Red Mosquito

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

dad wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

dad wrote:Almost finished with The Rest of Our Lives.

I’ve checked out The World According to Garp as my next in line, but I wanted to see if you guys had any recommendations for something.

I like lit fic, usually messy characters.

Thanks in advance.

Skippy Dies

thanks, Lenny.

have you read The Bee Sting? If so, do you like Skippy Dies better? I’ve read the former and liked it.

I haven’t, but it’s on my list.

Have you read The Sympathizer?

I have not.

do you recommend?

dad wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

dad wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

dad wrote:Almost finished with The Rest of Our Lives.

I’ve checked out The World According to Garp as my next in line, but I wanted to see if you guys had any recommendations for something.

I like lit fic, usually messy characters.

Thanks in advance.

Skippy Dies

thanks, Lenny.

have you read The Bee Sting? If so, do you like Skippy Dies better? I’ve read the former and liked it.

I haven’t, but it’s on my list.

Have you read The Sympathizer?

I have not.

do you recommend?

Yep it’s excellent. Maybe not messy in the sense you mean. I felt like the prose was a lot better in the first half, but overall it’s a great read

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

dad wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

dad wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

dad wrote:Almost finished with The Rest of Our Lives.

I’ve checked out The World According to Garp as my next in line, but I wanted to see if you guys had any recommendations for something.

I like lit fic, usually messy characters.

Thanks in advance.

Skippy Dies

thanks, Lenny.

have you read The Bee Sting? If so, do you like Skippy Dies better? I’ve read the former and liked it.

I haven’t, but it’s on my list.

Have you read The Sympathizer?

I have not.

do you recommend?

Yep it’s excellent. Maybe not messy in the sense you mean. I felt like the prose was a lot better in the first half, but overall it’s a great read

added to my list.

dad wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

dad wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

dad wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

dad wrote:Almost finished with The Rest of Our Lives.

I’ve checked out The World According to Garp as my next in line, but I wanted to see if you guys had any recommendations for something.

I like lit fic, usually messy characters.

Thanks in advance.

Skippy Dies

thanks, Lenny.

have you read The Bee Sting? If so, do you like Skippy Dies better? I’ve read the former and liked it.

I haven’t, but it’s on my list.

Have you read The Sympathizer?

I have not.

do you recommend?

Yep it’s excellent. Maybe not messy in the sense you mean. I felt like the prose was a lot better in the first half, but overall it’s a great read

added to my list.

What else is on your list do you have any recs for me I feel like our general taste in things runs fairly close

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

dad wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

dad wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

dad wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

dad wrote:Almost finished with The Rest of Our Lives.

I’ve checked out The World According to Garp as my next in line, but I wanted to see if you guys had any recommendations for something.

I like lit fic, usually messy characters.

Thanks in advance.

Skippy Dies

thanks, Lenny.

have you read The Bee Sting? If so, do you like Skippy Dies better? I’ve read the former and liked it.

I haven’t, but it’s on my list.

Have you read The Sympathizer?

I have not.

do you recommend?

Yep it’s excellent. Maybe not messy in the sense you mean. I felt like the prose was a lot better in the first half, but overall it’s a great read

added to my list.

What else is on your list do you have any recs for me I feel like our general taste in things runs fairly close

let’s see…

I’m enjoying the one I’m currently reading, The Rest of Our Lives by Benjamin Markovits. An easy read with a protagonist who’s marriage is not great, he’s about to be an empty nester, and he’s decided to take a road trip after dropping his daughter off to college, kind of playing it all by ear.

I also liked The Dutch House by Ann Patchett. I did audio for the first half of that one because it’s read by Woody from Toy Story.

A few I’ve read in the last 18 months that I’ve also liked:

The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
Writers and Lovers by Lily King
The Guest by Emma Cline
Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
North Woods by Daniel Mason

Books that are on my tbr that I’m considering:

Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico
The World According to Garp
Lonesome Dove
Infinite Jest - I’d probably take this in chunks.

dad wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

dad wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

dad wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

dad wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

dad wrote:Almost finished with The Rest of Our Lives.

I’ve checked out The World According to Garp as my next in line, but I wanted to see if you guys had any recommendations for something.

I like lit fic, usually messy characters.

Thanks in advance.

Skippy Dies

thanks, Lenny.

have you read The Bee Sting? If so, do you like Skippy Dies better? I’ve read the former and liked it.

I haven’t, but it’s on my list.

Have you read The Sympathizer?

I have not.

do you recommend?

Yep it’s excellent. Maybe not messy in the sense you mean. I felt like the prose was a lot better in the first half, but overall it’s a great read

added to my list.

What else is on your list do you have any recs for me I feel like our general taste in things runs fairly close

let’s see…

I’m enjoying the one I’m currently reading, The Rest of Our Lives by Benjamin Markovits. An easy read with a protagonist who’s marriage is not great, he’s about to be an empty nester, and he’s decided to take a road trip after dropping his daughter off to college, kind of playing it all by ear.

I also liked The Dutch House by Ann Patchett. I did audio for the first half of that one because it’s read by Woody from Toy Story.

A few I’ve read in the last 18 months that I’ve also liked:

The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
Writers and Lovers by Lily King
The Guest by Emma Cline
Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
North Woods by Daniel Mason

Books that are on my tbr that I’m considering:

Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico
The World According to Garp
Lonesome Dove
Infinite Jest - I’d probably take this in chunks.

Thanks dad. The only one of those i've read is The World According to Garp. Lonesome Dove is on my list, and I figure I'll at least try Infinite Jest at some point.

I read Lonesome Dove back in the 90s. It’s looooooooong

40/60 chance I'll finish this. The intro is fun as hell, but this world will either draw me in or lose me fast. Feels Jonathon Lethem adjacent. Sci-Fi too smart for it's own good, but the prose so far isn't as self-serious as Lethem.

washing machine wrote:40/60 chance I'll finish this. The intro is fun as hell, but this world will either draw me in or lose me fast. Feels Jonathon Lethem adjacent. Sci-Fi too smart for it's own good, but the prose so far isn't as self-serious as Lethem.

Pretty sure I'll be finishing it.

The structure is inventive. Heard it compared to Nabokov's Pale Fire, but I haven't read that.

The narrator has designated himself a scholar of an obscure sci-fi writing collective (who meet at his house). You get to know the other characters through their stories, which are anthologized within the story. Narrator is outside looking in, desperately wishing for an invite into the collective.

Sort of like what Bolano was doing with Juan Garcia Madero in Savage Detectives?

There's geek fandom, critique of publishing, interpersonal drama, and some sci-fi world building in here.

I’ll put it on my list.

:rock:

Author's substack is where I learned of this book. No idea if it's made the review rounds, considering book review departments are getting butchered currently.

Neuromancer

Iconic opening sentence.

Is this your first William Gibson?

washing machine wrote:Iconic opening sentence.

Is this your first William Gibson?

Yes.

Good Omens

blueviper wrote:Neuromancer

How is it?

The Naked Mind.

epilogue wrote:

blueviper wrote:Neuromancer

How is it?

I like it. This is my second book dealing with that near future cyberpunk setting. I read Snow Crash before this one. While it is good I feel Gibson is doing it better.

blueviper wrote:

epilogue wrote:

blueviper wrote:Neuromancer

How is it?

I like it. This is my second book dealing with that near future cyberpunk setting. I read Snow Crash before this one. While it is good I feel Gibson is doing it better.

Right on . I've picked up Neuromancer so many times, but never pulled the trigger.