Red Mosquito

B wrote:

epilogue wrote:

B wrote:

epilogue wrote:I did not know Chuck Palahniuk had a new novel.

Guess I know what I'm reading next.

Made me nauseous. Of course, Palahniuk always makes me nauseous, so ... ?

How does it rank among his other stuff for you?

Let's see ...

Geez, I just looked at a list, and I can't remember some of the recent stuff, and the older stuff is long since faded to a blur in my mind.

Let's say .... Somewhere in the Lullaby or Diary level of quality? Remember how you felt reading the story in Haunted about the kid sitting on the pool drain? There's a scene in this book that 'll give you that feeling back.

epilogue wrote:

B wrote:

epilogue wrote:

B wrote:

epilogue wrote:I did not know Chuck Palahniuk had a new novel.

Guess I know what I'm reading next.

Made me nauseous. Of course, Palahniuk always makes me nauseous, so ... ?

How does it rank among his other stuff for you?

Let's see ...

Geez, I just looked at a list, and I can't remember some of the recent stuff, and the older stuff is long since faded to a blur in my mind.

Let's say .... Somewhere in the Lullaby or Diary level of quality? Remember how you felt reading the story in Haunted about the kid sitting on the pool drain? There's a scene in this book that 'll give you that feeling back.

Can I ask which scene you're referring to? I just finished the novel (I really loved it) but I didn't find anything viscerally nauseating or uncomfortable -- certainly not on the level of 'Guts.'

Spoiler: show

The removal of that guy's testicles

B wrote:

epilogue wrote:

B wrote:

epilogue wrote:

B wrote:

epilogue wrote:I did not know Chuck Palahniuk had a new novel.

Guess I know what I'm reading next.

Made me nauseous. Of course, Palahniuk always makes me nauseous, so ... ?

How does it rank among his other stuff for you?

Let's see ...

Geez, I just looked at a list, and I can't remember some of the recent stuff, and the older stuff is long since faded to a blur in my mind.

Let's say .... Somewhere in the Lullaby or Diary level of quality? Remember how you felt reading the story in Haunted about the kid sitting on the pool drain? There's a scene in this book that 'll give you that feeling back.

Can I ask which scene you're referring to? I just finished the novel (I really loved it) but I didn't find anything viscerally nauseating or uncomfortable -- certainly not on the level of 'Guts.'

Spoiler: show

The removal of that guy's testicles

left me with a nausea that lasted long after I finished the book. You just reignited it, so thank you.

Mickey wrote:ST, what'd you think of the Melchor book? I'm thinking of throwing it on a world lit syllabus for the spring.

Simple Torture wrote:

Mickey wrote:ST, what'd you think of the Melchor book? I'm thinking of throwing it on a world lit syllabus for the spring.

Hey, I saw this before your PM and was going to respond, I promise! This book was wild, and it's got a bit of everything--it's about gender, sex, violence, class, race, etc. etc.--so I definitely recommend it.

Simple Torture wrote:I was hoping for something redeeming or "Lynchian" in here but couldn't find much to enjoy.

Mickey wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:

Mickey wrote:ST, what'd you think of the Melchor book? I'm thinking of throwing it on a world lit syllabus for the spring.

Hey, I saw this before your PM and was going to respond, I promise! This book was wild, and it's got a bit of everything--it's about gender, sex, violence, class, race, etc. etc.--so I definitely recommend it.

Thx!

Was it a nightmare–the result of bad indigestion–or did something truly scary happen after dinner in the Argentine town? One Saturday night a bankrupt bachelor in his sixties and his mother dine with a wealthy friend. They discuss their endlessly connected neighbors. They talk about a mysterious pit that opened up one day, and the old bricklayer who sometimes walked to the cemetery to cheer himself up. Anxious to show off his valuable antiques, the host shows his guests old windup toys and takes them to admire an enormous doll. Back at home, the bachelor decides to watch some late night TV before retiring. The news quickly takes a turn for the worse as, horrified, the newscaster finds herself reporting about the dead rising from their graves, leaving the cemetery, and sucking the blood of the living—all somehow disturbingly reminiscent of the dinner party.

Steve Albini wrote: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.

Mickey wrote:I find I can only read so many Aira novels before I get tired of his schtick and need a (long) break, but it's been a while for me. The ones I still think about the most are Varamo and Ghosts.