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 Post subject: Re: What are you currently reading?
PostPosted: Mon March 07, 2022 4:55 am 
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Malloy wrote:
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really good?


I'm four stories in. Her narrative voice is so unique. I'm not sure if any of the stories really floor me though. The first one, Brutto, was the most memorable. But I also read them while drinking a large beer and this also feels like the kind of work you need to sit with a bit.

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i know that i'm really late to the party on this one, but i'm finally getting around to reading this. i needed a break from my usual non-fiction stuff. my wife read this about 15 years ago, and i put it off until now. it's pretty great.

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Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his neighbor—an attractive married woman and mother—while Polo dreams about quitting his grueling job as a gardener within the gated community and fleeing his overbearing mother and their narco-controlled village. Each facing the impossibility of getting what he thinks he deserves, Franco and Polo hatch a mindless and macabre scheme.

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Last week I finished "Apex Hides the Hurt," then read "The Divorce" in one sitting and then read "The Singer's Gun" in two sittings. I can't remember a time in my life when I read that voraciously. It was awesome.

Anyway, now I'm anxiously awaiting the new Emily St. John Mandel book. It comes out Tuesday and I can't bring myself to start something else because I'm afraid I won't finish it before the Mandel book comes out.

I'm in limbo.


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Have you read any Edogawa Ranpo?


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Have you read any Edogawa Ranpo?


no! should I? I'm completely new to manga and decided to start on horror


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epilogue wrote:
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Have you read any Edogawa Ranpo?


no! should I? I'm completely new to manga and decided to start on horror

It's not manga. It's mostly short story fiction. But he specialized in suspense and horror. I think you might enjoy some of his stuff. To be honest, it's older so there is some problematic stuff, to be sure. A trigger warning isn't out of the question. But it might be worth checking out as a fan of Japanese horror/mystery.

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Tarō Hirai (平井 太郎, Hirai Tarō, October 21, 1894 – July 28, 1965), better known by the pen name Edogawa Ranpo was a Japanese author and critic who played a major role in the development of Japanese mystery and thriller fiction. Many of his novels involve the detective hero Kogoro Akechi, who in later books was the leader of a group of boy detectives known as the "Boy Detectives Club" (少年探偵団, Shōnen tantei dan).

Ranpo was an admirer of Western mystery writers, and especially of Edgar Allan Poe. His pen name is a rendering of Poe's name.


There are other RMers who are really into comics and manga and they may have more appropriate suggestions for you as you continue your manga journey. But I thought it was worth bringing up.


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epilogue wrote:
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Shiver by Junji Ito

Have you read any Edogawa Ranpo?


no! should I? I'm completely new to manga and decided to start on horror

It's not manga. It's mostly short story fiction. But he specialized in suspense and horror. I think you might enjoy some of his stuff. To be honest, it's older so there is some problematic stuff, to be sure. A trigger warning isn't out of the question. But it might be worth checking out as a fan of Japanese horror/mystery.

This is from his wikipedia page:

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Tarō Hirai (平井 太郎, Hirai Tarō, October 21, 1894 – July 28, 1965), better known by the pen name Edogawa Ranpo was a Japanese author and critic who played a major role in the development of Japanese mystery and thriller fiction. Many of his novels involve the detective hero Kogoro Akechi, who in later books was the leader of a group of boy detectives known as the "Boy Detectives Club" (少年探偵団, Shōnen tantei dan).

Ranpo was an admirer of Western mystery writers, and especially of Edgar Allan Poe. His pen name is a rendering of Poe's name.


There are other RMers who are really into comics and manga and they may have more appropriate suggestions for you as you continue your manga journey. But I thought it was worth bringing up.


sounds right up my street, thanks


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Random things I've been reading:

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 Post subject: Re: What are you currently reading?
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Oh one more, from the life lover/world destroyer himself.

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Any good? I haven't heard anything about it, unlike Secret History.


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Any good? I haven't heard anything about it, unlike Secret History.

Only read the prologue so far!

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Any good? I haven't heard anything about it, unlike Secret History.

Only read the prologue so far!

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Let us know later.


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I'm still on the Wheel of Time series, halfway through book 6. I'm enjoying the story, will stick through it until the end, but this is far from perfect and there are some very big flaws.


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