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[Wyatt Riot]

Just finished reading a whole slew of comic collections: the first The Walking Dead collection (loved it), Y: The Last Man (meh), Marvels (disliked), Kingdome Come (disliked); and Alan Moore's V for Vendetta (loved), Neonomicon (liked), Future Shocks (meh). (I've also got his Swamp Thing, From Hell, and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen wish-listed and will probably just buy them pretty soon).

Up next is Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian and then his Border Trilogy.

[raubhimself]

Up next is Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian and then his Border Trilogy.

I've been slowly plodding through Blood Meridian. Really I only read a chapter or two on the weekends so it's been really slow. But man is it brutal. This is my second time trying to read it and this time I'm gonna finish it.

[Big Jilm]

Continuing my streak of more obscure older SciFi short story anthologies including "Last Hurrah of the Golden Horde" by Norman Spinrad. I really like the cover art on this one:

[raubhimself]

Up next is Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian and then his Border Trilogy.

I've been slowly plodding through Blood Meridian. Really I only read a chapter or two on the weekends so it's been really slow. But man is it brutal. This is my second time trying to read it and this time I'm gonna finish it.

And I finally did.

I picked up Dune and the T.C. Boyle novel The Inner Circle from a new independent book store nearby. I have a few other books on the shelf I should get to eventually as well as plenty of comics to read though.

I'd also like to raid Big Jilm's sci-fi books sometime

[Wyatt Riot]

Up next is Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian and then his Border Trilogy.

I've been slowly plodding through Blood Meridian. Really I only read a chapter or two on the weekends so it's been really slow. But man is it brutal. This is my second time trying to read it and this time I'm gonna finish it.

And I finally did.

I was so confused at that ending. Then I read more about it and found I wasn't alone.

I lent the book to a friend and he's reading it now. Can't wait to discuss it with him.

[raubhimself]

What were you confused about?

[Wyatt Riot]

What were you confused about?

What happened in the outhouse (I can assume I know what happened) and the epilogue about digging holes in the desert. I'm okay with the ending now, but at the time I wondered if I'd missed something.

[tibone]

Just finished Nick Hornby's "Juliet Naked", really cool book. And very well written in my opinion, recommended, especially if you liked other Hornby's work (i do think High Fidelity and Long Way Down are excellent, so, i am biased).

Am halfway through "Enter Night" by Mick Wall, it's the biography of Metallica, without all the pussyness of Lars and James, told by a third person. Pretty interesting, especially how they "walked" over Jonny Z and the whole Mustaine affair.


And i have this lined up for next, excited about it, actually :



Hopefully it is as good as i expect it to be.

[kareshi]

I listened to an audiobook called Pimsleur's Essential Japanese. I'm wondering if I should have got it in book form because I'm having a hard time following the plot. A man and woman are in Japan, they eat, they go places, shop for things, then all of a sudden (after all this) they start wanting to eat. Then after they both state that they ate yesterday, they claim that they don't/can't eat or that they didn't eat yesterday.

[Jadbgjoka]

I just purchased two volumes from the Guitar Grimoire series (Scales and Modes & Chords and Voicings).

I don't think I need any new reading material for half a year or so.

How's this coming along anyway^ I bought the Scales and Modes volume a few years ago and on the shelf it has stayed. I have plans on rerere-attempting music theory this summer and might have a few questions for you about it's presentation

[Big Jilm]

I'd also like to raid Big Jilm's sci-fi books sometime

Hey, FREE book with any $10 purchase! How about that! Get 'em while they're good, get 'em while they're hot!

One of the comps I recently read had really cool cover art by Richard Powers. I'm a sucker for Powers' Tanguy inspired blobular futurescapes.

[WilliamTheBard]

I just finished "For Whom the Bell Tolls" for the first time (I never read it high school, sue me). I enjoyed it, I bet James Clavell did too as some of it seems to be in a similar style. I thought the ending was obvious (not the specifics of it, but definitely the tone) given the mood of the rest of the book leading up to it. Are there any other Hemingway novels I might enjoy?

[weener]

I swiped "The Magician's Nephew" from the English library at work. I loved the Narnia books as a kid because the religious stuff went right over my head. I had all the books but this one, which I had never read until now, and I had always been curious about it.

The first half was really good, and the second half was heavy-handed Bible stuff that I'm sure would have bored me even as an 8-year old, even if I didn't understand why.

I'm thinking about rereading the other Narnia books just because they only take a few hours to read, to see if they have been visited by the suck fairy.

Well, I finished reading the whole series. You can read about it here. It's safe to say the suck fairy paid a visit to every book, but only managed to ruin two of them.

[Jadbgjoka]

Getting some books going this summer. I want to finish at least 25 before the fall. Should be loft goal since the last few I've gone through were short.

Just Finished:

Go Ask Alice - Friend recommended, easy read. I didn't really care for it. After getting curious, it's a typical "based on . . ." story, in that it is hyped up for being true and only being slightly accurate.

Fight Club - I've gotten into wanting to read the sources of movies I've liked ever since Clockwork Orange. Similar to C.O., there were some impressive differences, most notably the ending which in both cases changed the entire message of the book. I think I liked this book more than the movie for the sake of some of the ideas introduced.

I've just started Hemingway's "Movable Feast" and the novel "Brave New World". Both are pretty fun so far for entirely different reasons.

[Jace]

Just finished my first try at a Philip K. Dick novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Far superior to Blade Runner but at least they had the decency to change the name. This might sound weird but I thought Dick had an almost idiot-savant quality about his writing. At least, he's really bad at dialogue, but great at imagery and makes a lot of weird word choices (like describing a chair as "an important-style chair") I'm in love.