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e: For the smuggler book recommandation, try The Queen of the South by Perez-Réverte.
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anilEhilated posted:e: For the smuggler book recommandation, try The Queen of the South by Perez-Réverte. Thank you!
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What would be you recommend for someone who just got finished with a Steinbeck binge? Looking to branch out a bit.
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Nohearum posted:What would be you recommend for someone who just got finished with a Steinbeck binge? Looking to branch out a bit. 12th grade
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I am Digging the poo poo outta Blackwater
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Nohearum posted:What would be you recommend for someone who just got finished with a Steinbeck binge? Looking to branch out a bit. Zola
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Junkie Disease posted:I am Digging the poo poo outta Blackwater it's good yeah
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Kvlt! posted:I've been reading a lot of Bukowski and I've been looking for similar stuff: lowlife, addiction, apathy, general scumminess, etc. Short stories are ok but novels are preferred. I'm looking for stuff that is lesser known and not by other beat writers. Junky - William S Burroughs fits this category nicely I think. Regarding "Ask the dust", I read it looking for Bukowski like stuff and found it entertaining.
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spandexcajun posted:Junky - William S Burroughs fits this category nicely I think. Regarding "Ask the dust", I read it looking for Bukowski like stuff and found it entertaining. (That's a beat writer) ( But I agree it's a good book and recommendation.)
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Franchescanado posted:(That's a beat writer) Ok then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Can%27t_Win_(book)
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That looks loving awesome. Throw that up in the BOTM poll.
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Franchescanado posted:(That's a beat writer) Ops, I missed that.
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Nohearum posted:What would be you recommend for someone who just got finished with a Steinbeck binge? Looking to branch out a bit. The Once and Future King by T.H. White?
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Read the book that steinbeck used the notes for to write the grapes of wrath and as a result wasn't published for decades: Whose names are unknown or l'assommoir that's cool too
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Looking to read on American music pre and post jazz. Jazz doesn't have to be the focus that's just how I arrived to this interest. Something explicitly about the history of jazz would also be grand.
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nearly killed em! posted:Looking to read on American music pre and post jazz. Jazz doesn't have to be the focus that's just how I arrived to this interest. Something explicitly about the history of jazz would also be grand. Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original by Robin Kelley is good.
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nearly killed em! posted:Looking to read on American music pre and post jazz. Jazz doesn't have to be the focus that's just how I arrived to this interest. Something explicitly about the history of jazz would also be grand. blues people by amiri baraka
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I just finished Running with the Buffaloes by Chris Lear. About the 1998 University of Colorado Men's Cross Country team. I have/had no interest in running or anything but went to CU and got it as a gift and loved it. Anyway I'm looking for a general direction of what to read next. Things I know I want: nonfiction or a HS history book (civil war/pre civil war) or a biography Things I love: skiing, the outdoors, architecture/buildings (like I wouldn't mind reading a book about the creation of something), cars, badass stuff, dreams of vagabonding or driving around the country in an RV going to national parks, animals Basically a 27 year old normal dude What I really liked about the book I just read was that it followed the team all season and was entirely about the lead up to and ending with the NCAA championship. I also really liked that about 1776, that it was justthat one year. But it's not a requirement for a book
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Possibly Iron and Silk by Mark Salzmann. Under the heading of "badass stuff". Autobiography by a young white American dude who moves to China to learn Kung Fu.
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5 RING SHRIMP posted:Things I know I want: nonfiction or a HS history book (civil war/pre civil war) or a biography The Tiger by John Vaillant, JF Smith's Nature Noir, Alan Weisman's The World Without Us
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5 RING SHRIMP posted:I just finished Running with the Buffaloes by Chris Lear. About the 1998 University of Colorado Men's Cross Country team. I have/had no interest in running or anything but went to CU and got it as a gift and loved it. Sup shrimp. Have you read any Jon Krakauer? Sounds like he might be up your alley. gently caress Brady
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hieronymous posting the golden bough in the gawain thread reminded me that i haven't read any modern academic/scholarly examinations of myth in a dog's age. any suggestions? obviously i've read franzen and campbell, i'm looking for something more contemporary and less discredited. less popular would also be a plus, as would a focus on western europe. thanks!
