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  On 1/9/2017 at 7:57 PM, LimpyLoo said:

lol good thing I'm clever or else my constant cynicism might be seen as a vice instead of a virtue lol

As evidenced by the cynical way you talk about everything , I can't imagine that you're genuinely having a good time in there.

Been occasionally reading through Ligotti's Songs of a Dead Dreamer & Grimscribe combo via Kindle for the past 6 months, but have made barely a dent (haven't been in a reading mood at all until quite recently)...though I just bought and started John Langan's The Fisherman, which seems like it should be a solid/easy enough read to get me back in the groove of reading fiction.

  On 1/10/2017 at 4:59 AM, keanu reeves said:

 

  On 1/9/2017 at 7:57 PM, LimpyLoo said:

lol good thing I'm clever or else my constant cynicism might be seen as a vice instead of a virtue lol

 

 

lol

  On 1/10/2017 at 4:25 PM, triachus said:

 

  On 1/10/2017 at 4:59 AM, keanu reeves said:

 

  On 1/9/2017 at 7:57 PM, LimpyLoo said:

lol good thing I'm clever or else my constant cynicism might be seen as a vice instead of a virtue lol

 

 

lol

 

where can one purchase these penguin classics? 

Glad you asked!

*opens back of trunk and mentally prepares sales pitch*

  On 1/10/2017 at 5:41 AM, auxien said:

Been occasionally reading through Ligotti's Songs of a Dead Dreamer & Grimscribe combo via Kindle for the past 6 months, but have made barely a dent (haven't been in a reading mood at all until quite recently)...though I just bought and started John Langan's The Fisherman, which seems like it should be a solid/easy enough read to get me back in the groove of reading fiction.

I work in a bookshop and had been planning for a couple of weeks to order in The Fisherman when I got paid, then the day before I went in a charity shop and found a mint copy of it for 3 quid, it was insane. 

Not read it yet.

Biomega

  On 1/11/2017 at 6:58 PM, tec said:

 

  On 1/10/2017 at 5:41 AM, auxien said:

Been occasionally reading through Ligotti's Songs of a Dead Dreamer & Grimscribe combo via Kindle for the past 6 months, but have made barely a dent (haven't been in a reading mood at all until quite recently)...though I just bought and started John Langan's The Fisherman, which seems like it should be a solid/easy enough read to get me back in the groove of reading fiction.

I work in a bookshop and had been planning for a couple of weeks to order in The Fisherman when I got paid, then the day before I went in a charity shop and found a mint copy of it for 3 quid, it was insane.

 

Not read it yet.

It was so odd, I thought I could only get it by ordering it from a US book supplier. I'd lived in the area a month so it was my first time in the shop and it was face out on a shelf or I probably wouldn't have seen it.

The Magus by John Fowles

A bit Tales of the Unexpected, but its does the psychological reeling in of one of the main characters immensely. Is it madness or magic or both?

Mint/10

Mona Lisa Overdrive was a lot better than Count Zero in the end, but still not perfect, spent a lot of time dealing with bullshit and then totally rushed the ending.

Currently reading Time's Arrow by Martin Amis, was worried it was going to be a bit gimmicky (the story is entirely told in reverse (from the main character's death to his birth), and reverse as in watching a video in reverse, with the narrator even having to translate the backwards speech noises which takes him a while to figure out how to understand at first, and getting used to sucking shit into his ass and regurgitating food and reforming it into packets to return to the supermarket), but it's holding up so far, and it's a pretty short book so should be fine.

Time's Arrow is fucking lush

  On 1/13/2017 at 12:21 AM, cwmbrancity said:

The Magus by John Fowles

 

A bit Tales of the Unexpected, but its does the psychological reeling in of one of the main characters immensely. Is it madness or magic or both?

Mint/10

 

sweet m8, that one has been on my to-read shelf for a while now

about 200 pages into Mason & Dixon. I keep putting off reading unfortunately. Might be one of those Pynchons I enjoy more the 2nd time round. That was true of Lot49 and Vineland.

Finished Biomega... Great series, though I didn't enjoy it as much as Blame!... I'm still going to have to get Abara and Knights of Sidonia soon...

But I went back to Saul Teukolsky's 'Black Holes, White Dwarfs and Neutron Stars-the physics of compact objects' - I've been trying to make my way through it for the last month. Gonna try to get to the end before I pick up any more manga. =o/

I decided forgo Gravity's Rainbow for now and am currently making my way through Marc Van de Mieroop's A History of the Ancient Near East. 

It's actually pretty interesting so far. Afterwards I'll probably try to finally finish Ulysses & then tackle Gravity's Rainbow if school doesn't get in the way of that.

dfw's books is what im usually reading

Reread Ligotti's My Work Is Not Yet Done last week. It was even better than I remembered.

  On 1/13/2017 at 11:58 PM, morfiannik said:

dfw's books is what im usually reading

Reading -

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Smith

The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

On deck -

Transmigration of Bodies by Yuri Herrera

Sudden Death by Álvaro Enrigue

  On 1/19/2017 at 4:09 AM, doublename said:

Reading -

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Smith

The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

 

On deck -

 

Transmigration of Bodies by Yuri Herrera

Sudden Death by Álvaro Enrigue

are you reading 3 books at the same time? I can't do that... I've thought about it sometimes but I just can't cycle between books unless it's non-fiction. It just feels wrong to be invested in 2 different stories at the same time for some reason.

I used to do that all the time, back when I read lots and lots of books. Can only handle a single one at a time these days though.

  On 1/19/2017 at 3:35 AM, Bechuga said:

 

  On 1/13/2017 at 11:58 PM, morfiannik said:

dfw's books is what im usually reading

Where's the drawing of him buying a gun to kill his crush's husband?

what are you trying to say here, in a Wittgensteinian way

  On 1/19/2017 at 11:02 AM, span said:

 

  On 1/19/2017 at 4:09 AM, doublename said:

Reading -Song of Solomon by Toni MorrisonHis Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae SmithThe Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth DickinsonOn deck -Transmigration of Bodies by Yuri HerreraSudden Death by Álvaro Enrigue

are you reading 3 books at the same time? I can't do that... I've thought about it sometimes but I just can't cycle between books unless it's non-fiction. It just feels wrong to be invested in 2 different stories at the same time for some reason.

Yeah I'm usually reading a couple of novels and 2-3 nonfiction things at a time. I guess I do it to keep myself from wasting too much time online, or watching shows I only kind of half-way care about on Netflix. If I come across something particularly gripping, the other books tends to go on the back burner though.

  On 1/19/2017 at 3:14 PM, span said:

what are you trying to say here, in a Wittgensteinian way

I'm saying DFW bought a gun in order to kill his crush's husband