Runts and the End of the Evening

This was supposed to go in the "summer doy a ding-dong summer!" post but I FIGURE it deserves a post of its own. Deserves! I wanted to solicit reading recommendations, but on Facebook this would probably just lead to FLAME WARS and TROLLING and about seven million terrible suggestions. And my Twitter done BROKE ISSELF. The funny thing is, since no one knows this blog exists it is a different sort of futility. I embrace futility as a brother.

These are books I have read recently:

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima
Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
The Wreckage of Agathon by John Gardner


So mostly what I have been reading has been set in Japan and the desert planet of Arrakis. Oh, also I have periodically picked up Rabbit, Run by Updike, and even though it is awesome I am having problems really getting in there. Maybe because they are not on the desert planet of Arrakis? "Killing Yourself To Live" is a pretty cool title, but I think I really hate Chuck Klosterman. Especially when he started talking about Kid A predicting 9/11. Why does that lesbian Chuck Klosterman write such annoying bullshit? God.

Suggest away. Speculative fiction, books about rivers, even some Western literature canon, as I haven't read most of it (because I find it TEDIOUS and BORING for the most part). Is there a mixture of David Milch, Craig Finn, and Aaron Cometbus out there? Something to help me learn the world's name.

By the way Your Highness ruled. I was one of the thirteen people who saw it.