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"I finally finished he New Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction. At over 800 pages and 33 stories it truly took me a while. As much as I like pulp fiction, I was running out of steam and was wanting to move on to something else.
Now I am reading Predictally…"
Now I am reading Predictally…"
"I just re-read The End of the Dream, by Philip Wylie (1972). It's a story of ecological disaster, told from the viewpoint of Will Gulliver, one of a handful of survivors living in the far-off year of 2023, who is compiling stories of the various…"
"War of the Wing-men, a 1950s SF by Poul Anderson: it does not concern a pair of bros arguing over who can best help their buddy pick up a woman, but rather about humans getting involved with the local politics while tryiing to survive on a planet…"
"Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone, the authors memoir of his time as a child soldier in Sierra Leone. It's harrowing and the kinds of events described happened, even if some have questioned the accuracy of some the author's specific claims. As an…"
"I just finished A Man by Keiichirō Hirano. Its a Japanese book translated into English (in case you thought I read Japanese, lol). It is about the lady who marries a man a nd starts a family, but then he is killed in an accident. She then finds out…"
"The Pickwick Papers, by Charles Dickens."
"HELLO, MY NAME IS LOUISIANA PURCHASE O'LEARY:
My high school best friend's name is Jon Hickman, not the comic book writer you know, but they often mistakenly receive each other's e-mail. Anyway, my friend Jon is having his first children's book…"
My high school best friend's name is Jon Hickman, not the comic book writer you know, but they often mistakenly receive each other's e-mail. Anyway, my friend Jon is having his first children's book…"
"THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP:
The thing about the book The World According to Garp that tickled me was that the author tells you everything that happens to every character in the book after the story, even a newborn baby.
I took what Richard said…"
The thing about the book The World According to Garp that tickled me was that the author tells you everything that happens to every character in the book after the story, even a newborn baby.
I took what Richard said…"
""Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.""
"Too many to remember.
"If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you."
"All of you who believe in psychokinesis, raise my hand."
"If you're traveling at the speed of light, and turn on the headlights, does anything happen?""
"If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you."
"All of you who believe in psychokinesis, raise my hand."
"If you're traveling at the speed of light, and turn on the headlights, does anything happen?""
"HAROLD by Steven Wright: A week or so ago I was watching Steven Wright on television discussing his new novel, Harold, and all of a sudden I wanted nothing more than to read a novel about an imaginative third grader written by Steven Wright. A novel…"
"MEDITATIONS by Marcus Aurelius: Inspired by the movie The Holdovers, I decided to read Meditations. Step one: Deciding which translation to read. There are four different versions available on Amazon, and I took advantage of the "read sample"…"
"I read Yellowface by R.F Kuang this weekend, taking a break from Ken Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion, which I'm finding a bit of a slog.
As a work of satire and suspense it's quite good. The ending felt uneven, and some of the criticisms of the…"
As a work of satire and suspense it's quite good. The ending felt uneven, and some of the criticisms of the…"
"That is a great line. Here's another: "Her eyes expressed the gratitude of a dog when its owner stops beating it.""
"I am currently reading The New Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction. This is 33 short stories from a lot of classic writers. I am really digging it, and who doesn't love a good similie? There was one recently that went something like this: I drove uphill on…"
"I've recently read The Devil's Gap, an account of a bizarre crime that unfolded in the small town of Kenora, Ontario in 1973. The author was a teen at the time who witnessed the events and later became a reporter. The perpetrator exploded,…"
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