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Postby eddy » Thu Aug 02, 2018 3:24 pm

put in an order at the library to get The Gone World. Is Heart of Darkness worth a read?

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Postby Gaucho » Thu Aug 02, 2018 3:30 pm

I read it three times.

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Postby eddy » Thu Aug 02, 2018 3:42 pm

Looks like a quick read and it was such a nice looking book sitting on the shelf so why not?

purchased Steve Ericksons next Hitler novel: Tours of the Black Clock which sounds like another Steve Erickson novel. Can't wait!
Cutting a terrifying path from a Pennsylvania farm to the Europe of the 1930s, Banning Jainlight becomes the private pornographer of the world's most evil man. In a Vienna window, he glimpses the face of a lost erotic dream, and from there travels to the Twentieth Century's darkest corner to confront its shocked and secret conscience.
and I finished Rubicon Beach, I'm pretty sure he has become one of my very favorite authors

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Postby Gaucho » Wed Aug 08, 2018 5:38 pm

Reading Sweterlitsch's Tomorrow and tomorrow now. Sorry to inform yinz that Pittsburgh doesn't exist anymore.

I have also been binging Murakami the last few months. I'm not sure what it is about him, but he is fantastic.

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Postby eddy » Wed Aug 15, 2018 9:06 am

I read it three times.
good read, Joseph Conrad is quite the wordsmith, I enjoyed his writing and look forward to revisiting this one in the future.

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Postby eddy » Wed Aug 22, 2018 9:38 am

I got hooked on Patrick deWitt after reading The Sister Brothers and then was equally blown away by his incredibly bizarre debut novel Ablutions (which he wrote from post it notes he collected as he was a bartender). I enjoyed his last book, Undermajordomo Minor as well. His new one comes out at the end of the month and it sounds like a refreshing change of scenery:

French Exit
Frances Price – tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature – is in dire straits, beset by scandal and impending bankruptcy. Her adult son Malcolm is no help, mired in a permanent state of arrested development. And then there’s the Price’s aging cat, Small Frank, who Frances believes houses the spirit of her late husband, an infamously immoral litigator and world-class cad whose gruesome tabloid death rendered Frances and Malcolm social outcasts.

Putting penury and pariahdom behind them, the family decides to cut their losses and head for the exit. One ocean voyage later, the curious trio land in their beloved Paris, the City of Light serving as a backdrop not for love or romance, but self destruction and economical ruin – to riotous effect. A number of singular characters serve to round out the cast: a bashful private investigator, an aimless psychic proposing a seance, a doctor who makes house calls with his wine merchant in tow, and the inimitable Mme. Reynard, aggressive houseguest and dementedly friendly American expat.

Brimming with pathos and wit, French Exit is a one-of-a-kind ‘tragedy of manners,’ a riotous send-up of high society, as well as a moving mother/son caper which only Patrick deWitt could conceive and execute
There is an interesting interview with him over at goodreads as well:

https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/sh ... ick_deWitt

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Postby robbiestoupe » Fri Aug 31, 2018 7:41 am

Finishing up a biography on Bill Watterson by Nevin Martell. Man does it bring back memories.

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Postby eddy » Fri Aug 31, 2018 7:45 am

Finishing up a biography on Bill Watterson by Nevin Martell. Man does it bring back memories.
How is it? My daughter is having a painting class birthday tonight and everyone will be painting Calvin and Hobbes!

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Postby shafnutz05 » Fri Aug 31, 2018 8:58 am

Finishing up a biography on Bill Watterson by Nevin Martell. Man does it bring back memories.
I haven't read that, but from my understanding the author never did get to interview him, right?

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Postby robbiestoupe » Fri Aug 31, 2018 11:28 am

Finishing up a biography on Bill Watterson by Nevin Martell. Man does it bring back memories.
How is it? My daughter is having a painting class birthday tonight and everyone will be painting Calvin and Hobbes!
It's decent. As you may already know, Watterson is a very private person. I never did appreciate the art so much as a child/teenager when I read it, but reading this book makes me want to go back and look at the art more closely, instead of just reading the comic.

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Postby robbiestoupe » Fri Aug 31, 2018 11:30 am

Finishing up a biography on Bill Watterson by Nevin Martell. Man does it bring back memories.
I haven't read that, but from my understanding the author never did get to interview him, right?
Spoilered since it's a prominent theme in the book
I still have 1/2 an hour to go in my audiobook, but it looks like he doesn't interview him. He does interview his mother.

