The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
It’s really great, and quite Franzeny (although I really like Franzen, so…)
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A Little Life is pretty much the best thing I’ve ever read.
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It’s right up there for me
I’ve not read Room Temperature, but The Mezzanine is phenomenal, it’s just a description of his lunch break, but it’s so good! So much enjoyable things in the minutia, I always think about it when I think about straws.
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hmm
The Thomas Covenant series is quite dark fantasy. Not much humour to be honest, but from what I remember (15 years ago) it’s very good. And there is lots of it. The good thing about it is, the protagonist is a bit of a dick, so not exactly likable, but you kind of want him to do OK. It keeps you reading.
Also, I suppose it’s fantasy, the Gene Wolf books (New Sun?) are good. I started them, but only read some.
I read The Blade Itself and I just didn’t like it. I think I’ve come to the conclusion I am not that much of a fantasy fan.
Dan Simmons Hyperion series is excellent. Quality Sci-Fi. Very long, so a lot to get stuck into.
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Stephen King’s Dark Tower series?
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Terrific shout, this.
There’s a really good podcast discussing the series in great detail headed up by one of the guys from Bonfireside Chat (Dark Souls podcast). It’s called Radio Free Midworld and I’d highly recommend it if you’re a fan of those books.
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Currently reading a book about the Thirty Years War. Starting to think it may take me 30 years to finish. 300 pages in and not a quarter of the way through. The war hasn’t even started yet.
Here’s your infrequent reminder that A Little Life is trash.
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Just finished How to Sell by Martin Clancy. I have been meaning to read it for ages. Loads of good reviews. Just OKish, a bit meh really. Just started Gun Machine by Warren Ellis. Good so far, loved his first ‘proper’ book, so I have high hopes.
Was his first one about dinosaur sex? I hated that one.
It was about some other stuff, but I think there was a scene in a cinema like that. It was a long time ago.
Dune.
quite incredible
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Wonder what they called that war before it finished?
Soon as i read this i thought “fuck that shit”:
A coming of age story, the novel follows the lives of four friends in New York City after they have graduated from college.
That is an insanely misleading synopsis 
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I remember very little of the contents save the dinoporn.
Yeah, the blurb should read: “A Boy Called It dressed up as fancy literature”.
What you want is the Malazan Book of the Fallen series by Steven Erikson. That’s what you want.
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