What are you currently reading?

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Simple Torture]

This is great. I am also probably reading this next.

[Simple Torture]

This was really good.

[tree_]

Crime and Punishment by some Russian guy

[epilogue]

Hollow by B. Catling.

I'm already loving this, even more than The Vorrh.

[Simple Torture]

Hollow by B. Catling.

I'm already loving this, even more than The Vorrh.

I read these last year; I still think of them often, but by the end I feel things got a bit convoluted. Still quite a ride, though!

[wease]

Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard. While not a sequel, per se, to The Switch, it is a continuation of the main characters from that book. Both are fantastic.

[tree_]

The film Jackie Brown was based on that I heard

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[tree_]

Crime and Punishment by some Russian guy

Is there a version of this with the characters' names swapped out for legible ones? "Amalia Fyodorovna Lippevechsel"... Lordy!

[epilogue]

Hollow by B. Catling.

I'm already loving this, even more than The Vorrh.

I read these last year; I still think of them often, but by the end I feel things got a bit convoluted. Still quite a ride, though!

I totally agree. This one isn't connected to those. And I really like it.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Crime and Punishment by some Russian guy

Is there a version of this with the characters' names swapped out for legible ones? "Amalia Fyodorovna Lippevechsel"... Lordy!

that’s a German surname

[Simple Torture]

Hollow by B. Catling.

I'm already loving this, even more than The Vorrh.

I read these last year; I still think of them often, but by the end I feel things got a bit convoluted. Still quite a ride, though!

I totally agree. This one isn't connected to those. And I really like it.

Oh ok, I thought it was part of the trilogy, I already forgot the titles!

[epilogue]

Hollow by B. Catling.

I'm already loving this, even more than The Vorrh.

I read these last year; I still think of them often, but by the end I feel things got a bit convoluted. Still quite a ride, though!

I totally agree. This one isn't connected to those. And I really like it.

Oh ok, I thought it was part of the trilogy, I already forgot the titles!

Totally. Yeah, this is a brand new, separate thing. It's also fantasy. And it's also violent and grotesque and strange as shit, though.

[Simple Torture]

I'll put it on my list!

[wease]

Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard. While not a sequel, per se, to The Switch, it is a continuation of the main characters from that book. Both are fantastic.

Which characters from Rum Punch are in The Switch?

So far, Ordell, Louis, Mr Walker and Melanie.

[BurtReynolds]

alternatively, we really need another book about homer?

I've never read another book on Homer, so I don't know if it's new, but the interpretation of the Illiad and Odyssey as a memory of a more ancient clash between the civilized urban cities of Asia minor and barbaric tribes not long removed from the steppes (early Greeks) is interesting.

[Bammer]

I have had the PJ20 book for 10 years but I just cracked it open for the first time this morning

Halfway through it and really wish I would have read this 10 years ago

[Malloy]

each time i see rm fighting about Promising Young Woman, which i've not seen and likely never will, i think of this quite good novel. suzanne spent some time here and is cool, and dorothy is one of my favorite presses. anyway, i'm rereading it now.

[VinylGuy]

Bought Bret Easton Ellis´s White and the Lanegan memories. Its from a web page abroad, so well see if they actually get to my house.