18 Comments

1. December 31st, 2013 / 5:19 pm davidpeak—

   Cyclonopedia by Reza Negarestani

2. January 1st, 2014 / 7:28 am Richard Grayson—

   Fewer by Ben J. Wattenberg

3. January 1st, 2014 / 12:38 pm Golgonooza—

   The Road

4. January 1st, 2014 / 12:57 pm jeremy—

   Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner.

   Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain

   The Unwinding by George Packer

   Let the rest burn

5. January 1st, 2014 / 3:46 pm chrismoran—

   Peter Levenda’s Sinister Forces trilogy

6. January 1st, 2014 / 6:43 pm Scott Riley Irvine—

   Atocha Station? Really?

7. January 1st, 2014 / 7:05 pm jeremy—

   not a fan?

8. January 1st, 2014 / 9:04 pm Francisco Delgado—

   The Collective by Don Lee.

9. January 1st, 2014 / 10:13 pm Scott Riley Irvine—

   Thought it was one of the most disappointing books I’ve read in recent memory.

10. January 2nd, 2014 / 12:14 am ZZZZZIPPP—

    “THE KINDLY ONES”

    “C”

    THEY’RE BOTH FLAWED BUT THEY SHOULDN’T BURN

    (ALTHOUGH MAYBE ZZZZIPP LIKED “TINTIN AND THE SECRET OF LITERATURE” MORE THAN “C”??)

    THERE ARE PROBABLY AT LEAST A COUPLE MORE THAT ZZZIPP WOULDN’T WANT TO CONSIGN TO THE FLAMES

    “THE COLLECTED WORKS OF LYDIA DAVIS”

    RIGHT ??

    BUT SOME DAYS HE FEELS REALLY GOOD ABOUT THE BEATTIE NEW YORKER COLLECTION TOO

    THEY AREN’T THE SAME (THE BEATTIE BOOK AND THE DAVIS BOOK) BUT SOME DAYS HE FEELS THE SAME ABOUT THEM (AS IN THEY ARE BOTH GOOD AND HE WOULD NOT LIKE EITHER OF THEM TO BURN)

    THESE ARE JUST BOOKS HE IS USED TO SEEING ON HIS SHELVES

    THERE ARE MORE THAN FIVE WORTH KEEPING

    WHY ARE WE BURNING BOOKS KEN ARE YOU INSANE

    A BETTER QUESTION WOULD BE WHICH FIVE BOOKS WOULD YOU LIKE TO MUTATE INTO EACH OTHER

    WHICH FIVE BOOKS SHOULD BE FORCED TO PRODUCE OFFSPRING WITH EACH OTHER TO CREATE 25 NEW BOOKS OR 3125 NEW BOOKS

    BOOKS ARE REALLY GREAT KEN

11. January 2nd, 2014 / 3:55 am Imperial Distortion—

    I’m quite the lit-noob, but I really liked Adam Levin’s The Instructions. Anyway, ordering some of the books listed here now…

12. January 2nd, 2014 / 1:03 pm Erik Stinson—

    Summer of Hate, 2012 (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents).

13. January 2nd, 2014 / 2:07 pm E.A. Beeson—

    2666

14. January 2nd, 2014 / 7:01 pm Cassandra Troyan—

    The Cow by Ariana Reines

15. January 3rd, 2014 / 8:15 am Jo—

    Oblivion, Decreation, A Child in Time, and the book I’m reading now: Last Car over the Sagamore Bridge

16. January 3rd, 2014 / 3:13 pm rawbbie—

    agree, my first.

17. January 3rd, 2014 / 3:16 pm rawbbie—

    1. 2666
    2. A Plate of Chicken
    3. Scorch Atlas
    4. Coeur de Lion

18. January 6th, 2014 / 3:13 am LarrythePunisher—

    period
    notable american women
    dies: a sentence