TwistedPaper
from Poland is reading "The Book of the New Sun" by Gene Wolfe & "Seven Wonders" by Adam ChristopherJanuary 18, 2012 - 7:40am
"Supergods - What masked vigilantes, miraculous mutants and sun-god from Smallville can teach us about being human" by Grant Morrison. His writing style is a little bit chaotic but also full of great terms and metaphors.
mutterhals
from Pittsburgh
January 18, 2012 - 8:17am
I just finished The Beautiful and Damned and I really liked it. I wasn't all that hot on Fitzgerald until recently, I think I had to grow into it. Now I'm reading Miguel Street by VS Naipaul, which I only bought because I read somewhere he's kind of down on women writers and I wanted to see if he's really that great. I also read some short story collection titled Blood, didn't like that at all. The first story was OK, the rest kind of left me yawning.
wickedvoodoo
from Mansfield, England is reading stuff.January 18, 2012 - 10:01am
Brit Grit, a collection by Paul D Brazill.
American pulp-noir style, but all set in little old England.
postpomo
from Canada is reading words words wordsJanuary 18, 2012 - 10:22am
@FNZ: I keep meaning to pick that one up - Morrison is a mad genius, so the chaotic metaphor seems like an apt device for him.
I just finished Storytelling & Mythmaking by Frank McConnell, which I believe is out of print. Pretty interesting analysis of story types (epic, romance, melodrama, satire) and how they relate to stages of civilization from founding to dissolution. He published it in 1979 so the most recent references are to Star Wars, the Godfather and like that, but still, it's an interesting premise.
Currently reading Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez (someone posted about it here - my source for book recommendations, for which I am grateful). I've long been fascinated with the Arctic, and Lopez has a poetic style. An added bonus is that I feel very cozy when it drops to -29 C like it did this past week.
Pete
from Detroit is reading Red DragonJanuary 20, 2012 - 6:48am
Siren Promised was fucking great. I nice little novella that I found randomly by browsing Jeremy Robert Johnson's site. Highly recommended.
Starting The Devil All The Time now.
wickedvoodoo
from Mansfield, England is reading stuff.January 20, 2012 - 9:30am
@ Pete.
I really want the other JRJ books. Angeldust was quality. Somehow I always forget him when it's shopping time though. I must try and remember next time.
On the upside - As a Machine and Parts got delivered today! Yay! Will read it at some point this weekend (maybe even this evening) and then I'll be coming to join back in with your thread.
Pete
from Detroit is reading Red DragonJanuary 20, 2012 - 10:26am
Yeah - I was the same way with his stuff. But I've recently really been in the mood for his writing - especially after his story in Warmed and Bound. He's really cool too. I'm thinking of doing his book We Are Inside You in the future for Book Club (especially since we haven't done a short story book yet). He already said he'd love to participate in it.
wickedvoodoo
from Mansfield, England is reading stuff.January 21, 2012 - 8:18pm
Was going to post that I was reading As A Machine And Parts here, but I already finished. It. Very cool little book.
So now I am starting The Devil All The Time.
Sam Sturdivant
from Hayward, Ca is reading MurphyJanuary 22, 2012 - 3:30am
Kicked off the year by reading the new James Bond novel, Carte Blanche. Unfortunately, I don't have as much time as I'd like to have for reading right now, so I'm still slowly working my way though it. I've only got a little more than a hundred pages left.
Bradley Sands
from Boston is reading Greil Marcus's The History of Rock 'N' Roll in Ten SongsJanuary 22, 2012 - 5:46pm
You should do We Live Inside You for the book club, Pete. It would give me an excuse to buy it considering I'm broke, although I have a lot of credit.
Pete
from Detroit is reading Red DragonJanuary 22, 2012 - 4:55pm
I'm most likely doing it in May Bradley. :)
Michael Hodges
from Chicago is reading Oryx and CrakeJanuary 22, 2012 - 5:08pm
Blood Meridian. I keep thinking, "man, it can't get any crueler than that," and in the next few pages it does.
wickedvoodoo
from Mansfield, England is reading stuff.January 24, 2012 - 10:08pm
The Devil All The Time was very good. Warrants the hype.
Next up - I'm about 100 pages or so into Apathy and Other Small Victories by Paul Neilan. Already I'm in love. Like, gushing. Such a wonderful blend of the cynical and the comical. I wish I hadn't slept on this one so long.
And Pete - glad to hear you are planning to book club the JRJ collection. Will give me a reason to get my act together and buy it.
Pete
from Detroit is reading Red DragonJanuary 24, 2012 - 10:34pm
Oh man! Apathy and Other Small Victories is one of those books that I'm constantly recommending to people because I know not enough people have read it. I loved that book.
Nathan
from Louisiana (South of New Orleans) is reading Re-reading The Rust Maidens by Gwendolyn Kiste, The Bone Weaver's Orchard by Sarah ReadJanuary 24, 2012 - 10:58pm
Just started I Didn't Mean to be Kevin by Caleb J. Ross. His new one that was just released this past week.
wickedvoodoo
from Mansfield, England is reading stuff.January 25, 2012 - 2:09am
@ Pete - Indeed, it was your recommendation that put me on to it in the first place. Just took a while to get round to actually getting it. Christmas solved that.
@ Nath - Am looking forward to reading Kevin but I want to give it a week or two after reading As A Machine before I start it. I got a thing about reading two books by the same author in such rapid succession. And I already broke my own rule once this month with the Pollack books.
