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About halfway through Ishiguro's new book, Klara and the Sun, really enjoying so far. It's a pretty good synthesis of all his prior work I feel like

 

just read my first Ishiguro (A Pale View of Hills) a few weeks ago and really liked it! might pick this up at some point

 

Halfway through Clown in the Cornfield and I love this so far! Feels like a summer slasher mixed with Scream?

 

Maybe more like the Purge? lol

Just finished: this was fun as hell and reminded me of a perfect summer slasher movie. I needed something easy and this hit the spot!

 

Only took me 4 months, but I just finished Ducks, Newburyport. Whew, I loved it.

 

Wow. Shipping from Folio Society is bat shit. 32 dollars for one book. That’s half the price of the book!

 

Hooray for a new You book! Caroline Kepnes is awesome. Want another book like Providence from her but I'll take some more of Joe, why not?

 

These gave been on my list for years. You would recommend?

 

Definitely. Love getting a female author's takedown of the "good guy" myth.

 

I didn't know there were books! Wife and I just started the show and it's wild.

 

Been reading a lot of poetry lately alongside the novel I’m deep into (which also is amazing—Lucky Per by Henrik Pontoppidan). Recently finished Spring and All by William Carlos Williams and now digging into some Wallace Stevens. Amazing stuff all around!

 

Is House of Leaves any good?

Also would love some book recs.

I enjoy

The Expanse
LOTR
Three Body Problem
The James Bond novels
Cormac Mccarthy books
Dune

Would love a new fantasy series or sci fi series

 

the Red Rising trilogy

 

House of Leaves is my all time favorite book. I could rave about it for a long time.

Have you read any Neil Gaiman? Neverwhere and American Gods might fit what you're looking for.

 

Yes it's one of a kind.

Check out the Gap Cycle by Stephen R Donaldson. Hard Sci Fi with strong characters. Has some stuff that's tough to get through in the early books but by the end it becomes one of the most epic series I've ever read.

Also Dan Simmons Hyperion Cantos...And If you've read both the Illiad and The Odyssey his Illium/Olympos series is the absolute best.

 

I never did finish House of Leaves. That book is a trip.

 

Do you think I would like this? I've seen the name thrown around before.

 

Thanks bought book 1

Bought house of leaves. I read american gods many years ago but I'll have to revisit.

Weirdly the gap cycle books aren't really in amazon. Will check out ebay.

 

I got them all from Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002SXIEJQ/?tag=absolutepunk-20

 

I'm bad at searching I guess! Bought the first one.

 

Nice! Let me know what you think! The first book is way different than the rest of the series, it sets up the central characters but not the conflict, so hang in there to at least the second book if you don't love it.

 

I’ve had House of Leaves on my booklist for a while, just haven’t gone out and got it yet. Glad to hear the good commentary!

 

Yeah. The first trilogy (it’s a five book saga now but it started as a trilogy) is pretty fantastic. In the same level of voice/sci-fi as Skyward.

 

I need a sci fi series so I might just start it after the Neal Stephenson monster I ordered (Cryptonomicon)

 

I really want to read that one. I got it for my best friend who is a big military fiction buff. I just recently read reamde