I'm aboot 1/3 of the way through and it just seems like King released it as Bachman because he knew it was bollocks. Also soft porn?! I've already saw the film: i don't know what i'm doing

Thinner is the worst of the Bachman ones.

I read them all back in the day. I still have my Bachman Books collection that has the "banned" story Rage, where the kid arranges to kill his teacher and holds the class hostage. That one was one of my faves! BUt King got freaked out after the Columbine middle class white kids used it as inspiration.

My faves are the Long Walk (amazing story.) and Running Man, which is way different than the Arnold S. film that was "based" on it.

Roadwork is very standard....

Wow I didn't know about the Rage columbine connection. I just looked this up and came across some really interesting stories I look forward to reading when I can focus. FOCUS! bleh

I always wondered whether the running man would be anything like the movie: i look forward to the day the wondering ends and ....wondering lolz

I have given up on Blood Meridian. What a fucking boring piece of shit. I have never had my eyes swim so much trying to read turgid prose.....
How in the FUCK is this horrible writer adored by so many? How? It is like reading the ramblings of a near-incoherent old coot telling pointless tales to his mule.

What a fucking waste of my life.

Severian, As soon as it arrives at my library (I have it on request) I am diving head first back into book of the new sun. I need to wash my brain and be rid of the shit-spew that is Cormac McCarthy's "prose."

I haven't hated something I read this bad since I read Andre Breton's Anthology of Black HUmor.

Wait, I thought you had Shadow & Claw (which contains he first two books) but had only read Shadow of the Torturer?

Just get her done, man. You'll thank me. No more Fucking about with Cormac or any other dystopian poser. You don't even have the smallest freaking inkling as to what Book of the New Sun is actually about yet. When this is all over, you will laugh at yourself for even thinking to pause between books.

Make it happen cap'n

surprising, don't you like DeLillo?

Hah!

I'm re-reading old favorites and classics because that is how motherfucking bored I am with books right now. I never re-read. Only a small bundle of books have ever met my eye twice. Even if I LOVE something, I simply consider it a complete waste of my time to read it again until at least 10 years have passed. There are maybe 2 or 3 exceptions to this.

But that's how fucking bored I am goddammit. I'm bored as piss.

Currently re-reading Great Expectations, which is simply a pleasure and a phenomenal story, but everyone knows this and has known this since the dawn of fucking time.

Ugh!

tried any Hawthorne? Or maybe Sartre.......

Dude... come on.

I'm looking for new stuff anyway. That's the problem. Nothing new has caught my eye or grabbed my attention. I plodded my way through some weak ass Sci fi from this year, and it was horrendous. I like to keep an eye out for new interesting fiction. I need the shit.

Well, you were talking abt classics (and there's a reason they're called that in addition to their ages) but, if you haven't read all of Bolano another excellent current author is Andres Neuman, a good one there is Traveler of the Century. For a real strange read, I still highly recco Michael Brodsky, if you can dedicate some concentration to his "unusual sentence structure", the universality, richness and humor is unsurpassed.. One of my favorites of his is Detour.

reddit then

Y'know, I just don't really get Reddit. I know it's a massive platform and a just a labyrinth of information, but it's got a hideous interface and feels like the world's biggest deep web dark corner. I've tried to dig in a few times, but each time I've ended up saying fuck it after less than 24 hours.

Then read auerbach's "mimesis" and read every book that's discussed there

3rd Hunger Games book.

Nope I do not enjoy DeLillo

Great Expectations was an excellent stop gap reading affair, by the way. I highly recommend that anyone who's bored with modern lit revisit it when time allows.

Hey Severian, I dropped Blood Meridian like a bad bean pie. That shit sucked so bad. I just checked out Claw of the Conciliator from the Library.

This is progress.