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Hello please recommendation to me. The vague part: I'm open to a wide range of genres and styles, with past successes in sci fi, historical fiction, etc, but mostly I'm after something engaging and ideally expansive without being obtuse. I've plenty of room for the Clouds Atlas and Houses of Leaveses of this world but this needs to be a bit more accessible because.. The specific part: .. I need it to be in audiobook form so I can listen while working on the house. I have an Audible account and listened to a few books there but it's so hit and miss and so many narrators drone away and make me want to kill myself. Some examples of how I've experienced prior (non-audio) books that spring to mind: The Doomsday Book: enjoyed it muchly Whatever the sequel was to The Doomsday Book: fuckin 6 hours of tossing about on a river, gently caress off Gardens of the Moon: very interesting concept, just could not get into it That Patrick Rothfuss one: less interesting concept, still could not get into it The Expanse: enjoyed, kinda burned out on it Iain M Banks: 20/60/20 excellent/decent/meh
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If you liked Connie Willis' Doomsday Book she has several more books in that setting. Try Blackout / All Clear.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:If you liked Connie Willis' Doomsday Book she has several more books in that setting. Try Blackout / All Clear. Is it (are they) narrated well and less tedious a story than To Say Nothing of the Dog?
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Gonna read some more Vonnegut after I finish the book I’m reading. What I’ve read in order of liked-greatly to meh. Mother Night Sirens of Titan Cats Cradle Slaughter House 5 What should I read next? Also, I’m reading The Idiot now and will move to Brothers Karamazov after chilling to a few easy reads. If I love Crime and Punishment and The Idiot, is it a sure thing that I need to read Tolstoy after Brothers K?
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Jaded Burnout posted:Is it (are they) narrated well and less tedious a story than To Say Nothing of the Dog? I like all three but Dog is a stylistic experiment, blackout / all clear is much closer to the prose style of doomsday book.
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Rolo posted:Gonna read some more Vonnegut after I finish the book I’m reading. What I’ve read in order of liked-greatly to meh. Bluebeard, then Breakfast of Champions
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I was gonna recommend Breakfast of Champions, yeah.
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Any recommendations for a good unabridged English translation for the Ramayana?
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Anyone got any good recommendation for books regarding mortuary sciences, the death industry, and societal mythologies involving death and the afterlife?
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Goodpancakes posted:Anyone got any good recommendation for books regarding mortuary sciences, the death industry, and societal mythologies involving death and the afterlife? mortuary science and the death industry: mary roach, stiff: the curious afterlives of human cadavers caitlin doughty, smoke gets in your eyes: and other lessons from the crematory charles wilkins, in the land of long fingernails: a gravedigger in the age of aquarius caitlin doughty, from here to eternity: traveling the world to find the good death judy melinek and t.j. mitchell, Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner chernobyl kinsman fucked around with this message at 05:36 on Dec 8, 2017 |
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Rolo posted:Gonna read some more Vonnegut after I finish the book I’m reading. What I’ve read in order of liked-greatly to meh. I always recommend Bluebeard as the most underrated Vonnegut. The Idiot is in my all-time top 5. While it's not quite as good, I think if you liked The Idiot you'll like Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham. It's interesting in the ways that it is thematically similar and in how it differs.
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Goodpancakes posted:Anyone got any good recommendation for books regarding mortuary sciences, the death industry, and societal mythologies involving death and the afterlife? Jessica Mitford's The American Way of Death is a good read although it's a bit old, of course.
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I've got this itching to revisit a childhood classic in a foreign language - what's the best English translation/edition of The Count of Monte Cristo? Ebook availability preferred.
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anilEhilated posted:I've got this itching to revisit a childhood classic in a foreign language - what's the best English translation/edition of The Count of Monte Cristo? Ebook availability preferred. I don't know about "best" but most American editions are based on a bowdlerized 19th century translation that cut out all the drug use etc. So make sure it's a *modern* translation.
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anilEhilated posted:I've got this itching to revisit a childhood classic in a foreign language - what's the best English translation/edition of The Count of Monte Cristo? Ebook availability preferred. robin buss
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anilEhilated posted:I've got this itching to revisit a childhood classic in a foreign language - what's the best English translation/edition of The Count of Monte Cristo? Ebook availability preferred. I love the version on Project Gutenberg. Just looked and oddly enough I don't see any info about who did the translation.
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regulargonzalez posted:I love the version on Project Gutenberg. Just looked and oddly enough I don't see any info about who did the translation. That's almost certainly an old public domain one, and robin buss says that all the old translations have serious problems and take liberties with the text.
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