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redshirt posted:Speaking of mysteries in monasteries, one of my favorite sci-fi books ever (I guess it's sci-fi; it might have another genre though) is "A Canticle for Liebowitz". I read it again from time to time and just love it. So odd a story, such a strange book, and yet it's hypnotizing. It was good but seriously suffers from a complete lack of female characters The few that are in there mean nothing and it's super anti-abortion as well So it's fabulous at world building and it makes you think but it has a fatal flaw of being completely male centered. I also really enjoyed the realization that part of the end of Babylon 5 really stole from it
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redshirt posted:lol I tried to pitch it to my wonderful book club, which is mostly women (2 other guys and me), and for some reason I led with "Yeah, this book has almost no women characters and certainly no female perspective" trying to lead with humor, but I doomed myself right there. Yea It was an entertaining few hours and I'm glad that I read it but it keeps it from being an absolute masterpiece. You get used to it but this time it was just glaring Watership Down mentioned a few posts above was the same way I would have to say that is a masterpiece but again---- all guys It's common Spinz fucked around with this message at 00:25 on Jan 26, 2024 |
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TK8325 posted:I'm in the middle of War and Peace and I'm really enjoying it. I don't get the reputation it has as a hard book to read. It's not a difficult book at all. It's fantastic I reread it every decade at least. And after you've read it it's fun to watch all the different movies
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Narzack posted:I'm reading Shogun right now, because it was my father-in-law's favorite book. It's 1210 pages, and the first 600 were a slog. But once I got past that halfway point, it kinda just clicked for me and now I'm really into it. Still 300 pages to go, but I really like it now. All of Clavells works are like history porn/trash and I enjoyed them in my 20s and 30s as well as James Michener who wrote similar sagas. Pre internet I used to buy paperbacks by the large grocery sack full from second hand stores 
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Reading Shogun again because of the hulu series and I'm having to do it online for free on my phone [I'm poor,] and man do I hate reading a book online. It's literally less pleasurable. I am extremely grateful I found it though I read super fast and I SO miss all of my paperbacks
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TK8325 posted:im on the epilogue of war and peace and for christs sake tolstoy wrap it up already. good book though Isn't it? I'm due for a reread 
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