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Ōe Kenzaburō - A personal Matter It's a brutally sharp novel. Because the character of Bird is so fully realized, I was drawn immediately and completely into the drama. I wish every novel could have this kind of depth and still come in at under 180 pages. If you're familiar with Murakami's surrealist fiction you'll have no problem adjusting to Ōe's style. Neo_Reloaded posted:Choke, by Chuck Pahalniuk. Choke was my first Palahniuk novel as well, and I liked it a lot, but I could never get into another of his books. Fight Club and Haunted just put me to sleep. Randallteal fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Jul 14, 2008 |
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Just finished The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston. I thought it was really boring and pretty pointless up until the end, which put the whole thing into perspective a bit but still didn't make up for the amount of time I spent forcing myself through the book. Maybe I just don't get it - I don't get why everybody's called a ghost, I didn't get the point of half the stories until I read the ending. I really didn't enjoy it. I almost feel like reading the last ten pages first would have given me a much better understanding of what was going on throughout the rest of the book when I was actually reading it.
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Nixonland by Rick Perstein. If you have any interest in the politics of culture you will take something away from this amazing book, no matter where you might fall on the political spectrum. Perlstein examines how Nixon, a despised and failed political candidate, managed to tap into the social force to become the leader of the "Silent Majority" and become President.
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The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. I really enjoyed Kafka on the Shore and After Dark but I'm still not 100% sure how I feel about this one. As of right now I feel like I both love and hate the ending. It still ended up being a fun read despite the fact that I don't like the idea of writing "on the fly" as he supposedly did here. Either way I liked it enough to still check out his other works. Felt like a surreal dream the whole way through and at some points even like a David Lynch movie... in book form!
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David Copperfield by Charles Dickens I started out loving the book. Everything was pretty well done, and the 1850's dialog wasn't too tough to chew. About 2/3rds of the way in, the book became a chore. The characters weren't even characters any more, but caricatures. Every character in the book was a superlative in one way or another. "The most lovely" or "The most vile" or "The most cruel" or "The most generous". Every time I had to read Dora's dialog, I wanted to jump into the book and punch her in the face. I finished it, but just barely.
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Bright Segment, a short story by Theodore Sturgeon. I read it in a collection of horror shorts I got based on a recommendation from a horror story thread a while back, The Dark Descent, which I was gonna post here when I was finished. I'm not even halfway through the book, though, and this story was so good I decided it needed its own post. A man sees a woman get dumped out of a car outside his apartment. He carries her bleeding but still alive body up to his place. The man has extreme difficulty with speaking, so he doesn't call the police for fear they won't believe him and he won't be able to defend himself. He has extraordinary manual dexterity, however, so he stitches the woman's wounds, including closing her partially severed femoral artery, and nurses her back to health. Doesn't sound like it belongs in a horror story collection so far, does it? Well, the man, due to his speech difficulty, is extremely lonely, and now he has someone to care for. poo poo gets nuts. I could not believe how much I was affected by this story. At one point I stopped reading, covered my face with my hands and whispered, "Jesus." Highly recommended.
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Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger. Reasonable, but I'm not sure I'd rush to put it on any list of modern classics. It felt too much like it didn't really go anywhere, it was just two hundred pages spent highlighting the same character flaws.
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synertia posted:Just finished Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon of course. I went in expecting something difficult that I would have to work through like Ulysses (which I haven't finished). What I found was an immensely enjoyable book with great mini stories, excellent characters, and moments of such immense comedy as well as touching moments it had time for everything. Absolutely loved it, which is my biggest surprise. Planning when to re-read it already. Just moved on to 2010, though. Thank you, this is what I needed to hear from someone. I've been putting off Gravity's Rainbow for quite a while because any time I've heard it mentioned it's been made out to be this imposing, convoluted work that you need to be a genius to wrap your head around. I had heard similar things about Foucault's Pendulum, but I'm over half way through and loving it. Yeah, there are allusions going over my head left and right, but I pick up on enough of them to still feel included. Your post gives me hope that I can get along with Gravity's Rainbow just as well.
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The Plague by Albert Camus. I was just halfway through this when I wrote my last post about The Stranger. I still wasn't sold on this book, and I have to say the chunk of the book that changed that for me was in the last sixty pages or so. I'm glad to be done with the book, but not in a way to say that I disliked it, but, instead, to say that I needed to finish it to digest it as a whole. It was similar to the Stranger in that it showed the metamorphosis of a human being, but where the Stranger showed it as the individual's change and realization, The Plague showed more an entire peoples' change and realization of humanity. Also, holy gently caress last line... He knew what those jubilant crowds did not know but could have learned from books: that the plague bacillus never dies or disappears for good; that it can lie dormant for years and years in furniture and linen-chests; that it bides its time in bedrooms, cellars, trunks, and bookshelves; and that perhaps the day would come when, for the bane and the enlightening of men, it would rouse up its rats again and send them forth to die in a happy city.
