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noob in 89

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It’s a great book. I’m finding myself sucked into the characters’ lives, and sad that I only have 80 pages to go.

Sweet. It’s crazy he can move between genres like that. (Sometimes, you’re like, Yep, an essayist wrote this novel...)
 

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Etymologicon by Mark Forsyth. Very amusing book on the origins of various words. If you're a linguistics nerd you might know a lot of them already. He has a very quirky writing style.

Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman. Interesting argument on how the proliferation of TV as a form a entertainment has crippled our culture's ability to think critically. Written in 1985 but still very relevant.

Finished No Logo by Naomi Klein. Only 20 years late to the party, but I learned a lot and how multinationals were (are?) even more corrupt than I thought.

Going to start Les Miserables, see you in this thread in a year when I finish it.
 

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Sweet. It’s crazy he can move between genres like that. (Sometimes, you’re like, Yep, an essayist wrote this novel...)
He’s also writing Captain America for Marvel.
 

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Permanent Record, by Edward Snowden and a good Speyside whisky. David Bowie is playing in the background.

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Finished Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
 

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Best part of working nights...getting paid to self develop
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Just started Stoner, by John Williams.
Also currently reading To the Lighthouse.
 

javyn

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Gonna start tonight

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Zdravo back at you! Are you a fellow South Slav with whom I can hijack this thread and discuss obscure provincial writers over a bottle of šljivovica?
Sort of.... Polish/Slovak on my dad's side and I know bits of pleasantries in the slavic tongues. I actually want to learn more about obscure provincial writers. My Slovak great grandparents were bootleggers during Prohibition using only finest recipes from old country.

A Month in Siena was the best book of the year. I didn't know Matar was trained as an architect (or maybe I did, I remember reading reviews of his last book). His writing is excellent and at the risk of sounding punny, there's really good structure to all his pages.

For some light holiday reading I am now going through The Only Plane in the Sky. It's hard to not make 9/11 prurient. I think the whole point of 9/11 is the sheer horror of the day. It's also weird to say the book is judiciously prurient and horrifying
 

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“Supernova Era” by Cixin Liu, of “The Three Body Problem” fame. It’s billed as his newest work, but the original copyright date is 2004 and it’s only his latest to be translated.

It’s just this side of terrible. Improbable event after improbable event; little to no plot; wooden characters; some truly clunky sentences that I blame on the translator:

“The whale, it turned out, was still alive, and it’s mouth twitched and the one cloudy eye that faced upward stared at them lifelessly.”

Given the copyright date I am realizing this is an early if not his first novel, and it is rather painfully obvious.
 

Fueco

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An old friend released a book with essays on some of his most well-known photos. Good stuff, and plenty of memories in this one.

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