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Post by twothousandonemark on Jan 20, 2021 9:44:04 GMT
Ordered over Christmas, pleasant surprise it's more than just a picture book. Internationally submitted travel locales with full write ups about real places one might see in a Wes Anderson film.
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Post by darknessfish on Jan 20, 2021 11:35:19 GMT
Le Carré's last book, which is the first book I've ever read from him, another Christmas present.
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Post by Nalkarj on Jan 20, 2021 13:26:49 GMT
I like the cover art. Is there anything pulpy about this mystery novel? Anything subversive? I like pulp. It’s not pulpy—on the contrary, it feels very literary, as most Millar does—or subversive. I’m not even sure I’d call it a mystery, at least in the detective-story, Agatha Christie sense. That is to say: the book does have clues that point to a surprise ending, but they’re all for the reader. No super-sleuth figures them out or explains them. And that surprise ending has to do with character relationships rather than crimes or anything like that.
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Post by hi224 on Jan 21, 2021 8:21:46 GMT
Le Carré's last book, which is the first book I've ever read from him, another Christmas present. Such a Titanic loss.
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Post by hi224 on Jan 21, 2021 8:22:31 GMT
As for me a book about a Pier Pasolini.
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Post by Marv on Jan 21, 2021 11:30:27 GMT
The Last Argument for Kings by Joe Abercrombie
I’m partway thru a few others that I haven’t picked up in a month or so. Went back to work so it may be slow going for now.
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Post by novastar6 on Jan 21, 2021 16:46:15 GMT
Thriller 2 Burn, Witch, Burn A condensed version of Ben-Hur
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Jan 23, 2021 4:24:00 GMT
Wow. I just started it last week! I'm really enjoying it. I find the protagonist, Alex Portnoy, relatable, funny and mostly sympathetic. Roth's observations about other people, especially his parents, are astute and funny. I am a little over half way through it. So, did you like it? it was ok. stopped about 1/2 was thru.
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Jan 23, 2021 4:24:21 GMT
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Post by ghostintheshell on Jan 24, 2021 3:57:17 GMT
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Post by gspdude on Jan 26, 2021 15:44:55 GMT
The 2nd book in a series, following The Collapsing Empire.
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Post by Zos on Jan 28, 2021 12:53:20 GMT
After seeing just about every Dracula movie made, I'm finally getting around to the book. I gather it's had quite an impact on film and literature over the years, so its reputation is probably going to survive my criticism. But I find it such a disappointing book, with a really rushed schoolboy ending, which feels like he just thought "yep, that's book length, I'll stop writing now". Listening to a full cast Audible version at the moment, better than reading the book as it's such a stodgy flowery sort of narrative. Like Steven King, good storyteller, lousy writer.
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Post by Zos on Jan 28, 2021 12:55:47 GMT
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Jan 31, 2021 22:04:12 GMT
The Girl Who Lived Twice, by David Lagercrantz (after which, I intent to resume the book about Mussolini I posted some time back)
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Post by Ass_E9 on Jan 31, 2021 22:15:55 GMT
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Post by hilda on Feb 1, 2021 2:09:03 GMT
I am reading Pomegranate Soup by Marsha Mehran (2005). The plot revolves around immigrant Iranian sisters living in Ireland.
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Feb 4, 2021 20:07:33 GMT
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Post by Ass_E9 on Feb 4, 2021 21:09:09 GMT
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Post by theravenking on Feb 6, 2021 17:52:04 GMT
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Post by gspdude on Feb 6, 2021 20:30:21 GMT
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