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Post by teekoh on Feb 1, 2024 16:32:45 GMT -6
January 2024 completed books: Dune Messiah: This is a wild book. Really hoping Villeneuve is able to stay on board long enough to see this story through. Messiah’s a banger. I was redacted while reading a particularly stressful section and ended up tearing out a chunk of my beard. Highly recommend. |
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Post by sthubbins on Feb 2, 2024 8:15:48 GMT -6
2023 so far: The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan Midnight's Children by Salman Rushie Tread of Angels by Rebecca Roanhorse Taking Care by Joy Williams Actual Air by David Berman Rest is Resistance by Tricia Hersey Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (reread) Minima Moralia by Theodor Adorno 10 Days That Shook the World by John Reed American Pastoral by Philip Roth Stay True by Hua Hsu A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow Bluets by Maggie Nelson Sent for You Yesterday by John Edgar Wideman Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin On Being Blue by William Gass The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein A Swim in the a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders Train Dreams by Denis Johnson Now: The Birth Partner by Penny Simkin Underworld by Don Delillo Three Lives by Gertrude Stein I put a pin in all of those 3 under "Now" but wrapped up 2023 with three others instead: What You Are Looking for is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama (not good) Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner (pretty good but I would've liked it better if I'd read it when I was in college) Chronicles Vol. 1 by Bob Dylan (good) So far in 2024 I've finished up Three Lives, read Ernaux's Simple Passion and gotten back into Underworld. I don't think I will finish The Birth Partner now that I've already been a partner to a successful birth. |
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Post by Tweet on Mar 14, 2024 17:04:49 GMT -6
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Post by dij22 on Mar 14, 2024 18:41:18 GMT -6
As an English teacher I should have probably read more of these, but I counted 57 out of 136 |
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Post by Tweet on Mar 14, 2024 19:02:22 GMT -6
I and a couple of other students ate hamburgers and sloppy joe sandwiches at a table in my college's cafeteria with one of these authors. Vonnegut? |
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Post by nanatod on Mar 14, 2024 20:26:36 GMT -6
Ralph Ellison
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Post by scoots on Mar 14, 2024 22:23:18 GMT -6
Yeah I didn't read many of those. Good list for books to maybe check out. I laughed when I saw The Corrections included - I bought it and couldn't make it through 100 pages. Truly awful.
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Post by zircona1 on Mar 15, 2024 7:33:38 GMT -6
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I've never read The Sound and the Fury, but I only made it through 100 pages of Light in August before quitting. Faulkner is difficult for me.
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Mar 15, 2024 8:24:39 GMT -6
Honestly eating sloppy joes with Ralph Ellison might be the coolest thing in your trapper keeper |
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Post by scoots on Mar 15, 2024 8:28:48 GMT -6
Two books I recently finished:
The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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Post by sthubbins on Mar 26, 2024 13:37:57 GMT -6
Really haven't read enough of that Atlantic list to judge but I'm surprised The Known World isn't on there
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Post by scoots on May 5, 2024 7:07:56 GMT -6
Finished up Salem's Lot last night. First Stephen King book I've read since high school (The Shining). I'd be curious if folks had some recommendations for what book to get next - I figured I might start the Dark Tower series.
Anyway, Salem's Lot was good. Build up was okay, and then it really picked up to the point where I didn't want to put the book down once it got 150 or so pages in. I was kind of disappointed in the ending - felt it almost wrapped up too quickly, which feels impossible for a 600+ page book.
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Post by cosmo on May 5, 2024 7:17:10 GMT -6
The Dark Tower series is a must, but I would also recommend The Stand, Pet Semetary, and one of his newer books, Fairy Tale.
BTW, some of the Dark Tower series has something in common with 'Salem's Lot. Sorry, no spoilers.
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Post by zircona1 on May 5, 2024 13:31:37 GMT -6
I never read The Dark Tower because I'm not really into the fantasy genre. For novels, I'll echo cosmo on The Stand, and I'll throw in The Shining. IT is my favorite, but it's 900+ pages (actually, The Stand is rather lengthy as well). His short story collections Night Shift and Skeleton Crew are also excellent. |
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Post by chvrchbarrel on May 5, 2024 13:52:48 GMT -6
Since you read Salem's Lot and The Shining, I would just stay early and pick up Carrie, Night Shift, and Pet Sematary. The first two are a breeze to read - I think I read Carrie in a day and Night Shift is short stories like zircona said.
Misery is another one that really actually freaked me out while I read it. The movie is great and the book is better.
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Post by chvrchbarrel on May 5, 2024 13:55:18 GMT -6
the Bachman stories (Rage, Running Man, Long Walk, and Thinner) are also all great
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Post by cosmo on May 5, 2024 17:18:07 GMT -6
the Bachman stories (Rage, Running Man, Long Walk, and Thinner) are also all great is one of my early favorites. |
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Post by chvrchbarrel on May 6, 2024 9:49:31 GMT -6
I actually think I’m gonna re-read early King, I read most of that when I was like a freshman in high school or potentially younger.
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Post by ten15 on May 9, 2024 5:03:36 GMT -6
“It” is one of my favorite Stephen King books that hasn’t been mentioned. I didn’t care for The Dark Tower series when I tried to read it (genre thing for me) and did not like Tommyknockers at all. Everything else I’ve read by him I’ve at least enjoyed. Some of his newer, pulp fiction-y, dime store novels are really fun. Short story compilations are also mostly great.
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Post by scoots on May 9, 2024 13:00:01 GMT -6
I ended up getting the first book in The Dark Tower series since it was immediately available from the library. Figured I'd give it a shot and then move onto It or one of the short stories collections if it's not my thing. Also started this, and it's terrific:  |
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Jul 12, 2024 9:30:12 GMT -6
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Jul 12, 2024 9:37:11 GMT -6
number one:  |
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Post by scoots on Jul 12, 2024 9:41:10 GMT -6
This was insanely good. Music plays a huge role throughout the book. It's a really devastating story, but it's so beautifully written. Also finished the first Dark Tower book and loved it. About midway through the second book and it's been okay. |
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Post by zircona1 on Jul 12, 2024 9:45:38 GMT -6
Ooooh no, there's a paywall |
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Post by sthubbins on Jul 12, 2024 11:21:13 GMT -6
I've read 27 of them.
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Post by doso on Jul 12, 2024 11:52:23 GMT -6
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Post by irvred on Jul 12, 2024 12:01:46 GMT -6
Read 17, liked 6 of them. Books are bad now. I liked looking over the select submissions and seeing 1. Stephen King put one of his own books on his list, and 2. James Patterson is a fucking moron.
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Post by zircona1 on Jul 12, 2024 12:11:03 GMT -6
Grazie. I've read 7, not counting White Teeth (which I bailed on 2/3 of the way thru - I got lost). I'm currently 200 pages in to Infinite Jest (not on the list, but it's what I'm reading now). |
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Post by alady on Jul 12, 2024 12:20:05 GMT -6
I'm surprised I've read 18 of them. Maybe four or five I really liked (A Visit from the Goon Squad, Middlesex, Random Family, Americanah, Veronica). Glad to see two Denis Johnson books on the list, though I haven't read either. Demon Copperhead is on my nightstand.
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Post by munkivelli on Jul 12, 2024 12:32:47 GMT -6
Read 10 of them, but there are a few that have been sitting on my shelf unread for years. Trying to recall if I actually finished The Corrections
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