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Post by evilbliss on Mar 3, 2017 10:10:23 GMT
I'm reading 'Big Little Lies' by Liane Moriarty. Its teh first time I laughed while reading a book. Reese's character is hilarious.
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Post by km_tac on Mar 3, 2017 10:52:26 GMT
I'm reading Call Me By Your Name at the moment, I'm definitely enjoying it even if I find it a little over-written at times *hides*. I just finished that. I agree that it is over-written in places, but it's so beautiful and hauntingly poetic that I forgive it for that. After a few pages, I stopped looking at plot and where the characters were going, and just let the prose wash over me. I thought it has some wonderful insights about passion, the effects of memories on us, obsession and intimacy. Very introspective and internal, but it held such a spell over me that I finished it really quickly. LOVED it, and can't wait for the film!!! The clips seem to really do it justice. Also just started The Beautiful and Damned, by F Scott Fitzgerald. |
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Post by sterlingarcher86 on Mar 3, 2017 12:33:05 GMT
The Talisman by King and Straub
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Post by cheesecake on Mar 3, 2017 17:00:16 GMT
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Post by erickeitel on Mar 4, 2017 2:08:12 GMT
On page 100 of Waiting for the Barbarians.
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Post by cheesecake on Mar 9, 2017 22:23:26 GMT
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Post by DeepArcher on Mar 12, 2017 20:35:14 GMT
Don DeLillo's White Noise. One of the funniest, most bitingly clever books I've ever read.
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Post by moonman157 on Mar 12, 2017 21:18:43 GMT
Don DeLillo's White Noise. One of the funniest, most bitingly clever books I've ever read. DeLillo is one of the very, very best. Have you read any of his other stuff? |
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Post by DeepArcher on Mar 12, 2017 21:24:08 GMT
Don DeLillo's White Noise. One of the funniest, most bitingly clever books I've ever read. DeLillo is one of the very, very best. Have you read any of his other stuff? Not yet, but I look forward to getting around to some of his other stuff. |
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Post by moonman157 on Mar 12, 2017 21:27:24 GMT
DeLillo is one of the very, very best. Have you read any of his other stuff? Not yet, but I look forward to getting around to some of his other stuff. I would strongly urge that you read Underworld. Its size may seem a little intimidating but it is an enveloping read. One of the truly great American novels. |
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Post by DeepArcher on Mar 12, 2017 21:39:01 GMT
Not yet, but I look forward to getting around to some of his other stuff. I would strongly urge that you read Underworld. Its size may seem a little intimidating but it is an enveloping read. One of the truly great American novels. Yep, that was the next one I was planning on reading. And then Libra and Mao II interest me as well. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2017 2:41:26 GMT
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Post by parapluie on Mar 14, 2017 18:22:42 GMT
I am currently reading Stoner by John Williams. Has anyone read it? Thoughts?
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Post by speeders on Mar 21, 2017 19:15:44 GMT
 This little murder mystery. |
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Post by moonman157 on Mar 21, 2017 21:55:33 GMT
I am reading Young Hearts Crying by Richard Yates. He's one of my favourite authors.
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Post by MsMovieStar on Mar 21, 2017 22:43:18 GMT
![]()  This Crazy Thing Called Love by Susan Braudy It's a biography on Ann Woodward who killed her rich husband in the 1950s after mistaking him for a prowler. Truman Capote and Dominick Dunne wrote fictional accounts based on this famous case. It's kinda interesting to think that a complete stranger, unrelated to her, inavertently caused the action that would destroy her whole life. There's something almost Hitchcockian about it. |
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Post by getclutch on Mar 21, 2017 23:19:10 GMT
The Confession by Grisham.
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Post by jimmalone on Mar 25, 2017 17:35:32 GMT
Captain Singleton by Daniel Defoe
So far it's okay. Pretty simple and dry style. Much of it reads just like sequences of events, but without getting into the minds of the people.
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Post by Christ_Ian_Bale on Apr 2, 2017 0:50:04 GMT
With everyone around me talking about the trailer for the new movie, I dug out my old copy of It and am revisiting it. When I was younger, I always thought King went overboard with overwriting so I'm surprised to find how nicely I feel it flows now. I can't get enough of it.
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Post by moonman157 on Apr 2, 2017 2:31:32 GMT
Reading Liars in Love by Richard Yates. After this I just have one more novel to go until I've read everything he published, which will then mean I can read his biography.
His stories offer the same immediacy of the devastation in someone like Carver. Yates is possibly the classic example of someone who produced the same work of art over and over again but god damn was it a great piece of art.
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Post by jimmalone on Apr 2, 2017 7:15:57 GMT
Read Tad Williams': The Heart of What Was Lost. A follow-up to his magnificent Memory, Sorrow and Thorn. Well, you can't compare it to this, which is in my eyes maybe the greatest fantasy saga of all time, cause it's just a short book. But it's an interesting intro before his long expected Sequel series "The Last King of Osten Ard".
Now I re-read Haruki Murakamis "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". Most of his books are great, but this is very probably his best. Fascinating and of course totally strange ideas, full of great characters, moving, mystical, philosophical, amusing, reads the souls of people so well. Absolute masterpiece.
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Post by taranofprydain on Apr 3, 2017 1:21:39 GMT
Middlemarch
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Post by moonman157 on Apr 5, 2017 0:00:58 GMT
The Devil in the White City
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Post by stephen on Apr 5, 2017 0:37:53 GMT
The Ballad of Black Tom, a Jazz Age Lovecraftian tale written by Victor LaValle, an African-American author who grew up loving Lovecraft's work but hating how it was couched in virulent racism, and how he sought to examine that cosmic horror milieu through the eyes of the people that the xenophobic Lovecraft feared. It's actually a pretty engaging page-turner, the sort that would work wonders with a moody director like Robert Eggers or Alan Parker.
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Apr 5, 2017 12:37:32 GMT
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
So far so good.
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