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Have you read David Mitchell's Number9Dream? It's his most Murakami-esque novel by a wide margin.

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I totally understand. I will say, however, that I thought his writing grew at an incredible clip throughout the course of his first 6 books. I found the first half of that opening trilogy in particular to be fairly generic and like Abercrombie was trying very hard to be edgy and cool. The 3 stand-alones are all…

Working through Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun. I'm about 3/4ths through The Claw of the Conciliator. I've been totally captivated by these utterly strange books. They remind me a bit of what Steve Erikson was trying to do in The Malazan Book of the Fallen, but where I thought Erikson's massive scope really hindered…

That's because Vineland kind of sucks.

I feel like Abercrombie has infused a bit more compassion into his books as he has gone on. Red Country in particular had a big bloody heart to it that, while still being bleak as fuck, was a nice evolution for him as a writer.

That's my favorite Rickman part to do an impression of. I love his totally weird American accent.

Authority is about twice as long as Annihilation and it tells maybe a quarter as much story. Nothing really happens until the last 50 pages, and even then I just sort of shrugged my shoulders. I might have enjoyed Acceptance more if Authority hadn't sucked away any excitement I may have had.

I saw that David Bowie Is exhibit at the tail end of 2014 at the MCA in Chicago. Just superbly done. And they had Bowie's coke spoon!

The second book has a different narrator and is told from 3rd person but it's still dry. I actually quite liked the first book but kind of couldn't stand the second one. The narrator is a total dud and not all that much happens.

Southern Reach - I quite liked the first book but thought the second one was kind of terrible. And I don't think I'm the only one either. Book #3 I was pretty ambivalent towards. Interested to hear others' thoughts on it.

Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun. I finished Shadow of the Torturer and I'm about 50 pages into The Claw of the Conciliator. These are really blowing me away. The story is anything but straightforward, with hints at ancient lore and strange, mind-bending digressions that lead to nowhere. But I mean that in a good…

You mean she was saving the cat hair BEFORE she knew she could make shit out of it?

Just started New Sun yesterday! I am loving it so far.

Oh god. i put the book down for about 6 months at that part.

Matchstick Men, dude!

What about Danny?

That trilogy is pure excellence. I loved his almost stream of consciousness writing style (this happened and then this happened and then this…). They all had a propulsive energy even when dealing with the most mundane events.