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Postby Gaucho » Fri Sep 14, 2018 8:22 am

Reading Stephen King for the first time in - eek - twenty years (and just the second time since - eek - 1989). A work called IT. I think I'll like it. Hopefully it's not too exciting.

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Postby robbiestoupe » Fri Sep 14, 2018 9:00 am

I never got into Stephen King, but I've starting reading more of him lately. A couple of years ago I read Shawshank, just because it's a top 3 movie for me. This year I've read The Stand and today I just started reading The Dark Tower series.

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Postby Gaucho » Fri Sep 14, 2018 9:05 am

Dark Tower is what I read in 1989. I thought it was crap. I read IT before, of course, and loved it.

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Fri Sep 14, 2018 9:08 am

Finishing up a biography on Bill Watterson by Nevin Martell. Man does it bring back memories.
I haven't read that, but from my understanding the author never did get to interview him, right?
Spoilered since it's a prominent theme in the book
I still have 1/2 an hour to go in my audiobook, but it looks like he doesn't interview him. He does interview his mother.
Is this like the documentary that came out a few years ago?

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Postby robbiestoupe » Fri Sep 14, 2018 9:21 am

Finishing up a biography on Bill Watterson by Nevin Martell. Man does it bring back memories.
I haven't read that, but from my understanding the author never did get to interview him, right?
Spoilered since it's a prominent theme in the book
I still have 1/2 an hour to go in my audiobook, but it looks like he doesn't interview him. He does interview his mother.
Is this like the documentary that came out a few years ago?
I have not seen, nor was I aware of a documentary.

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Postby robbiestoupe » Fri Sep 14, 2018 9:22 am

Source of the post Dark Tower is what I read in 1989. I thought it was crap
Maybe it will age well :P

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Postby LeopardLetang » Fri Sep 14, 2018 10:52 am

It got worse as I read on and finally stopped around mid 5th book. But I'd try gunslinger again

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Fri Sep 14, 2018 12:14 pm

Finishing up a biography on Bill Watterson by Nevin Martell. Man does it bring back memories.
I haven't read that, but from my understanding the author never did get to interview him, right?
Spoilered since it's a prominent theme in the book
I still have 1/2 an hour to go in my audiobook, but it looks like he doesn't interview him. He does interview his mother.
Is this like the documentary that came out a few years ago?
I have not seen, nor was I aware of a documentary.
It was on Netflix but I'm not sure if it's still there

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Postby obhave » Fri Sep 28, 2018 9:50 am

Holy ****. "Vengeful" by VE Schwab was absolutely incredible. It is amazing to see how much her writing has improved from "Viscous" to now. There are no good people in this book (with the exception of Sydney, bless her). Schwab gives all these villains a rich history, gives a background to their terrible behavior without glorifying and excusing it.

My god. What a book.

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Postby eddy » Fri Sep 28, 2018 10:08 am

French Exit by Patrick de Witt was absurd and funny. I love his writing, this was very different. I enjoyed it very much.

Still waiting on the Gone World to arrive and have been seeing a lot of suggestions for An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green which I know nothing about, but sounds intriguing. I have Holes by Louis Sachar and steve ericksons tours of the black clock sitting on deck. Also reading The Thief of Always to the kids.

@obhave I read The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente and I think it may be up your alley. I look forward to the rest of the series.

https://www.amazon.com/Girl-Circumnavig ... 1250010195

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Postby robbiestoupe » Fri Sep 28, 2018 1:36 pm

Source of the post Still waiting on the Gone World to arrive
I decided to put a hold on this from my library hearing all the reviews in here. I placed the hold on August 17th and still haven't received it.

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Postby eddy » Fri Sep 28, 2018 1:41 pm

Source of the post Still waiting on the Gone World to arrive
I decided to put a hold on this from my library hearing all the reviews in here. I placed the hold on August 17th and still haven't received it.
I did the same with my Library and it came in, but they forgot to call me, so when I stopped in there for something else and inquired about it, they said they had to send it back because I didn't pick it up in time and got to pay a $2 fee for not getting it...

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Postby Gaucho » Fri Sep 28, 2018 2:17 pm

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