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picked up the Penguin Classics edition of The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa. this edition is translated & edited by Richard Zenith, so Pessoa’s voice(s), as well as the chronology of his fragments, will have notable differences from the New Directions edition that i read earlier this month. i wanted to get at the Zenith version while the Pizarro/Jull Costa version was still fresh in my mind.

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there is a passage in one of the final chapters of Berg (more than a single passage, really, but one stands out in particular) that is a gut wrenching premonition of the author’s own suicide by drowning, which happened around 10 years after she finished writing the book. it was chilling to read.
 
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has been way more challenging read than expected (assumed it would read like Don Quixote), but i acclimated to the style & structure after ~50-60 pages
 
I just finished The Institute by Stephen King

Had some really good parts but it was mostly generic and really dragged in the middle.
 
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A hundred and seventeen pages in so far and to be honest, not really enjoying it.
 
Finishing all the Thomas Covenant books. The last series has killed all momentum for me.
 
I just bought Alastair Reynold's "Blue remembered earth".

Just started so I don't have a grasp if it is good or not but I love Revelation Space and Chasm City
 
Finally reading this. Only 180 pages in. Creepy as hell.

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Finally stopped resisting and started reading this. About halfway through, it’s very engaging
Im slowly rereading this series. I'm almost through the second and realized i don't remember anything about the 3rd book
 
Jeffery Deaver- The Skin Collector

A book about medieval castles. No idea of author.
 
Im slowly rereading this series. I'm almost through the second and realized i don't remember anything about the 3rd book
I’m almost through the second book now as well. I love the series! Wish there was more of them out. I think the fourth one comes out this year
 
"For Whom the Bell Tolls" - Ernest Hemingway. I highly recommend reading it. From Russian works I can recommend only "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy. A pity that I have now not so much time to pursue time on forum or for reading books. I order essay on GPALabs now for my term paper for my University. I hope it will end soon and I will be able to read their favourite book.
 
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Gene Wolfe's The Fifth Head of Cerberus, a lot of the same subjects he brought into The Book of the New Sun years latter but in a much shorter narrative(3 linked novellas at under 250 pages overall) and without as much of the pulp fantasy adventure element. Probably the best intro to his work I'd say.
 
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when it comes to my favorite writers, WHG has been the only one to die during my lifetime, & it’s been the only death of a person i never knew personally to have an impact on me. this was his last collection of fiction that was published before his passing & i haven’t read it since its release in 2015. wondering if reading it again will expose any new perspectives now that the Gass has passed.
 
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Got recommended this a while ago and it's fucking brilliant. They're making a tv adaption starring Stephen Graham and Colin Farrell.
 
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