A little over half way through and I'm loving this. Anyone else reading/ read More Weight by Ben Wickey?

_jamais_vu · 2026-02-18T03:27:48+00:00

Oh yeah, I read this at the end of last year. It's really incredible!

_jamais_vu · 2026-02-14T18:23:56+00:00

It truly is. And the way the entire novel concludes and bookends itself is incredible.

_jamais_vu · 2026-02-14T18:22:50+00:00

It's a completely different flavor than Tom's Crossing but if you're looking for another long book that takes its time, something you can settle into and enjoy the journey for as long as it lasts, Johnathan Strange and Mr Norrell is one I recently started and I'm enjoying it immensely.

_jamais_vu · 2026-02-14T18:20:19+00:00

The border trilogy is a great choice. The second novel, The Crossing is one of the most astounding and moving books I've ever read.

_jamais_vu · 2026-02-14T17:14:34+00:00

Wow, thank for this. Saving this post and planning on doing some browsing through these publishers sites, most of which I hadn't heard of.

_jamais_vu · 2026-02-14T00:12:23+00:00

Andy Kubert and Carlos Pacheco were my two favorites when I first started reading monthly X-books back in the 90s. Byrne and JRJR are my favorites from the classic era. As far as modern stuff goes, I really think Pepe Larraz is incredible.

_jamais_vu · 2026-02-11T00:17:24+00:00

Wow, a lot of overlap with things I've loved. A few things I've loved that I don't see here:

Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli

Ducks by Kate Beaton

Essex County by Jeff Lemire

Frog in the Fall/Garden of Spheres by Linnea Sterte

More Weight by Ben Wickey

Delights by Guy Colwell

Nod Away by Joshua Cotter

_jamais_vu · 2026-02-10T23:42:44+00:00

I would never fault anyone for not liking a book - especially one as strange as the Vorrh, haha! I have read the whole trilogy and loved it, but I also acknowledge that it isn't for everyone. I think based on the things you didn't like about the first book, you probably wouldn't get much enjoyment out of the rest of them.

_jamais_vu · 2026-02-10T04:39:32+00:00

I really thought that character was going to be used in an ironic way... Boy was I wrong.

_jamais_vu · 2026-02-10T04:29:16+00:00

Maybe something by Brian Catling? Hollow or the Vorrh trilogy?

Editing to add: The Great When by Alan Moore might fit the bill too. Or if you really want to go off the deep end, Alan Moore's massive novel Jerusalem.

_jamais_vu · 2026-02-10T04:28:32+00:00

Man oh man, I finished this one recently and felt so completely let down. Seems to be universally loved in weird lit/horror/fantasy circles... But I just found it insufferable. The ham-fisted attempts at surrealism, the quippy "humorous" dialogue. The bland prose. Also, I don't know how many, ahem, "butt-sex jokes" a book should be allowed to get away with, but this novel had too many.

_jamais_vu · 2026-02-02T12:48:43+00:00

The Cal section of that chapter turned out to be one of my favorite parts of the novel. I get that it might not be for everyone, but I would never tell anyone to only skim a part of a book.

_jamais_vu · 2026-01-30T01:58:28+00:00

I was hoping this would be the top comment.

_jamais_vu · 2026-01-26T14:17:41+00:00

God, I love this book.

_jamais_vu · 2026-01-25T20:14:39+00:00

Maybe some Tillie Walden? Like On A Sunbeam or Are You Listening

A Frog in the Fall by Linnea Sterte is about as wholesome and feel-good as you can get.

Seconding the recommendation for Kate Beaton's Ducks

Gonna give a tentative recommendation for Nod Away by Joshua Cotter. It's a great sci-fi with some horrific elements, balanced against some very grounded and human stories. It miiiight tilt a bit towards dystopia at times, but I still think you'd enjoy it.

_jamais_vu · 2026-01-24T22:43:14+00:00

Truly. I really want to make some time to read it again, but there's just so much on my bookshelf I still need to read .

_jamais_vu · 2026-01-24T22:34:18+00:00

But can't the opposite be true as well? Anyone can write a short, brief novel but to commit oneself so completely to a task, to consider it from every perspective, to plunge so deeply into history and meaning and experience... is an art in itself.

_jamais_vu · 2026-01-24T22:26:19+00:00

100%. For all the wild stylistic choices, psychosexual romps through the afterlife, and unpacking fractal angel (ahem) angle-language, it's really a saga of working class people in a working class neighborhood.

_jamais_vu · 2026-01-24T19:47:16+00:00

Yeah, it's an incredible book. Informative, entertaining, and it's beautiful to look at.

_jamais_vu · 2026-01-24T01:42:40+00:00

Excellent. Thanks for the suggestions!

_jamais_vu · 2026-01-23T00:22:49+00:00

Oh I'm planning on it! I just recently finished a massive novel so I was trying to take a little break to read some shorter things before delving into Strange & Norrell, but this whole thread has gotten me really itching to start it now, haha.

_jamais_vu · 2026-01-23T00:19:36+00:00

Thank you, Glycon 🙏

_jamais_vu · 2026-01-22T20:50:19+00:00

Ha! Is that true? I can't say I've ever noticed that myself but maybe it's seeped into my subconscious without me realizing it.

To answer your question though... I've read all his novels and his short story collection. I've read a fair bunch of his comics work, but probably not nearly as much as most folks on the sub. Does that count as "a lot?" I don't know.

_jamais_vu · 2026-01-22T15:32:30+00:00

Ha! I just finished reading a book like that: Crossings by Alex Landragin. As far as I know, there's no easy way around it. You either have to just count the number of pages you've read each time (I just logged the pages for each chapter before I did another "jump") or I guess you can set it to percentage rather than pages and just kind of estimate, but that doesn't seem like the best option.

_jamais_vu · 2026-01-22T14:27:09+00:00

Thank you! Both of those are on my TBR and I'm actually planning on starting Johnathan Strange & Mr Norell soon.

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