What did you just finish reading?

#27
#27
Finished Outline, wasnt too awfully impressed a great writer but just not that interesting.

Started The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis. Hope he still has it.
 
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#28
#28
Finished two books this past week.
Gardens of the Moon (First book in Malzan Book of the Fallen) - I thought it was great.
The Wager - Made me glad not to have lived in the 1700's and be in the English Navy.
 
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bignewt said:
Its a seminal work but I would argue Rules of Attraction and Glamorama are both better books than American Psycho.
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Well I'll try Psycho first since I somewhat know the story. If I can get into his writing style I'll hit up the others. As long as it doesn't remind me of James Joyce or Sinclair Lewis I'm sure I'll be fine. Sadly I do have Ulysses on my classics "to read list" and I am just not sure if I'll ever be able to bring myself to do that.
 
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David Balducci, The Edge.

And just before that, Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914, Europe Goes to War
 
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FLVOL_79 said:
Well I'll try Psycho first since I somewhat know the story. If I can get into his writing style I'll hit up the others. As long as it doesn't remind me of James Joyce or Sinclair Lewis I'm sure I'll be fine. Sadly I do have Ulysses on my classics "to read list" and I am just not sure if I'll ever be able to bring myself to do that.
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Ive tried Ulysses. Its a tough nut. I pushed through till it got to the musical format. Now Sinclair Lewis I love.
 
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Just started Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. I've read 4 sci fi books in my life (that I remember). The Timothy Zahn Thrawn Star Wars books from the early 90's (which were great when I was a kid) and the Aftermath book from Wendigo which was a streaming pile of garbage.

So far this book is great. Only a handful of chapters in and went out and grabbed the rest of the series so I can finish them one after another.
 
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FLVOL_79 said:
Just started Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. I've read 4 sci fi books in my life (that I remember). The Timothy Zahn Thrawn Star Wars books from the early 90's (which were great when I was a kid) and the Aftermath book from Wendigo which was a streaming pile of garbage.

So far this book is great. Only a handful of chapters in and went out and grabbed the rest of the series so I can finish them one after another.
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Good book.
 
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bignewt said:
I really like Main Street.
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I'll definitely check it out. I have a few in front of it. There were a lot of good books published in the previous 20s.

I'm rereading the Bhagavad Gita at the moment.
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Ive tried Ulysses. Its a tough nut. I pushed through till it got to the musical format. Now Sinclair Lewis I love.
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It's a load but it does start to sing after one gets the hang of it. I thought it was a lot easier the second time through, not that I'd necessarily recommend that to others. It's not one of my favorites.
 
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#39
#39
Reading Revenge of Geography by Robert Kaplan.

I think my favorite current writers are Tom King and Ram V. They write comics. They’re really good.
 
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#43
Just finished reading The Sunlit Man by Brandon Sanderson. I started reading his stuff about a year ago. He is a master at world building
 
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bignewt said:
thats a tough read. I think I liked V more.
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I believe Against the Day is the only Pynchon novel I havent tried to read. Bleeding Edge was my least favorite, and I thoroughly enjoyed Mason & Dixon and Vineland. Despite the great cast, I was a bit disappointed with the adaptation of Inherent Vice.

I intend to do a second read of V and have never read any of his short stories
 
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ArdentVol said:
I believe Against the Day is the only Pynchon novel I havent tried to read. Bleeding Edge was my least favorite, and I thoroughly enjoyed Mason & Dixon and Vineland. Despite the great cast, I was a bit disappointed with the adaptation of Inherent Vice.

I intend to do a second read of V and have never read any of his short stories
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Mason & Dixon is on my list to read
 
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#49
Reading The River Between. Grabbed it from the library without knowing anything about it. I really like it. Going to get more by Thiong’o.
 
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#50
#50
Finished The Shards. About 200 pages too long but a banger ending. Starting The Guest by Emma Cline.
 
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