XOMuffintop wrote:stereosforgeeks wrote:I am reading Neuromancer at the moment, but will soon be starting Blindness for BotM.
Neuromancer is one of my favorite books of all time. I jus finished reading Gibson's newest book and love how he has gone from Sci Fi punk kid to literary lion (with one or two almost lame books in between).
stereosforgeeks wrote:Ive also, got Burning Chrome sitting on a shelf waiting to be read as well. Any other suggestions would be great.
XOMuffintop wrote:Here is what I am currently reading. In the last few months I have read The Road (McCarthy), No Country for Old Men (McCarthy)
Keepcoolbutcare wrote:stereosforgeeks wrote:Ive also, got Burning Chrome sitting on a shelf waiting to be read as well. Any other suggestions would be great.
i love next book in the Sprawl Trilogy, COUNT ZERO. Third was pretty good as well.
I'd stay away from the Bridge Trilogy, but the middle book, IDORU, maybe his best work...and no worries, you don't have to read the first or the third in that series to appreciate it.
as for the "now" Trilogy, I preferred PATTERN RECOGNITION over SPOOK COUNTRY.
BURNING CHROME is one tight collection...while I love Abel Ferrara, I can't believe how much I loathed his adaptation of NEW ROSE HOTEL...man had Dafoe and Walken and Argento (she was a tad miscast though), and he fucked that up something fierce.
caruso_stalker217 wrote:I... can't read.
travis-dane wrote:caruso_stalker217 wrote:I... can't read.
Fuck man!
I saw that you posted here and wanted to "wiseass" you with a "You can read?" line.....
XOMuffintop wrote:Here is what I am currently reading. In the last few months I have read The Road (McCarthy), No Country for Old Men (McCarthy), Bad Luck and Trouble (Lee Child), American Tabloid (for like the 5th time. Jame Ellroy), Ender's Game (Card).
stereosforgeeks wrote:Keepcoolbutcare wrote:stereosforgeeks wrote:Ive also, got Burning Chrome sitting on a shelf waiting to be read as well. Any other suggestions would be great.
i love next book in the Sprawl Trilogy, COUNT ZERO. Third was pretty good as well.
I'd stay away from the Bridge Trilogy, but the middle book, IDORU, maybe his best work...and no worries, you don't have to read the first or the third in that series to appreciate it.
as for the "now" Trilogy, I preferred PATTERN RECOGNITION over SPOOK COUNTRY.
BURNING CHROME is one tight collection...while I love Abel Ferrara, I can't believe how much I loathed his adaptation of NEW ROSE HOTEL...man had Dafoe and Walken and Argento (she was a tad miscast though), and he fucked that up something fierce.
Thanks for the info KC... I'll have to check out Ferrara's New Rose Hotel after I read to story to see just how wrong it went.
stereosforgeeks wrote:XOMuffintop wrote:stereosforgeeks wrote:I am reading Neuromancer at the moment, but will soon be starting Blindness for BotM.
Neuromancer is one of my favorite books of all time. I jus finished reading Gibson's newest book and love how he has gone from Sci Fi punk kid to literary lion (with one or two almost lame books in between).
Welcome to the zone XOMuffintop. You can introduce yourself here.
As for Neuromancer, it's my first Gibson book. Ive also, got Burning Chrome sitting on a shelf waiting to be read as well. Any other suggestions would be great.
Keepcoolbutcare wrote:XOMuffintop wrote:Here is what I am currently reading. In the last few months I have read The Road (McCarthy), No Country for Old Men (McCarthy)
if you liked those, I heartily recommend BLOOD MERIDIAN.
still my favorite book of his.
XOMuffintop wrote:After reading NCFOM and The Road back to back, I noticed that I have become a little depressed. I will be going back and reading it soon though.
bluebottle wrote:man, as depressing as mcarthy's stuff is - i read the easter parade by richard yates yesterday...
holy shit... that book made me want to kill myself.
check it out!
stereosforgeeks wrote:bluebottle wrote:m an, as depressing as mcarthy's stuff is - i read the easter parade by richard yates yesterday...
holy shit... that book made me want to kill myself.
check it out!
In a bathtub with a straight razor... or a bottle of bleach by your side?
TonyWilson wrote:Also reading a collection of short stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, now these really are fantastic, each story is such a pleasure to read - from stream of consciousness to magic realism the stories are all wonderfully lush and evocative self contained universes. Seriously amazing stuff.
Ribbons wrote:TonyWilson wrote:Also reading a collection of short stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, now these really are fantastic, each story is such a pleasure to read - from stream of consciousness to magic realism the stories are all wonderfully lush and evocative self contained universes. Seriously amazing stuff.
I'm finishing another magical realist book right now, House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende. It's been compared to a watered-down version of Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and I can definitely see why, but I'm still digging it a lot.
TonyWilson wrote:I'm reading Donna Tartt's A Secret History, great so far but I'm struggiling to understand why it's considered a modern classic.
yorrick brown wrote:stephen kings ON WRITING.
hackett wrote:yorrick brown wrote:stephen kings ON WRITING.
I read it before high school... isn't their a chapter where he states :
There are two things that you need to have to be a great writer 1) a pencil 2) a fucked up childhood.
travis-dane wrote:DEVIL MAY CARE
The NEW James Bond book,by Sebastian Faulks writing as IAN FLEMING.....
It's set after Scaramanga's death and the killing of Bond's wife,a good read so far....
hackett wrote:travis-dane wrote:DEVIL MAY CARE
The NEW James Bond book,by Sebastian Faulks writing as IAN FLEMING.....
It's set after Scaramanga's death and the killing of Bond's wife,a good read so far....
I've never read a Bond book, would this be a novel i could jump into without knowing much backstory?
Ribbons wrote:hackett wrote:travis-dane wrote:DEVIL MAY CARE
The NEW James Bond book,by Sebastian Faulks writing as IAN FLEMING.....
It's set after Scaramanga's death and the killing of Bond's wife,a good read so far....
I've never read a Bond book, would this be a novel i could jump into without knowing much backstory?
Does anybody else think there's something slightly manipulative/messed up/messed upulative about someone writing AS Ian Fleming? It's sort of like that one author who wrote a book as Charlotte Bronte a few years ago...
The Vicar wrote:The Victors by Stephen Ambrose.
Worst Part's Almost Over wrote:Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carre
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