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[websurfer]

Just recently finished these. Even though I have many books in my collection, I have read all three of these twice.

 

[Sunnyvale TP]

Just recently finished these. Even though I have many books in my collection, I have read all three of these twice.

I read the Wind Up Bird recently by Murakami. Odd tale but the author paints a very vivid picture in your mind. How was The Elephant Vanishes?

 

[HOLA]

Just finished Stone Junction by Jim Dodge. Didn't care for it. Read it because Thomas Pynchon is one of my favorite writers and he wrote the introduction. Oh well.

Before that in recent weeks I reread Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov and Growth of The Soil by Knut Hamsun, both of which are brilliant, and read A Short History of Decay by Emil Cioran which was definitely one of the more unique reading experiences I've ever had, in a good way.

 

[websurfer]

I read the Wind Up Bird recently by Murakami. Odd tale but the author paints a very vivid picture in your mind. How was The Elephant Vanishes?

It's a couple of short stories, very easy to read.
My favorites being "On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning."
You can read it here. The other stories in the book are good too.
https://eng10260833.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/murakami-100-percent-perfect.pdf

 

[HenryFlower]

at work:

then

at home:

i typically don’t like reading more than one book at a time, but Hurricane Season has long chapters structured by unbroken paragraphs & run-on sentences, so it’s not really an ideal fit for reading during breaks at work.

 

[judoka loca]

I'm reading The Mastery of Destiny by James Allen. If I can manage to implement some of the stuff in it, that would be pretty cool.

 

[HenryFlower]

edit: thought Vanishing Point was the first novel in Markson’s “Notecard Quartet,” but it’s the third. dunno how i goofed that one up.

easily one of my favorite books i’ve read all year & one that i won’t stop thinking about in a long long time. i’ve been trying to figure out a way to properly describe Melchor’s style in Hurricane Season, because it’s not quite stream of consciousness, but more like stream of perspective or stream of circumstance or stream of remembrance. anyways, the story revolves around the brutal murder & each chapter is single unbroken paragraph, each page a wall of text, from the POV—fluctuating back&forth from 1st & 3rd person narration—of different characters that orbit, or are directly involved in, the events leading up to the murder. i’m not going to cough up narrative/character specifics or the themes that drive this intense, gruesome, perverse, agonizing, & most importantly, very angry book, but it fucking steamrolled me. not surprised the author needed therapy after all the emotional energy that was spent when she wrote it tbh.

 

[Henry Swanson]

On to book 2 of this trilogy. Picks right up where the first one left off and it hits the ground running. Already halfway through. Probably the most addictive read I’ve had this year.

 

[Dinkin_Flicka]

Just downloaded the new Joe Abercrombie, The Trouble With Peace. I’ve warned the missus not to expect any conversation for the next few days...

Just finished this today, it was so good. So many twists leading into the finale. Going to kill me waiting for the last book.

Spoiler

Guessing that Bayaz will be the Owl in Rikke's prophecy with most of it playing out at the end of the second book with the Lamb eating the Lion. With all of the meddling that Bayaz does, kind of hoping he gets taken down.

 

[Cantona7]

Just finished this today, it was so good. So many twists leading into the finale. Going to kill me waiting for the last book.

Spoiler

Guessing that Bayaz will be the Owl in Rikke's prophecy with most of it playing out at the end of the second book with the Lamb eating the Lion. With all of the meddling that Bayaz does, kind of hoping he gets taken down.

Big time, when I read the First Law books they were all released so I could plough through them, this ‘read one, then wait a year’ lark is torture!

 

[Captain Davis]

 

[AnomandorousRake]

Read House of Leaves and all of the Malazan Book of the Fallen. Or your dead to me

 

[AnomandorousRake]

Big time, when I read the First Law books they were all released so I could plough through them, this ‘read one, then wait a year’ lark is torture!

Do all the Jack Reachers. Good shit

 

[AnomandorousRake]

I cant do Abercrombie. You guys like that shit?

 

[AnomandorousRake]

I think i spent 500 in the last year on books alone

 

[El Panteron]

Re-reading Thinking fast and slow by Daniel Kahneman, every person in the world should read this book.

Also Reflections on the causes or liberty and social oppression by Simone Weil, another great read but most sherdoggers would hate it.

I'm re-reading a Feast for Crows and a Dance with Dragons waiting for the next book in the ASOIAF saga but they get really boring at times. Brienne of Tarth's chapters are ughh.

 

[Mimus]

I'm not much of a reader but there's alot of good choices I see mentioned by posters here.
I recently checked out Robert Silverberg's "Hawksbill Station". An old short novel about political prisoners sent back in time to the Cambrian age. Interesting premise as it's an all male penal colony (so they can't reproduce) and it's so far back in the past as not to alter any evolution or future outcomes.
It was pretty good for what it was but kinda left me wanting a bit more.
Available free online in both print and audio with a bit of searching, not a bad option for those inbetween readings and ~2hrs to spare.

 

[AnomandorousRake]

Read Malazan Book of the Fallen. Puts got to shame. George can't write. He got lucky with world building

 

[El Panteron]

Read Malazan Book of the Fallen. Puts got to shame. George can't write. He got lucky with world building

This is true to some extent, but there are some great characters and plots.
His writing style sucks though. Descrptions are shite, characters think too much, lots of telling and not showing.

He used the passing out during a battle trick, that's disney level shit.

 

[AnomandorousRake]

This is true to some extent, but there are some great characters and plots.
His writing style sucks though. Descrptions are shite, characters think too much, lots of telling and not showing.

He used the passing out during a battle trick, that's disney level shit.

Correct. I think Storm of Swords is one of the best books ever. But then I try to compare it to MBotF and it isn't even close