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Death in Venice, Thomas Mann - 3 stars - Interesting enough, despite nothing really happening until the end (but A LOT of old books/movies are like that). Reminded me a little of Lolita. Not that the protagonist was a bad guy, but reminded of of the King Kong quote "'twas beauty killed the beast".

The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman - 4.5 stars - Excellent short horror(ish) about a woman gradually going insane, seemingly caused by the titular wallpaper.
 
arrall said:
'Man in The High Castle' by Phillip K. Dick - a book about what it would look like if the Axis powers won WW2 and America was occupied by the Nazis and the Japanese Empire.

Recently read 'Friday Black' by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah and it fucking blew my mind.
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I liked Man In the High Castle. Have you read A Scanner Darkly yet?
 
ChemicallyEnhanced said:
Recently read:

Death in Venice, Thomas Mann - 3 stars - Interesting enough, despite nothing really happening until the end (but A LOT of old books/movies are like that). Reminded me a little of Lolita. Not that the protagonist was a bad guy, but reminded of of the King Kong quote "'twas beauty killed the beast".

The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman - 4.5 stars - Excellent short horror(ish) about a woman gradually going insane, seemingly caused by the titular wallpaper.
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I had a science fiction compilation with a story of Gilman's in it, called "Herland"...ever heard of it? It's about some chads who venture out into the jungle to find a matriarchal, gynocentric society populated entirely by women. I didn't read much of it but it seemed like it could've been interesting...those works of speculative utopian fiction can sometimes plod though
 
arrall said:
Yeah, finished it a few weeks back. It was a good read even though reading it made me feel like I had schizophrenia.
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I've read it 3 or 4 times. I'm always on an amphetamine when I read it, lol.

Have you read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, yet?
 
Burnt Offerings said:
I had a science fiction compilation with a story of Gilman's in it, called "Herland"...ever heard of it? It's about some chads who venture out into the jungle to find a matriarchal, gynocentric society populated entirely by women. I didn't read much of it but it seemed like it could've been interesting...those works of speculative utopian fiction can sometimes plod though
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I haven't heard of it, but will check it out, thanks. Unless it's super-long. The Yellow Wallpaper was fascinating, but only like 30 pages.
 
simstim said:
I liked Man In the High Castle. Have you read A Scanner Darkly yet?
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Are A Scanner Darkly and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? the same book? I read somewhere that the latter had been made into a famous sci-fi movie with a different name and that subsequent editions of it had been published under that title (kind of like how Simon vs The Homosapian Agenda was changed to Love, Simon after the movie came out).
 
simstim said:
I've read it 3 or 4 times. I'm always on an amphetamine when I read it, lol.

Have you read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, yet?
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Nope, but I took it out of the library along with PKD’s short story collection and both are waiting for me once I finish Man in the High Castle.
 
This week i reread some really good shit.. works I had not touched in many years

On The Road
American Psycho
Confederacy of Dunces

Love them all.. CoD will eternally have a barb in my heart.


Up this week..

Suttree by Carson McCullers
The Overstory by Powers
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
 
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neversickanymore said:
This week i reread some really good shit.. works I had not touched in many years

On The Road
American Psycho
Confederacy of Dunces

Love them all.. CoD will eternally have a barb in my heart.


Up this week..

Suttree by Carson McCullers
The Overstory by Powers
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
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Not read A Confederacy of Dunces (yet) but I really loved On the Road and American Psycho, too.
 
Aussie Sicko's, Simon McHardy - 5 stars - Been wanting to try this author for a while now and super glad I did! This novella was both grotesque and hilarious!

The Turn of the Screw, Henry James - 4.5 stars - short but VERY effective ghost story. Definitely deserves it reputation as a classic. Generally, ghosts and haunting etc tend not to appeal to me, but I enjoyed this book very much. Would be interested if anyone has read anything else by the author that they would recommend?

On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan - 4.5 stars - also a short but very effective read. I literally just read sat and read this in one sitting.
 
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