finished "Naked Lunch" and, well...uh.

Yeah.

Started "Call It Sleep" by Henry Roth. Only 30 or so pages in, but am liking it tremendously. I love stories of immigration and history.


Guess that means I am getting old...time to go nude.

Strega - Andrew Vachss
oooh, witchy woman, she had the moon in her eyes...

Sun of Suns, Karl Schroeder - Pretty cool little book. Kind of Niven-esque in that he creates a whole new world with new rules before running his characters through it. Gonna go put a request in for the second in the series now.

Thanks must go out to Remote and Aisha for the "End of Mr Y" reccomendation. Thoroughly enjoying it, and finding myself lost in a book for the first time in quite some while..

Got it ages ago and found it on the bookshelf. Didn't like it at first, but Ima warming to it.

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Originally posted by Boogerhead:
finished "Naked Lunch" and, well...uh.

Yeah.

Started "Call It Sleep" by Henry Roth. Only 30 or so pages in, but am liking it tremendously. I love stories of immigration and history.


Guess that means I am getting old...time to go nude.

It took me two tries to like Naked Lunch. Same with Gravity's Rainbow.

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Thanks must go out to Remote and Aisha for the "End of Mr Y" reccomendation. Thoroughly enjoying it, and finding myself lost in a book for the first time in quite some while..

That is a great book. Popco as well.

You should check out Andrew Crumey. He's a Scot. Used to be a physicist. Writes like Kundera on quantum particles.

I liked "Naked Lunch" quite a bit. It was just so much.

And, I never really knew just how gay old William was.

No wonder he was so into the junk. I can't imagine the fear involved with being gay in the 1940's.

I'd be strung out too.

You should read Queer, then.

I like The Names, thank you for the recommendation.

Daemon Leinad Zeraus

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You should read Queer, then.

I like The Names, thank you for the recommendation.

Hey, cool.

Love & Rockets 4 Human Diastrophism - started this last weekend, finished it saturday. damn its bleak in some ways. the end of the main story is just nasty! gilbert has such a strange style compared to his brother. jaime always seems to be taking things foward in slow motion. gilbert can go from birth to death of entire generations in a handful of pages. as he goes back and forth in this volume it becomes a little dizzying, off putting.

Hellboy: Chained Coffin and Others v. 3 - my brother bought the hellboy comics as they came out and i read his. but with sentinel's suggestion that the best story was in this collection, i decided to pick it up. its better written than i remembered. and it is a certain level of fun. but i do remember the problem was that everything ends in a fight, and given the shortness of these pieces it feels like half the story is hellboy fighting things.

Burn Out by Rebecca Donner and Inaki Miranda - another of DC's minx graphic novels, again its ok, but i suspect a little light weight/patchy compared to some of the entries in this series. certainly least likely to recommend this one i think.

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Love & Rockets 4 Human Diastrophism - started this last weekend, finished it saturday. damn its bleak in some ways. the end of the main story is just nasty! gilbert has such a strange style compared to his brother. jaime always seems to be taking things foward in slow motion. gilbert can go from birth to death of entire generations in a handful of pages. as he goes back and forth in this volume it becomes a little dizzying, off putting.

You know,at the beginning, I really preferred Jaime's stories to those of Gilbert. Now that I am further into the series (just finished Book X) I can really appreciate the charms of Gilbert's story-telling. I don't prefer Gilbert, but if he continues to impress me as much as he did in Blood of Palomar and Love and Rockets X, I can definitely see it coming to that.

i read some of gilbert's post L&R's stuff, the stuff he did for vertigo, and that turned me on to his stuff. years back i always preferred jaime's art, so it was more appealing.

i presume you are reading old volumes? i had one or two volumes, probably from like 10 years ago (and have no idea where they are actually). but these new editions that are out at the moment (6 so far, 3 of each), are a good opportunity to get into the stuff. 4 down, 2 to read.

Yeah I'm reading the old fantagraphics volumes with the numbers on the spine. The new ones either weren't out when I started or I didn't know about them. I'm up to 11 now, so I'm committed, for the time being. I think I'm going to get canon frustration when I get up to the more recent stuff that isn't collected under the old umbrella.

After totally immersing myself in Idoru for the past fortnight I thought I'd show some support and plough through my wife's latest read, Feel The Fear and Do It Anyway by Susan Jeffers.

Its actually very easy to digest, broken into managable chunks and mostly common sense. I can see why its been a revelation to so many.

it's a hit where you are? I'm not sure if it's hit these shores, yet.

Ima bout finished with Wild Sheep Chase. I have Brasyl in queue. I started it once before then quit. Like Trog says, it is hard to warm up to.

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Ima bout finished with Wild Sheep Chase. I have Brasyl in queue. I started it once before then quit. Like Trog says, it is hard to warm up to.

Update: I love this book. It's tough to get into at first because of all the Brazilian localization... unless you speak Spanish, I suppose. Just tough it through that and you will be richly rewarded. Pay attention to the dates as the book operates within three timelines. Got to wonder if WG has said anything about it. Seems like something he would dig.

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unless you speak Spanish, I suppose.

Umm....Portuguese?