PortugalTheBatman Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 Nearly finished with this. About to get this in the mail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitch. Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 I recently finished Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek which I enjoyed quite a bit. Some descriptions were a bit gruesome, but intriguing nonetheless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aflycon Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 I just read Slaughterhouse-Five, and I'm still sort of trying to figure it out. Next up is a collection of Franz Kafka's short stories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlobban Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 wife got me that one for my birthday a couple months ago, need to start it.... after loving the movie forever, i'm finally getting around to reading Phantoms by Dean Koontz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xadamhudsonx Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 I just finished the "Leo Demidov" trilogy by Tom Rob Smith. All three are politcal thrillers that begin in pre-Stalinist Russia and extend through the Russian ocupation of Afganistan in the 80's. The main character Leo is the common thread through all three books. He starts out a fanatically loyal MGB (pre-KGB secret security force) agent, and ends up a disillusioned advisor in Afganistan and looking to defect. The first book is a search for a serial killer attacking children along the railroads and the states refusal to believe that a serial killer would even exist in the new Communist era. The second is post Stalin's passing and the fallout from his death. Pretty interesting reads although the last book lost a bit of steam after the first two being really entertaining reads. Also if you check them out and like them the first book had been made into a movie starting Tom Hardy and Gary Oldman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rooks Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 jesus it took 4 searches to find this thread. I want to stop being as much of an illiterate fuck as I've been lately and started putting together a list for a book store trip later today or this week. Anyone have any thoughts on anything in the list or something to add? The Martian - Andy Weir The Peripheral - William Gibson Broken Monsters - Lauren Beuekes Bone Clocks - David Mitchell California - Edan Lepucki Man with Compound Eyes - Wu Ming-Yi Any other suggestions for a lover of: Pynchon, Bolano, Danielewski, Salinger, Delillo, and many others... Experimental, Post Modern, possibly Dystopian... I feel like I've exhausted most of these "genres" but there's got to be other stuff out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batman Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 bone clocks was cool, but not as good as cloud atlas. there's a lot of fantasy elements that you'll either love or hate. with some stuff that happens early on you'll be a little lost, but it'll all make sense eventually and it was cool going back and rereading those passages and figuring everything out. DM is such a clever writer, so if nothing else, it's a fun read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eliminator Jr. Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 jesus it took 4 searches to find this thread. I want to stop being as much of an illiterate fuck as I've been lately and started putting together a list for a book store trip later today or this week. Anyone have any thoughts on anything in the list or something to add? The Martian - Andy Weir The Peripheral - William Gibson Broken Monsters - Lauren Beuekes Bone Clocks - David Mitchell California - Edan Lepucki Man with Compound Eyes - Wu Ming-Yi Any other suggestions for a lover of: Pynchon, Bolano, Danielewski, Salinger, Delillo, and many others... Experimental, Post Modern, possibly Dystopian... I feel like I've exhausted most of these "genres" but there's got to be other stuff out there. Check out 'No Longer Human' by Ozamu Dazai. It'll leave you baffled and depressed for weeks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rooks Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 Check out 'No Longer Human' by Ozamu Dazai. It'll leave you baffled and depressed for weeks. Will look for it - thanks for the rec! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dapeebs Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 Broken Monsters - Lauren Beuekes This book sounded sooo good. I grabbed an advanced reader's edition of it while I still worked at Barnes and Noble last year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexicondevil Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 I read Dark Hollow by Brian Keene and now reading his second in the series, Ghost Walk. Cool, demonic horror. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rooks Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 This book sounded sooo good. I grabbed an advanced reader's edition of it while I still worked at Barnes and Noble last year. Sounded good, or was good? