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What Are You Reading? (continuation...)
Previous thread reached the 300-post limit. So, please continue to share whatever books you might be reading at the moment. If it happens to be a religious or political book, you may share its identity, but please refrain from expounding upon it. Thank you very much.
HERE's the previous thread for your viewing pleasure. |
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In my continuing effort to experience well-known/respected authors whose works I've somehow avoided all these years, I decided it was time to give Agatha Christie a try with her novel And Then There Were None. About half-way through, I'm not disappointed, it's been an easy, enjoyable read.
I didn't get a chance to respond to a post by jp2558 on the previous (now locked) thread concerning The Devil In The Grove- I completely agree that it's a "wow!", and one of the most emotionally powerful and informative books I've ever read.
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Finally getting around to read: “The Birth of Loud”, by Ian S. Port.
It’s a story about the origins of the electric guitar, particularly those of Leo Fender and Les Paul. Interesting stuff!
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, by Erik Larson.
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I started the fifth and final book of the Robert Langdon series by Dan Brown. Halfway though and I like it.
Has anyone read any of these Dan Brown books (the Da Vinci Code)? |
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My wife and I had both read Angels & Demons and watched the movie before we spent time in Rome. We had a blast walking all over the city, visiting all of the locations in the story. I've read each of his books since, but they don't have the same appeal for me as those first two.
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My wife is currently reading " The Storyteller" "by" Dave Grohl. She loves it and told me that I need to read it when she is done. I agreed, but told her that she will need to read "A Perfect Union of Contrary Things" "by" Maynard James Keenan.
Seems like a reasonable tradeoff. |
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"The Premonition," by Michael Lewis, who also wrote "The Big Short," "Moneyball" and "The Blind side." About half through, and excellent so far.
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I've read both of them, too. Maybe they should resonate better than they do since I've also had days that were like a walking tour of the underworld. Just finished Josh Malerman's Bird Box. Read in the context of the last two years it's eerily ominous, with many parallels to current attitudes and behaviors. In spite of that, or maybe because of it, it's a good read.
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just of this morning, i am rereading raymond carver's cathedral (collection of short stories) right now.
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Right now I am reading "West From Appomattox", a Heather Cox Richardson study of the events from Reconstruction through the settlement of the west, with all the machinations from Govt $$, private $$, banks, robber barons, post-war Antebellum Southerners, labor exploitation, etc, etc. Good read, informative.
Just finished up "Consequences of Capitalism" (Chomsky). An eye-opener, but not a particularly captivating book imho. Lots of essays, lectures, factoids, and rants. Next up will be a Harry Bosch book (my fictional alter-ego).... |
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Oh, boy. Some masterful craftwork, there.
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What Are You Reading? (continuation...)
I’ve just finished “The Madness of Crowds”, the most recent of Louise Penny’s excellent Gamache series.
I was a little apprehensive about this one - its setting is post-pandemic, and I was wary of where the politics might go. Turns out I had nothing to be concerned about. Easily one of the finest of the collection. IMG_1948.jpg
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indeed. carver is one of my favourites. another american author i really like from the same era is john updike -- however, his focus on the american social and family scene can get a bit too singular for me. but his turn of phrase is unequivocal. so muscular.
there is this story updike did in which the narrator is sitting in front of a fire with his wife and kids but wanting some intimacy with his wife, iirc. i forget the name of the story, drat. wife wooing? yes, perhaps. i think he used joyce's "smackwarm" in that story. funny how one remembers the small things. |