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The Crossing - Cormac McCarthy First book in this trilogy hooked me, this one is even better. His writing is very matter of fact in a way that just feels serene. The Wings of the Dove - Henry James It's good to go slow and just let it seep. Feels like I should get a paperback and go through it with a highlighter.
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redshirt posted:I enjoyed parts of Artemis, but there was plenty I did not like. He should never try and write a woman protagonist, at least until he's a much better writer. I skipped Artemis, and thought The Martian was solid. PHM is one of my favorite books in the past 20 years.
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Hunter S Thompson - Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72 He was loving prescient about so much of modern America.
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Audiobooks are good for novels and nonfiction but for anything with heavier prose or just dense writing in general they don’t work at all for me. Something like McCarthy deserves a slow and deliberate reading.
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Picked up some new books thanks to this thread McCarthy - Sutree Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James - The Wings of the Dove Mostly read on the Kindle but it’ll be good to sit down with these in paperback and dig in.
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:I really like Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series. Combination of dumb writing, good writing, dumb bullshit, and fun bullshit. I honestly can't wait til his next book Yeah, legit the best pulpy trash out there
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Aliensandwich posted:I've been chipping away at Blood Meridian over the past couple of months. I always want to chug a glass of water and take a shower after every couple of chapters. really curious how that film is going to turn out and what they do with the character of The Kid
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Really wander how much of a participant they'll make him vs observer, since so much of the book leaves that unsaid, and that makes for a vastly different story based on interpretation.
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:kinda broke my heart when Murphy died in the last Dresden book  if i hadnt just read that last week I'd be pissed right now.also that sucked poo poo, like the entire book. what a stupid way for that character to go. he burned 16 books worth of good will with that dumpster fire of a book.
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Captain Hygiene posted:Moral: never read a series more than seven books long Point taken, but also they're pulpy comic level stuff, takes 3-5 of them to equal a "real" read. Mumpy Puffinz posted:She better come back! Oh god, that would be even worse.
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Bad Purchase posted:anyone know a good book with forum moderation best practices?
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Apr 6, 2024 05:28
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The modern kindles weigh a lot less than a modern phone. Mine weighs nothing, the battery lasts over a month reading daily, and the screen looks a million times better for reading. It was also under $100.
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Vile_Nihlist666 posted:
Ok, I'm sold. I've been wanting to read more american history and this sounds great in topic fraught with bullshit
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