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Like just about everyone else: The Road by Cormac McCarthy Well, turns out the post-apocalypse might not be so much fun after all 
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The Satyricon by Petronius. In short, it's a satire about excess in Nero's Rome. It's worth reading just for the party at Trilmachio's.
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Utopia by Lincoln Child - 5/5 - I highly recommend this to anyone who likes thrillers. I couldn't put this book down, every step of the way there is a new twist. State of Fear by Michael Crichton - 4/5 - Another excellent thriller, I am a huge fan of Michael Crichton. It seemed like a long read, but the story was excellent.
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A Walk In The Woods by Bill Bryson. Interested in hiking the Appalachian Trail myself someday, I bought this book a year ago. Started and finished it within a week. A great deal of useful info and amusing. Dead City by Joe McKinney, standard zombie infection novel. A good read but a bit short perhaps. Just started on History Is Dead, a zombie anthology edited by Kim Paffenroth. So far I like it. I've yet to finish The Tides of War by Steven Pressfield. I read Gates Of Fire a couple of years ago (before the whole "300" craze) and was impressed. So far I like this one too, but for a non-native English speaker like myself it can be a real task. MMX-eweg fucked around with this message at 20:56 on Jul 17, 2008 |
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Forgotten Allies: The Oneida Indians and the American Revolution by Joseph T. Glathaar and James Kirby Martin If you don't like history, don't read it. Its not incredibly deep, but its tough for it to hold your attention sometimes. I would recommend reading 1 chapter a day, at most. Very well written and informative.
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In Death Ground By David Weber and it's sequel: The Shiva Option And I greatly recommend all of David Weber's works if you like military Sci-Fi.
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Sun of Suns by Karl Schroeder - I finished it because it was reasonably short and I wanted to see if it would redeem itself with its ending, but rarely have I been so let down by a rapturously reviewed and hyped new science fiction book ("Outrageously brilliant and not to be missed" says one magazine, with additional blurbs from Vernor Vinge, Larry Niven, and Cory Doctorow). Weak writing, hackneyed plot, uninteresting cardboard characters all the way through. The world-building is pretty cool(~steampunk-level tech in a 3000km-diameter balloon-world filled with air, water, and floating chunks of rock). The cliches he chose for his plot and characters are, you know, cliches I've come to associate with cool things, but he does not elevate them beyond stereotypes at any point. I was in a short, fun science fiction mood after reading John Scalzi's books, but Scalzi blows this out of the water.
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Murder of Angels, Caitlin R. Kiernan Really fun, if you're in the mood for Lovecraftian angsty escapist stuff. Hornblower & The Hotspur, C.S. Forester  Definitely one of the shining spots in the series.The Wee Free Men, Terry Pratchett The first Tiffany Aching adventure. Am I a perv for thinking that sounds like a porn name?
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The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl - Enjoyed this (his debut novel) much more than his followup The Poe Shadow (which I read a couple weeks ago). It's an excellent historical mystery set in 1865 Boston that follows a real-life group of literary greats (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes and others) who collaborated on the first American translation of Dante's Divine Comedy - only to be drawn into investigating a series of grisly murders based on scenes from the Divine Comedy. Great book, and not being familiar with Dante myself (You don't need to be familiar with him to enjoy the book, however), I have gotten interested in reading the Divine Comedy eventually. Song of Kali by Dan Simmons - A creepy-as-gently caress horror story set in Calcutta that follows an American poet who travels to Calcutta in order to find a missing Indian poet and discovers a horrifying secret cult that worships the goddess Kali. Definitely one of the best books I've read in the horror genre and very well-done considering this was also a debut novel for Simmons.
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Cryptonomicon was pretty drat great, and I'm glad I finally got around to reading it. I have to say I mostly enjoyed the WWII parts over the '90s parts, but that changed towards the end. Even though I liked the resolution, the ending felt a bit anticlimactic, but that's mainly because so much had already happened. This is now the third book I've read by Stephenson, and I've enjoyed each more than the last.
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Between reading Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers saga, I picked up All Quiet on the Western Front. The cover said "The greatest war novel of all time" and I must agree with that. It's a very realistic, very powerful and very depressing story of young German men going to fight and live on the front lines of a war they're losing (WW I) and how spending most of your adult life killing people and seeing your friends die will gently caress you up.
