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Yeah everyone associated with it seem awesome. I'm very excited for my first package.

 

Thanks for the info, I saw it and instantly WANTED it. So waiting till October and missing Sept. I'll feel a tad of FOMO. But this is sweet, so thankful for the recommendation.

 

The Night Worms insta has "spoilers" for whats in the package beforehand, so if you want to avoid that, avoid their sliding insta posts. I believe they do it to help people not double buy stuff.

 

Good to know! I actually gave them an Insta follow earlier and bought the October one. I didn't do a subscription yet out of fear I'd get charged on Sept 7th and then again October 7th.

Very excited to have this to look forward to monthly!

 

Oh boy, The Dark Forest was fantastic. The Three-Body Trilogy feels so refreshingly original.
I loved the Wallfacer concept and every single Wallbreaker scene had me on the edge of my seat. The scene where the droplet decimates the fleet and all the build up to it was so damn intense. And the Battle of the Darkness was... well dark. The vision of the universe the Liu presents is so bleak, the love focus of the last few pages genuinely caught me by surprise.

It was a little strange at first to have the book focus on (almost) an entirely new set of characters, but I did find Lou Ji to be a much more interesting protagonist than Wang Miao. I hope Shi Qiang has a presence in Death's End.Gonna order Death's End now.

 

One of my favourite series ever. Such an easy yet intense read

 

finished All the Pretty Horses - goddamn what a fucking book / wild ride

guess I'll have to read the rest of the trilogy now & then Blood Meridian

but before that, England's Hidden Reverse!!

 

Finished Wanderers last night. Overall I had fun with it but it’s not a great book. I kinda hated the main character Shana and the ending is just kinda wait, what?

Felt like a cheap not as well written King novel at times

Now, what next?

 

Highly recommend Stay and Fight by Madeline Ffitch. Such a refreshing story full of unique characters. It's like a 21st century feminist-charged version of The Grapes of Wrath and The Monkey Wrench Gang.

Definitely a top ten of 2019 for me.

Just started Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellman. It's a mammoth of a novel - in terms of size and story it's comparable to Ulysses and Infinite Jest, set in Trump USA. So good so far.

 

“95% of the novel is made up of just eight near-endless sentences, without paragraph breaks, some of them spooling over more than 100 pages”

I’m intrigued because I love pretentious books but also I don’t know, seems daunting haha

 

It's hard to find a stopping point in those long monologues, haha. Not sure how long it'll take me to finish this beast but I'm sticking to it!

Also, this has to be THE pretentious book of the year, haha. I dunno how else another one will top this book's ambitious scope. It's pretty damn great so far, 20 pages in, lol.

 

Saw that in the bookstore yesterday and was intrigued, keep us posted!!

 

ATPH is probably the most accessible/entertaining of the trilogy, but the second book "The Crossing" is my favorite McCarthy book and one of my favorites of all time. There are bits of writing in that book that I think about like...every day.

 

Absolutely nothing about 95% of a novel being eight sentences appeals to me on any level.

 

super excited to read this!

Horses was actually not hard to read at all, was surprised tbh

 

a 1,020 page novel at that lol

 

I love me a good doorstop novel. But I mean damn.

 

finished all my puny sorrows by miriam toews last night and I was a wreck

 

I've tried Blood Meridian twice and couldn't finish it. Might try to finish the Border Trilogy.

 

I think Cities on the Plain was my favorite of the three. Although I did read the three books very far apart (over the course of about 5 years) and feel like I was in very different places in my life during the read of each one, so it’s hard to gauge.

Also, ATPH was my first McCarthy while CotP was my... sixth or seventh McCarthy which I feel at least made it easier to connect to since I know what he’s aiming for and his style / method.

 

Just finished There There by Tommy Orange. Very enjoyable and I loved the writing style and how it all weaves together. Anyone else read it? Refreshing to read a book centred on Native American characters. Can't believe it was Tommy Orange's first novel - felt very accomplished.

 

Just finished The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers. Definitely one of the best stories I’ve read in a really long time, like holy shit that was good. Highly recommended!!! Still deciding my next one...

 

Read All The Pretty Horses earlier this year and loved it. I'd been apprehensive because my friend said he hadn't liked it, but at this point I feel I'd be on board for anything McCarthy does.

 

what made BM hard to read?

 

I think it's just the way it's written with no quotation marks for dialogue, but I can't remember if he does that for all his books. Also it was pretty intense content wise