What's everyone reading?

Btw for everyone waiting on book 8 of DCC in the future you can alway just sub to his pateron and get it months early. I have had parade of horrible read for a couple months now.

This is partially to avoid spoilers but shockingly the copies (they are epub/pdfs) don’t get leaked
 
Just started "The Enormous Room" by e e Cummings (yes, the poet) who was imprisoned in France for three months in 1917. French censors had read the letters that his friend had written home criticizing the war, they were deemed seditious, and Cummings was found guilty by association.

This eye-witness and unsurprisingly poetic account of the prison conditions he and others endured at La Ferté is a master-work in narration, description, language (e.g., just saw the word fol-de-rol). It is horrific and humorous at the same time.

Here's a couple of screenshots (yeah, reading it online through my local library's subscription to Bridges):

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On a more humorous note (and they are frequent):

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Unfortunately, literature of this caliber is why I mostly cannot stomach contemporary fiction.
 
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Btw for everyone waiting on book 8 of DCC in the future you can alway just sub to his pateron and get it months early. I have had parade of horrible read for a couple months now.

This is partially to avoid spoilers but shockingly the copies (they are epub/pdfs) don’t get leaked
Definitely excited for it to come out this week. Just about finished with Operation Bounce House
 
For the past week I keep seeing reviews and videos of the Pulitzer prize winning novel for fiction, Angel Down by Daniel Kraus.

Basically a horror novel set in WWII.

I was down to read it...then the reviewers started saying the thing that is giving me pause.

...the entire novel is one sentence. It's an entire, single unbroken sentence and the novel is 304 pages.

The reason for it makes sense, to make you feel inside this single soldier's head and be along with his thoughts and be anxiety-inducing. I just think it would cause me extreme anxiety so not sure I can do it.

So someone else read it and tell me what you think. :)

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For the past week I keep seeing reviews and videos of the Pulitzer prize winning novel for fiction, Angel Down by Daniel Kraus.

Basically a horror novel set in WWII.

I was down to read it...then the reviewers started saying the thing that is giving me pause.

...the entire novel is one sentence. It's an entire, single unbroken sentence and the novel is 304 pages.

The reason for it makes sense, to make you feel inside this single soldier's head and be along with his thoughts and be anxiety-inducing. I just think it would cause me extreme anxiety so not sure I can do it.

So someone else read it and tell me what you think. :)

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I started reading it but couldn't finish the first sentence . . . . .


Just Kidding. I haven't even heard of it.
 
I started reading it but couldn't finish the first sentence . . . . .


Just Kidding. I haven't even heard of it.
OK, it looks like single sentence, no periods, may be true, but the single sentence is broken into short paragraphs. It looks intriguing.

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I literally have the cart up on Amazon to buy this and every day the past week I'm like '**** it' but then I just can't pull the trigger. I probably will. It's $15 so if I try it and it's not for me I'm not out that much.
I put a hold on it from my library. I rarely buy books anymore as I have several bookcases full and 98% of new books I want to read are available from the library.
 
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Just finished The Heaven and Earth Grocery Story by James McBride. Fantastic! Great descriptions of life in the 1930s for Black and Jewish Americans. His characters are so deep and well-developed, even the secondary ones! Highly recommend.

Just started The Wager by David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon. The Wager has been on my list for a year or so - got a trade paperback copy for my birthday. I'm not even 100 pages in yet and am enjoying every minute of it!
 
Man there is a part of the new DCC book I really wish was animated to watch. Bar fight to Take On Me. Absolutely would be amazing.
 
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Wrapping up "Poland 1939" tomorrow. It's incredible, and (no surprise) leaves a person angry and depressed, but pretty impressed with the Poles.

"France: The Dark Years" is off to a nice little start.
"The Holocaust: A New History" is one of the most readable things I've seen. I'm early in, but it's set up for exactly what I was looking for.

The stack next to the couch fits the same theme. I've got a few months of binging.
 
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SIAP or discussed. Gonna give this a whirl. It might break my brain but oh well.

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Sounds great but complex:



NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Humanity is under assault by malevolent “antimemes”—ideas that attack memory, identity, and the fabric of reality itself—in this whip-smart tale of science-fiction horror, an entirely reimagined and expanded version of the beloved online novel.

“Utterly brilliant . . . a dazzling, confusing novel with a highly effective, creeping sense of dread . . . I can’t recommend it enough.”—Charlie Jane Anders, The Washington Post

“[An] unforgettable, mind-bendingly brilliant novel.”—The Guardian

They’re all around us, hiding in plain sight.

One could be in the room with you now, just to your left. You could be seeing it right now—but from this second to the next, you’ll forget that you did. If you managed to jot down a note, the paper would look blank to you afterward.

These entities can feed on your most cherished memories, the things that make you you—and you’ll never even know anything changed.

They can turn you into a living ghost—make it so you’re standing next to your spouse, screaming in their ear, and they won’t know you’re there.

They’re predators equipped with the ultimate camouflage, living black holes for information, able to consume our very memories of their existence.

And they aren’t just feeding on us. They’re invading.

But how do you fight an enemy when you can never even know that you’re at war? How do you contain something you can’t record or remember?

Welcome to the Antimemetics Division.
 
SIAP or discussed. Gonna give this a whirl. It might break my brain but oh well.

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Sounds great but complex:



NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Humanity is under assault by malevolent “antimemes”—ideas that attack memory, identity, and the fabric of reality itself—in this whip-smart tale of science-fiction horror, an entirely reimagined and expanded version of the beloved online novel.

“Utterly brilliant . . . a dazzling, confusing novel with a highly effective, creeping sense of dread . . . I can’t recommend it enough.”—Charlie Jane Anders, The Washington Post

“[An] unforgettable, mind-bendingly brilliant novel.”—The Guardian

They’re all around us, hiding in plain sight.

One could be in the room with you now, just to your left. You could be seeing it right now—but from this second to the next, you’ll forget that you did. If you managed to jot down a note, the paper would look blank to you afterward.

These entities can feed on your most cherished memories, the things that make you you—and you’ll never even know anything changed.

They can turn you into a living ghost—make it so you’re standing next to your spouse, screaming in their ear, and they won’t know you’re there.

They’re predators equipped with the ultimate camouflage, living black holes for information, able to consume our very memories of their existence.

And they aren’t just feeding on us. They’re invading.

But how do you fight an enemy when you can never even know that you’re at war? How do you contain something you can’t record or remember?

Welcome to the Antimemetics Division.
This is on my list too—will be curious to hear/read your review.
 
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