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Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue January 18, 2022 9:15 pm
by epilogue
Simple Torture wrote:Malloy wrote:Simple Torture wrote:
nice
Favorite book this year so far; read 100 pages in a day (approx., since it's like 25% on Kindle), which never happens anymore.
Big fan of this book.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue January 18, 2022 9:24 pm
by Simple Torture
tragabigzanda wrote:I didn’t know he had a new book out. Synopsis sounds great. I’ll add it to the list.
Sorry, this one is actually old, it's just my favorite I've read this year so far. Opened the year with a disappointment (Station 11), a clunker (The Calcutta Chromosome), and a fun little diversion (Night Train). Lush Life is the first one I've picked up that I haven't been able to put down.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue January 18, 2022 9:28 pm
by epilogue
Man, Station Eleven is so much better than Lush Life. And I goddamn love Lush Life.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue January 18, 2022 9:30 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
blueviper wrote:The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Michael Chabon
I really enjoyed this one.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue January 18, 2022 9:33 pm
by epilogue
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:blueviper wrote:The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Michael Chabon
I really enjoyed this one.
Did you read Moonglow?
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue January 18, 2022 9:33 pm
by Simple Torture
I still haven't been able to nail down what I was looking for in Station Eleven that it didn't deliver on. I was much more interested in the older characters who were already aged in the "old world" than I was in the youngsters, so those parts--like Clark's and Jeevan's--were my favorites.
Lush Life, the way the dialogue brings the world to life is my favorite part so far. Every character has a unique voice. I also just started rewatching Homicide, which it reminds me a lot of. So it hit at just the right time.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue January 18, 2022 9:37 pm
by epilogue
He wrote for The Wire didn't he? So it makes sense that this reminds you of Homicide.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue January 18, 2022 9:40 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue January 18, 2022 9:43 pm
by Simple Torture
epilogue wrote:He wrote for The Wire didn't he? So it makes sense that this reminds you of Homicide.
I don't think I ever really became aware of who he was until The Deuce came out (maybe The Night Of?) and I've been meaning to read him since.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue January 18, 2022 9:47 pm
by Norah
I'm on the last few chapters of the second Wheel of Time Book. Also reading Rick Perlstein's book on the Goldwater campaign.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue January 18, 2022 9:49 pm
by epilogue
How do you like Wheel of Time?
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue January 18, 2022 9:50 pm
by Norah
It's a bit young adult-y in terms of reading level, but I'm enjoying it a lot.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue January 18, 2022 9:51 pm
by epilogue
Simple Torture wrote:epilogue wrote:He wrote for The Wire didn't he? So it makes sense that this reminds you of Homicide.
I don't think I ever really became aware of who he was until The Deuce came out (maybe The Night Of?) and I've been meaning to read him since.
Gotcha. I didn't know who he was until one of the folks in my writer's group told me that one is my pieces was similar to Price. They thought I'd really like his stuff and recommended Lush Life.
That's all I've read by him.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue January 18, 2022 9:52 pm
by epilogue
Norris wrote:It's a bit young adult-y in terms of reading level, but I'm enjoying it a lot.
Would you recommend it?
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue January 18, 2022 10:02 pm
by Norah
epilogue wrote:Norris wrote:It's a bit young adult-y in terms of reading level, but I'm enjoying it a lot.
Would you recommend it?
yeah if you're into fantasy
beware though, the first third of the first book is a big LOTR ripoff, but then it splits
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue January 18, 2022 10:11 pm
by epilogue
Norris wrote:epilogue wrote:Norris wrote:It's a bit young adult-y in terms of reading level, but I'm enjoying it a lot.
Would you recommend it?
yeah if you're into fantasy
beware though, the first third of the first book is a big LOTR ripoff, but then it splits
I'm not a big LotR guy, so I probably won't even notice!
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue January 18, 2022 10:12 pm
by Norah
epilogue wrote:Norris wrote:epilogue wrote:Norris wrote:It's a bit young adult-y in terms of reading level, but I'm enjoying it a lot.
Would you recommend it?
yeah if you're into fantasy
beware though, the first third of the first book is a big LOTR ripoff, but then it splits
I'm not a big LotR guy, so I probably won't even notice!
Fantastic!
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue January 18, 2022 10:38 pm
by Mickey
Norris wrote:I'm on the last few chapters of the second Wheel of Time Book. Also reading Rick Perlstein's book on the Goldwater campaign.
I've been slowly plodding through this one as back-up bedtime reading for a few months now. It's really interesting but man does he get into the weeds a bit.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue January 18, 2022 11:17 pm
by Norah
Mickey wrote:Norris wrote:I'm on the last few chapters of the second Wheel of Time Book. Also reading Rick Perlstein's book on the Goldwater campaign.
I've been slowly plodding through this one as back-up bedtime reading for a few months now. It's really interesting but man does he get into the weeds a bit.
I'd agree with that.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed January 19, 2022 12:00 am
by Mickey
More than I ever really wanted to know about F. Cliff White.