The Syndicate

Recently finished The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin.

Mongoose wrote:I just finished Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra, which is a novel told completely within the confines of Chilean SAT questions. It really depressed me (content not format).

What time period did the book cover?

I am interested in reading Latin American literature, particularly magical realism.

political stufff

Last week, Epi recommended the short story Cathedral by Raymond Carver on the Syndicate Chatzy. I finally read it today, it's a nice story indeed.

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Epignosis wrote:I'm starting A Song of Ice and Fire today. I've thumbed through the Appendix and looked at all the names. How in the world does he keep up with all these people?

Guess I'll manage it a chapter a day.

Do you watch the show? I read the first book, then GoT started, which made the second book muuuch easier as I had faces to put with names.

I refuse to watch the show until I've finished the books. So I'll watch in about 2024.

I am doing the same, except I've not started reading them yet or even have the books in my possession. Some day, though. Maybe.

I keep annoying my friends not knowing what the hell they are talking about so I just pretend it's LotR.

Ricochet wrote:Seriously, where is that goddamn white whale already?!

in the water

My internet was down for 5 days, and in those days I read Ursula K Le Guin's The Dispossessed, and got about 40% through Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine. The Dispossessed was pretty interesting from a political point of view, Le Guin leans very much toward Kropotkin-esque mutual aid based anarchism, and a fictional book that explores a society that is explicitly based on those ideas was pretty thought provoking. It was one of those books that you will lay in bed thinking about if you read it at night. As with other scifi favorites of mine, like Frank Herbert's Dune, Le Guin's way of creating and exploring culture and politics is the most engrossing aspect, I'd recommend it to anyone with a passing interest.

The Shock Doctrine is honestly depressing as hell to read. Naomi Klein must be a hell of a writer though, to make me read hundreds of pages about neoliberal reforms.

Don't forget to add it on Goodreads.

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Rico wrote:Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
South of the Border, West of the Sun
A Wild Sheep Chase

I want to read these, as well as Sputnik Sweetheart and Norwegian Wood. Next up though I'm planning on reading Gravity's Rainbow, Henry made me want to read it years ago but I've never got around to it.

I am doing this now. Not very far in though.

Rico wrote:Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
South of the Border, West of the Sun
A Wild Sheep Chase

I want to read these, as well as Sputnik Sweetheart and Norwegian Wood. Next up though I'm planning on reading Gravity's Rainbow, Henry made me want to read it years ago but I've never got around to it.

Yeah I hear a lot of people really dislike it, but some people love it. I was interested in tackling it eventually but he has plenty of other books that I want to check out before that.

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A Person wrote:The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

I have read Kafka on the Shore, and plan on getting to that book at some point.

Yeah reading that made me really like his writing style so I wanted to read this too. Still enjoying his writing a lot.

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

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A Person wrote:I'm for real finishing Kafka on the Shore now, I've read 100 pages per day for the past 3 days.

I read that book. I really liked it.

Me too, I really need to read more Murakami.

I read another auto-biography he wrote on his running. I found it enjoyable, and unique compared to other such books I have read. But I don't know how it would appeal if you don't like running.

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is supposed to be good, and I'm planning on reading that one sometime.

I don't have much interest in running but given his writing style I could possibly enjoy it.

I plan on reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle next, supposedly it is his best.

Currently, I'm reading The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell.

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A Person wrote:I'm for real finishing Kafka on the Shore now, I've read 100 pages per day for the past 3 days.

I read that book. I really liked it.

Me too, I really need to read more Murakami.

A Person wrote:I'm for real finishing Kafka on the Shore now, I've read 100 pages per day for the past 3 days.

I for real did it. Now I don't know what to read next.

I'm for real finishing Kafka on the Shore now, I've read 100 pages per day for the past 3 days.

I finished The Silkworm yesterday, I liked it enough to want to read the next book in the series when it comes out.

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A Person wrote:Cloud Atlas (I really will finish it k)

And I really did.

Now I'm reading Kafka on the Shore and The Haunting of Hill House.

I took a break to read The Stranger, I liked it.

A Person wrote:Cloud Atlas (I really will finish it k)

And I really did.

Now I'm reading Kafka on the Shore and The Haunting of Hill House.

Epignosis wrote:Dune

First time ever.

I wish I could read Dune for the first time again.

Cloud Atlas (I really will finish it k)

I finished The Cuckoo's Calling, overall it was a good book.

Mongoose wrote:Dude, seriously, dude. You have got to read The Casual Vacancy. It's so good. It reads a bit more like Jonathan Franzen's tragicomedies than Harry Potter.

So good.

I'll definitely be reading it sometime soon, but not too soon. I have a habit of starting books and then not finishing them until months later. I'm currently rereading The Silmarillion and Dune in addition to Lolita and The Cuckoo's Calling. I also technically never finished Dracula but I lost my place and can't really be bothered to try and find it after such a long time.

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A Person wrote:I'm reading The Cuckoo's Calling because it was recommended to me and because not having any way to listen to music or watch videos forces me to rely on books for entertainment at the moment. So far it's pretty much what I expected, which is a good thing I think. I had an ebook version of Lolita on my other computer that I was halfway through before my computer's untimely demise, so I'll probably try to start reading that again.

Is that the book under JK Rowling's pseudonym?

It is. I haven't touched anything she's written since the last HP, so I wasn't sure what her other stuff is like.

I'm reading The Cuckoo's Calling because it was recommended to me and because not having any way to listen to music or watch videos forces me to rely on books for entertainment at the moment. So far it's pretty much what I expected, which is a good thing I think. I had an ebook version of Lolita on my other computer that I was halfway through before my computer's untimely demise, so I'll probably try to start reading that again.