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Just finished Lincoln's Dreams by Connie Willis this morning. I loved it. It was funny in the right places but very moving. If you aren't familiar with it it's about a historical researcher who befriends and accompanies a young woman who believes she is having Robert E. Lee's nightmares from beyond the grave. It's actually very cool and very well researched.
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I finished On the Beach about a week ago. I've read reviews that have said it has stereotypical characters, it's mawkish and cliched, but I don't much care, as it was a splendid read. The last chapter is one of the saddest things I've ever read And I just finished John Peel's autobiography today. So many laugh-out-loud moments. RIP John
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The Fall by Albert Camus As you may have noticed I've been going right through Camus. I am about to start Exile and Kingdom and then The Myth of Sisyphus will follow. The Fall had a very different style to the two other Camus books I've read (The Stranger and The Plague). You immediately feel as though you are part of a conversation with a close friend. You start reading about this man's life, and you can't help but wonder how honest he is being with you, but at the same time you really are intrigued to here what he has to say about his life and why you just met him in a seedy bar. After finishing it I'm really not sure at all how I feel. It was a good introspective on humanity, but I think I need to reread it. I don't feel confused about what went on or what was said, but I think I just need to soak in more of it. Good read, quick read, may go back to it in a few months and give it another read. Sadly, though, no epic last line.
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American Psychonauts posted:All Quiet on the Western Front. The cover said "The greatest war novel of all time" and I must agree with that. I read "All Quiet on the Western Front" sometime in High School, and I immediately felt a strong bitterness for war - not a disdain, as the book doesn't really have an anti-war feel. It just seemed so tragic through the whole book. I think it may have been the book that finally turned me completely off from joining the military. Though, that could just be because I am a sissy 
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The Ten-Cent Plague by David Hadju. It's a pretty comprehensive look at the early days of comics and the moral crusade against them. I couldn't really decide what kind of stand Hadju was taking; he would jump to odd conclusions and gloss over the fact that, yes, there were comics with bloody axes and severed heads on the covers that maybe six-year-olds shouldn't buy. It's awful that so many people lost their jobs, of course, but you'd think that some of those "weird" horror comics writers could exercise a little discretion. Still, I liked the book and picked up Positively 4th Street, Hadju's book about Dylan, the Baezes, and Farina.
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The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross, which collects his serialized novel The Atrocity Archive and a novella The Concrete Jungle in one volume. The first story is an enjoyable homage to the Cthulhu mythos that updates it for the 21st century (computers and high-level mathematics play a part in summonings and opening portals to other dimensions) and involves a secret British agency known as "the Laundry" that serves a similar purpose to the Men in Black - albeit they keep the supernatural from spilling over into the real world. The second story has Bob Howard (the hero of the first story) get caught up in a power struggle at the Laundry that goes horribly wrong, involving a secret occult technology that will turn Britain's array of CCTV cameras into a deadly weapon. Both stories are pretty fun to read - Howard's oft-sarcastic narrative keeps things amusing throughout and the mix of horror with the spy thriller is well-handled. My only complaint is that I wish the stories had been longer - but perhaps that kept them from getting stale eventually.
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The Raw Shark Texts Huh. I'm pretty 50/50 on this book. Some of the ideas were really cool. Much of the writing was fairly decent. As many others have pointed out, he needs to work on his pacing. Overall, though, I just didn't "get" the ending. I finished the better half of the book while waiting at my car dealership, and perhaps my general frustration of the day added to this, but I honestly didn't care enough about the book to think about the ending for more than a moment. I was rather disappointed in general. Currently reading: Tortilla Flat -- Steinbeck.
