Fylh
from from from is reading is from is reading is reading is reading reading is readingApril 26, 2012 - 5:56am
I say, probably don't go for it, though I appreciate the sentiment...
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryApril 26, 2012 - 7:19am
Utah totally cried.
I. Um. Okay. Yeah, I cried. But it was manly crying, not like that time my daughter "accidentally" hit me in the nuts with a softball (Softball? Hardly.) and I wept like baby.
Manly.
wickedvoodoo
from Mansfield, England is reading stuff.April 26, 2012 - 6:10pm
Finished with We Live Inside You. T'was pretty good, that one. WIll save any further comments for the book club thread.
Next up - Buy Jupiter by Isaac Asimov. A bit of quality golden-age sci-fi, one of his many short story collections.
Hmm. All three of the books I have read this month have been collections. Something about my attention span just recently has been craving quick fixes. Next month I am going to have to read a novel or two, just so I remember how they work.
bryanhowie
from FW, ID is reading East of Eden. Steinbeck is FUCKING AMAZING.April 26, 2012 - 6:43pm
Re-re-re-re-reading Reasons To Live, by Amy Hempel.
Fuck, she's good.
Pete
from Detroit is reading Red DragonApril 27, 2012 - 5:52am
Finished We Live Inside You yesterday. It was really good. In fact two of the stories, I thought were amazing. Can't wait for the discussion.
Picked up It Came From Del Rio by Stephen Graham Jones last night. Only read the first few pages, but the damn solid writing sucked me in instantly. I only picked it up because I was undecided on what I wanted to read next.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryApril 27, 2012 - 6:13am
I just started The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer. Maybe 70 pages into it. The jury is definitely still out on what I think of it. I read The Naked and the Dead a couple years ago and I really hated that book. One of the most over-rated things I've ever read. But then, Mailer was like 25 when he wrote that, or thereabouts, which is an enormous accomplishment for somebody so young. For anybody, for that matter, regardless of what I thought of it. And with something like 60 years of writing between that book and Castle (which seems to be about demonic influence in the formative years of Adolf Hitler) he's got to have made some changes that will rest easier with me.
His characters are definitely not so paper thin in this one.
jyh
from VA is reading whatever he feels likeApril 29, 2012 - 10:40am
Cane by Jean Toomer - themed short stories with poems mixed in - I don't know if this sort of thing flies today, but I'd like it if it did.
Bradley Sands
from Boston is reading Greil Marcus's The History of Rock 'N' Roll in Ten SongsMay 1, 2012 - 1:33am
Anybody have thoughts on the connection between the two genres? I've seen it mentioned somewhere that bizarro picks up where cyberpunk left off, but I've read too little of either to know if that's a good generalization.
I don't see much of a connection. A bit similar since cyberpunk was sort of a literary movement that was genre-esque and exciting and bizarro is like that currently. There are some bizarro books that could also be classified as cyberpunk, but not too many.
bryanhowie
from FW, ID is reading East of Eden. Steinbeck is FUCKING AMAZING.May 2, 2012 - 10:16am
I say, probably don't go for it, though I appreciate the sentiment...
I. Um. Okay. Yeah, I cried. But it was manly crying, not like that time my daughter "accidentally" hit me in the nuts with a softball (Softball? Hardly.) and I wept like baby.
Manly.
Finished with We Live Inside You. T'was pretty good, that one. WIll save any further comments for the book club thread.
Next up - Buy Jupiter by Isaac Asimov. A bit of quality golden-age sci-fi, one of his many short story collections.
Hmm. All three of the books I have read this month have been collections. Something about my attention span just recently has been craving quick fixes. Next month I am going to have to read a novel or two, just so I remember how they work.
Re-re-re-re-reading Reasons To Live, by Amy Hempel.
Fuck, she's good.
Finished We Live Inside You yesterday. It was really good. In fact two of the stories, I thought were amazing. Can't wait for the discussion.
Picked up It Came From Del Rio by Stephen Graham Jones last night. Only read the first few pages, but the damn solid writing sucked me in instantly. I only picked it up because I was undecided on what I wanted to read next.
I just started The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer. Maybe 70 pages into it. The jury is definitely still out on what I think of it. I read The Naked and the Dead a couple years ago and I really hated that book. One of the most over-rated things I've ever read. But then, Mailer was like 25 when he wrote that, or thereabouts, which is an enormous accomplishment for somebody so young. For anybody, for that matter, regardless of what I thought of it. And with something like 60 years of writing between that book and Castle (which seems to be about demonic influence in the formative years of Adolf Hitler) he's got to have made some changes that will rest easier with me.
His characters are definitely not so paper thin in this one.
Cane by Jean Toomer - themed short stories with poems mixed in - I don't know if this sort of thing flies today, but I'd like it if it did.
I don't see much of a connection. A bit similar since cyberpunk was sort of a literary movement that was genre-esque and exciting and bizarro is like that currently. There are some bizarro books that could also be classified as cyberpunk, but not too many.
I'd say Transmet is the bridge between the two.