Red Mosquito

LoathedVermin72 wrote:You and your books

Just finished one called the book of strange new things.

Sci-fi/dystopia meets aliens but viewed through the eyes of a god botherer..

dont know what to make of it.

Telex From Cuba by Rachel Kushner

I read her second book, The Flamethrowers earlier this year and it blew me away. So I'm pretty pumped to finally check out her debut. Solid so far (only about 40% through).

A CLASH OF KINGS

THE TWENTY-SEVNETH CITY

Ebert's autobiography/memoir/whatever is one of the best I've ever read.

Paris Stories by Mavis Gallant.

Bob Loblaw wrote:Paris Stories by Mavis Gallant.

will you write monterrey stories one day?

i've printed every rafa post from the past three years and they read a lot like those lists in the bible that everyone skips

bart wrote:Ebert's autobiography/memoir/whatever is one of the best I've ever read.

I just bought this book on your recommendation. It had better be good.

tommymtcom wrote:

bart wrote:Ebert's autobiography/memoir/whatever is one of the best I've ever read.

I just bought this book on your recommendation. It had better be good.

i thought it was jaw-dropping

Alex wrote:

tommymtcom wrote:

bart wrote:Ebert's autobiography/memoir/whatever is one of the best I've ever read.

I just bought this book on your recommendation. It had better be good.

i thought it was jaw-dropping

Too soon.

i'm kind of excited to listen to this, it was a very entertaining book. in case anyone wants something a bit out of the ordinary to listen to...

I finally started 2666. So you won't see me in this thread for another year.

Dscans wrote:I finally started 2666. So you won't see me in this thread for another year.

Alllllllriiiiiiiight!

finished 2014 with Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview, which has nothing I haven't seen before but is still great bc Vonnegut is a hero. and Jupiter's Travels, in which an Englishman drives around the world for four years on a motorcycle.
opening 2015 with the new (800 pg.) bio of Nelson Rockefeller (I went to a reading by the author a couple months ago) and Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.

It's really really good. I can't put it down. What she's been through is astonishing.

I bought two books yesterday:

10:04 by Ben Lerner

And:


Edwin Mullhouse by Steven Millhauser

I'll probably do one of those after I finish Telex From Cuba.

Lamentation by CJ Sansom...wasn't aware this was part of an ongoing series, but it doesnt seem to have a bearing. Really enjoyable crime/mystery set in Henry VIII's court.

I just started The Tunnel by William Gass and I can already tell it's going to ruin my life. His writing style is crazy.