Not before you read Urth of the New Sun, Book of the Long Sun and Book of the Short Sun I hope!
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yes, before them 
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Even I still haven’t gotten around to Short Sun (though I kind of know some plot details just from reading the urth mailing list in high school)
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short sun is honestly the best sun and i will fight anyone, everyone, at all times, to defend this opinion
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Started reading Canticle for Liebowitz
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Definitely worth it I’d say, a return to the maybe less than reliable 1st person narration.
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reading Terry Pratchet’s “Moving Pictures”. I bounced off of “Feet Of Clay” a while ago and wanted to try another. I like that Terry has really described modern GPU architecture here
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This is true, though getting people to read it is even harder than BotNS. It’s so good though.
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What the… I’m actually reading Moving Pictures now as well, went to the library the day the AC was broke as it had AC and that was the book I chose. What a coincidence.
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What Parker books are the standouts after the first three?
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The Score and Slayground are probably the standouts bc they have the most memorable premises, iirc they were not coincidentally the two darwyn cooke moved onto after his comic version of the first books. but i read the whole series after moving a few years back and remember my favourites being Backflash (the riverboat casino one) and The Rare Coin Score (first one with claire, who ends up being a fun part of the series).
honestly they’re all good with the possible exception of the weird hippiesploitation era one Deadly Edge which is sort of the parker version of sleazy post-manson home invasion thrillers. Butcher’s Moon is the sequel to Slayground and is kind of a crazed, Red Harvest-y action movie version of the usual formula. i remember the 90s ones that took place after a 20 year break being some of the better and more consistent ones in general though!
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highly recommend the Robert Caro Lyndon Johnson biographies if you want to read about how his ass got too fat during his first senate campaign and he kept accidentally looking like Hitler, so he just handed out money to compensate
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many of you will not want to read this beautiful account of toxic masculinity… but for those who do…
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this sounds like a delicious accompaniment to the farrell biography of richard nixon
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they are an incredible duo. two of the most insecure, idiosyncratic men in American history. postwar era was wild
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Leaded gasoline made for some great material.
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Lyndon Johnson’s second senate campaign resulted in him developing a kidney stone which he refused to let them operate on so instead they flew him to the mayo clinic and he tried jumping up and down a lot
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after recovering and realizing he was behind in the polls from his reputation of being constantly hospitalized, he bought a helicopter and started essentially terrorizing the whole state of Texas
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I’m reading How Do You Live? and at least a third of this is how excited he is for the miyazaki movie.
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cackling to myself in the abandoned monastery dining room
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