He has been one of those authors I’ve had on my TBR for years and I just never actually picked a book up. I went on eBay and someone was selling a lot of five of his books, so I said fuck it and just got it. I started with Harlem Shuffle just because I know the third book is out this year and I figured it would be a good time.
just finished Under the Volcano, which was a tough one for a while but really came together in the last three sections.
i read sun also rises in 11th grade i think it was. i should re read soon. i did farewell to arms and for whom the bell tolls a few years ago. particularly liked the latter
I liked A Farewell to Arms but again I’m not big on Hemingway. Give me a big creative mess over precision and concision any day Hills Like White Elephants is dope tho
I lived in the same part of Italy as Hemingway for a while. Have even eaten at the cafe he loved to write at in Trieste. Should probably read more…
Finished Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper in 2 days last week and about halfway through A Violent Masterpiece, which is a loose sequel. Both are great contemporary noir thrillers and impossible to put down. Placed holds on both of Harper’s other books.
I’m about to read Farewell to Arms. I’m trying to do better about reading and none of the 10 or so books I wanted to check out were at the library so I had to find and pick something
I know I’m only a few years late BUT… I just reread the first 2 and about to start The Sixth Wicked Child for the first time over the next few days!
Oh hell yeah!! Funny enough my wife and I are moving this week and just went through our book collection 2 days ago and I had to make a decision on this series. Even though the author is a creep, I decided to keep them because I did remember enjoying these stories!
almost finished with António Lobo Antunes' The Inquisitor's Manual and holy shit. this dude is great at channeling William Faulkner and Reinaldo Arenas while doing his own unique thing. love how it asks the reader to completely buy in to Antunes' unconventional style because it never wavers from it. extremely feverish and fragmented but 100% committed to its own logic and patterns, which slowly start making sense throughout the book. I read his The Natural Order of Things a few years ago and it was also intoxicating. apparently this guy is one of Geoff Rickly's favorite authors. I'd agree he's definitely one of the best current authors actually experimenting with form.
Has anyone in here read the On the Calculation of Volume series? I just finished the fourth book and am remaining consistently surprised, moved, and deeply touched. I keep thinking about it all day even when I’m not reading it. Very little media has that sort of lingering impact on me. I read all four books in under a week and I sorta hate how long I have to wait until book 5…
MJ Lenderman wrote the foreword in the new Penguin Classic edition of Body by Harry Crews. Body by Harry Crews: 9780143139195 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books