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No idea, but there was a neat retrospective on The Westing Game in The New Yorker recently. (Warning: this article spoils the book. If you haven't read The Westing Game and Ellen Raskin's other books, you really should.)
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Here you go. WaPo's recommendation of which book to read at which age of life from 1-100. Let the fighting begin https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/entertainment/books/100-books-for-the-ages/?utm_term=.70da678480a4
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Jun 27, 2019 01:23
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Age 1 - Aesop's Fables Age 2 - Euclid's Elements You can take it in whatever direction from there.
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Jun 27, 2019 05:45
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Bunch of 50 year olds reading 50 Shades of Grey to spice things up heyooooo
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Jun 27, 2019 10:22
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I posted this in the Mystery and Detective Fiction thread, but it doesn't seem to get much traffic, and nobody responded. Forgive me for cross-posting here, but just in case anyone else is a fan...quote:Would this be the appropriate thread to talk about James Ellroy? I just reread his previous novel Perfidia, set in December 1941, followed by its direct sequel that just came out, This Storm, set during the first several months of 1942. Both excellent, and they serve as prequels to his L.A. Quartet (The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz, all set in the late '40s and '50s) and his Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy (American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood's a Rover, set between 1958 and 1973). I highly recommend all of them, as well as the movie adaptation of L.A. Confidential, in my top five movies of all time.
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Jun 27, 2019 18:43
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:I posted this in the Mystery and Detective Fiction thread, but it doesn't seem to get much traffic, and nobody responded. Forgive me for cross-posting here, but just in case anyone else is a fan... sorry! I responded in the mystery thread anyway https://twitter.com/alloy_dr/status/1144248384863313922
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Jun 27, 2019 20:25
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Bilirubin posted:Here you go. WaPo's recommendation of which book to read at which age of life from 1-100. Let the fighting begin Wow, this list is so pointless
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Jun 28, 2019 10:44
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Any you guys ever read Aztec by Gary Jennings? I'm only about halfway through but this thing is wild.
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Jun 30, 2019 15:05
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Human Tornada posted:Any you guys ever read Aztec by Gary Jennings? I'm only about halfway through but this thing is wild. It used to be a more common goon rec years ago. It sounds awesome, but I personally never got around to it. Heard about it on TBB, though.
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Jun 30, 2019 15:11
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I haven't read Aztec but I did read Jennings's Spangle (about the adventures of a 19th-century circus) a long time ago. Fairly decent if you're looking for a historical novel with a cast of dozens and a cavalier attitude toward authenticity.
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Jun 30, 2019 19:19
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I just finished Century Rain by Alastair Reynolds. drat it was nice to read some sci-fi that wasn't a turgid bloated potboiler book 6 of a 9 book series. Century Rain is refreshing in its energy and its weirdness and how it doesn't hold your hand at all. Has anyone else read it?
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Jul 4, 2019 17:54
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modernist: but doctor... I'M Pagliacci post-modernist: but doctor... YOU'RE Pagliacci pre-modernist: okay. I'll go see Pagliacci
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Jul 8, 2019 14:15
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I just ordered a book from betterworldbooks.com, and got the following mail:quote:Hello Michael, can't decide if this is quirky/ weird or funny. I'm also curious how much of it is random or auto-generated based on real data. Like "sandwiched for five months between book A and B" or the stuff it says about Indiana.
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Jul 9, 2019 07:22
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Jul 9, 2019 08:15
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mike12345 posted:I just ordered a book from betterworldbooks.com, and got the following mail: It was exactly the same for me. Their warehouse is in Indiana.
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Jul 9, 2019 08:44
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mike12345 posted:I just ordered a book from betterworldbooks.com, and got the following mail: I've bought a lot of books from betterworldbooks.com and I have never gotten an e-mail like that.
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Jul 10, 2019 17:36
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Anyone know if there are books in the wild west genre that are worth reading? Like cowboys vs indians, but not racist? The only writer I know in that genre is Karl May (lol), so I wonder if anyone ever tried writing in that period more realistically and respectfully.
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Jul 13, 2019 11:13
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Probably not entirely in line with your wishes but The Sisters Brothers is good and forever worthy of a mention when on the topic of the gold rush/wild west
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Jul 13, 2019 12:04
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Elmore Leonard wrote a bunch of westerns before he got into contemporary crime. I love his stuff, probably have 30+ paperbacks
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Jul 13, 2019 12:33
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mike12345 posted:Anyone know if there are books in the wild west genre that are worth reading? Like cowboys vs indians, but not racist? The only writer I know in that genre is Karl May (lol), so I wonder if anyone ever tried writing in that period more realistically and respectfully. I’ve never read Karl May so I’m not sure exactly what you mean in the second part of your post but yeah Westerns kick rear end and there are a lot of good ones: Warlock by Oakley Hall Anything by Louis L’amour if you’re looking for pulp True Grit by Charles Portis All of Cormac McCarthy’s westerns, particularly Blood Meridian Also everybody swears Lonesome Dove is the best western novel ever written but somehow I’ve never actually read it
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Jul 13, 2019 13:27
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Chuck Buried Treasure posted:I’ve never read Karl May so I’m not sure exactly what you mean in the second part of your post but yeah Westerns kick rear end and there are a lot of good ones: Warlock is the poo poo
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Jul 13, 2019 13:43
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Don't forget Shane or Zane Grey's stuff
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Jul 13, 2019 14:02
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Chuck Buried Treasure posted:Also everybody swears Lonesome Dove is the best western novel ever written but somehow I’ve never actually read it Lonesome Dove is real good. I don't know enough to say best western, but it's an outstanding book.
