Metal Reviews

That's the one, I couldn't remember the title.

A good read for any introvert, or extrovert who wishes to understand the mysterious 1/4 of humanity.

Enjoying Gardens of the Moon so far. I don't exactly know what it's even about yet but I dig Erikson's writing style.

Check out Ian Cameron Esslemont's series in the same realm. Only read Night of Knives, and it's really cool.

Actually I thought we were 1/2 but so reclusive that we appeared to be less.

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

School is done, now good summer reading starts. Ordered:

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius--Dave Eggers
Sum: 40 Tales from the Afterlives--David Eaglemen
The Savage Detectives--Roberto Bolano

Currently reading The Catcher in the Rye.

Has anyone here read Infinite Jest? Thinking that might be my next, after these four.

Infinite Jest is my favourite novel! I read it two years ago and still remember a lot about a lot of the characters. Although I'm also interested in a lot of the same stuff as David Foster Wallace (philosophy, tennis, big words/complicated sentences, [drug] addictions) and he definitely talks a lot about those things. Although my dad made it to the end, of those, he only likes tennis afaik... and it's a long book. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is up there too. I'd like to reread both of those.

I finished Wuthering Heights (loved it) and Great Expectations (some of it I really liked, some of it annoyed me). Now reading Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell.

finished Blood Meridian a few days ago. honestly can't see what's so awesome about it. like the prose and the judge is a messed up character, but to call it super mega life changing awesome as the blurbs at the back do seems a tad too much.

trying to get into António Lobo Antunes' Memória de Elefante (Elephant Memory) for the second time, still can't do it haha. it's like José Saramago with much bigger words and an immensity of cultural references, he really has to be read slowly.

thinking of picking up Pillars of the Earth, and read a lot of nice things about The Sound and the Fury - any comments here on this one?

I liked The Sound and The Fury but I couldn't tell you for sure wtf happened in it, especially the first and second parts.

A Game of Thrones. Just finished the first 50 pages, and man, it's like watching the first episode all over again, except that the characters seem much younger in the book.

You trust the blurbs on the back? This amazing thing happens on philosophy books where philosophers will endorse a book on the back blurb and then in their own works bash the book to hell and back. Example, Zizek on Hardt/Negri's Empire.

Been actually reading Hardt and Negri's Empire for the last week or so.

I just realized that I can't think of any novels I've read by female authors other than Wuthering Heights.

Damn good series, I am looking foward to the next book this July.

Anais Nin...and I'm spent.

Margaret Atwood, yo. I also used to read a lot of Anamorphs.

I just read The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett, which I kind of struggled through because I was reading it more because a friend let me borrow it and I didn't want to hold onto the book forever, rather than because I really wanted to read it.

Currently reading Tokyo Vice, by Jake Adelstein. The author isn't my favorite writer in the world, but the subject matter is interesting enough to carry some of the weaker prose.

Anyone else read Goosebumps growing up? I used to have like 80 of those books.

Loved Goosebumps. The Wild Beast one with a blue purple koala thing was my favorite. And prefered the Haunted Mask II to 1.

Forgot about Atwood.

Yeah. Really great stuff. Night of the Living Dummy terrified me.

The art designer of those Goosebumps books, with the insignia having those cool bumps, was a genius.

I should probably read some Margaret Atwood 'cause she's famous and Canadian but I've read a short story and a couple articles and she seemed a little sarcastic/snarky for my tastes.