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dubkitty wrote:everything i've been reading lately has wound up disappointing me with the quality of the prose...even Asimov and Orwell have been making me wince with the flatness of the writing style. granted, it's better than Hemingway or Bradbury, but it's still deeply disappointing.

You no likey Raymond Carver's short stories?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Noises and more on the author author himself http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Russolo

dubkitty wrote:everything i've been reading lately has wound up disappointing me with the quality of the prose...even Asimov and Orwell have been making me wince with the flatness of the writing style. granted, it's better than Hemingway or Bradbury, but it's still deeply disappointing.

If you are into fantasy, read The Dreaming Tree by C. J. Cherryh. I loved how it was written. Also, The Riddlemaster of Hed, by Patricia McKillip, and The Crystal Cave, by Mary Stewart.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Dreaming-Tree ... aming+tree
http://www.amazon.com/Riddle-master-Com ... ddlemaster
http://www.amazon.com/Crystal-Cave-Arth ... ystal+cave

I am on strict reading regimen of Anderson Cooper, Glen Beck, and Bill O'Reilly. You know those great American novelists that really just GET IT. Good reading.

dubkitty wrote:Granted, it's better than Hemingway

Hey now. Just because his writing is direct, doesn't mean it's flat.

Microsound by Curtis Roads, incredibly interesting but very dense

re-reading Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins. one of my favorites.

trying to read Gravity's Rainbow and struggling.

Psyre wrote:I am on strict reading regimen of Anderson Cooper, Glen Beck, and Bill O'Reilly. You know those great American novelists that really just GET IT. Good reading.

Remember when Anderson Cooper was a respectable journalist? Then, he got a stupid day-time talk show, then came out as if he hadn't just done so.

(Obviously not ragging on him for being gay, but he apparently went from Walter Cronkite to Oprah in a few short years, and not "helping girls in Africa"-Oprah, the other one, the "Let's decorate your kitchen for fall"-Oprah)

schrodingersgoldfish wrote:

dubkitty wrote:everything i've been reading lately has wound up disappointing me with the quality of the prose...even Asimov and Orwell have been making me wince with the flatness of the writing style. granted, it's better than Hemingway or Bradbury, but it's still deeply disappointing.

Are you comparing those books to something specific which you consider great? Or does simply nothing at all appeal to you?

many things appeal to me. for example, as far as sci-fi goes i love Arthur C. Clarke for, among other things, the quality of his prose. i've always been a fan of Raymond Chandler, love well-written non-fiction (especially history), and devour Tom Wolfe books though i haven't read his novels. it seems to me that a lot of post-WWII writing, and fiction in particular, has become more about propounding ideas than about producing quality writing. Philip K. Dick is a classic example: FASCINATING ideas, AWFUL sub/post-Bradbury writing.

in fiction i require writing that can successfully draw me into the world the writer is depicting...otherwise the suspension-of-disbelief thing is ruined.

behndy wrote:huh. i liked Clockwork Orange. but i did read it when i was younger and really enjoyed the moobie.

i'm rereading Snow Crash right now. i love Neal Stephenson so damn much. but i only really love 2 or 3 of his books. Snow Crash, Diamond Age Or The Illustrated Young GrrLie's Primer and Cryptonomicon.

he's GEECHY. geechy like a MOTHERfucker.

I mean, it is written well, but I don't really give a shit about anyone or anything in the story.
so it's really hard to want to continue reading

Now I do fucks wit some snowcrash.

I'm on the last few pages of Cormac McCarthy's The Road. What a great fucking book.

Fucking loved The Road.
Blood Meridian might be my favorite book right now though.

Equal parts interesting and boring. It's pretty much a medieval England law review.

Pynchons Inherent Vice is awesome! He concentrated on everything I love about his writing (idiotic songs, long lists of whatever seems to cross his mind) and left out the stuff I find annoying (historic background, lots of different strains of action). It's really cool and if you like his stuff at all (especially the earlier ones) then this should be good for you.

After a summer binge on classic SF (Heinlein, Clarke, Asimov, Dick...) which I enjoyed the hell out of, I'm reading Neil Young's new autobio-type book, and so far I really like it! Simple and direct writing, plus lots of interesting stories and insight from the life of probably my favourite musician.