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dapeebs Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Sounded good, or was good? I unfortunately forgot about it until now haha. A few months before some books were released Barnes and Noble gets Advanced Reader's editions for the employees to have for free. It was pretty awesome. Got quite a few great books from doing that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chamb117 Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 currently reading the summer of beer and whiskey, by edward alchorn. a historical look at the inception of baseball circa the 1880s. pretty entertaining. but i'm trying to plow through it because... NEW MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI NOVEL COMES OUT IN A MONTH YEEEAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH (and i didn't know until like four days ago) couldn't be more stoked. i didn't even realize it had been almost a decade since only revolutions. house of leaves will always be a favorite of mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rooks Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 I unfortunately forgot about it until now haha. A few months before some books were released Barnes and Noble gets Advanced Reader's editions for the employees to have for free. It was pretty awesome. Got quite a few great books from doing that. Dayum I wish I knew someone that worked there because I NEED The Familiar in my life. But, for now, I will fill the hole in my heart with other books... Got stuck at work late today but maybe I'll head to the shop tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dapeebs Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 currently reading the summer of beer and whiskey, by edward alchorn. a historical look at the inception of baseball circa the 1880s. pretty entertaining. but i'm trying to plow through it because... NEW MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI NOVEL COMES OUT IN A MONTH YEEEAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH (and i didn't know until like four days ago) couldn't be more stoked. i didn't even realize it had been almost a decade since only revolutions. house of leaves will always be a favorite of mine. Apparently the Familiar is going to be a 27 volume series. That's gonna take forever to fully come out... Dayum I wish I knew someone that worked there because I NEED The Familiar in my life. But, for now, I will fill the hole in my heart with other books... Got stuck at work late today but maybe I'll head to the shop tomorrow. Wouldn't that be cool? I need to start reading some Danielewski. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianmorgante Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 I just finished the phantom toolbooth....still holds up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drewvandal Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Starting this for the 4th time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tawney Bomb Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Been reading the Mistborn trilogy. Loved the first book, second was good and the third is alright so far. Not a glowing endorsement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chamb117 Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Apparently the Familiar is going to be a 27 volume series. That's gonna take forever to fully come out... i remember when he announced that he submitted the first five volumes or something to his publishers. i remember thinking, "five volumes?!" and that was at least, like, four years ago. 27 volumes........ jeeeeeeeeeeeeeesus and volume 1 is 880 pages long. i'll be reading the full 27 for the rest of my life Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dapeebs Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 i remember when he announced that he submitted the first five volumes or something to his publishers. i remember thinking, "five volumes?!" and that was at least, like, four years ago. 27 volumes........ jeeeeeeeeeeeeeesus and volume 1 is 880 pages long. i'll be reading the full 27 for the rest of my life Damn. I'm hoping that some volumes are released together as a set or something. Volume 2 is scheduled to come out in October. If he releases in intervals like that it will take 13 years to fully come out. He has to have some other sort of plan for it. That just seems ridiculous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caninesapien Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 I haven't really been following the hype about The Familiar, but will it be a straight up yeah-you-can-buy-this-in-a-shop or will it be some kind of insane pre-order, 20 editions only printed on old steel bathtubs and encased in a diamond orb? Because I do really want to read it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rooks Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Volume 2 has been on amazon for a few weeks now, it is listed in the 800s in pages too And danielewski doest do stuff like that? I don't think anyone could make money selling books like that. It's widely available and can be preordered everywhere that carries pantheon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caninesapien Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 I just seem to remember that the first run of The 50 Year Sword was some kind of super limited edition or something? Very expensive and coming in a presentation case or something? I could be wrong. I really enjoyed T50YS but still haven't really got to grips with OR. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rooks Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 I just seem to remember that the first run of The 50 Year Sword was some kind of super limited edition or something? Very expensive and coming in a presentation case or something? I could be wrong. I really enjoyed T50YS but still haven't really got to grips with OR. First press of T50YS was only pressed in Holland or Germany because no US publisher picked it up or something like that. He re-released it a few years ago - one was a limited edition in a wooden case with latches like in the story, but the main edition is still in print today I'll never come to grips with OR. If I do anything with it I pick it up every once in a blue moon, read a few pages, say "oh, interesting" "eh, weird" "okay that's enough". Mehhhhh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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