did a year and a half ago. -
- CommentAuthorebullientsoul
- CommentTimeMar 1st 2011
Halfway through the Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano and two thirds through Frankenstein by Shelley. The Savage Detectives is a lot less depressing than 2666 or By Night In Chile, I'll say that. It feels like a road movie sometimes, though that might be underselling it.
On deck is The Turn Of the Screw by Henry James, Valperga also by Shelley and another Mieville, The Scar, I think. -
I recently read Tome of the Undergates by Sam Sykes, it left me craving for more, was a very violent book full of Dragon men curbstomping badguys.
This week I finished reading The Gunslinger by Stephen King which parts of the writing style I liked, but it felt like I had read it before, had deja vu the whole time. It might have been because I had heard about the book before hand and read up on it a little to see if it would be something I'd want to read.
Some of my favorite books are Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells. -
FYI, Portland area folks:
Patrick Rothfus doing the reading, signing things at Powell's, Beaverton on Wednesday 1/2/2011, 7 pm.
I'll be picking up Wise Man's Fears. -
- CommentAuthortherealdmj
- CommentTimeMar 1st 2011 edited
My copy of The Wise Man's Fear arrived today, but I'm halfway through a Brideshead Revisited reread (revisit?*), so I'll have to wait.
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- CommentAuthorMercer Finn
- CommentTimeMar 1st 2011
Almost finished with Thomas Paine's Rights of Man. Inventor of social democracy, and knows his way around a cutting sentence. Very good at making aristos look stupid and making the commoner feel superior to them, which is why he was so popular, I think.
Dipping into The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, the bits about why it's bad rather than why it's wrong. He does tend to get misrepresented, seems to me. But also, he comes off as slightly conceited. Not a perfect spokesman for the cause. Not a very good writer, either. But the ideas, particularly the genetic origin of our moral sense, are really interesting.
Also: Sam Keith's My Inner Bimbo. Not nearly as difficult as the back cover makes out. Very inventive, and really genuine. Giving us something new, which is what it's all about.
Have to continue with MacIntyre's After Virtue when I'm done with all that. Slightly intimidating. -
- CommentAuthorMiranda's Eyes
- CommentTimeMar 3rd 2011
Graphic novel-wise, I'm looking at Alison Bechdel's graphic memoir Fun Home, which is definitely a different type of story from her Dykes To Watch Out For work.
Prose-wise, I'm greatly enjoying reading Geoff Manaugh's The BLDGBLOG Book. Between thinking about inflatable cities and drug-fueled architectural criticism, the book has made architecture wild and fascinating. Bless you Internet Jesus for recommending the book. -
- CommentAuthorundulatingungulate
- CommentTimeMar 3rd 2011
Paul Bowles, Magic and Morocco - Allen Hibbard
Odd little volume examining Bowles as a North African magician. Part exploration of different literary evocations of Morocco, part travelogue, part biography (almost hagiography), part autobiography; on the whole feels like it is dancing around a mystery that cannot be spoken of, aided by a stellar supporting cast of glittering fame who appear in fragments, move on and off-stage to an unheard beat. A mysterious little book to exist.
The Art of Memetics - Wes Unruh and Edward Wilson
Breathlessly excited hyper-intellectualised fun romp through memes, mind, and the magic of systems. Signs of occasional brilliance amidst lots of gibberish. -
Harry Harrison - The Technicolour Time Machine
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- CommentAuthorian holloway
- CommentTimeMar 5th 2011
heh - i re-read that ^ about a fortnight ago. i love me some harrison but that one didn't live up to my memories of it. -
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CommentAuthorCorey Waits
- CommentTimeMar 6th 2011
Finished Queer. Not really sure what I think of it, there just doesn't seem to be much of a book there at all. I am however interested in reading The Yage Letters now, because that should cover much of the same timeline that is covered in Queer.
Also been reading Taking Australia Off The Map, a book published in 1983 about the threat of nuclear war to Australia. It's research for a story I'm developing, but a pretty good read too. It's amazing now how certain everyone was that nuclear war was just around the corner. But hindsight is 20/20 and all that. -
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Just finished Teun Voeten's Tunnel People, a chilling and fascinating account of homeless people living in NYC subway system.
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@archizero, that sounds excellent! one of my favourite books when i was a teen was a firsthand account of Tent City in Toronto, a place where homeless people scrapped together their own shanties and shacks in a huge empty lot near the waterfront.
i'm back on Didion again, and it's taking me forfrigginever to finish. i just pulled out Gravity's Rainbow for a re-read, so i'll probably crack that as soon as i give up on the nonfiction again.