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i got sent this for free on the condition that i write a review for amazon when i finish it. but i can't finish it. i usually read books in one or two sittings. and something about this book, with its deceptively simple writing and scary realism, depresses the shit out of me. i get through half of it or something then have to put it down and forget about it for like a week or two then start reading it again from the beginning because i forget what exactly what happens.

i like reallllly slow books, anyone else?

sometimes i wish i was a slow reader. i can get through about a hundred pages or so an hour i think. reallllllllly would like to stay in books longer when they're good.

unownunown wrote:i like reallllly slow books, anyone else?

Yes. Although I pretty much like all books.

behndy wrote:sometimes i wish i was a slow reader. i can get through about a hundred pages or so an hour i think. reallllllllly would like to stay in books longer when they're good.

having to read on college, i'd really enjoy being faster reader

Well, finished Chaosbound. I started out really pissed that Farland was pulling a George Martin and having the sequel be at the same time as the previous book with none of the main characters from that book in it, but it ended up being pretty good.

I think I'm going to start this today:



Hoping so badly that the main character of the previous books in the series is actually in it. He isn't mentioned at all on the back.

jfrey wrote:Are there 2 "What are you reading" Threads?

You can never read enough.... I had't noticed.

Altered Carbon is off to a good start.

Also doing the whole "They made a movie/tv show and I want to read the book first" phase...finished girl with the dragon tattoo, up next hunger games and game of thrones.

i LOVE Altered Carbon. he falls off a bit in later Takeshi Kovacs novels, but i like Richard K Morgan a lot.

Girl With The Something Something series is really good..... the original Swedish movies are garbage. Daniel Craig's a pimp though, so hoping the remake is cool.

I finished Blood Meridian.
Time to re-read it. With notes.
Maybe my favorite book.

I'm still at the beginning, but it's awesome so far.

I'm also listening to the audio book of Alastair Reynolds' Chasm City. Well, I will start it in a couple of minutes.

Is Robert Anton Wilson any good? His name's come up a couple times recently, and from what I gather we jive on a lot of our philosophies.

Anyway, amidst and betwixt the proofs, promotional material, and other work stuff being tossed my way, I'm about to start this one:

The Annotated Nose by Marc Estin.
It was pitched to me by my boss, who knows I dig Tristram Shandy, Pynchon, DFW, and such.

I'll leave it to the Amazon description to explain it:

Marc Estrin discovers that another writer's novel-THE NOSE- not only has spawned a bizarre cult among the nation's youth but also is based on the extraordinary life of a real person-an outcast named Alexei Pigov. Estrin searches Alexei out and ask him to provide annotations to THE NOSE. Alexei says that-although the events of the novel might, for the most part, be real-the purported reasons for them are all damnable lies. On the left-hand page of The Annotated Nose we read THE NOSE itself, and take in its beautifully unsettling illustrations by Delia Robinson. On the right-hand page we follow Alexei's complaints-always surprising and often farreaching.

Of course, the whole thing is a sham--this is Estrin's idea through and through. Which makes it super fucking interesting, as my own work hovers in a similar stratosphere.

D.o.S. wrote:Is Robert Anton Wilson any good?

Wot, are you high? Robert Anton Wilson's awesome!

I just haven't read any of it yet.

Recommendations on where to start?

D.o.S. wrote:Marc Estrin discovers that another writer's novel-THE NOSE- not only has spawned a bizarre cult among the nation's youth but also is based on the extraordinary life of a real person-an outcast named Alexei Pigov. Estrin searches Alexei out and ask him to provide annotations to THE NOSE. Alexei says that-although the events of the novel might, for the most part, be real-the purported reasons for them are all damnable lies. On the left-hand page of The Annotated Nose we read THE NOSE itself, and take in its beautifully unsettling illustrations by Delia Robinson. On the right-hand page we follow Alexei's complaints-always surprising and often farreaching.

Of course, the whole thing is a sham--this is Estrin's idea through and through. Which makes it super fucking interesting, as my own work hovers in a similar stratosphere.

This sounds rad. Going to look for that.

reading Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener this weekend probably

also a low, gory and extremely entertaining action story by a czech writer