(urth) What are you reading?

[Dan'l Danehy-Oakes]

What am I reading? Right now, the last "Wicked Years" book, OUT OF OZ,
which is the best since the original WICKED. Before that, an okay urban
fantasy.


On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 7:37 AM, Mark Lewin <mark at marklewin.com> wrote:

> De-lurking to say that I, too, am on a bit of a Lafferty drive at the
> moment, having just acquired *Fourth Mansions *and the collection *Does
> Anyone Else Have Something to Add? *I really enjoyed *Past Master *a
> couple of years back and I'm looking forward to reading more Lafferty. Hard
> to get hold of in the UK though.
>
> DOJP has written a few great reviews of his Lafferty explorations on his
> blog recently, which I note that he's too modest to mention here :)
>
> http://antsofgodarequeerfish.blogspot.co.uk/
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014, at 01:58 PM, Daniel Otto Jack Petersen wrote:
>
> Just finished R. A. Lafferty's late novel Serpent's Egg (1987) last week
> - mad brilliance as always. (Read John Williams's Butcher's Crossing just
> before that - existential buffalo hunting, ya can't beat that.)  Reading
> the stories in the new Centipede Press volume 1 of Lafferty's complete
> short stories - whenever I have the chance to sit down and carefully handle
> the book (as I usually have books thrust in a backpack getting bent up as I
> read them all over the place in between everything).  Have already read all
> those stories, but hugely enjoying revisiting them, especially in a quality
> physical format worthy of them.
>
> Realised I hadn't finished the last 30 or so pages of King's Salem's Lot,
> so gonna round that out.
>
> Recently read a 200 page poem from the Middle Ages called Piers Plowman(14th c.) - it was for a course I'm in.  Paradise
> Lost is one of my all time fave long poems and Piers has probably shot
> right up there with it.  The latter actually makes a very interesting
> contrast to the former in just about every respect.  (And to be reductively
> categorical, I'd say Wolfe is more Milton while Lafferty is more Piers -
> the former 'high' and the latter 'low', both genius and both
> all-encompassing and stretching imagination to its limits, each in its
> respective way).
>
> Really torn about what novel to get into next.  Thinking of another King
> just for simple fun.  Maybe Wolfe's The Sorcerer's House - that's the
> next one up for me in the post-2000 novels I haven't read.  Maybe McCarthy,
> maybe Michael Bishop, maybe Dan Simmons... I dunno.
>
> -DOJP
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Antonin Scriabin <
> kierkegaurdian at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   Hello, Urthlings. What are you reading these days?  I haven't been
> reading much Wolfe lately, so nothing is fresh enough in my mind to
> participate in some of the other ongoing discussions.
>
> I am working my way through the Harvard Classics.  I just finished the
> fourth volume, the complete poems in English by John Milton.  Paradise
> Lost was a treat, as was Franklin's autobiography in the first volume and
> the New Atlantis by Bacon in the third, which is an old favorite of mine
> from my philosophy major days.
>
> I've also recently read The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch, which was
> excellent, and The City of Dreaming Books by Moers, which was great,
> silly fun.  I also read the first 50 pages of Lookout Cartridge by
> McElroy and decided to put it back on the shelf for the time being.  It
> wasn't particularly bad, it was just entirely unsuccessful in grabbing my
> attention within a reasonable amount of time, together with being written
> in a very disjointed, unique style.  I will probably get back to it in the
> near future.
>
> Anyway, I am getting back on a Wolfe kick today by finishing the latter
> half of The Island of Doctor Death, and Other Stories, and Other Stories.
> Looking forward to it!
>
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