Pete
from Detroit is reading Red DragonJanuary 27, 2012 - 6:21pm
Finished The Devil All The Time. Can't wait for the discussion. I think it's going to be a good time.
Read The Morbidly Obese Ninja today at work. It was pretty entertaining. Pretty straight-forward story. Nothing super great about it. But, like I said, it was entertaining.
Starting By the Nails of the Warpriest.
Jay.SJ
from London is reading Warmed and BoundJanuary 27, 2012 - 7:56pm
Warpriest is a great one. Quick read too, reckon you'll love it, Pete.
Pete
from Detroit is reading Red DragonJanuary 30, 2012 - 4:05pm
By The Nails of the Warpriest was really good. Recommended. I think I might have liked Old Ghost more though.
Started The Crime Studio by Steve Aylett over the weekend. I'm loving this book already. So many great quotes.
"Supergods - What masked vigilantes, miraculous mutants and sun-god from Smallville can teach us about being human" by Grant Morrison. His writing style is a little bit chaotic but also full of great terms and metaphors.
I just finished The Beautiful and Damned and I really liked it. I wasn't all that hot on Fitzgerald until recently, I think I had to grow into it. Now I'm reading Miguel Street by VS Naipaul, which I only bought because I read somewhere he's kind of down on women writers and I wanted to see if he's really that great. I also read some short story collection titled Blood, didn't like that at all. The first story was OK, the rest kind of left me yawning.
Brit Grit, a collection by Paul D Brazill.
American pulp-noir style, but all set in little old England.
@FNZ: I keep meaning to pick that one up - Morrison is a mad genius, so the chaotic metaphor seems like an apt device for him.
I just finished Storytelling & Mythmaking by Frank McConnell, which I believe is out of print. Pretty interesting analysis of story types (epic, romance, melodrama, satire) and how they relate to stages of civilization from founding to dissolution. He published it in 1979 so the most recent references are to Star Wars, the Godfather and like that, but still, it's an interesting premise.
Currently reading Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez (someone posted about it here - my source for book recommendations, for which I am grateful). I've long been fascinated with the Arctic, and Lopez has a poetic style. An added bonus is that I feel very cozy when it drops to -29 C like it did this past week.
Siren Promised was fucking great. I nice little novella that I found randomly by browsing Jeremy Robert Johnson's site. Highly recommended.
Starting The Devil All The Time now.
@ Pete.
I really want the other JRJ books. Angeldust was quality. Somehow I always forget him when it's shopping time though. I must try and remember next time.
On the upside - As a Machine and Parts got delivered today! Yay! Will read it at some point this weekend (maybe even this evening) and then I'll be coming to join back in with your thread.
Yeah - I was the same way with his stuff. But I've recently really been in the mood for his writing - especially after his story in Warmed and Bound. He's really cool too. I'm thinking of doing his book We Are Inside You in the future for Book Club (especially since we haven't done a short story book yet). He already said he'd love to participate in it.
Was going to post that I was reading As A Machine And Parts here, but I already finished. It. Very cool little book.
So now I am starting The Devil All The Time.
Kicked off the year by reading the new James Bond novel, Carte Blanche. Unfortunately, I don't have as much time as I'd like to have for reading right now, so I'm still slowly working my way though it. I've only got a little more than a hundred pages left.
You should do We Live Inside You for the book club, Pete. It would give me an excuse to buy it considering I'm broke, although I have a lot of credit.
I'm most likely doing it in May Bradley. :)
Blood Meridian. I keep thinking, "man, it can't get any crueler than that," and in the next few pages it does.
The Devil All The Time was very good. Warrants the hype.
Next up - I'm about 100 pages or so into Apathy and Other Small Victories by Paul Neilan. Already I'm in love. Like, gushing. Such a wonderful blend of the cynical and the comical. I wish I hadn't slept on this one so long.
And Pete - glad to hear you are planning to book club the JRJ collection. Will give me a reason to get my act together and buy it.
Oh man! Apathy and Other Small Victories is one of those books that I'm constantly recommending to people because I know not enough people have read it. I loved that book.
Just started I Didn't Mean to be Kevin by Caleb J. Ross. His new one that was just released this past week.
Apparently, Steve Erickson has a new one coming out as well on the 31st: http://www.amazon.com/These-Dreams-You-Steve-Erickson/dp/1609450639/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1327470998&sr=8-1
@ Pete - Indeed, it was your recommendation that put me on to it in the first place. Just took a while to get round to actually getting it. Christmas solved that.
@ Nath - Am looking forward to reading Kevin but I want to give it a week or two after reading As A Machine before I start it. I got a thing about reading two books by the same author in such rapid succession. And I already broke my own rule once this month with the Pollack books.
Finished The Devil All The Time. Can't wait for the discussion. I think it's going to be a good time.
Read The Morbidly Obese Ninja today at work. It was pretty entertaining. Pretty straight-forward story. Nothing super great about it. But, like I said, it was entertaining.
Starting By the Nails of the Warpriest.
Warpriest is a great one. Quick read too, reckon you'll love it, Pete.
By The Nails of the Warpriest was really good. Recommended. I think I might have liked Old Ghost more though.
Started The Crime Studio by Steve Aylett over the weekend. I'm loving this book already. So many great quotes.