*What book are you reading? (part 2)

[Citizen66]

Sex, Race & Class by Selma James.

 

[Cheesypoof]

started 'Room full of mirrors' today, the biography of Jimi Hendrix by Charles Cross. It's great so far, very addictive

 

[Cheesypoof]

Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five
!

thanks for the reminder - will order it

 

[DotCommunist]

thanks for the reminder - will order it

you won't regret it. Its really really good sci fi. So good that people who do not rate sci fi consider it to be good

 

[starfish]

Romance by Ed McBain (my 46th in the 87th Precinct series)

 

[machine cat]

you won't regret it. Its really really good sci fi. So good that people who do not rate sci fi consider it to be good

Yes, a colleague recommended it to me and I said I'd heard that it was classic sci-fi.

'Sci-fi? No it's nothing like that.' was his sneering response. I have no idea how he came to this conclusion

 

[DotCommunist]

lit snobery ennit.

 

[DotCommunist]

some people would die of shame before admitting to having read sci fi. These people are bell ends. I've usually read more lit than they have had hot dinners, but you know. Genre fiction is a sneered upon ghetto despite the fact that it often goes places 'normal' lit will not

 

[Cheesypoof]

you won't regret it. Its really really good sci fi. So good that people who do not rate sci fi consider it to be good

thanks, rrrespec mate.

 

[Pickman's model]

robert e howard et al, ghor: kin-slayer

 

[Reno]

I picked up The New York Grimpendium by J.W. Ocker while I was on my holiday there. It's a guide to all things macabre and grisly in NYC, from crime locations to disaster sites to horror film locations. A great read and often surprisingly funny without being disrespectful.

 

[Dillinger4]

The Sea Inside by Phillip Hoare
The Spectacle of Disintegration: Situationist Passages out of the Twentieth Century by McKenzie Wark

 

[TruXta]

DP'ing Sinclair's Lud Heat and the Black Company trilogy by Glen Cook, both excellent works.

 

[DotCommunist]

Swweney Tod the Demon Barber of fleet street



is good

 

[grubby local]

thanks for the reminder - will order it

I love all Vonnegut, only missing a couple. Latest, and perhaps the best, was his series of short stories from his early days, criminally overlooked, 'Welcome to the monkey house'.
gx

 

[Dillinger4]

DP'ing Sinclair's Lud Heat and the Black Company trilogy by Glen Cook, both excellent works.

I read Lud Heat for the first time a few months ago.

 

[Idris2002]

you won't regret it. Its really really good sci fi. So good that people who do not rate sci fi consider it to be good

It's sci-fi but it's not like most American sci-fi. What it would remind me most of all would be Stanislaw Lem's Ijon Tichy stories, which are part of a European SF ("satirical fantasy") tradition that goes back at least to Jonathan Swift.

 

[Dillinger4]

you won't regret it. Its really really good sci fi. So good that people who do not rate sci fi consider it to be good

I don't really think of it as sci fi.

 

[Dillinger4]

I bought a copy of The Branch Will Not Break by James Wright on Amazon. As I ordered it, I thought "I am ordering a completely ordinary sized book".

This is what I got when it arrived:

I am still waiting for somebody to send me the real book and tell me that it was all an elaborate joke.

 

[BoatieBird]

Is the print normal sized Dillinger4?
I quite like the idea of small books that will fit easily into a pocket or bag.

 

[Dillinger4]

Is the print normal sized Dillinger4?
I quite like the idea of small books that will fit easily into a pocket or bag.

No. The print is tiny.I feel like I have been cheated somehow.

 

[BoatieBird]

No. The print is tiny.

How annoying

 

[DotCommunist]

read it with a magnifying glass. It can't be any more headache inducing than penguins paperback version of War and Peace

 

[TruXta]

I'm liking Lud Heat Dillinger4, can definitely see where From Hell got a lot of its themes from.

 

[Dillinger4]

read it with a magnifying glass. It can't be any more headache inducing than penguins paperback version of War and Peace

I have to admit I am quite enjoying the idea of reading it on a train and looking like a prick

 

[Dillinger4]

I'm liking Lud Heat Dillinger4, can definitely see where From Hell got a lot of its themes from.

Eight churches gave us the enclosure, the shape of fear.



I love mad paranoia. It is one of my favourite things to read.

 

[machine cat]

Just started James Kelman's How Late It Was, How Late.

Can see that I'm going to enjoy this...

 

[DotCommunist]

Eight churches gave us the enclosure, the shape of fear.



I love mad paranoia. It is one of my favourite things to read.

is it on par with Focaults Pendulum? cos if it is I feel a purchase coming on...

 

[TruXta]

is it on par with Focaults Pendulum? cos if it is I feel a purchase coming on...

I don't know if they're comparable really - Lud Heat's only 135 pages or so, a lot of it verse.

 

[Dillinger4]

is it on par with Focaults Pendulum? cos if it is I feel a purchase coming on...

More paranoid than that. The style is a bit unusual though. It is not a novel.

I definitely recommend it.