What are you reading, Chapter 2

[Ziltoid]

Currently writing a paper on this book:

Damn paper is due for midnight.

 

[i_got_a_mohawk]

After reading it I have to say that it's not one of his better books. Not bad, just not up to his usual standard.

I still intend to finish it at some point.

I really enjoyed Wasp Factory.

 

[cdef]

The Best of Myles, a collection of Flann O'Brien's pseudonymous newspaper columns in the Irish Times. Po-faced, totally crazed topical humor, with not a little whiskey on the breath.

 

[Bongolation]

Doritos in book form

Thanks for the warning.

 

[Deluge Of Sound]

Thanks for the warning.

You're reading Inherent Vice?

Definitely a break with what I've seen you post.

 

[Bongolation]

Creepy cover award of the year.

What were they thinking?

Ew.

It'd be funny?

Fail.

I may never be able to look at a picture of Tina Fey again without shuddering.

 

[Bongolation]

Thanks for the warning.

You're reading Inherent Vice?

No, and after a description like that, I'm sure I won't. I can't stand Doritos.

 

[Deluge Of Sound]

No, and after a description like that, I'm sure I won't. I can't stand Doritos.

Fair enough. I'd still recommend checking out Mason & Dixon, but if you don't enjoy authors having fun with writing you might not dig it.


Just liberated this from the local book store:

See y'all in about two weeks.

 

[UncleFluffy]

Fair enough. I'd still recommend checking out Mason & Dixon, but if you don't enjoy authors having fun with writing you might not dig it.


Just liberated this from the local book store:

See y'all in about two weeks.

Enjoy it. Still his best work, IMO.

edit:this is an interesting companion to the book

 

[Thor]

Recently finished God's War by Kameron Hurley, which is in interesting sci-fi novel that sucked me in due to the fact that the author just drops you right into the action with no inital clue as to the world she built, which is just different enough to make you wonder what's going on.

Not sure what I'm going to read next. I have a few that I started but set aside for one reason or another:

The Rolling Stones by Robert Heinlein
Flag in Exile by David Weber
Catalyst by Paul Byers
The Keep by F. Paul Wilson

The Heinlein book is directed at the juvenile market really iirc.

 

[Thor]

I did pick up the Holmes book suggested by Bongolation,
just have tio finish Field Gray, Philip Kerr's new novel and
LA Noir 2 first.

 

[Bongolation]

just have tio finish Field Gray, Philip Kerr's new novel

I finished it about ten minutes ago.

It's pretty convoluted, but OK. Ending's predictable given how much Kerr hates post-9/11 Americans.

Lots of obscure history that Kerr sometimes gets right and sometimes doesn't, including a brief, cautious allusion to what I refer to as "The Great Historic Unmentionable."

He also indulges in a silly game I find reaching fad proportions among writers and so distracting and irritating that if I caught a writer doing it I would whip him on the soles of his bare feet until he promised never to so much of think of it again.

No, I'm not kidding.

 

[Deluge Of Sound]

So what's the silly game? I can't take the suspense.

 

[Bongolation]

So what's the silly game? I can't take the suspense.

Naming minor characters after obscure people who actually existed in different points in history in ways that are supposed to be "witty" or something. The average reader wouldn't know this, so apparently you're supposed to feel "cool" that you and the author are so educated as to be in on the joke together. Apparently, the author is so bored with the constraints he's working under that he puts little Easter eggs in his stories to break the monotony.

I actually find this childish nonsense more annoying than clumsy product placement whoring in fiction (incredible, but sadly true).

At least there's money in the latter which is an excuse. There's none for the former.

 

[Ursus Tyrannus]

Full Dark, No Stars - Stephen King
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
Listen, You Pencil Neck Geeks - Freddie Blassie & Keith Elliot Greenberg

 

[Deluge Of Sound]

Naming minor characters after obscure people who actually existed in different points in history in ways that are supposed to be "witty" or something. The average reader wouldn't know this, so apparently you're supposed to feel "cool" that you and the author are so educated as to be in on the joke together. Apparently, the author is so bored with the constraints he's working under that he puts little Easter eggs in his stories to break the monotony.

I actually find this childish nonsense more annoying than clumsy product placement whoring in fiction (incredible, but sadly true).

At least there's money in the latter which is an excuse. There's none for the former.

Gotchya.

 

[MatticusMania]

 

[NMC]

Just finished 'East of Eden' and was absolutely floored by it, one of my most enjoyable reads in years, just could not put the book down. Steinbeck really creates an atmosphere of nostalgia in it. Currently reading 'Grapes of Wrath' and 'Animal Farm', I'm a lot more used to reading sci-fi novels, so it's refreshing to read some more earthy, worldly novels.

 

[Bongolation]

This is due in tomorrow:

This series started weak but as critics have noticed, subsequent entries are increasingly better.

 

[Time Monkey]

Go ahead and take my man card.


im about 130 pages into chelsea chelsea bang bang.