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  • HenriettaLowell
    HenriettaLowell Cologne, Germany Posts: 140
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    F Me In The Brain said:
    brianlux said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Great book

    It really is, for sure.  The timing was off for me, that's all.  I've read books by Charles Bowden that describe things that were even more horrific that what Hillenbrand describes.  I knew they would be and went into reading them with a fair idea of what they were going to be about.  Somehow I was thinking that Hillenbrand's book was going to be more along the lines of some of Hampton Sides work.
    I get that.  

    Just started Commanche Moon.  (Part of the Lonesome Dove run)
    I know I'm not getting too deep into things.  Been reading a lot of historical fiction and them a horror book.  Wanted to grab something lighter from the pile.  (Even if it is a heavy physical book!)

    McMurtry, good move!  
    I'm probably going to go for something lighter soon as well.  Maybe take a short break from a book to read these two goodies I found in the garage a few days ago:


    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Changed my mind...
    After reading Laura Hillenbrand's most excellent but brutal Unbroken, I figured it was time to go for something both entertaining and well written next. So when I read this excerpt from Bill Flanagan's Author's Note at the beginning of this book, I decided to jump right in. (Besides, Flanagan was always one of my favorite editor/ writers from the Musician magazine days.)

    "Those aristocrats who fall on the floor writhing and swallowing their tongues when writers put rock & roll into the same boat as high art, poetry, philosophy, and other university subjects should get out now. You won't like it here. But if you want to understand U2, you have to understand how they draw from the highbrow as well as the dumb things down in rock & roll's designated station.

    And it might save a fistfight or two if I spell this out: when I talk about U2's relationship with Bill Clinton or Salman Rushdie or Wim Wenders or other cultural bigshots, it is not to suggest that U2 influenced those people; it is to show how those people influenced U2.

    All right, that should shake off the whiners. Let's go."

    Yes siree, with pleasure!


    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • May 30th
    May 30th Posts: 1,892
    Just finished Harlem Shuffle and then Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead. Both awesome books and I can’t wait for the third book in this trilogy. 

    Just started the Underground Railroad tonight by the same author. It won the Pulitzer Prize a few years ago. 
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,377
    I finished Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson. I liked Black Cake better, but this was a good read. It began with the dismantling of a relationship, and that relationship is the weakest part of the story. 
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    I got a kick out of this quote from Flanagan in the U2 book I'm reading.  I told my wife it sounds like a slightly exaggerated version of her:
    "Many people on this planet say they hate horseshit, but no one hates horseshit as much as Larry Mullen Jr., does.  The possibility that he might somehow add to the rising stew of crap that threatens to submerge our civilization in hype and nonsense appalls him so much that he slaps on a scowl and shuts his mouth at the first inkling of glad-handing, backslapping, false sincerity, sucking up, ass-kissing, air-kissing, overpraise, fair-weather friendship, freeloading, hyperbole, ligging, flattery, posturing, complement chewing, ego-stroking, bootlicking, cheek smooching, groveling, pratspeak, toadying, , leg lifting, fame-grubbing, schnoring, idol worship, starfucking, or brown-nosing.
         Boy, did he pick the wrong business!"

    I'm not even sure I know what some of those things are.  "liggin"?  "pratspeak"?  "schnoring"?  :lol:

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • 23scidoo
    23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 19,993
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    Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
    EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.

    I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
  • julieooliern
    julieooliern Posts: 1,285

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    julieooliern said:

    This is one of those books that people either love or hate.  I went from one end of the spectrum to the other... but i won't give it away because it's always better to form one's own opinion.  It's a book that could have it's own thread and would probably be a catalyst for quite a bit of interesting discussion.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • May 30th
    May 30th Posts: 1,892
    Just finished The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. Really enjoyed it. 

    Now I’m going to start Stoner. 
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,377
    May 30th said:
    Just finished The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. Really enjoyed it. 

    Now I’m going to start Stoner. 
    That was the scariest book I ever read.
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,377
    edited June 12
    Rereading Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman, audiobook.
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • Malroth
    Malroth broken down chevrolet Posts: 2,557
    Ms. Haiku said:
    May 30th said:
    Just finished The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. Really enjoyed it. 

    Now I’m going to start Stoner. 
    That was the scariest book I ever read.

    which one?

    The worst of times..they don't phase me,
    even if I look and act really crazy.
  • D-Day
    D-Day Posts: 708
    23scidoo said:
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    1/3 read - the usual page turner by Grisham. His A Time to Kill was the first courtroom thriller I read. Can’t wait to see this murder case in the courtroom.
  • Purple Fairy Tree
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  • May 30th
    May 30th Posts: 1,892
    Finished Stoner by John Williams and am now reading Sag Harbour by Colson Whitehead. 
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,377
    I finally finished On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder. Who knew an itty bitty book would take so long to finish? My local bookstore is starting an anti-fascist book club, and this is the first selection.
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,377
    Malroth said:
    Ms. Haiku said:
    May 30th said:
    Just finished The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. Really enjoyed it. 

    Now I’m going to start Stoner. 
    That was the scariest book I ever read.

    which one?

    Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead.
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • May 30th
    May 30th Posts: 1,892
    Just finished The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead. Now I’m going to start No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy. 
  • static111
    static111 Posts: 5,106

    Scio me nihil scire

    There are no kings inside the gates of eden

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