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Jul 13, 2019 14:42
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Are there any famous ones from the perspective of a native american tribe, or maybe written by a native american?
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Jul 13, 2019 15:54
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mike12345 posted:Are there any famous ones from the perspective of a native american tribe, or maybe written by a native american? quote:Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West is a 1970 book by American writer Dee Brown that covers the history of Native Americans in the American West in the late nineteenth century. The book expresses details of the history of American expansionism from a point of view that is critical of its effects on the Native Americans. Brown describes Native Americans' displacement through forced relocations and years of warfare waged by the United States federal government. The government's dealings are portrayed as a continuing effort to destroy the culture, religion, and way of life of Native American peoples.[1] Helen Hunt Jackson's A Century of Dishonor is often considered a nineteenth-century precursor to Dee Brown's writing.[2] Just kidding it's not fiction, good read though. Depressing as gently caress!
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Jul 13, 2019 16:08
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Chuck Buried Treasure posted:I’ve never read Karl May so I’m not sure exactly what you mean in the second part of your post but yeah Westerns kick rear end and there are a lot of good ones: hope and vaseline posted:Warlock is the poo poo And another recommendation here for Lonesome Dove, a novel I go back to every now and again. Little Big Man by Thomas Berger. mike12345 posted:Are there any famous ones from the perspective of a native american tribe, or maybe written by a native american? It's non-fiction but if you've never read Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown you should, everyone should. Edit: Beaten^^^^
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Jul 13, 2019 16:23
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Butcher's Crossing
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Jul 13, 2019 16:50
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Chuck Buried Treasure posted:All of Cormac McCarthy’s westerns, particularly Blood Meridian Blood Meridian is one of my favourite books ever but be forewarned it's excruciatingly violent (very much the point of the book in fact). quote:Also everybody swears Lonesome Dove is the best western novel ever written but somehow I’ve never actually read it Funny enough I've been to McMurtry's bookstore in Archer City and seen him around town but very much the same. I should probably correct that.
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Jul 13, 2019 17:23
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All the Pretty Horses is pretty mild in terms of excruciating violence for a McCarthy book
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Jul 13, 2019 18:51
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Don't forget Shane Zane Grey has been someone I’ve wanted to read for years because he’s often mentioned in the same breath as Louis l’Amour, who I totally love, but like Lonesome Dove I just somehow never have. I should remedy that soon, I’ve had Riders of the Purple Sage on my Kindle for years.
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Jul 13, 2019 20:25
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mike12345 posted:Are there any famous ones from the perspective of a native american tribe, or maybe written by a native american? "non-fic" but I remember liking Black Elk Speaks which is basically John Neihardt's reportage of Black Elk's memoirs — about being a medicine man, the battles of Little Big Horn, etc. Idk how accurate it is though, being filtered through a white dude Carthag Tuek fucked around with this message at 00:15 on Jul 14, 2019 |
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Jul 14, 2019 00:12
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mike12345 posted:Are there any famous ones from the perspective of a native american tribe, or maybe written by a native american? Zeke and Ned by McMurtry might be something you'd enjoy.
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Jul 14, 2019 02:12
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My favorite recent Western novel is Days Without End. Anyone else read that one?
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Jul 14, 2019 16:21
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:My favorite recent Western novel is Days Without End. Anyone else read that one? I hadn’t heard of it until now but after looking into it, it sounds really good, I think that’s going on my list. Thanks for the recommendation.
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Jul 15, 2019 01:06
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In "LOL Goodreads recommendations" today it suggested that because I liked Binti, I should read a Mordecai Richler novel. I mean, Richler is good but what?
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Jul 19, 2019 06:11
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Enfys posted:Butcher's Crossing Another vote for this one. It was recommended to me by goons a few years ago and it is so good. I still think about it regularly 
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Jul 19, 2019 10:06
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Bilirubin posted:In "LOL Goodreads recommendations" today it suggested that because I liked Binti, I should read a Mordecai Richler novel. It's done some bum recommendations for me. For a while, no matter what I read, it would recommend me this little girls' series called Betsy-Tacy. Vonnegut, Ruiz Zafon, John Williams - always Betsy-Tacy.
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Jul 20, 2019 04:08
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Bilirubin posted:In "LOL Goodreads recommendations" today it suggested that because I liked Binti, I should read a Mordecai Richler novel. I deleted Goodreads months ago, but it gave me a lot of crap recommendations. But the worst was when I read a single Iranian novel and got swamped with recommendations of highly-rated novels that hadn't been translated from Arabic or Farsi. Because they're probably great reads, but I wouldn't know because I can't read them. Also, turns out Goodreads has a sizable userbase in the Middle East.
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Jul 20, 2019 14:24
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Bilirubin posted:Here you go. WaPo's recommendation of which book to read at which age of life from 1-100. Let the fighting begin really dig the vacuous liberal ennui and unrelenting despair undergirding all of these book writeups lol
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chernobyl kinsman posted:really dig the vacuous liberal ennui and unrelenting despair undergirding all of these book writeups lol i like how they think its normal and just a phase to think ayn rand is cool at the age of 24
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