Churtward
from Gainesville, VA is reading Play It As It LaysMay 15, 2012 - 11:48am
Is finishing Glamorama worth it? I've been tempted to move on lol.
Gordon Highland
from Kansas City is reading Secondhand Souls by Christopher MooreMay 15, 2012 - 11:47am
Just finished Caleb J Ross's I Didn't Mean to be Kevin, and am now on to Growing Up Dead in Texas by Stephen Graham Jones. Had been in a rare reading drought in the prior couple months, trying to stay focused on editing on my own stuff.
Steven Barritz
from Long Island is reading Etgar Keret and Robert SheckleyMay 22, 2012 - 9:04pm
Reading Silk by Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan. Am enjoying it, but not as much as the last book I read by her, The Red Tree. I have not yet read her latest book The Drowning Girl, but it's possibly next up (though The Orange Eats Creeps or House of Leaves are two contenders).
Arturo Bandini
from Denver, CO is reading Beautiful RuinsMay 18, 2012 - 8:07am
Glamorama does drag a bit in the first half, but by the time I finished that book, I put it right behind Lunar Park as his best work. I didn't totally buy in to the whole models-as-terrorists thing but it didn't detract from the quality of the writing in my opinion. Some of the best first person POV of "losing it" I've come across.
jyh
from VA is reading whatever he feels likeMay 18, 2012 - 8:12am
Táin Bó Cúailnge
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryMay 21, 2012 - 6:05am
I'm too lazy to edit the Mailer out of my profile. However, I have edited him out of my life. I found that book to be only halfway palatable, so I only read it halfway.
I have moved on to much more pedestrian pursuits: my wife got me 1200 pages of Stephen King for birthday/father's day/anniversary, (The Wind Through the Keyhole, That One That Is a Date) and Lonesome Dove.
Back to enjoying reading!
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersMay 21, 2012 - 6:19am
"That One That Is a Date"
Let me know how that one is. I've been wondering.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryMay 21, 2012 - 6:38am
I will. I got about a third the way through Keyhole yesterday. I like it. However, I'd never realized how much King leans on thought verbs! Jeezum Crow!
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersMay 21, 2012 - 6:56am
OMG - the site is changing you..
Brandon
from KCMO is reading Made to BreakMay 21, 2012 - 7:02am
Praise of Motherhood.
underpurplemoon
from PDX
May 21, 2012 - 3:09pm
So far I am. Loving it. Every minute I spend with it.
It could be "the one."
You know, "the one.". The one you want all the time, the one you want to take everywhere, the one you want to do everything with.
The One. And years later you remember the first time and you have stories together.
We're talking books, right?
Stop judging.
That's how I feel about certain books...but I've had a couple of "the one" situations in my life. First, it was The Notebookby Nicholas Sparks. Then it was Last Days of Summer by Steve Kluger. Recently, The Secret Life of Lobsters by Trevor Corson. The Story of Sushi by Trevor Corson was okay, but not great.
The book I'm reading is Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (a guy, btw)...and I've been avoiding it with business magazines and travel magazines and food magazines.
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.May 21, 2012 - 3:46pm
Boy's Life, Robert McCammon
A confusion of princes by Garth Nix
submissions for surreal grotesque
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersMay 21, 2012 - 3:59pm
"but I've had a couple of "the one" situations in my life."
True love winced at that one. Such is life.
Jeremiah Murphy
from Idaho is reading A Little LifeMay 21, 2012 - 5:53pm
Currently reading The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen. My only problem with it so far is when he compares a vagina to a new base ball glove.
I also made the mistake of watching a youtube clip of Franzen reading from The Corrections. BIG MISTAKE. I like reading The Corrections, listening to Franzen read The Corrections makes me want to blow my brains out.
Jeremiah Murphy
from Idaho is reading A Little LifeMay 21, 2012 - 6:00pm
There's a secret to reading Bret Easton Ellis: as soon as he starts describing clothes, places or people, skip to the next bit of dialogue.
Hahaha. I've been forced to use that same technique.
Arturo Bandini
from Denver, CO is reading Beautiful RuinsMay 22, 2012 - 8:13am
Just finished The Demon by Hubert Selby JR. I think I need a few days off from reading. That thing took me on a trip through one man's slow disintegration into hell.
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Kirk
from Pingree Grove, IL is reading The Book Of The New SunMay 22, 2012 - 8:44am
Reading, and loving Foundation And Earth. Kind of sad that I'm coming to the end of the Asimov-penned Foundation novels.
