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  On 10/3/2016 at 2:17 PM, ThatSpanishGuy said:

 

  On 9/30/2016 at 9:41 PM, Bechuga said:

 

  On 9/20/2016 at 12:56 AM, ThatSpanishGuy said:

IJ is so fucking long

 

yea I get it Foster alcoholix anonymous is giving up your will too. can we move on

 

 

I finally read the thing (7 months ) and ended up with a thousand questions. Read the first chapter again and ended up with two thousand questions. Guess I'm gonna have to read the whole thing again (or at least the actual-plot relevant parts, which is about 30% of the book) sometime, in about 10 years.

 

< David Fucking Wallace

Also congrats on finishing it! I should reread it eventually, sure there's a few things I missed.

Started to read Infinite Jest 1 or 2 years ago but never finished. Should try to read it one more time because it's so unique and weird. Tried in English first but had to use the dictionary 5 times per sentence, so I switched to German - very impressive translation work I think

My g/f's read Infinite Jest like 5-6 times but I couldn't get past page 20 and I've tried multiple times

Just read White Noise, yo.

  On 10/4/2016 at 2:13 AM, darreichungsform said:

Started to read Infinite Jest 1 or 2 years ago but never finished. Should try to read it one more time because it's so unique and weird. Tried in English first but had to use the dictionary 5 times per sentence, so I switched to German - very impressive translation work I think

at one point I just started guessing word's meanings when they were non-essential, i.e. describing wallpaper

Yeah I think the style is very impressionistic: You don't have to get every detail - that would drive you crazy - but let the story create some lose pictures in your head

death is merely an evolutionary adaptation

  On 10/5/2016 at 6:19 PM, caze said:

death is merely an evolutionary adaptation

lol, wrong thread.

on some kind of crime novel kick, rereading every richard stark book i own. pure economy of language, westlake was probably a better writer than hemingway.

I've not read a crime book for years, maybe Gun Machine by Warren Ellis was the last one which started well but had an awful ending, is The Hunter the best place to start with him? 

yeah definitely start with the hunter or the outfit.

Been (very) slowly working my way through the Complete Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy whenever I'm not too burned out on textbooks and assignments, really enjoying it, it's hilarious. Kinda glad I waited so long to read it as I'm now about Arthur Dent's age so it makes it a little more relatable.

Recently finished - The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin; The Vorrh by Brian Catling; Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

Reading - The Vegetarian by Han Kang

  On 10/4/2016 at 3:18 AM, doublename said:

Just read White Noise, yo.

love that one. 

  On 10/14/2016 at 1:33 AM, doublename said:

Recently finished - The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin; The Vorrh by Brian Catling; Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

 

Reading - The Vegetarian by Han Kang

  On 10/14/2016 at 7:26 AM, auxien said:

 

  On 10/14/2016 at 1:33 AM, doublename said:

Recently finished - The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin; The Vorrh by Brian Catling; Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

 

Reading - The Vegetarian by Han Kang

I heard decent but mixed reviews of Three Body and The Vorrh...how would you rate them?

I thought Three-Body Problem was kind of a mess. It depends on how high your tolerance for massive info dumps is. It's not a bad book, but paced weirdly and it isn't really a satisfying read on its own. The sequel is supposed to great though.

The Vorrh was fantastic, loads of surreal imagery on every page. I'd definitely recommend it.

Anyone read Consumed by David Cronenberg? My little brother is a huge fan so was thinking of it as an Xmas present for him.

  On 10/14/2016 at 1:36 PM, doublename said:

 

  On 10/14/2016 at 7:26 AM, auxien said:

 

  On 10/14/2016 at 1:33 AM, doublename said:

Recently finished - The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin; The Vorrh by Brian Catling; Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

 

Reading - The Vegetarian by Han Kang

I heard decent but mixed reviews of Three Body and The Vorrh...how would you rate them?

I thought Three-Body Problem was kind of a mess. It depends on how high your tolerance for massive info dumps is. It's not a bad book, but paced weirdly and it isn't really a satisfying read on its own. The sequel is supposed to great though.

 

The Vorrh was fantastic, loads of surreal imagery on every page. I'd definitely recommend it.

Will definitely have to grab The Vorrh at some point. Most who like it loved it like you, but it seems that maybe that style wasn't for some, I saw a chunk of reviews that couldn't get into the style or something. Thanks!

one of you sci fi geeks please advise: having read Neuromancer, would I be foolish to skip the middle one before reading Mona Lisa Overdrive?

i would just skip both and read idoru

essential gibson

from burning chrome:

the winter market

burning chrome

idoru

all tomorrow's parties

pattern recognition

count zero is fun, especially the opening bit. mona lisa didn't really stick with me. neither did virtual light. everything after pattern recognition has been diminishing returns.

Just finished Sacks' Hallucinations.

Now:

^^^ awesome cover art.

edit: fuckin page break

i finished What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, which was pretty interesting though nothing stellar. it actually got me back into running which i wasn't expecting, so thanks for that, Murakami!

i've started The Informers by Bret Easton Ellis. really enjoyed Less Than Zero and this seems more of the same in a lot of ways so should be good.

  On 10/23/2016 at 2:54 AM, doorjamb said:

one of you sci fi geeks please advise: having read Neuromancer, would I be foolish to skip the middle one before reading Mona Lisa Overdrive?

coincidentally I just started reading Count Zero last week, seems ok so far.

I alway seem to be disagreeing with Keanu

but I loved the Pattern Recognition trilogy

So much so that I bought a signed copy of PR

WG's newest book is about a post-apocalyptic performance artist

Which sounds awesome imo

Wanted to read something horror-related for Halloween and since I only tend to read the classics from the genre I went for something new, Apartment 16 by Adam Nevill, and really enjoyed it. Anything else post-2000 worth a try? I've checked out a few lists online and Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay pops up a lot.