What did you just finish reading?

#176
#176
Finished Wellness by Nathan Hill. Pretty standard book club fare. You get used to dense, eccentric stories and a conventional one tends to bore.

Started The Winter of my Discontent by Steinbeck. Realized after I started it Ive already read it but hey, its Steinbeck so let's dance again.
 
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I revisit Tortilla Flat and Cannery Row fairly regularly. Travels with Charlie is a good read too.

Just finished Shogun p.1 and p.2.

Reading Sinopticon now. It’s a collection of sci-fi short stories from Chinese authors. Really enjoying it so far.
 
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Just finished The Devil's Hand, book #4 in the Jack Carr series. That one hit a little close to home after the CV19 pandemic and ensuing craziness.
 
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#179
Reading The Great When: a Long London Novel by Alan Moore. Just started it, but I liked this snippet:

Brass: a river now of shouts and punches, Cable Street smells like a circus in stampede. Bristle of fist, flag, bottle, poker, shovel, people like pushed paint across the flagstones and why, David Gascoyne thinks, is there not poetry that will contain the passion and intensity of this, its snarl, its cauliflower-eared jazz? Suspended in a sea of shoulders, forced against gabardine backs in angry intimacy, he relinquishes volition to the furious animal in which he has become a component.
 
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#185
n_huffhines said:
My 4 YO is named Calvin and somebdody gave him a stuffed tiger. This year I read him some of my old C&H books, and he had a hell of time coming to understand that these cartoons are not about him, LOL.
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haha hell yeah. setting him up for success
 
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bignewt said:
the border trilogy is amazing
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I found a couple other history books I wanted to read first and when I went back to fiction I somehow gravitated to Cormac. I was struck by the echoes of the story of John Grady and the horses in the story of the hacienda owner and aunt and John Grady and Alejandra. I told you it would be Pynchon next but it happened like this.
 
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bignewt said:
Finished Under the Volcano. A novel about an alcoholic written by an alcoholic. There were flashes of greatness, mostly when he was centered on other characters.

Started Silence by Shūsaku Endō




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I’ve had a copy of Under the Volcano at least a year. Thanks for that. Planning to read it soon. The book by Endō looks interesting too.
 
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Orange. said:
The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy. Billy and the wolf, brother Boyd, and Niño. Really enjoyed it. Going to reread Cities of the Plains next.
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Just read All the Pretty Horses for the first time about a month ago. It was good one so I'm looking forward to the rest of the border trilogy
 
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