Churtward
from Gainesville, VA is reading Play It As It LaysMay 22, 2012 - 2:24pm
I just finished Glamorama. It wasn't as violent or disturbing as people made it out to be. Maybe that's just me though. Is that odd?!?!
But eh it was decent.Only the last half really grabbed me.
I don't know what to read next. I'm at a crossroads between 1Q84, Lolita, and The Catcher in the Rye right now.
Mike Mckay
is reading God's AshtrayMay 22, 2012 - 4:49pm
Amazing what you find in the clearance box...
Mike Mckay
is reading God's AshtrayMay 22, 2012 - 4:50pm
(sighs)
Anyone care to explain why my pictures always come out small?
Alex Kane
from west-central Illinois is reading Dark OrbitMay 22, 2012 - 6:39pm
American Gods by Neil Gaiman and The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum. Really enjoying both.
underpurplemoon
from PDX
May 23, 2012 - 11:01pm
Brideshead Revisited...I can't get past the first page. I think it's time to quit.
wickedvoodoo
from Mansfield, England is reading stuff.May 24, 2012 - 12:07am
Clown Girl by Monica Drake - I got a copy sent by Chester as a prize for Flash Me! (signed by Monica too!) and I thought I'd better read it, seeing as I've been meaning to for a couple of years now.
About 100 pages in and it's pretty good so far. Cheers again, Chester, sir.
wickedvoodoo
from Mansfield, England is reading stuff.May 24, 2012 - 12:06am
@ Kirk
Asimov is awesome. I havent read the Foundation series yet (though I have the first couple) but I have read at least a dozen of his other books.
The Gods Themselves is my favorite novel by him so far. The Complete Robot is pretty damn amazing too.
jyh
from VA is reading whatever he feels likeMay 24, 2012 - 10:51am
Not much, until Amazon ships my gift card purchases:
"The Melancholy of Resistance"
Laszlo Krasznahorkai
"The Wine-Dark Sea"
Sciascia, Leonardo
"Amulet"
Bolaño, Roberto
"Hapax: Poems"
Stallings, A.E.
"Major Works: Selected Philosophical Writings"
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Renfield
from Hell is reading 20th Century GhostsMay 24, 2012 - 12:04pm
Growing Up Dead in Texas - Stephen Graham Jones
Fragile Things - Neil Gaiman
Dr. Futurity - Philip K Dick
Legends of the Fall and other Novellas - Jim Harrison
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain - Maryanne Wolf
Gut Feelings: Intelligence of the Unconscious - Gerd Gigerenzer
jyh
from VA is reading whatever he feels likeMay 27, 2012 - 10:41am
If I was unable to check the tracking on my package, I'd be a lot more patient for these books to get here. No mail tomorrow -- tuesday at the earliest. Waaaaaah. Technology has made me a bitch.
keith1204
from Philly is reading Into Thin AirMay 28, 2012 - 10:10pm
I finished The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams (So damn funny) and am now rounding the bend on Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer. I have a few different ones coming in from Amazon so I'm not sure which way I'm heading next but looks to be either The Assassin's Code by Jonathan Maberry (His Joe Ledger series is great, especially the first, Patient Zero) or A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole.
Pete
from Detroit is reading Red DragonMay 29, 2012 - 3:05pm
Into Thin Air was great. And if you're wondering about all the people that don't make it through the journey, here's a link to check out (warning, it's kind of graphic):
Is finishing Glamorama worth it? I've been tempted to move on lol.
Just finished Caleb J Ross's I Didn't Mean to be Kevin, and am now on to Growing Up Dead in Texas by Stephen Graham Jones. Had been in a rare reading drought in the prior couple months, trying to stay focused on editing on my own stuff.
Reading Silk by Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan. Am enjoying it, but not as much as the last book I read by her, The Red Tree. I have not yet read her latest book The Drowning Girl, but it's possibly next up (though The Orange Eats Creeps or House of Leaves are two contenders).
Edit: Also reading her comic book series Alabaster: Wolves
Glamorama does drag a bit in the first half, but by the time I finished that book, I put it right behind Lunar Park as his best work. I didn't totally buy in to the whole models-as-terrorists thing but it didn't detract from the quality of the writing in my opinion. Some of the best first person POV of "losing it" I've come across.
