50 Book Challenge

[alexmegami]

13. Queer Fear II, ed. Michael Rowe

Go out and get this book. Not only is there CanCon (heh ;), it's actually a lot of fun. In a creepy-ass way. But fun. (Never go out to sheds with boys.)

14. Empire of the Senseless, Kathy Acker

Uh... I think my brain melted out my ears. Supposedly this is post-constructionist sci-fi. Uh, I'm pretty sure it really just means "I have an excuse not to be coherent and still get published". Pomo and its ilk can suck my left one. (Well, maybe not today. Ow.) I don't recommend it unless you're really into postmodernist sci-fi.

15. Canadian Dreams, Michael Posner

It's about the Canadian film industry in the late eighties and early nineties. As such, it makes me want to cut myself, as even the great successes sound like... brain-breaking horribleness. Just keep repeating to yourself, Alex: that was a decade ago, that was a decade ago...



I'm not going to count Hana-Kimi, though I did read issues 1 & 2. ;) I think I did badly this month, as I finished 6 books the previous two months... So I guess April is 9 books. ;)

Comments

[uggoisme.livejournal.com]

Heya:

I have some more books for you, if you'd like them. I have Jobs for Film Majors, Writing Dialogue for Scripts, and an almost complete collection of The Babysitters Clube.

[alexmegami]

Cool on the first two, and already ahead of ya on the last ;) I collected them for... so long.

[extramild.livejournal.com]

I would do this..but I don't read "smart" books.

[alexmegami]

Who says it has to be smart books? :P

[extramild.livejournal.com]

obviously the books you're reading are more "high intellect" that Bergdorf Blondes (however, Bergdorf Blondes is HILARIOUS, in a very satirical way)

[alexmegami]

I don't know that I'd call Empire or some of the other ones I've read for this (The Dresden Files books, say) are high intellect, though. ;) It's a mix.

[changeinwatrloo.livejournal.com]

You should check out the grunge of pomo sci-fi, if you haven't already. Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. The Diamond Age is even better (ask Joyee), but Snow Crash is basically a direct descendant of Gravity's Rainbow, which I've been told is the first piece of pomo sci-fi to be considered "literature".

(At the very least, read the first two paragraphs. That's enough to make me happy.)

[alexmegami]

Yeah, I will. (You and everyone else love it. :P)

Pomo just doesn't do it for me. Of course, pomo here is used as "stream of consciousness to the point of making no sense".

If it's anything like All Tomorrow's Parties (oh Gibson), I can almost guarantee I won't like it. But I'll read at least two paragraphs for youuu.