Comments on: September Stacks http://fivetwentythree.com/2009/09/september-stacks/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:21:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Coyote http://fivetwentythree.com/2009/09/september-stacks/comment-page-1/#comment-2375 Coyote Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:39:25 +0000 http://fivetwentythree.com/?p=959#comment-2375 Hard-Boiled Wonderland is an excellent book. You are correct about somethings being lost in translation. If you like it I recommend picking up Outrageous Fortune by Tim Scott. Hard-Boiled Wonderland is an excellent book. You are correct about somethings being lost in translation. If you like it I recommend picking up Outrageous Fortune by Tim Scott.

]]> By: TC http://fivetwentythree.com/2009/09/september-stacks/comment-page-1/#comment-1523 TC Sun, 18 Oct 2009 03:16:51 +0000 http://fivetwentythree.com/?p=959#comment-1523 You were spot on with House of Leaves. Rare to find a creepy book that pushes stylistic barriers as well. Only Revolutions is kicking my butt, I've returned to Against the Day, given that it's far less complicated and downright easy to read, for Pynchon. Will have to try OR in snippets, but I admit, I am enough of a dullard that the date columns are distracting for my poor mind. Wasteland. So worth it. I like to pick it up a few times a month and spend 15 minutes or so with chai and The Wasteland's imagery. Hard-Boiled Wonderland, another I somehow missed. I may have to stop reading through your book recommendations, as I tend to compulsively purchase good reading material. You were spot on with House of Leaves. Rare to find a creepy book that pushes stylistic barriers as well.

Only Revolutions is kicking my butt, I’ve returned to Against the Day, given that it’s far less complicated and downright easy to read, for Pynchon. Will have to try OR in snippets, but I admit, I am enough of a dullard that the date columns are distracting for my poor mind.

Wasteland. So worth it. I like to pick it up a few times a month and spend 15 minutes or so with chai and The Wasteland’s imagery.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland, another I somehow missed. I may have to stop reading through your book recommendations, as I tend to compulsively purchase good reading material.

]]> By: Melissa Dominic http://fivetwentythree.com/2009/09/september-stacks/comment-page-1/#comment-1069 Melissa Dominic Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:14:56 +0000 http://fivetwentythree.com/?p=959#comment-1069 Even though I haven't finished Only Revolutions myself, the best thing I've found for getting through it is -listening- to it. I was able to see MZD on his book tour for it and it sounded SO GOOD coming through out of someone's voice. I think there's an audiobook out there somewhere with him and someone else reading it which I'd love to get my hands on one day. Other than that, yeah, I pick up that book everytime and almost wanna cry with both sheer joy and wonder at the effort and awesomeness it took and the horrible hassle it would take me to read it. Murakami is fantastic, btw. I really like After Dark, though, it seems no one else loves it as much as I do. Great, great, great booklist here. Even though I haven’t finished Only Revolutions myself, the best thing I’ve found for getting through it is -listening- to it. I was able to see MZD on his book tour for it and it sounded SO GOOD coming through out of someone’s voice. I think there’s an audiobook out there somewhere with him and someone else reading it which I’d love to get my hands on one day.

Other than that, yeah, I pick up that book everytime and almost wanna cry with both sheer joy and wonder at the effort and awesomeness it took and the horrible hassle it would take me to read it.

Murakami is fantastic, btw. I really like After Dark, though, it seems no one else loves it as much as I do.

Great, great, great booklist here.

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