Táin Bó Cúailnge
I'm too lazy to edit the Mailer out of my profile. However, I have edited him out of my life. I found that book to be only halfway palatable, so I only read it halfway.
I have moved on to much more pedestrian pursuits: my wife got me 1200 pages of Stephen King for birthday/father's day/anniversary, (The Wind Through the Keyhole, That One That Is a Date) and Lonesome Dove.
Back to enjoying reading!
"That One That Is a Date"
Let me know how that one is. I've been wondering.
I will. I got about a third the way through Keyhole yesterday. I like it. However, I'd never realized how much King leans on thought verbs! Jeezum Crow!
OMG - the site is changing you..
Praise of Motherhood.
That's how I feel about certain books...but I've had a couple of "the one" situations in my life. First, it was The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks. Then it was Last Days of Summer by Steve Kluger. Recently, The Secret Life of Lobsters by Trevor Corson. The Story of Sushi by Trevor Corson was okay, but not great.
The book I'm reading is Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (a guy, btw)...and I've been avoiding it with business magazines and travel magazines and food magazines.
Boy's Life, Robert McCammon
A confusion of princes by Garth Nix
submissions for surreal grotesque
"but I've had a couple of "the one" situations in my life."
True love winced at that one. Such is life.
Currently reading The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen. My only problem with it so far is when he compares a vagina to a new base ball glove.
I also made the mistake of watching a youtube clip of Franzen reading from The Corrections. BIG MISTAKE. I like reading The Corrections, listening to Franzen read The Corrections makes me want to blow my brains out.
Just finished The Demon by Hubert Selby JR. I think I need a few days off from reading. That thing took me on a trip through one man's slow disintegration into hell.
Reading, and loving Foundation And Earth. Kind of sad that I'm coming to the end of the Asimov-penned Foundation novels.
I just finished Glamorama. It wasn't as violent or disturbing as people made it out to be. Maybe that's just me though. Is that odd?!?!
But eh it was decent.Only the last half really grabbed me.
I don't know what to read next. I'm at a crossroads between 1Q84, Lolita, and The Catcher in the Rye right now.
Amazing what you find in the clearance box...
(sighs)
Anyone care to explain why my pictures always come out small?
American Gods by Neil Gaiman and The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum. Really enjoying both.
Brideshead Revisited...I can't get past the first page. I think it's time to quit.
Clown Girl by Monica Drake - I got a copy sent by Chester as a prize for Flash Me! (signed by Monica too!) and I thought I'd better read it, seeing as I've been meaning to for a couple of years now.
About 100 pages in and it's pretty good so far. Cheers again, Chester, sir.
@ Kirk
Asimov is awesome. I havent read the Foundation series yet (though I have the first couple) but I have read at least a dozen of his other books.
The Gods Themselves is my favorite novel by him so far. The Complete Robot is pretty damn amazing too.
Not much, until Amazon ships my gift card purchases:
"The Melancholy of Resistance"
Laszlo Krasznahorkai
"The Wine-Dark Sea"
Sciascia, Leonardo
"Amulet"
Bolaño, Roberto
"Hapax: Poems"
Stallings, A.E.
"Major Works: Selected Philosophical Writings"
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Growing Up Dead in Texas - Stephen Graham Jones
Fragile Things - Neil Gaiman
Dr. Futurity - Philip K Dick
Legends of the Fall and other Novellas - Jim Harrison
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain - Maryanne Wolf
Gut Feelings: Intelligence of the Unconscious - Gerd Gigerenzer
If I was unable to check the tracking on my package, I'd be a lot more patient for these books to get here. No mail tomorrow -- tuesday at the earliest. Waaaaaah. Technology has made me a bitch.
I finished The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams (So damn funny) and am now rounding the bend on Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer. I have a few different ones coming in from Amazon so I'm not sure which way I'm heading next but looks to be either The Assassin's Code by Jonathan Maberry (His Joe Ledger series is great, especially the first, Patient Zero) or A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole.
Into Thin Air was great. And if you're wondering about all the people that don't make it through the journey, here's a link to check out (warning, it's kind of graphic):
Dead Bodies on Mount Everest
Finished my reread of The Thin Man. Still found it quite enjoying. It'll be an interesting discussion hopefully.
Started When October Falls by Christopher J. Dwyer. I'm loving it so far.
After that, I'll be starting Flashover by Gordon Highland. Really looking forward to this one.