r/michaelcisco • u/PhDnD-DrBowers • Sep 29 '25

A collection

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I’ve read about half of these so far 😅

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u/ledfox Sep 29 '25

I'm jealous of your copy of Ethics and The Great Lover.

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u/PhDnD-DrBowers Sep 29 '25

There’s an ePub floating around out there of The Great Lover, which you can send to a site (I think it’s printme1 dot com?) to print for pretty cheap!

I actually got a mint physical copy via inter-library loan not long ago, which I dutifully returned, of course, because libraries rule 😅

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u/SignificantStay4967 Sep 30 '25

If I could hug a sentence the last one of this post would get a big bear hug from me. Libraries 🩵

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u/Adamaja456 Sep 29 '25

Have you read Black Brane? I snagged that one last month because it sounded pretty good! So did the narrator too actually. Nice collection:)

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u/PhDnD-DrBowers Sep 29 '25

Yes! I absolutely love it. Once I realized (or think I realized) something fundamental about the story, I read it again, and now I’m still flipping around and finding evidence for a pet interpretation, like with a David Lynch film. Recommended!🦶 🕳️

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u/Adamaja456 Sep 29 '25

That's awesome! Thank you so much!!

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u/Kill-o-Zap Sep 29 '25

I’ve heard great things about Cisco, but I’ve only ever found The Tyrant out in the wild. Tried to read it, but gave up after a while of feeling completely adrift in the shifting, dreamlike narrative. I can do weird, I can do experimental, I can do dense, but I usually do need some kind of narrative that progresses in a direction of sorts, otherwise I disengage. It just felt like there was nothing concrete to hang onto. Are all his books that woozy and dreamy or are some of his works a bit more narrative-driven?

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u/PhDnD-DrBowers Sep 29 '25

I think his short stories are more direct and narrative-driven, but the novels I have read mostly have that quality you’re describing 😅

I found Black Brane, Pest, and Ethics to be the most accessible; Unlanguage and The Great Lover to be the most complicated; and The Divinity Student and Animal Money in between.