see? everyone loves ubik. ubik!!!

i just downloaded the kindle sample and after 2 pages im ready to read it again ha ha ha ha

These are my picks too, actually.

Ordered a copy of Ubik. Looking forward to reading it.

Gene Wolfe has passed away on 4/13/2019


here is an article by Neil gaiman that just preceded his passing
https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...neil-gaiman-sf

o man. that is a nice pre-obituary. have never read the guy.

and suddenly after today i find myself with a leeeetle extra time in my hands.

should i? which one? new sun?

Sev says New Sun. I read the first one and half of second. I got caught up in other shit and never finished. Sev is down for me to finish it.

you saying new sun is his literary batman? :eek:

no book is mandatory. i follow the borges policy on this.

but i’m curious anyway.

like the famous guaraní detective, averiguaré

Gene Wolfe was a UH grad. go coogs. https://www.tor.com/2019/04/15/gene-...C1pB5idui 1PI

dostoevsky's the idiot

what - does this guy think he's jsesu or something?

the Dune trilogy, for like, the millionth time;

FUCK!

No!

:(

Book of the Long Sun is the smartest and most amazing sci-fi book I’ve beer read, better by leaps and bounds than revered classics of the genre.

The sequels are even better than the revered classics! Book of the Long Sun, especially!

Shit. One of my favorite authors of all time.

I started reading Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels. It took me A VERY long time to start, as, unfortunately, the book covers are HORRIBLE (imho). Made me think they would be some really dumb-dumb dumb dumbs. I really enjoyed the first book, I read it in one day! waiting to get the three other books for cheap... probably going to buy them full price, I don't think I will be willing to wait to continue reading until cheap copies pop up somewhere...

I also got my hands on some books of authors who went to the German Institute for Literature, just to see what they write like, if it's worth going there. lol. Right now I am reading "Eiscafé Europa" by Enis Maci. It's okay, so far. But go to university? for that? hm. I feel like a lot of people on TUMBLR(!!) can write like that? and they don't have a book out. ah well, probably because they can't say "hey, I was part of this very prestigious writing course"... yup. gotcha.

houston: rape capital of global warming!

so many billions of lives ruined

shame on UH. built by oil kings with rape money!

;)

You’ve had YEARS at this point motherfucker. YEARS! :(

No time like the present!

I could literally write a book about Gene Wolfe’s “Solar Cycle” and why it’s one of the most underrated masterpieces in contemporary fiction.

The Boom of the New Sun:
I. Shadow of the Torturer
II. Claw of the Concilliator
III. Sword of the Lictor
IV. Citadel of the Autarch
* V. Urth of the New Sun (coda novella, published much later)

Book of the Long Sun:
I. Nightside the Long Sun
II. Lake of the Long Sun
III. Caldé of the Long Sun
IV. Exodus from the Long Sun

Book of the Short Sun:
I. On Blue’s Waters
II. In Green’s Jungles
III. Return to the Whorl

I would read the books in this order. Long Sun is almost as good as New Sun, but Short Sun is a slightly lesser project... though still amazing.
SHORT is an immediate sequel to LONG, though it focuses on different characters.
LONG seems like it will be a sequel to NEW, but in fact their chronological relationship is MUCH more complicated, and does not truly become clear until you read SHORT.

My god, though. What an under-appreciated talent.

His work in other genres like horror and mystery is less satisfying to me. It’s his Dickensian-by-way-of-Lovecraft works that really put him over the top.

All you dweebs should read this shit.

There’s a reason Ursula K. LeGuin Called Wolfe the “Melville” of speculative fiction

Sad

CVS receipts

“......most underrated masterpieces”......oh, yeah....

I had 54 books to read before hand.....

No worries. I had a great haul at the Half Price Books and found the OG paperbacks for all the Bok of New Sun and will be re-starting book 2 shortly.

YES!

Must spread more rep