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I've been through a lot before I posted last. In order: Snow Crash In the future, there are shittons of parking lots, and lots of incredibly cheap shoddy buildings, and loving everything has neon signs. I don't know if I'm just not the type for cyberpunk, but I found the book really dragged along, and was very predictable. The structure for the first 200 or so pages with two different timelines going added nothing to the story, and only confused me until I figured out that there even was two timelines going. Dark Tower: Wolves of the Calla A++ Would read again. Take the story of Seven Samurai, make them gunslingers and crazy bitches who throw chakras. This is easily my second favorite book of the series. 'Salem's Lot I really enjoyed this, and my only regret is not reading it before Wolves (A character in here is a central character in Wolves and important in the next two Dark Tower books). A vampire invades small town Maine. If the idea of kicking a vampire's rear end doesn't appeal to you, stay away, there isn't a lot else going on. I only wish there was a chapter about what happened when Susan was trapped in the basement. Dark Tower: Song of Susannah I really wish this book would have had more substance. After the doorstopper that Wolves was, it was pretty disappointing with how short it was. Susannah is having a demon baby. Overall, though, I enjoyed it. I even thought that at this point when King wrote himself in, it worked decently enough, because it only lasted for maybe four chapters, and it really isn't as bad as people make it out to be (yet) Dark Tower: Dark Tower I didn't know what the gently caress is wrong with goons. There are people all the time saying how the first four books are the only ones worth a poo poo. I thought the first six were just fine, great in fact. This book. This. Is a pile of poo poo. It's just really loving poorly written. The narrator will randomly switch into first person for no reason. The narrator goes unnamed, although I guess in some sort of hosed up meta logic it's Stephen King? Anyway. Barring lovely writing throughout, we are also treated to the loving shittiest plot elements in the series yet. Deus Ex Machina out the loving rear end, for no reason other that I can figure out other than King just wanted to be loving done, instead of resolving them in any meaningful way and possibly having to make an eighth book. And remember above how King only wrote himself in four about four chapters in Song of Susanah? Yeah he's made his bullshit presence felt for almost half the loving book here (~500 pages). It sucks. You know how you've expected a big showdown with Walter since the first book? Yeah he gets killed in 5 seconds after he appears. King has the balls to kill off Eddie, Jake, and Oy all in really disappointing ways. And then he decides to revive them for no loving reason. I didn't mind the ending, except for the MAGICAL RETARD SAVES THE DAY, for the second time in this book alone. Two thumbs way the gently caress down.
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Gene Future by Thomas F. Lee. This is a book from the early 90s about genetic engineering - specifically, its origins, and its potential risks/uses, along with the then current state of the science world with regards to legal and ethical decisions involving it. It is really well written, starting from the absolute basics, and building up to some of the more advanced details about the subject, as well as providing a lot of different arguments for and against it without ever seeming biased. A really great book for anybody who likes science but may not know too much about this particular subject. The only downside is that genetic engineering is still a new technology, and was even moreso at the time this book was written, so it's a little outdated.
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Just finished Foucault's Pendulum. I really wish I had archives so I could check out the Book of the Month thread on it. Eco really breaks down the world of his characters during the final chapters; all through the novel we've seen them building this scheme, and then it starts to come to life like an inflatable pool toy, and we're unsure whether or not the Plan is really true. It sort of plays out like a court case, with both sides giving their evidence. The reader, depending on his viewpoint, can see one way or the other (through most of the novel, I was convinced that it was all coincidences). Then there's this stunning, irrefutable evidence that shakes up absolutely everything, and then this stunning, irrefutable evidence is dissected. It's a nice touch that a good portion of the very end of the book is sort of a character study of Belbo and his motives, and probably the motives of everyone. At some point I'll probably re-read this.
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The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky - It's obviously a well written book and loved by a lot of people, but I had a hard time staying interested in the constant stream of over the top characters. Don't get me wrong, Dostoevsky paints a lovely picture and creates some colorful characters. Maybe books about small town Russian life with soap opera-esque stories just aren't for me. World War Z by Max Brooks - After Brothers Karamazov I wanted to read something fun, so this book detailing first hand accounts of the zombie apocalypse was just what the doctor ordered. The subtle tongue-in-cheek nature of the read made it a blast. If it had been too overtly humorous, the horror aspect would have been lost. But the author played it right and you get a good mix so it's both unnerving while making you smile. The Road by Cormac McCarthy - Holy poo poo you guys weren't kidding, this is a rough! I mean, the reading is a breeze (I finished it in a few hours), but the desolation and heart wrenching story almost brought me to tears...almost. I found the part when the son wants to die so he can be with his mom affected me the most. Great read, made all the more amazing because the author packed so much emotion into such a short and simple story. I'd like to thank this thread for getting me back into reading and recommending some awesome books. Next up ... Neverwhere, Razor's Edge, and Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark.
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I'm currently attempting to finish a collection of stories by Chekhov. It seems to be taking forever, but his stories entertain. (Particularly The Black Monk and Ward No. 6) I'm also reading Obasan by Joy Kagawa for an English class. (Going slowly as well)
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Devil May Care lived up to its promise of being Bond the way Fleming wrote him. Faulks apes Fleming's writing convincingly, though there are some places where he is less reserved about the violence and sex. The story is pretty standard as far as Bond narratives go, and that's just fine with me. If you've read all the Fleming books and found yourself wanting more of the same, this is a good book to pick up.
