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I devour fantasy books for breakfast!

 

And then I excrete Kevin J Anderson novels before lunchtime.

 

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"Feel the power of my rheumy gaze!"

 

He is a terrible author. Tried some of his books before I even liked Rush.

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I'm reading A Summer In Sonoma by Robyn Carr because I liked the cover and it seemed like a good summer read from the title of it alone. I accidentally stumbled upon it when I went to the bookstore to search for novels by Iris Johansen and Philippa Gregory.
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I'd never heard of this guy before about 2 weeks ago and then I was at the library last Saturday and saw his book.

 

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Let us know how the book is! I have watched some of his stuff on YouTube and he was hilarious. :ebert:

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Read 20% of the Pynchon book and then closed it. No tension, no humour, just a bunch of characters with odd names, and some very tired sixties/dope tropes. I was hoping for something a bit more interesting or experimental, I guess. It was like if Carl Hiaasen had a head injury.

I'll give him another try though. This one just wasn't for me.

 

Time for some essays by this misanthropic maniac:

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Burroughs' non-fiction stuff is pretty sweet. He was no dummy, despite many poor life choices. :P

He was book-smart, street-smart, and gun-smart, but failed miserably at dealing with humans.

Damn good writer though.

 

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"When you stop growing you start dying." - Junky

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Since I loved the video games, I decided to read Andrzej Sapkowski's The Witcher series. I am currently on book seven, The Lady Of The Lake. I have liked them a great deal and I definitely recommend them.

 

They are on my to read list. I devour fantasy books for breakfast!

 

I truly hope you like them as much as I do!

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Enemy Contact: A Jack Ryan Jr. Novel, by Mike Maden.

A fairly good picking up of the Tom Clancy mantle; but so far Mark Greaney does it best.

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Read 20% of the Pynchon book and then closed it. No tension, no humour, just a bunch of characters with odd names, and some very tired sixties/dope tropes. I was hoping for something a bit more interesting or experimental, I guess. It was like if Carl Hiaasen had a head injury.

I'll give him another try though. This one just wasn't for me.

 

Time for some essays by this misanthropic maniac:

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Burroughs' non-fiction stuff is pretty sweet. He was no dummy, despite many poor life choices. :P

He was book-smart, street-smart, and gun-smart, but failed miserably at dealing with humans.

Damn good writer though.

 

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"When you stop growing you start dying." - Junky

 

I thought the pseudo-noir was hilarious (I also like Lethem's Gun, With Occasional Music), but to each their own! That's why they publish so many books. I, for instance, have never like Burroughs.

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Read 20% of the Pynchon book and then closed it. No tension, no humour, just a bunch of characters with odd names, and some very tired sixties/dope tropes. I was hoping for something a bit more interesting or experimental, I guess. It was like if Carl Hiaasen had a head injury.

I'll give him another try though. This one just wasn't for me.

 

Time for some essays by this misanthropic maniac:

220px-AddingMachine.jpg

 

Burroughs' non-fiction stuff is pretty sweet. He was no dummy, despite many poor life choices. :P

He was book-smart, street-smart, and gun-smart, but failed miserably at dealing with humans.

Damn good writer though.

 

Burroug.png

"When you stop growing you start dying." - Junky

 

I thought the pseudo-noir was hilarious (I also like Lethem's Gun, With Occasional Music), but to each their own! That's why they publish so many books. I, for instance, have never like Burroughs.

 

I really like the old-timey detective novels, but they always have tension. Maybe some crept into the book after I crept out, but there wasn't much to keep me going past page 70. (Same with "Finnegan's Wake" and "Clockwork Angels" :P )

 

I know what you mean about Burroughs. It all depends on which one you pick up first, I think. "Junky" was my first exposure to him, and I thought he painted a pretty grim picture very well. If I started with any of the others, I'm pretty sure I would've been put off.

"Western Lands" was another one that had some great writing in it, and a plot that could almost be followed. :D

I tend to stick with his non-fiction stuff these days. It's less sticky.

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MacBeth by Jo Nesbo. A retelling of the story set in gritty post-industrial 1970s Scotland.

Curious about this one, I haven't read any of his other works but this intrigues me.

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Continuing a re-listening to the Comoran Strike series just finished Career of Evil, forgot what a cliffhanger ending that had. Just started Lethal White and it seems a bit off, not so sure I like it yet...

 

For non-fiction I have started Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future. Pete Buttigieg. Smart guy, enjoying it alot.

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I'd recommend the MacBeth. It's tense and well-done, even though it's likely everyone reading it pretty much already knows the broad strokes of how it will turn out! The characters are good, the setting is grim and dank, the allusions to the play are (mostly) subtle and clever.

 

I liked a couple of Nesbo's detective novels, but after two or three, I got tired of the "drunk cop/ex-cop/detective self-hates his way through the crime" that was the basic plot of all of them.

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Picked up this big bad boy yesterday. Looking forward to getting into it on the weekend.

 

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It's a bit of a monster size-wise, but lotsa detail and lotsa information. :drool:

Also picked up "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote. I read it a few years ago and was really impressed by the writing, so decided to have another look.

Yay, gift-cards! :P

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"Who is keeping us from realizing our biological and spiritual destiny? These people are known as shits. They can't mind their

own business, because they have no business of their own to mind. The mark of a basic shit is that he has to be RIGHT. And in

order to be RIGHT he has to make someone else WRONG." - p. 82

 

You tell 'em, Bill!

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She Comes First, by Doctor somebody or other.

 

Guaranteed to bring happiness to everybody.

 

Dr. Hook?

Dr. Doom?

Dr. Seuss?

Dr. Zaius?

Dr. Philth?

Dr. Andthemedics?

 

I could just picture it written by dr. Seuss

 

She came first! She came first!

And I thought I would burst!

Oh I feared for the worst,

and I cursed and I cursed...

But dear me, can it be? She came first!!!

 

- from "Racing Poems"

 

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