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Bammer wrote:Someone hook me up with a book recommendation please. I have enjoyed Dan Brown and David Baldacci.

Prefer fiction, nothing sappy or uber-intellectual. Looking for a page turner. Gracias.
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Finished this a week or so ago and I can't recommend it enough.
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I looked up all these rec's and The Martian lools like the big winner. Gracias.
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Pastoralia by George Saunders.
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Finally reading Ellroy's 'The Black Dahlia'.
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Birds in Hell wrote:Finally reading Ellroy's 'The Black Dahlia'.
Halfway through and thinking of putting it aside. Not finding it particularly enjoyable, which is both surprising and a little disappointing.
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Birds in Hell wrote:
Birds in Hell wrote:Finally reading Ellroy's 'The Black Dahlia'.
Halfway through and thinking of putting it aside. Not finding it particularly enjoyable, which is both surprising and a little disappointing.
Skip ahead to LA Confidential.
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Birds in Hell wrote:
Birds in Hell wrote:Finally reading Ellroy's 'The Black Dahlia'.
Halfway through and thinking of putting it aside. Not finding it particularly enjoyable, which is both surprising and a little disappointing.
How dare you not like a piece of literature that other people tell you you're supposed to enjoy.
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Bammer wrote:
Birds in Hell wrote:
Birds in Hell wrote:Finally reading Ellroy's 'The Black Dahlia'.
Halfway through and thinking of putting it aside. Not finding it particularly enjoyable, which is both surprising and a little disappointing.
How dare you not like a piece of literature that other people tell you you're supposed to enjoy.
It's not that, it's more that I'd recently read tons of Raymond Chandler and thought Ellroy would be a satisfying progression.

It's not like I viscerally hate the book or anything, it's just been kind of a thankless slog so far.
bart wrote:Skip ahead to LA Confidential.
Duly noted.

I think I'll stick with it for now and, once I've got through a few other books I've been waiting on starting, try Ellroy again and see if I have more luck.
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The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Chabon...this is one gay a$$ novel.
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i don't care how many terrible roles he's been in, i'll always love cage
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lennytheweedwhacker wrote:The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Chabon...this is one gay a$$ novel.
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Birds in Hell wrote:
Birds in Hell wrote:Finally reading Ellroy's 'The Black Dahlia'.
Halfway through and thinking of putting it aside. Not finding it particularly enjoyable, which is both surprising and a little disappointing.
So I finished it. Glad I stuck it out, things picked up a bit through the last portion of the book. I'll give this Ellroy fellow another shot.
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Bob Loblaw wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Chabon...this is one gay a$$ novel.
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thinking about going with empire falls next...would mickey approve?
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lennytheweedwhacker wrote:thinking about going with empire falls next...would mickey approve?
only if you do it while sticking a finger down your throat
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Alex wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:thinking about going with empire falls next...would mickey approve?
only if you do it while sticking a finger down your throat
that's rude
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lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
Alex wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:thinking about going with empire falls next...would mickey approve?
only if you do it while sticking a finger down your throat
that's rude
to you or to mickey?
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Alex wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
Alex wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:thinking about going with empire falls next...would mickey approve?
only if you do it while sticking a finger down your throat
that's rude
to you or to mickey?
neither
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I read the Blue is the Warmest Color graphic novel last night. It was quite good, which made the movie seem even worse (and I already hated it).
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