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Going for 24 this year - I figure I can handle two books a month ...hopefully. :\ I'm also going to follow the challenges in the OP because that sounds super fun and I want to read outside of my comfort zone for sure!
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I finished my first book of the new year today! Going to keep my announcements and my thoughts until the end of the month, but I'm glad to have started the year off strong.  I also think I added everyone who has posted their Goodreads here. My link: http://goodreads.com/nickisalright Feel free to be my friend!
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Jan 7, 2015 05:34
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Dienes posted:You might like Of Dice and Men. Sam Shepherd! True West and Buried Child are both excellent. Edward Albee is also very good, check out Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and The Zoo Story. A lot of Neil Simon's works are good reads. Rumors, Brighton Beach Memoirs, and Chapter Two are nice.
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Exit the King by Ionesco is also great, gotta love some Theatre of the Absurd.
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Man, it sure felt like a lot when January started, but it was only 3! I guess I gotta keep rolling~ 1. Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding. I've heard this one bandied about the scifi thread here fondly (pretty sure that's where I picked it up from) and it was...merely ok? It took a long time to get going and there was a LOT of descriptive prose of every goddamned place they went to that I wanted to skip over, and really far too much obscuring information from the reader for the sake of creating ~mystery~ (e.g. "He really wish things hadn't gone down that way, but then...that was a long time ago....he shook his head and changed the subject" type crap). But at the end of the day, I wanted to finish the book, I enjoyed the characters, the dialogue, and the action, and I might even want to read a sequel, so I guess it accomplished what it set out to do. 2. Oleanna by David Mamet. Here's my first play to check off, probably will read others. Oleanna is still great and it's awesome to return to it since I last read it when I was 18. Completely different interpretation and reaction to it this time around, imagine in another 12 years the same thing will happen. Very polarizing play, recommended for people if you haven't read it before. 3. Men Explain Things To Me by Rebecca Solnit. There's a lot of really good material in here, but it gets a little bogged down by all the hard and fast factoids Solnit shoots at you. A few of the essays aren't as strong as the opener, but overall it's not bad and at 80 pages it was a thought provoking read talking about social problems we should all be thinking over and feeling outraged about.
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