Red Mosquito

The Argonaut wrote:ooh, ooh, do me, do me



This is only the fiction because that's mainly what this thread is about. I read way more non-fiction nowadays, though. Fiction has to really grab me for me to feel like it's worth the large investment of time.

Also, that is my set of Fawlty Towers VHS tapes on the end there. I found them in a laundromat about eight years ago

wish id have had the chops to do an mfa w coover at brown

Unreal to me that I didn't even apply to Brown when I did my MFA. The follies of youth.

Mickey wrote:Unreal to me that I didn't even apply to Brown when I did my MFA. The follies of youth.

We could've been neighbors.

I should be embarrassed to admit that I've never read Coover but in times of trouble I can always fall back on the old caveat (fiction is for the weak!). For my money, that Bolaño novella is probably the most exciting and you can finish it in a day. I loved Love in the Time of Cholera when I read it in my early 20s, not sure how I'd feel about it now--I found it deeply affecting but I worry it might be incredibly misogynistic on re-read. I never felt the need to finish The Book of Disquiet--tons of beautiful passages but I'm not sure it's a novel, exactly. Unless I have a compelling professional reason I don't think I'll ever read another Charles Dickens novel. Jemisin is too sci-fi for my tastes but I've heard it's good. Vandermeer is on my vague and distant to-read list, Bulgakov finally graduated to the more immediate one--I might start it as soon as I'm done with TSH.

Simple Torture wrote:

Mickey wrote:Unreal to me that I didn't even apply to Brown when I did my MFA. The follies of youth.

We could've been neighbors.

On the other hand I met my wife in Mississippi, so really it's impossible to say whether that was bad or good.

I love Robert Coover. He wrote one of my very favorite books, The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. There's a lot of RM in there if you choose to read it that way

That is a terrible thing to say about a book you love.

The Argonaut wrote:I love Robert Coover. He wrote one of my very favorite books, The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. There's a lot of RM in there if you choose to read it that way

Has been on my to-read list for years.

Okay, here's the reading list:

The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
The Singer's Gun by Emily St. John Mandel
Apex Hides the Hurt by Colson Whitehead
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
The Divorce by Cesar Airia
The Children of Dune by Frank Herbert

Still to be released that I'm absolutely gonna read:

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Walk the Vanquished Earth by Erin Swan

I enjoyed The City We Became and I always enjoy Colson Whitehead, though I haven't read that one

In my calm, clear, and objective opinion The Secret History should absolutely jump the line.

The Argonaut wrote:I love Robert Coover. He wrote one of my very favorite books, The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.

i remember

Simple Torture wrote:For my homie lenny:

Baller af, my man. Reminds me about wanting to re-read Moonglow.

Simple Torture wrote:Joe, you're going to have to read The Secret History to understand this, so get started:

Henry - Mickey
Francis - Joe
Charles - Malloy
Camilla - lenny
Richard - me?
Bunny - dime

Please don't call me a woman.

Tartt heads, I'm in chapter seven and there's still one thing I'm dying to know

Spoiler: show

Did the twins fuck?

we did

epilogue wrote:Okay, here's the reading list:

The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
The Singer's Gun by Emily St. John Mandel
Apex Hides the Hurt by Colson Whitehead
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
The Divorce by Cesar Airia
The Children of Dune by Frank Herbert

Still to be released that I'm absolutely gonna read:

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Walk the Vanquished Earth by Erin Swan

Ah fuck, when I got home I looked at the shelf and I'd forgotten I also have:
Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell
Moonglow by Michael Chabon
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Day After Night by Anita Diamant

Man, I have a lot of books to read.

Lots of books I haven't read on that list but very little that jumps to the front of the line or projects a vibe of "oh you HAVE to read that next."