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    Finished The Stars My Destination. Wild. Wanted less pulp, more self-indulgence, but that might just be me. Now reading Ian McEwan's short stories. The first volume was all abt murderers, rapists and pedophiles. Now on to the second. Great stuff, although like a lot of his novels, you get the feeling that the substance behind the style is a bit thin...

    Read the first couple of pages of Simulation and Simulacra, which I picked up at the Hay Festival over the wknd. Thought it was entertaining jibberish... tho it's likely I just couldn't understand it. Will plow thru it eventually.
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      CommentAuthorinfomancer
    • CommentTimeJun 1st 2011
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    Finishing up the last bits of Wolfe's Claw of the Conciliator. Really liking it, but I do have stuff piling up, so I'm gonna take a break and hack away at the pile before reading the last two books in the New Sun series. In the pile are:

    The Pesthouse - Jim Crace
    Blue Light Project - Timothy Taylor
    Zazen - Vanessa Veselka

    Also considering Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading, but I might have to put that one off for a bit.
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      CommentAuthorCamyLuna
    • CommentTimeJun 3rd 2011
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    I finished Sleepless a few weeks ago, and it's really haunting. Maybe because it was set in LA, and I know so many of the places in there, or that I'm a mom now. Or it could just be the really great writing. Whew.

    I followed that up with River Marked by Patricia Briggs in which she took Mercy out of the usual setting and did interesting things with that character and her past. It was a very enjoyable, quick read.

    Currently working on Pale Demon by Kim Harrison. Does anyone else read this series and see a bit of our host in her demon teacher, Algaliarept?
    • CommentAuthorDC
    • CommentTimeJun 4th 2011
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    Heart-Shaped Box started as a terror masterpiece but somewhere along the way it lost a bit of it's appeal. The initial concept had so much potential that I think Joe Hill didn't managed to explore it to it's fullest. It's a really good ghost story nonetheless.
    Almost finishing A Storm of Swords. Damn, I wasn't expecting
    Robb and Catelyn dying that way
    and so many other twists and turns Martin did. In this book I think the writing wasn't as fluid as the others, I could sense and see his moves to get the story going and at the same time tying some loose ends from the other books.
    When I finish it I'll stop with literature for a while and concentrate on my thesis while going through Forgetless, Immortal Iron Fist, Casanova, Tales from the Edge, several Vertigo Resurrected, DMZ and many unread things.
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    Just finished reading China Miéville's "The Kraken". I didn't get into it as much as I did "The City & The City". I liked it, but it just didn't grab me as much. I really like Miéville's writing style, great ideas, good characterizations of people.

    I think I'm going to read either Mo Hayder's "The Devil on Nanking" or George RR Martin's "Game of Thrones". Haven't really decided yet.
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      CommentAuthoroldhat
    • CommentTimeJun 5th 2011
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    Decided on something light and picked up Ladies & Gentlemen, The Bible by Jonathan Goldstein. Wonderful homour in it.
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      CommentAuthorinfomancer
    • CommentTimeJun 6th 2011
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    @DC I agree about Heart-Shaped Box. Started out great, but rapidly lost its luster and by the time I got to the end it was just plain silly. I remember liking 20th Century Ghosts, though. Maybe he just works better in a shorter format.
    • CommentAuthorDC
    • CommentTimeJun 6th 2011 edited
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    If I remember correctly, Heart-Shaped Box was his first novel so his transition from tales to novels could explain it.

    Edit: Read:
    Hellblazer: Bad Blood (Jamie Delano/Warren Pleece/Philip Bond). For a "Restoration Comedy" it wasn't much funny. Dispensable.
    The Extremist (Peter Milligan/Ted McKeever). Cool concept. It had material to be further explored.
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    Jean Genet - Querelle of Brest: THUG LIFE!
    Michael Moorcock - A Cure for Cancer: Beautifully nuts. My copy's a crumbling yellowing 70s Penguin paperback that prefaces the story with Note to the Reader: THIS BOOK HAS AN UNCONVENTIONAL STRUCTURE like a warning or challenge in the acknowledgements.
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      CommentAuthorHEY APATHY!
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2011 edited
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    I unconsciously walked into a second hand book store last night and bought HENRY MILLER's Tropic of Capricorn. It's really good. I am almost always re-reading books/authors I discovered as a teenager,( Thompson, Burroughs, Cortozar,Satre, Miller, Kafka, Poe, Fyodor) but there really isn't anyway other means to appreciation except through repetetive and thorough studies. I figure by the time I'm 200-300 years old I'll get around to reading things written after the 1970's.
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    I'm currently ripping through Grant Morrison's SuperGods. Fantastic read, a good mix of comics history and autobiography with just the right mix of revelation and skepticism. It's something I get lost in easily.

    Up next Embassytown.
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    Okay, so I started reading The Devil of Nanking the other day and holy damn am I amazed so far! I'm only on chapter 8 but this is a book that I think people should read. It's the story of a slightly crazy girl (which they apparently explain details as to why she's the way she is later on in the book) obsessed with the Nanking Massacre. She travels to Japan to find someone that may or may not have a video recording of events that may or may not have happened there that were highly covered up (if they ever really happened.)
    Amazon has some reviews on it that may have some spoilers. I'm not going to read them myself as I want to be surprised.
    The person that suggested it to me (my cousin, VietBong) was talking to me about it today and saying that it's the only book that has really stuck with him. I'm starting to see why and I'm thinking that it's only going to get better from here.
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      CommentAuthornigredo
    • CommentTimeJun 9th 2011
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    Just started Daniel Wilson's ROBOPOCALYPSE, which is oddly captivating.
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    After the thread on Novahead I went ahead and ordered a few Steve Aylett books. Atom arrived first, so I gave it a read, and goddamn I was not disappointed. Insane, hilarious, inventive. Toxicology and Slaughtermatic have arrived too, so hopefully I'll be able to devour one of them over the weekend.
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    how many people have read embassytown? and how awesome is that book?!
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    I'm around halfway through Embassytown and it is... just... wow.

    It's damn near everything I liked about The City & The City raised a couple of degrees. Once again Mieville has done a fantastic job of building a world and explaining enough of how it works while leaving the reader enough room to explore on their own. And the situations, the concepts... the Language!?

    Can't wait to finish it, can't wait to buy it in paperback.
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    @chris blakeley - its also one of the only books i have read in a while that gets better as it goes along.
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      CommentAuthornigredo
    • CommentTimeJun 11th 2011
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    Started it and was kinda underwhelmed. The writing felt kinda clunky to me. Will try again at some later date...
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      CommentAuthorscs
    • CommentTimeJun 11th 2011
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    Still bogging down in "Heart of Darkness" so set it aside for a while. Went on a bit of a re-reading kick, hitting Conrad's "Bartleby Scrivner" and Zelazny's "Lord of Light." The latter I re-read every five or ten years, and it never gets old. That sent me to continue my way thru the collected short works of Zelazny (bless you, Nesfa Press) where I'm happily ensconced at the moment.

    Oh, and I was a couple of weeks behind on The Economist but have now caught up.
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    So looking fwd to Embassytown appearing in paperback / my local library...

    Finished McEwan's In Between The Sheets, his second collection of short stories. Less fucked-up, more experimental, than the first. Liked the SF one ("Two Fragments") the best.

    Now reading political philosopher James Tully's Strange Multiplicity. So far he's still setting out the scene, abt to plunge into the argument. There's promise of lost aboriginal constitution-building strategies ahead...

    Bought the first trade of Air on @Warped Savant's recommendation, and our host's very own Anna Mercury. The pin-ups at the back are real slobber-inducing. Should get thru those this week.

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