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Mr. White wrote: From all the times I've seen it mentioned here over the years, I've decided to read Lucifer's Hammer. Slow going at first here. 600page book and I'm around 150...no apocalypse yet...
Ha ha I read this book twice: once in high school, and it was the coolest book ever, and then later as an adult, when I realized that the authors maybe have had a political agenda. It still has some great moments.
I just finished a book called Exit West which is basically a book about refugees from Syria or somewhere told with a dose of magical realism/science fiction. It's one of those books that people buy because they heard about it on NPR, and it's supposed to be good for you, perhaps. It was short listed for the Man Booker, and I felt like it did give me some insights into the hell of being a Syrian refugee, but unlike his other book, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, the main characters sort of felt Western. Maybe that was the point. It felt sloppy in places, and not as good as I wanted it to be.
I've also been reading David Sedaris. I basically viewed him as a one-trick-pony, and would read occasional essays by him when they cropped up here and there (the one on wearing a fitbit is hilarious and genius). But for some reason (perhaps to atone for not going to see him read in neighboring SLC) I read his book of journal entries, "Theft by Finding" and it added some real weight to everything else he has written. So I've worked through one of his books of essays (something about Corduroy) and now I'm reading the one with the skull on the front. Some of the essays are slight, but it seems that more often than not he is writing these really great sentences, and doing some things structurally that are fun to see, and pulls it off while being really funny.
After that I'll be reading the latest John LeCarre book, basically a retelling of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold through the perspective of someone from that book, which devastated me. I've been putting it off because it is going to be crushingly depressing, and I've been slowly trying to psyche myself up for it.
Here's a picture of a painting that reminds me of something that has nothing to do with this post.
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Mad Dog wrote: Just finished the unabridged The Count of Monte Cristo. Fantastic book.
The ultimate story of betrayal, class warfare, justice, and revenge.
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Mr. White wrote: From all the times I've seen it mentioned here over the years, I've decided to read Lucifer's Hammer. Slow going at first here. 600page book and I'm around 150...no apocalypse yet...
It's been a long, long time since I read Lucifer's Hammer, but it was unforgettable and still occupies a favored spot on my nicest bookshelf.
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Will enough of us stand up to these giants?
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She spends a lot of time dismissing a lot of legends that have grown up around the history by examining actual physical evidence.
Bring the Noise: The Jurgen Klopp story by Rapheal Honigstein
As an LFC fan, this is almost required reading (came out today!) but Klopp is also an interesting figure if you have any interest in Euro football, period.
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My wife and I also recently joined a literary circle which is reading Cervantes's Don Quixote over the next 12 months. We started it with a lecture by a Professor of English and Spanish literature who studied Cervantes in his home town in Spain. Her excitement and insight into Cervantes was inspirational and motivational.
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SPQR: A history of ancient Rome by Mary Beard.
She spends a lot of time dismissing a lot of legends that have grown up around the history by examining actual physical evidence.
It's the feel-good Roman Republic (and early Empire) book of the year!
There's lots of good stuff in there. I seem to recall describing the use of Stupid Spectroscopy Tricks to determine how much coinage was in circulation in any given year. You know that and you get a handle on Ancient Roman Econometrics.
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EDIT: one more point of comparison. This one book blows away the entire Day Watch/Night Watch series by Sergei Lukyanenko.
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cranberries wrote: I'm reading Junot Diaz' "The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz. It started out pretty engagingly, but now it's in flashback mode and I am losing interest after picking it up after a month break. If I leave my laptop at work I read a lot more.
Lately, I've been thinking that modern authors rely too heavily on flashbacks. A little goes a long way, and too many flashbacks can ruin the forward momentum of a story.
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