The new Netflix series "The Three-Body Problem" is based on a trilogy by Chinese author Liu Cixin.

If you're into the genre, I highly recommend reading the books first.

are the books in English or are you just showing off

A couple novels by Percival Everett that I can recommend: Erasure (2001) and The Trees (2021). Both great books: funny, angry, inventive, sharply written.

I only discovered this writer after watching American Fiction, which was based on Erasure. Really good film, for those who haven't seen it.

Grace Blakeley, "Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation."

Great book. Next read will be her new book, "Vulture Capitalism. "

It isn’t esoteric and it isn’t Hemingway but I like an occasional horror story. I’m reading a book called Bite by Richard Laymon. He was one of the best. Others I like are Steven King of course and his brilliant son, Joe Hill and Bentley Little. Bentley Little has an imagination up the gazoo. Richard Laymon was prolific and died at the untimely age of 51. He might have scared himself to death.

Reading tea leaves is far from over.
Old Chinese aphorism - Why would you cry for Mickey Mantle; Mickey Mantle would not cry for you.

Assymetry by Lisa Halliday

pretty godamm good. first novel too, allegedly

the writing is a B+ and the story is a A+

i think she mighta wrote a story, wrote a different one later, and then inserted the former into the latter ever later to make it a novel

but whatever. so artfully done

I've recently discovered the joys of PG Wodehouse. Right now I'm tearing through all the "Jeeves" books. Great bedtime reading.

A Brief History Of Seven Killings by Marlon James


a real pain in the *** cause i cannot verstehen all the patois

but it's got Bob Marley, the CIA, thugs, gangs (politicians), whores, and Rolling Stone

cain wait til all this kennedy stuff comes out. thank you president fatass for the big reveal

now where's all that alien & UFO troof

Epitaph by Mary Doria Russell. So far an absolute delight!

Turn Of The Screw

i hated Daisy Miller too

tell the damn story and tell it straight

what? i have to decide if its a ghost story or a hysteria?

I HATE HENRY JAMES

but -- anyone who tries to sell me on the jesus story, for i am thinking in particular of To Heaven And Back by Dr Mary C Neal

i recommend Turn Of The Screw

So true the patois

bag you write like a poet

i'm not sure poetry is a paying gig

what i hope is a paying gig

is this website tomorrow for the new dudes who run it

the loginskis are trepidatious