I tried a few years back. Everyone says its so funny but I only found it funny once or twice. I will finish it someday but it was so long winded.
What's everyone reading?
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The repeated revisiting of the whiteness of the whale wore me out.
Ross Macdonald is my favorite mystery writer. I have multiple copies of all his books , and have read them all multiple times. Sleeping Beauty got me started.
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Ross Macdonald - Wikipedia
Ross Macdonald is my favorite mystery writer. I have multiple copies of all his books , and have read them all multiple times. Sleeping Beauty got me started.
Ross Macdonald - Wikipedia
There is a modern Noir writer I really like named SA Crosby. Not mystery per se but I read Blacktop Wasteland this year and loved it.
I admit I'm almost entirely using audio books at this point... but as a sci-fi geek I have pretty much gone through the following (and enjoyed them all):
- Bobiverse
- MR Forbes' Forgotten Universe/Sheriff Duke
- Craig Alanson Expeditionary Force
- Brandon Sanderson - Everything Cosmere related
- Galaxy's Edge
- Dungeon Crawler Carl
There are more, but these are probably the favorites in my library at this point. A lot of these tend to be series that somewhat drag on for the $$, but I don't care.
- Bobiverse
- MR Forbes' Forgotten Universe/Sheriff Duke
- Craig Alanson Expeditionary Force
- Brandon Sanderson - Everything Cosmere related
- Galaxy's Edge
- Dungeon Crawler Carl
There are more, but these are probably the favorites in my library at this point. A lot of these tend to be series that somewhat drag on for the $$, but I don't care.
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It has the same effect for me as a nostalgic song. So many passages that are just incredibly written, so many quotes that I think of all the time. Each part of the story still has me excited to read it again. I'd love nothing better than to write a novel because of this work of art, but it's the bar in my mind and there's no way I could ever measure up to it.
Always like seeing this thread bumped. I’m also mostly audiobooks with a few physical copies mixed in.
The Tiger by John Vaillant
Fly Girls
The Library Book
This is Happiness by Niall Williams
Pretty sure some of these were from this thread. Also listened to some Eric Ugland books about people that got inserted into a video game. I compare them to cable action movies. Good enough to listen to while doing other things but not real groundbreaking literature. I’m on Turn Coat in the Dresden files so please cool it on any spoilers. I go back to the CJ Box series every so often. Not ahead of the other holds but it fills the time well enough when needed.
The Tiger by John Vaillant
Fly Girls
The Library Book
This is Happiness by Niall Williams
Pretty sure some of these were from this thread. Also listened to some Eric Ugland books about people that got inserted into a video game. I compare them to cable action movies. Good enough to listen to while doing other things but not real groundbreaking literature. I’m on Turn Coat in the Dresden files so please cool it on any spoilers. I go back to the CJ Box series every so often. Not ahead of the other holds but it fills the time well enough when needed.
I loved his first two books. For me, his most recent one was just okay, though somebody mentioned earlier that the movie rights were sold for it so...
I read Project Hail Mary a couple months ago. Real good. Movie is coming soon.
Pappyland by Wright Thompson. Story of Pappy Van Winkle bourbon. Very good and want to read The Barn. He also wrote it about the death of Emmitt Till who was killed 20
miles from where he grew up in Mississippi and 3 miles from where Arch Manning grew up. Listened to a podcast about that book. Crazy what textbooks in Mississippi today say about the Till murder.
miles from where he grew up in Mississippi and 3 miles from where Arch Manning grew up. Listened to a podcast about that book. Crazy what textbooks in Mississippi today say about the Till murder.
My mom had 6 kids in the span of 10 years so she felt like she always just had a kid or was pregnant with another one. She said one of us kids bringing Green Eggs and Ham to her to read was her worst nightmare while she had morning sickness.
Just finished The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan. He writes about historical events/people. Pretty solid story teller and interesting, easy reads. His books I've read:
- The Worst Hard Time: Life during dust bowl period in Oklahoma panhandle area.
- The Big Burn: Story of Catastrophic Wildfire in Montana around 1910 and early times of national park under Teddy Roosevelt
- Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The life of Edward Curtis, photographer of American Indian Culture around 1900
- Immortal Irishman: The life Thomas Meagher, from Irish Revolutionary to Life on Tasmania Penal Colony to US Civil War General to Montana's first "Governor"
- A Fever in the Heartland: Story of the KKK's Rise in Indiana and American Politics in 1920's and the Death of a Women That Stopped the Man Behind It.
- A Pilgrimage to Eternity: Recounts his Personal Faith Seeking Journey on Pilgrimage Route from England, Through France to Rome
Just finished Nobody's Girl . It's shocking, sickening, enraging, saddening all the same time. We've got to cultivate better men.
Next up is A Way Out Of No Way by Reverend Warnock
Next up is A Way Out Of No Way by Reverend Warnock
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