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Gumby King wrote: That series is incredible. I love Sci Fi but so much of the genre is garbage. This was good on so many levels. |
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I've been on a big Karl Ove Knausgaard kick. It's hard to recommend because I could see how some people would hate his writing. At the moment, I'm reading his newest book : The Third Realm. Recently, I read Hyperion which I loved. However, Endyminion , the sequel, sucks. Most recently, Independent People by Haldor Laxness. In my lifetime top 10. |
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I just finished the exchange by John Grisham, it was a real page turner but there wasn’t much on the page. Just started days without end by Sebastian Barry about a young Irish immigrant boy in the civil war, requires more attention. |
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On Boxing, Joyce Carol Oates, ok if one is between books and has some interest in the subject. Messed up copy though. Someone highlighted it in pen very sloppily. |
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Just finished Dune: Chapterhouse. Not sure where to go next. Children of Time, Player Piano, The Dispossessed, Childhood's End are all on the shelf ready to go, or on the to-read list It may be some time for some genre breaks away from sci-fi for a moment. Maybe some Great Books? |
Trevor Kerber wrote: Player Piano - Kurt Vonnegut? if so, it’s one of my favorites! |
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Number go up. Inside crypto's wild rise and staggering fall Very good so far |
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Just finished Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann about the Osage oil boom and murders in the 1920's. Never saw the movie so really had no background on it. Now reading Surburban Dicks by Fabian Nicieza. comedy drama by the co-creator of Marvels Deadpool series so that is a hint of the way it is written. |
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Based on recommendations upthread, I picked up The Splendid and The Vile by Erik Larson. Very good, based on the leadership of Churchill during the blitzkrieg. Really interesting look into the challenges he faced and the role of propaganda on both sides. |
Doug S wrote: I read the splendid and the vile awhile ago and I have his the Demon of Unrest about the commander of Ft. Sumter in South Carolina just before the civil war began to read next. |
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Man is Wolf to Man. Extraordinary, compelling, grim. Gulag non/fic. |
Hank Caylor wrote: How'd you like Batavia's Graveyard, Hank? I loved that book. But, I'm a history/disaster reading junkie . . . I read it in one sitting. That is one crazy-ass story! What an evil monster. |
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Regarding Batavia, I just finished "The Night Ship" by Jess Kid, a historical novel that imagines the Batavias journey. It flips between a girl on the ship and a boy on the island they were wrecked in present day. It's somewhat slow, and well written. Heartwrecking tale, I don't think I want to know more about their time on those islands and that worthless excuse of a human. I did think a lot about how the people could not simply rise up. And the way those in charge can lie till the cows come home, and lie some more, to justify their actions and then everyone just lets an atrocity happen. That felt way too poignant for modern times as fascism and the far right are rearing heads. In the process of "The Time Travelers Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger. Feels a bit wrong still that this time traveler is visiting (can't control it) his wife while she's child. The writing make me want to know where this story actually goes and its good prose. I'm choosing it over doom scrolling, which says a lot to me. Read "billy Summers"by Stephen king, Trash. Absolute trash. finished it on principle and had nothing else to do. I started skimming a lot by the end. More like a blockbuster movie that's gone on too long. No investment in characters. Simple words and sentences leading to boring writing. Horrific representation of trauma. Kinda thought he only wrote good things, but now I know better. |
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Lol Orion, I feel that comment about Stephen King. He has written some of the best stuff I've read , and some of the worst. He is just absolutely addicted to the process of writing and just can't stop. And I guess he is rich and famous enough that his publishers won't insist on an editor and just put it all out there. So much garbage. But a few really really great books too. |
Ira OMC wrote: Stephen King I have Salem's Lot in the wings and ready to go, but I'm nervous to start for the reasons listed... Just finished Watership Down at the recommendation of two friends and I have to say it was pretty good. I think I'll read Player Piano next. Vonnegut hasn't been my favorite, but I've heard this one may be up my alley. |
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Out stealing horses |
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Going Postal by Mark Ames Rage, Murder, and Rebellion: From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond |
Trevor Kerber wrote: I like your taste dude! I think Salem's Lot is ok; it's kinda a classic retelling of Dracula in modern times - well, at least , the 70s! It's a classic part of the King canon. But that story has been beaten to death in the last 30 years so it probably won't hold much for surprises. Watership Down is ond of my favorites of all time ... I like Vonnegut too: Sirens of Titan is my fave. Currently reading The Adversary by Michael Crummy. Second book by him that I've read , the first being Galore, both set in Newfoundland in the early 1900s(?) and both quite good. Just finished a cross country drive and I listened to Ball Lightening by Cixin Liu... Not as good as Three Body Problem series but it was pretty entertaining - maybe a little more formulaic. Would still recommend. |
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Flyboys |
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Reading a few books right now
I’m also reading the border trilogy by Cormac McCarthy, I finished All the Pretty Horses which I quite liked and dove into the second book “The Crossing”. And i am also reading The Haunted Mesa which is a pretty cool mystery-ish adventure book that takes place in the four corners. |
