@peoplelikebooks wow, bravo! I stopped after the second one. Would it make sense to jump to the last one without reading the ones in the middle?
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astralstreeting wants to read Event Factory by Renee Gladman
Event Factory by Renee Gladman
A "linguist-traveler" arrives by plane to Ravicka, a city of yellow air in which an undefined crisis is causing the …
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astralstreeting finished reading Iron Empires Volume 1 by Christopher Moeller
astralstreeting started reading Iron Empires Volume 1 by Christopher Moeller
astralstreeting started reading Big Fiction by Dan Sinykin
astralstreeting finished reading Subculture by Dick Hebdige (New accents)
Subculture by Dick Hebdige (New accents)
'Hebdige's Subculture: The Meaning of Style is so important: complex and remarkably lucid, it's the first book dealing with punk …
astralstreeting reviewed Tales of Pain & Wonder by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Good enuff to read her later work...
3 stars
This book didn't start well for me. The introduction by Douglas E. Winter is the worst intro to a book I have ever encountered. Then the author herself admits it is cringey in the preface. So it took me awhile to warm up to the stories in the collection.
Yup, parts of it are cringey self-conscious 90s subculture stuff. I wouldn't have liked it at all back then but there's good stuff shining through that I recognize reading it here and now.
Peter Straub's afterword is excellent -- it pinpoints what is good about this collection and gives me hope that Kiernan's later writings will align much more with the vision she is trying and nearly failing to get across here.
astralstreeting finished reading Tales of Pain & Wonder by Caitlín R. Kiernan
astralstreeting wants to read The Operating System by Eric Laursen
The Operating System by Eric Laursen
One of the most unique aspects of anarchism as a political philosophy is that it seeks to abolish the state. …
astralstreeting wants to read Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Júnior
Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Júnior
Heralded as the most important Brazilian novel of the century so far, this bestseller's unique blend of magic and social …
astralstreeting started reading Subculture by Dick Hebdige (New accents)
Subculture by Dick Hebdige (New accents)
'Hebdige's Subculture: The Meaning of Style is so important: complex and remarkably lucid, it's the first book dealing with punk …
astralstreeting finished reading The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han
The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han
Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather than improving life, multitasking, "user-friendly" technology, and …
astralstreeting started reading Tales of Pain & Wonder by Caitlín R. Kiernan
astralstreeting finished reading Salammbo by Flaubert Gustave
Salammbo by Flaubert Gustave
Salammbô (1862) is a historical novel by Gustave Flaubert.[1] It is set in Carthage during the 3rd century BC,[1] immediately …