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Just started William Dean Howells' My Mark Twain...
Looking for some new novels though...or old...whatya got?
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Just started William Dean Howells' My Mark Twain...
Looking for some new novels though...or old...whatya got?
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A fascinating book on Irish
A fascinating book on Irish labor relations in 1800's Rhode Island.
Irish Titan, Irish Toilers by Scott Molloy
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Just starting Robbie
Just starting Robbie Robertson's memoir "Testimony". Got two copies by accident and both came signed by Robbie.
I mailed one down to Flashbacks and here is the signature photograph in his book.
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Just finished: Elmore Leonard
Just finished: Elmore Leonard's Escape From Five Shadows.
Just starting: Carl Hiaasen's Sick Puppy.
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I recently read A Hologram
I recently read A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers. The film with Tom Hanks was pretty good too...
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An old one -- Stephen King's
An old one -- Stephen King's The Bazaar of Bad Dreams.
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Ten Little Indians, short
Ten Little Indians, short stories by Sherman Alexie.
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Fourth Estate by Jeff Archer
Fourth Estate by Jeff Archer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fourth_Estate_(novel)
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Lucid Dreaming Plain and
Lucid Dreaming Plain and Simple
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Tomatoland-How modern
Tomatoland-How modern industrial agriculture destroyed our most alluring fruit
By Barry Estabrook
Pretty interesting read that will make you never want to buy a grocery store tomato ever again. Not that they're any good anyway.
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I can't read :(
I can't read :(
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Not a novel but a great read:
Not a novel but a great read: The Brothers Vonnegut. It's a bio of Vonnegut and his brother's early life, when both worked at GE in the immediate post-war years. His brother was a scientist who was trying to control weather by seeding clouds. It's interesting to read about how GE worked--they let their scientists work on ANYTHING, figuring they'd work out the uses for the stuff later. On the other hand, Kurt is getting a might concerned with the ethics of science. Just cause you CAN do it, should you? The workers will lose their jobs to the robots. We might blow up the world. He got lots of his book ideas from this period, is working on a story about Ice-Nine (Cat's Cradle) now.
I think after this I'm going to read Phillip K. Dick's The Man In the High castle. I enjoyed the TV show -- premise is an alternative history in which Nazi's nuked DC and invaded the eastern US, and Japan got the west.
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Steinbeck. Grapes of Wrath.
Steinbeck. Grapes of Wrath.
It's been 40 years since I first read it, translated into Norwegian. Now I read the real thing. It's just like a movie. Story about the hard times of the Joad family driven off their land in Oklahoma in 1938 along with 300 000 other folks trying to find a new life in California. Realistic to the bone.
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I havent read any steinbeck
I havent read any steinbeck in ages....sounds like a good a time as any to re visit...and im def going to read the philip k dick novel mentioned above as i started watching Man In High Castle, but im only cpl episodes in...
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I have a two hour daily
I have a two hour daily commute so I listen to a lot of books. These are the good ones from the last eight months.
Truly Madly Guilty- Liane Moriarty - I really liked this one reminded me of Jonathan Franzen which is good thing for me.
Not Alone - Craig Falconer - Fun Sci Fi book
The Chemist – Stephenie Meyer – Good NSA/CIA type thriller
The Girl With All the Gifts – M.R. Carey – Good zombie book and I generally hate anything to do with zombies
Razor Girl – Carl Hiaasen – Key West detective
Modern Lovers - Emma Straub – Good present day Brooklyn slice of life story
Vinegar Girl – Anne Tyler – Modern Retelling of the Taming of the Shrew
The Cloud Roads – Martha Wells – SciFi/Fantasy, A Middle Earth kind of world with no humans per se
The Water Knife – Paolo Baciqalupi, Near future SciFi about western state water wars
Luna: New Moon – Ian McDonald – SciFi look at a thriving moon colony