what are you reading right now?

by **crash.landing** » Thu Mar 14, 2019 11:51 pm

incoherent grunting wrote:can anyone recommend sort-of-psychedelic vibe novels like Crying of Lot 49, PKD, etc.. not about drugs, but kind disorienting and weird (for lack of better term)?

Anything by Richard Brautigan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Brautigan

by **incoherent grunting** » Fri Mar 15, 2019 7:21 am

Thanks y'all

by **shizaam** » Fri Mar 15, 2019 12:43 pm

just started

by **dvr** » Fri Mar 15, 2019 5:33 pm

shizaam wrote:just started

Oh interesting. Children of Time wasn't my favorite but it wasn't terrible either. I'm curious how this pans out. The author's biology background is a huge draw for me.

Edit: I guess Zoology background technically

Edit2: how'd you get a copy of this?

by **chowder julius** » Fri Mar 15, 2019 8:25 pm

im still slowly reading the magic mountain, about 25% complete, and i love the barely perceptible yet growing sense of dread and discomfort underlying the whole thing. really unique and special quality. i have no idea where this is going but i'm v intrigued...

by **iwillneverpost** » Fri Mar 15, 2019 8:46 pm

incoherent grunting wrote:can anyone recommend sort-of-psychedelic vibe novels like Crying of Lot 49, PKD, etc.. not about drugs, but kind disorienting and weird (for lack of better term)?

Dhalgren if you haven't already.

by **Chyet** » Fri Mar 15, 2019 8:59 pm

de sade is just armpit fetishes

by **chowder julius** » Fri Mar 15, 2019 9:09 pm

mfw reading de sade

by **sadville** » Fri Mar 15, 2019 11:34 pm

incoherent grunting wrote:can anyone recommend sort-of-psychedelic vibe novels like Crying of Lot 49, PKD, etc.. not about drugs, but kind disorienting and weird (for lack of better term)?

by **incoherent grunting** » Sat Mar 16, 2019 12:36 am

Fever Dream is so good and a great suggestion for what I'm looking for, but I just read it!

by **mudd** » Sat Mar 16, 2019 2:21 pm

Joseph McElroy does the rising paranoia thing really well, I always recommend lookout cartridge but most of his other work does it too.

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by **shizaam** » Sat Mar 16, 2019 3:15 pm

this was a blast, burned through in three days. little bit of generation ship, and some _fantastic_ imagining of non-human sentience / societies

by **abs** » Sat Mar 16, 2019 10:03 pm

damn, loved this.

by **chowder julius** » Sat Mar 16, 2019 10:35 pm

gonna keep an eye out for that one. that cover :oops:

by **clownwig** » Sun Mar 17, 2019 12:16 am

incoherent grunting wrote:
incoherent grunting wrote:Up next!:

Very mediocre!

it's been several months since I read this but I'm pretty sure that it actually rules and is the funniest thing I've read since I don't remember when.

by **abs** » Sun Mar 17, 2019 12:29 am

cj, do! I think you'd dig. great mix of sex/passion, capitalism/post-war mentality, social class blah blah -- don't want to say too much but it's gorgeous. going to read more lawrence now.

by **chimp** » Sun Mar 17, 2019 4:01 am

shizaam wrote:this was a blast, burned through in three days. little bit of generation ship, and some _fantastic_ imagining of non-human sentience / societies

Yeah this is great

by **rushedbehind** » Sun Mar 17, 2019 4:22 am

i read all of this today, and holy shit it was good. beautifully written, but it has this kind of cold/cruel aspect to it that i can only compare to a michael haneke movie. the last forty or so pages were incredibly eerie and powerful.

by **Kenny** » Sun Mar 17, 2019 5:39 am

I've had Children of Time on my bookshelf for aaaaages, I'm not sure why I haven't gotten around to reading it. Everybody says it's great!

I'm reading:

Which I've also had for a while, but I had that poem "I remember Aldestrop" randomly in my head for a while and then I saw this on the shelf and then it clicked that Aldestrop is by this guy and it's Spring so it's the perfect time to read it. It's very good but poetical writing so it's sort of slow going but very nice. He rides a bike from London to around Bristol in 1913

by **Eyeball Kid** » Sun Mar 17, 2019 6:48 am

That Lady Chatterley's Lover cover is hilarious

by **chowder julius** » Sun Mar 17, 2019 6:49 am

hilarious is not the word :oops:

by **chowder julius** » Sun Mar 17, 2019 6:50 am

i would like to get halfway thru the magic mountain this weekend but that means reading 200 more pages today. wish me luck!

by **abs** » Sun Mar 17, 2019 11:27 am

chowder julius wrote:hilarious is not the word

it invokes ..uh... a feeling

by **nosebleeds** » Sun Mar 17, 2019 11:43 am

Read The Remains of the Day in 2 days. Probably the best book I'll read all year.

by **chowder julius** » Sun Mar 17, 2019 11:55 am

that's Jeff bezos favorite book

by **nosebleeds** » Sun Mar 17, 2019 12:01 pm

It was a reread. I'm Jeff Bezos and you're welcome.

by **chowder julius** » Sun Mar 17, 2019 12:03 pm

i read it this time last year and enjoyed it but hated the other ishiguro I read after, never let me go. the voice was too similar in a way that bored me

by **nosebleeds** » Sun Mar 17, 2019 12:03 pm

It was 1990 and I wanted to sell books with dignity.

by **nosebleeds** » Sun Mar 17, 2019 12:05 pm

chowder julius wrote:i read it this time last year and enjoyed it but hated the other ishiguro I read after, never let me go. the voice was too similar in a way that bored me

I like Never Let Me Go as well. My favorite of his is The Unconsoled. Apparently, that one is divisive.

by **nosebleeds** » Sun Mar 17, 2019 12:09 pm

Should I start Plague of Doves by Louise Erditch or The Lime Twig by John Hawkes?

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