1776 (non-fiction) by David McCullough was excellent, and I zipped through the Regeneration series (fiction) by Pat Barker which was also excellent. Incredible story tellers.
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James Howard Kunstler, The Harrows of Spring. Last book of Kunstler's "World Made By Hand" quartet. Will be a bit of a bummer when finished- the last of the series.
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Finished The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett, and have started reading Lincoln In the Bardo, by George Saunders. So far it has been an interesting read.
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Nathaniel West, Day of the Locust
HOLY CRAP!Two or three times I've gone back to the front of the book to check the copyright date. Yep, 1939. It blows my mind that West was writing this stuff in 1939!!He was miles ahead of his time. It's no wonder (and very sad) that this book barely sold at all when it came out and was viciously attacked by reviewers at the time. But it's gone on (and rightfully so) to become a long-standing classic of American literature. Bold, daring, different. Highly recommended.
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HOLY CRAP!Two or three times I've gone back to the front of the book to check the copyright date. Yep, 1939. It blows my mind that West was writing this stuff in 1939!!He was miles ahead of his time. It's no wonder (and very sad) that this book barely sold at all when it came out and was viciously attacked by reviewers at the time. But it's gone on (and rightfully so) to become a long-standing classic of American literature. Bold, daring, different. Highly recommended.
Out of print, it looks like. Will have to check with a local bookseller...sounds interesting and although I know of the title I had not looked closely at it previously.
HOLY CRAP!Two or three times I've gone back to the front of the book to check the copyright date. Yep, 1939. It blows my mind that West was writing this stuff in 1939!!He was miles ahead of his time. It's no wonder (and very sad) that this book barely sold at all when it came out and was viciously attacked by reviewers at the time. But it's gone on (and rightfully so) to become a long-standing classic of American literature. Bold, daring, different. Highly recommended.
Out of print, it looks like. Will have to check with a local bookseller...sounds interesting and although I know of the title I had not looked closely at it previously.
This can't be out of print. If it is, I'll send you my copy. It's sometimes paired with West's Miss Lonelyhearts. That's the version I have.
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HOLY CRAP!Two or three times I've gone back to the front of the book to check the copyright date. Yep, 1939. It blows my mind that West was writing this stuff in 1939!!He was miles ahead of his time. It's no wonder (and very sad) that this book barely sold at all when it came out and was viciously attacked by reviewers at the time. But it's gone on (and rightfully so) to become a long-standing classic of American literature. Bold, daring, different. Highly recommended.
Out of print, it looks like. Will have to check with a local bookseller...sounds interesting and although I know of the title I had not looked closely at it previously.
This can't be out of print. If it is, I'll send you my copy. It's sometimes paired with West's Miss Lonelyhearts. That's the version I have.
Thanks, I will check again. The items I saw for sale as a solo had a number of reviews saying it was photocopied dreck and tough to read. Combo or complete works will be checked now....
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Good call, found from an offsite seller with the combo.
One of my undergrad senior theses was on the aesthetics of sex and violence and how that applied to gender roles in the LA sleaze subgenre, and The Day of the Locust was deconstructed over many pages. The chaos at the end of that book is just fantastic.
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LA sleaze subgenre I wish I could erase my mind and go back and read Ellroy's stuff again. He deals with some real LA sleaze. I love-love-love-love-love American Tabloid.
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
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I am reading the last Grisham....the whistler...and it is a page turner.
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just finished this...can't recommend this guy highly enough....great plots plus great insight of northern ireland's "troubles"
next up, the new dennis lehane.
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Finally finished John Adams by David McCullough. Very good. I would recommend it as others recommended it in this thread.
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Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk
By John Doe of XScientology... interesting read.
HOLY CRAP! Two or three times I've gone back to the front of the book to check the copyright date. Yep, 1939. It blows my mind that West was writing this stuff in 1939!! He was miles ahead of his time. It's no wonder (and very sad) that this book barely sold at all when it came out and was viciously attacked by reviewers at the time. But it's gone on (and rightfully so) to become a long-standing classic of American literature. Bold, daring, different. Highly recommended.
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
I wish I could erase my mind and go back and read Ellroy's stuff again. He deals with some real LA sleaze. I love-love-love-love-love American Tabloid.
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
Seems my preconceptions are what should have been burned...
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I am reading the last Grisham....the whistler...and it is a page turner.
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EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
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Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
Dont need to read earlier book(s) in the Sean Duffy series first?
Let us know on the Lehane, I loved the trilogy that Affleck hacked up in the movies.
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Claire North's The End of the Day, a story about Charlie, The Harbinger of Death. Well worth a read, though the last 5% is a tough read.
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird