What are you reading?

Piotr Szczęsny · 05 Apr 2014, 10:13 · from 2014-April.txt.gz

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From: neternalz at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Piotr_Szcz=EAsny?=)
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2014 12:13:37 +0200
Subject: (urth) What are you reading?
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I just finished "Empire Star" by Samuel R. Delany. It was kinda Wolfean
style story, unreliable narrator, needs re-reading and has a woman
character that feels like taken out from Wolfe book also her name is San
Severina, but that's just a coincidence (or not?) :). Maybe this is a long
shot, so anyone had similar feeling? This is a short book, but definitely
fun, I was looking for some classic SF light reading and got a light mind
bender ;).

2014-03-12 14:26 GMT+01:00 Antonin Scriabin <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com>:

> Hello, Urthlings. What are you reading these days?  I haven't been reading
> much Wolfe lately, so nothing is fresh enough in my mind to participate in
> some of the other ongoing discussions.
>
> I am working my way through the Harvard Classics.  I just finished the
> fourth volume, the complete poems in English by John Milton.  *Paradise
> Lost *was a treat, as was Franklin's autobiography in the first volume
> and the *New Atlantis *by Bacon in the third, which is an old favorite of
> mine from my philosophy major days.
>
> I've also recently read *The Sea, the Sea *by Iris Murdoch, which was
> excellent, and *The City of Dreaming Books *by Moers, which was great,
> silly fun*.*  I also read the first 50 pages of *Lookout Cartridge* by
> McElroy and decided to put it back on the shelf for the time being.  It
> wasn't particularly *bad, *it was just entirely unsuccessful in grabbing
> my attention within a reasonable amount of time, together with being
> written in a very disjointed, unique style.  I will probably get back to it
> in the near future.
>
> Anyway, I am getting back on a Wolfe kick today by finishing the latter
> half of *The Island of Doctor Death, and Other Stories, and Other Stories*.
> Looking forward to it!
>
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