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Fylh from from from is reading is from is reading is reading is reading reading is reading October 1, 2011 - 8:30pm

There are two books I look forward to right now:

 

Both are nonfiction.

You?

 

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Brandon from KCMO is reading Praise of Motherhood October 1, 2011 - 8:41pm

The Marriage Plot by Jeffery Eugenides. 

Love everything he's done so far.  Can't wait.

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Fylh from from from is reading is from is reading is reading is reading reading is reading October 1, 2011 - 8:54pm

You'll like that one. I'm reading it right now and it's great.

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jacks_username from Louisville, Kentucky is reading Flashover by Gordon Highland October 1, 2011 - 11:33pm

Skag Boys by Irvine Welsh. I can't wait for my next fix of the trainspotting crew.

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wickedvoodoo from Mansfield, England is reading stuff. October 1, 2011 - 11:50pm

I will second Skag Boys, thats going to be great.

Also Terry Pratchett has a new one out very soon, Snuff. This is always an exciting time of year if you love your Discworld.

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Felinoid from Luxembourg is reading Orhan Pamuk – Snow October 2, 2011 - 10:30am

I'm going to go with The Marriage Plot as well. Obvious? Maybe, but the excitement's still there. @Phil, when is it coming out?

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postpomo from Canada is reading words words words October 2, 2011 - 10:52am

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami - not out in Canada yet, but I am giddy with anticipation. Not sure if I should delay my gratification until the entire trilogy is out or not... will attempt to..

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Brandon from KCMO is reading Praise of Motherhood October 2, 2011 - 11:50am

@Martin

You're supposed to tell me when books like Skagboys are coming out.  You should know this.

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wickedvoodoo from Mansfield, England is reading stuff. October 2, 2011 - 12:39pm

@ brandon

heh, sorry buddy. Thought you'd know about that one. Somebody put a video up at The Cult a few months back where Irvine did a short reading from it, did you not catch that?

There's a short extract here. As far as I know though, it's not gonna drop till next year. Edit - wiki says April, can't get on Amazon at work to see what date they have for it.

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Brandon from KCMO is reading Praise of Motherhood October 2, 2011 - 12:45pm

Oh, yeah, I actually did see that.  I guess I must of spaced it.

Looks like I'm gonna have to try and nab an advanced copy.

@Phil - this is me calling dibs, dude. 

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wickedvoodoo from Mansfield, England is reading stuff. October 2, 2011 - 12:47pm

You get an advance and I'm a gonna come find you and steal it.

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Brandon from KCMO is reading Praise of Motherhood October 2, 2011 - 12:51pm

If you pay $1,400 to fly out to the Midwest, then you deserve to have it.

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wickedvoodoo from Mansfield, England is reading stuff. October 2, 2011 - 1:27pm

Yeah, maybe not.

I shall patiently wait and be jealous of you guys like I had to with Damned. Then again, my mother is such a hardcore Welsh fan she might fork out the $1400 for me heh.

 

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Brandon from KCMO is reading Praise of Motherhood October 2, 2011 - 1:29pm

If your mom is into Welsh than she's certainly cooler than mine.

My mom's official blurb for OOT was: "This is offensive. How come you can't write more like James Patterson?"

And then I was like: "Because I can't afford to hire someone to write my books for me."

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wickedvoodoo from Mansfield, England is reading stuff. October 2, 2011 - 1:36pm

Ha!

Yeah my mother is cool (mostly). She likes a fair few writers that I can approve of.

She read Out Of Touch and Stranger Will a while back, she had a positive review for both. 

 

Also a little segue here - back on to upcoming books. When is Vanity gonna knock us all out? Caleb has a new book soon as well, right? I didn't mean to be Kevin IIRC. Looking forward to both of them.

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Brandon from KCMO is reading Praise of Motherhood October 2, 2011 - 2:00pm

My agent said we'd start hearing back on Vanity right about now actually.  I just sent him an email to see if there was any news but haven't heard back yet.  In the meantime, I'm working on a new book, writing some stuff for this joint, and doing some little side projects.  Really, I'm just trying not to think about it too much.

He said this part of things takes time, so I'm keeping busy.

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sue from the west coast of Canada is reading The Cricket in Times Square, by George Selden October 2, 2011 - 2:03pm

I'm quite looking forward to Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs.

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Izzy Parker from Georgia is reading Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World October 2, 2011 - 2:12pm

October/November is looking stellar so far. There's 4 I'm really looking forward to: Jose Saramago's Cain, Chuck Palahniuk's Damned, Umberto Eco's The Prague Cemetery and Haruki Murakami's 1Q84.

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Fylh from from from is reading is from is reading is reading is reading reading is reading October 2, 2011 - 2:13pm

I imagine you'll be disappointed by Saramago's Cain. It's abysmally poor. I reviewed it for the Cult and I was sad to see how bad Saramago's last book was.

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Izzy Parker from Georgia is reading Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World October 2, 2011 - 2:22pm

Oof. That is sad. May have to shift that one to the bottom of the list, then. 

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Fylh from from from is reading is from is reading is reading is reading reading is reading October 2, 2011 - 2:34pm

I'll try to find the review, maybe it'll help you make up your mind.

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Fylh from from from is reading is from is reading is reading is reading reading is reading October 2, 2011 - 2:35pm

http://chuckpalahniuk.net/reviews/cain

There you go.

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Izzy Parker from Georgia is reading Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World October 2, 2011 - 2:59pm

Ah, thanks for that. Excellent review. It seems like most of the things I like about Saramago are absent here. I guess we can hope there's another manuscript hiding in a drawer somewhere, waiting to be discovered as his true last work. 

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Chris Davis from Indiana is reading A Feast of Snakes by Harry Crews April 8, 2012 - 12:10am

I wanted to comment on the oldest post without a comment. I'm looking forward to seeing what changes are made in Invisible Monsters Remix.

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Chester Pane from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz April 8, 2012 - 2:07am

A Very Minor Prophet by James Bernard Frost.

Already optioned by the Coen brothers. Bam.

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Pete from Michigan is reading They Don't Dance Much April 8, 2012 - 10:55am

Chester, I've been thinking / talking with Charles about that one being July's Book Club selection.

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Andrez Bergen from Melbourne, Australia + Tokyo, Japan April 28, 2012 - 11:45am

Yep, nice choice, Chester.

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Pete from Michigan is reading They Don't Dance Much April 28, 2012 - 6:59pm

It's most likely going to be August's Discussion actually.

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Constant Reader from Central OR is reading Nothing but fucking Shakespeare, for the rest of my life April 28, 2012 - 9:03pm

On the off-chance that anyone is looking for a handy way to store books that they are waiting to read, I created a little webapp to do that - Muxnote. It's good if, like m, you get to the library or bokstore and your mind goes blank - it works well on smart phones, and you can access it on any computer you feel comfortable logging into twitter from.

Does anyone use GoodReads? I like it to store books I've read, but I'm not nuts about it - the android app isnt so great, and the recommendation engine is kinda of shitty.

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Steven Barritz from Long Island is reading The Orange Eats Creeps June 6, 2012 - 3:39pm

Upcoming book of interest (to me):

Daniel Fights a Hurricane: A Novel by Shane Jones

Phi: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul by Giulio Tononi

The Fifty Year Sword by Mark Z. Danielewski

Bad Glass by Richard E. Gropp.  

Winter Journal by Paul Auster

The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker

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Pete from Michigan is reading They Don't Dance Much June 8, 2012 - 8:49am

Warren Ellis has a new one coming out called Gun Machine that looks pretty good. I really liked Crooked Little Vein.