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Dudikoff posted:The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky - It's obviously a well written book and loved by a lot of people, but I had a hard time staying interested in the constant stream of over the top characters. Don't get me wrong, Dostoevsky paints a lovely picture and creates some colorful characters. Maybe books about small town Russian life with soap opera-esque stories just aren't for me. Really? You thought the characters were over the top? I love that book because of how well I think it portrays human nature. There were many parts in it where I found I connected and related to the characters and their motivations/actions eerily well.
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Ivanhoe FINALLY I finished this book. I had been on a Sci-Fi binge and decided to read something more romantic to change things up. While the language slowed me down, I still enjoyed the book more than I thought I would. This book had a lot of battles and action that kept the story moving. Also, it included a lot of interesting characters like Richard the Lion-Heart, Ivanhoe (of course), Robin Hood, and a lot of characters and information dealing with Knights Templars.
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Myth-Chief Robert Asprin & Jodi Lynn Nye It was a toss-up, Jhegaala or Watchmen but I wasn't ready to spend the money for a hardback yet, and it seems like I just read Watchmen though it's been over a year. So I used my Borders Coupon on this piece of fluff since Asprin just died. It's like loving fast food. You know what you're going to get: Skeeve gets himself in a pickle, his friends help him out, Skeeve learns the value of friendship. Unfortunately, like fast food, you eat it fast, it doesn't fill you up and 10 minutes later you are hungry again. (Monster and Thick Burger Baconators excepted). As much as I love Skeeve & Co. I guess I outgrew it, and even though it's likely Jodi Nye would continue on, I don't think I'd read any more. I'm waiting on my next coupon so I can pick up one of the above books, assuming Watchmen isn't sold out everywhere.
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z0331 posted:Really? You thought the characters were over the top? I love that book because of how well I think it portrays human nature. There were many parts in it where I found I connected and related to the characters and their motivations/actions eerily well. I can understand how many people would relate to those aspects of it. Personally I couldn't relate to how most of the characters, except for Alyosha and his elder, ran strictly on emotion and passion and not at all on logic. Maybe after some time I'll appreciate the whole picture more, but while reading it I found it often times tedious to get through.
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Dudikoff posted:I can understand how many people would relate to those aspects of it. Personally I couldn't relate to how most of the characters, except for Alyosha and his elder, ran strictly on emotion and passion and not at all on logic. Maybe after some time I'll appreciate the whole picture more, but while reading it I found it often times tedious to get through. Well, the book does emphasize how the whole family except Alyosha do, in fact, act passionately rather than logically. I've definitely known people like that so I guess I just find it odd that you thought them unbelievable.
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Bartleby & Co. by Enrique Vila-Matas, one man's dangerously obsessive (fictionalised) attempt to document all the literature that followed in the wake of Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener by rejecting action/life/language/etc. Not only is it frequently bizarre and hilarious , but it'd also be a great resource for someone looking to dig a little deeper into 20th century literature (you just have to pick out the bogus red herrings he throws in every now and then). Highly recommended if you enjoy the burgeoning strain of mock-criticism like Bayard's How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read or Bolano's Nazi Literature of the Americas. Also Siegfried Kracauer's Salaried Masses which compiles all his reporting on the new white-collar working class that sprang up en masse after the First World War. His writing in general can tend to get a little too tangled up swinging between poetry and rigour, but here he's really on point and pleasantly succint, with piles of anecdotal evidence drawn from conversations with workers and employers. The title suggests you're getting into something a little dry but think of it more as the economic Stalingrad (the book, I mean) of post-inflation Weimar Berlin and you'll be set. Finally Three Trapped Tigers by Cabrera-Infante, which is 500 pages of unrelenting Cuban puns, jokes and wordplay. Excellent but draining (especially when you consider what a nightmare it would have been to translate) take on Batista-era Havanian night-life. The odd spot in there where it gets a little mundane and beat-y, but for the most part it's too flamboyant and excessive not to love. Not much happening here plotwise but gets by fine as it is. It's increasingly obvious to me that there's no compelling way to pin the book down in 50 words or less, and I can't be arsed to write more, so I'm done.
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I just recently read The Brothers Karamazov as well and while some parts were a bit tedious, some were pretty amazing. As a whole I did like it very much and it may very well turn out to be one of my favorites in the longer run. I guess if you read it as a plain story, it can be rather tedious - there are probably more interesting crime soap operas out there. I can't say I was instantly "blown away" by it or anything, but the more I think about the book and the ideas conveyed through the characters and their actions, the more it's growing on me.
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