jaythebooknerd
Reading Stack - March 10, 2009
Wow, it's March but already the book tree is heavy with reading. I've already read four so don't worry about the branches breaking.
The Terry Pratchett book delved a bit into the morality of shooting things & aliens & persons in video games -- or at least the effect this might have on the players.
The Mystery Guest by Gregoire Bouillier was sort of Proustian (like a paragraph from the master - though Proust's alter-ego sucks in so much more of the outside world).
Close Range by Annie Proulx is probably now her most famous collection of short stories, ending with "Brokeback Mountain" which appeared first in the New Yorker. I really enjoyed the stories, though got that strange double vision feeling when reading Brokeback. The movie stays quite close to the story.
Silent Extras is the second novel from Arnon Grunburg. It feels like another dispatch from the protagonist of Blue Monday and feels a little less urgent, almost an addendum, but I still find his picaresque writing oddly compelling.
The other books to read are: The New Weird, an anthology of the sci-fi/fantasy sub genre, edited by Jeff VanderMeer (also a practitioner) and Ann VanderMeer; Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of its Enemies by Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit; Volume III of Proust (finally back at it); Tanith Lee's The Birthgrave (the book I should have read before Vazkor, Son of Vazkor); and Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny (Siddhartha and sci-fi??).
Reading Stack - March 10, 2009
Wow, it's March but already the book tree is heavy with reading. I've already read four so don't worry about the branches breaking.
The Terry Pratchett book delved a bit into the morality of shooting things & aliens & persons in video games -- or at least the effect this might have on the players.
The Mystery Guest by Gregoire Bouillier was sort of Proustian (like a paragraph from the master - though Proust's alter-ego sucks in so much more of the outside world).
Close Range by Annie Proulx is probably now her most famous collection of short stories, ending with "Brokeback Mountain" which appeared first in the New Yorker. I really enjoyed the stories, though got that strange double vision feeling when reading Brokeback. The movie stays quite close to the story.
Silent Extras is the second novel from Arnon Grunburg. It feels like another dispatch from the protagonist of Blue Monday and feels a little less urgent, almost an addendum, but I still find his picaresque writing oddly compelling.
The other books to read are: The New Weird, an anthology of the sci-fi/fantasy sub genre, edited by Jeff VanderMeer (also a practitioner) and Ann VanderMeer; Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of its Enemies by Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit; Volume III of Proust (finally back at it); Tanith Lee's The Birthgrave (the book I should have read before Vazkor, Son of Vazkor); and Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny (Siddhartha and sci-fi??).