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Postby eddy » Mon Apr 04, 2022 9:41 am

@eddy - I haven't read anything particularly good recently, any new recs to send my way?
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Novel by Gail Honeyman

French Exit
Novel by Patrick deWitt

These Violent Delights
Book by Chloe Gong

Red Rising
Novel by Pierce Brown

That's all I got off the top of my head, I'll take a deeper look and see what else I'm forgetting
Couple more

Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
Book by Natalie Haynes

Circe
Novel by Madeline Miller

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Postby eddy » Tue May 03, 2022 9:39 am

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh was incredible. Not sure why I haven't read that book before but I loved it. Didn't realize it's the same guy who did Z For Zachariah which I also enjoyed very much. Reading A City Dreaming by Daniel Polansky. So far so good.

This is also a good thread


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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Tue May 03, 2022 11:18 am

That was great. I need to read more Vonnegut.

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Postby eddy » Tue May 03, 2022 11:38 am

I probably should too. I found myself being drawn into Richard Brautigan more than Kurt and never really went all in. I guess I should take another look.

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Postby nocera » Tue May 03, 2022 11:40 am

Vonnegut was the reason I pursued writing. Thanks for the MFA debt, Kurt.

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Postby Gaucho » Tue May 03, 2022 11:48 am

I read all of Vonnegut's novels and I loved roughly half of them.

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Tue May 03, 2022 12:46 pm

I know I read and liked Slaughterhouse 5, and I think I read Cat's Cradle in high school...but no recollection of it. So it goes.

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Postby Kane » Thu May 05, 2022 10:34 pm

Finished Cosmos and Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan. Started reading The Martian tonight.

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Thu May 12, 2022 9:01 am

Finished the Andy Serkis narrated Lord of the Rings audiobooks. Highly recommended, obviously. But I was ready to move on after 60+ hours. He also read the appendices at the end of Return of the King. Yikes. :lol:

Finished Dopesick, as per my contributions in the Political thread. Interesting book, but not a great one.

New audiobook in the queue is a Michael Connelly Renee Ballard book The Late Show, part of the Boschverse, so to speak.

Also 150 pages into Don Winslow's Power of the Dog. Very good so far.

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Postby dodint » Thu May 12, 2022 10:06 am

Finished Cosmos and Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan. Started reading The Martian tonight.
I loved Sagan when I was a teenager. I took a trip to coastal NC when I was eighteen or nineteen. I brought my PS2 and Cosmos box set to watch it in the hotel room when we weren't out doing things.

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Sun Jun 05, 2022 9:57 am

I finished Power of the Dog, and I'm off to book two in that series. I really enjoyed the first one, but it was undercut a bit for me as I had watched years of Narcos and Narcos: Mexico which were based on the actual drug wars there. Winslow took many of the plot points from the real life events, which makes sense, and then fictionalized them a bit. The book would've been more impactful had I read it before Narcos Mexico (as it was printed in 2005 or so). Oh well. Still really good.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Mon Jun 06, 2022 7:46 am

The Long Earth was a fun read. It sounds like the second one is hit or miss but the rest of the series picks up.

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Postby robbiestoupe » Mon Jun 06, 2022 8:55 am

Just finished reading the Einstein biography by Isaacson. Good stuff in there, very interesting to hear how creative Einstein was. It wasn't all math for him, it was a lot of visualization and thought experiments.

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Postby count2infinity » Wed Jul 13, 2022 1:30 pm

Source of the post No matter when a person has lived, it is at the peak of human civilization.
I just finished up Sapiens: A brief history of humankind. Such a great book. Highly recommend to anyone that is interested in the idea that we're at the peak of human civilization... it mostly agrees with Tif's assertion, but offers some examples where that either might not be true or definitely isn't true.

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Postby tifosi77 » Wed Jul 13, 2022 1:45 pm

I said what I said lol

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Postby count2infinity » Tue Aug 16, 2022 10:54 am

I feel as though @shmenguin would really enjoy "The Molecule of More" by Daniel Lieberman and Michael Long. Pretty much backs his assertion that we're all just chemical and wiring. There's not a ton of "choice" in our actions. We are who our brains make us be.

Essentially the book outlines how dopamine pretty much controls our lives. It was an interesting book, for sure. Not very deep though. All surface level.

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Postby eddy » Tue Aug 16, 2022 11:05 am

Reading Six of Crows, I enjoy it so far.

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Postby Gaucho » Sat Sep 17, 2022 6:59 pm

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Postby Shyster » Sat Sep 17, 2022 9:30 pm

WTF is in the lower right of that picture. Looks like long pubes. You reading that book nekkid, Gaucho?

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Postby Gaucho » Sun Sep 18, 2022 3:39 am

I stole that picture from the twitter, but now that you mention it ... ewww

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Postby Kane » Wed Sep 21, 2022 10:55 am

Found another source for ebooks to compliment Project Gutenberg: https://z-lib.org/. I downloaded a book to read last night - works great.

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Postby Dickie Dunn » Fri Sep 23, 2022 8:36 am

I'm not even going to pretend that I read the amount that I used to or would like to, but The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier is excellent and one of the best and unique books I've read in years.

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Postby Gaucho » Wed Oct 12, 2022 4:54 am

I take it y'all pre-ordered Cormac McCarthy's upcoming novels.

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