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Aye, Cormac McCarthy is really out of his element in there. Read some of his other stuff - the prose is really elaborate and ornamented. In the road it's utilitarian and vernacular - which drags him down a bit.
I'm only halfway through it right now. Lots of short stories, plus the classics.
It's weighty (the material, I mean. But the book is heavy too) but very enjoyable.
The Crooked Gremlins
I just bought Gene Wolfe's Shadow and Claw yesterday afternoon. I have been meaning to get it for a long time, but was hesitant because of the genre. Pretty much the only fantasy I have read is Lord of the Rings. I am plodding through The Dark Tower (song of susannah currently), which is an American Western modern fantasy I guess, so I guess I have some other fantasy.
I have only read one chapter of it so far and am really interested. Tons of archaic words or maybe some of them are neologisms?
I'm also currently reading Catch-22. A really great, funny book that is hard to put down.
Speaking of short stories, I'm still picking my way through the two excellent anthologies: the Space Opera Renaissance and the Hard SF Renaissance. Both very very good. Also good introductions to new authors to try.
Wolfe uses a lot of forgotten and archaic words, but I'm pretty certain that none of them are actually made up. If you know or look them up, they do tend to add a bit of interesting flavor.
Reading The Portrait of Dorian Grey right now, and really enjoying it. After this I'll probably move on to A Canticle for Liebowitz, probably the most talked about sci-fi novel that I haven't actually read. Looking forward to it!
I'm not really digging it now though. I'm a bit past the half way point, and the first part I really liked, but now it just seems a bit too meandering and without conflict, and the jokes and puns just start to grate.
So umm, are all his books like that?
I keep hearing good things about Blood Meridian so I might check that out next.
Ed & Larry : "Doesn't matter."
I recently was gifted a thing in Steam. If it was from you, thank you very much!
I was supposed to read this for a class I had senior (college) year, but I didn't. I kind of wish I had. I didn't read a lot of the books in that prof's classes, especially when other classes had me swamped. Her lectures were really, really thorough. She was really nice and I feel kind of guilty about taking advantage of her teaching style and coasting to B-level in her classes with very little work aside from the course papers.
Nothing's forgotten, nothing is ever forgotten
Also, I've just finished Asimov's Foundation and Foundation And Empire--oh, God. <3
I'm 765 out of 1905 into it (i seriously have no idea what this weird scheme is, there are no page numbers and there are just some random numbers in the margin, +5 each time), and so far it's just some amazing writing...stories within stories, very off the wall stuff, i can't speak highly enough about it so far
Asimov was a mountain of a man.
Ed & Larry : "Doesn't matter."
I recently was gifted a thing in Steam. If it was from you, thank you very much!
I can't say that I love books written in first person, but this is a pretty fucking good book.
Cosmology-weavers. Not authors, or even writers, but weavers. Of Cosmologies.
We read it for book club. It was a very very active book club. Apparently everyone expected me to hate the book, and I gave it the second-highest score.
The Phaedra problem-solving flowchart would be fun to make, though:
CAN I SOLVE THIS PROBLEM THROUGH FUCKING? (Y/N)
Y: DONE!
N: SACRIFICE AN OLD FRIEND. SOLVED NOW? (Y/N)
Y: CRY, THEN DONE!
N: CRAP. RESORT TO POLITICAL INTRIGUE, THEN.
i like the romantic intrigue, kind of chekhovian, but i'm not sure i'll make it through a great deal more. i've struggled to get to, what? page 45?
i'm a terrible reader
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I just finished those myself. They were pretty good, I dunno why I didn't pick up any of Asimov's novels before now.
I wish I had this when I tried to read that.
Lol, I guess I've been spoiled by so many fantasy novels which print family trees in the index for us.
Hello. It is I. the resident magical realist fanatic.
Grapes of Wrath : John Steinbeck
House of Sand and Fog : Andrew Dubus III
Middlesex : Jeffrey Eugenides
Therapy for the Sane : Lou Marinoff, PH.D
El Clitoris de Camille : Diego Medrano
Fables : All trades till now
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen : Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neil.
Watchmen : Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon
Blood Meridian : Cormac McCarthy
The Gunslinger Vol.1 : Stephen King
Lonesome Dove : Larry McMurtry
All the Pretty Horses : Cormack McCarthy
Y The last Man : Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra
Persepolis : Marjane Satrapi
This Blessed House (Short story) : Jhumpa Lahiri
The Third and Final Continent (short story) : Jhumpa Lahiri
Unnacustomed Earth (short story) : Jhumpa Lahiri
Winterscape (short story ): Anita Desai
American Brat : Bapsi Sidhwa
The Heart is a lonely Hunter : Carson McCullers
Meatless Days: Sara Suleri
Masks : Fumiko Enchi
Kartography : Kamila Shamsie
I've read the first two, and while somewhat interesting, they're nothing to write home about. I picked up the third book, Tuck, and I'm having trouble getting into it.
I've been re-reading ASOIAF instead. Just started AFFC, and I think it's better the second time around.
Then there are the books where I read a chapter every once in a while: Team of Rivals and The Skeptical Environmentalist.
I keep meaning to start The Judging Eye, but I've got a little too much on my plate right now.
It's pretty sad that the first thing that popped out to me on that list was the word 'clitoris'. *sobs*
How is Y The last Man? Amazon.com seems to think I'd really like it.
it's superb
Oh, hey, I've read that. Understood most of it too. I enjoyed it thoroughly.
Thank you, Rubacava!
Thank you, Rubacava!
Ten thousand butterflies would burst from Encarnacion's grave at the moment of Senor Ortiz' death, as a symbol of love's triumph over time.
Thank you, Rubacava!
I like it very much. It's like a buddy book with the most depressing backdrop imaginable. You have the wacky care-free buddy, and the sulky introspective narrator. It's like Sideways for the WWII era.