I’m still working through V. by Thomas Pynchon. I intend to finish it, even though I’m not enjoying it all that much. It reads like a weird overly verbose dream, and it’s intentionally opaque. At the same time, I recognize that a book like this is incredibly hard to write. I can see the spark of genius in Pynchon, I just don’t like his style. Oh well.

I’m starting V. by Thomas Pynchon. I’m going in pretty much blind, don’t know the author or the book at all. I just saw his name in the news and realized I’d seen this book at the library, so here we are.

I also recently read Solaris by Stanisław Lem. I first read it in my early teens and I liked it then, but I feel these decades have allowed me to appreciate it more deeply. What a wonderful book! I love the idea that alien intelligence is truly alien - not just humans from another planet - to the point of making communication practically impossible. Any recommendations for books like Solaris and Roadside Picnic, which explore this theme, are welcome.

Yeah, I’ve seen the film and it is properly terrible.

By Le Fanu? I read a short story collection from him with Carmilla. It was really good. Le Fanu deserves more modern attention, I think.

I really like Bret Easton Ellis’s books, and a lot of them are horror. I’ll recommend his newest book, The Shards. Other great ones from him are Less Than Zero and American Psycho.

I also enjoyed Red Dragon by Thomas Harris. Possibly better known for it’s filmizations, the book is a really good psychological horror story.

Likely not. I’ve tried skipping a release once by accident (I didn’t pay enough attention) and it ended with a bricked system and a full reinstall. Don’t do it.

The one that works best for your use case.

It is not dumb to not know something you haven’t been exposed to.

Fun Home and Are You My Mother? are both superb.

I also personally like Derf Backderf, especially My Friend Dahmer and Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio.

I started reading The Path of Daggers by Robert Jordan, the eight book in the Wheel of Time series. And wouldn’t you know it, it opens with a brand new group of characters with ambiguous goals. Jordan desperately needed someone to tell him “No.”

Oh hell naw, I love to sit back, one hand resting on an arm rest, and just navigating with my mouse. Not that I mind using the keyboard, but I have a strong affinity to the mouse. I know the keyboard is “more efficient”, but I’m just more comfortable pointing at things.

The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells.

I just read the graphic novel Morrison Hotel written by Leah Moore, about The Doors album with the same name.

Next up is Hard to Be a God by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. This one has been on my reading list for some time now, and I just stumbled upon it at the library, so that’s cool.

You mom may be an expert, but in this I think she’s biased.

I always find it really off-putting.

And complete websites implemented in Flash. It is a dark time that I don’t like to talk about. The dreams, the dreams won’t leave me alone though, they still haunt me.

As much as I miss the early Internet, there’s some aspects better left forgotten.

That’s some sort of an inkcap, right? Looks cool.

Sounds delish!

Coffee is bean soup.