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I've just finished reading Dorothy Sayer's Strong Poison. I've just started reading Orhan Pamuk's Museum of Innocence. "Hakawati" by Rabih Alameddine
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« Reply #481 on: November 09, 2009, 03:52:29 PM » |
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The Shadow of the Wind. Goofy gothic fun.
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« Reply #482 on: November 09, 2009, 03:57:59 PM » |
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I'm chugging through another of Jim Butcher's Dresden Files, which are pretty amusing detective/fantasy fiction.
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« Reply #483 on: November 12, 2009, 10:45:46 AM » |
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Moo - Jane Smiley - ril good
That Old Cape Magic - Russo - excellent
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« Reply #484 on: November 12, 2009, 02:30:16 PM » |
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I just finished Moo 2 weeks ago. Although I normally like the "chapters from varying points of view" thing, I had to put it down several times over a 2-month period and had a hard time remembering the characters each time I picked it back up. Still enjoyable, though.
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« Reply #485 on: November 12, 2009, 06:45:49 PM » |
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Moo - Jane Smiley - ril good
That Old Cape Magic - Russo - excellent
OK - I grew up on the Cape, but I'm torn on Russo. I loved Straight Man and Nobody's Fool, but felt that Empire Falls was just too depressing for me. Do you think I'll like his latest? Will it make me nostalgic or p'd off? |
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« Reply #486 on: November 12, 2009, 08:27:27 PM » |
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Moo - Jane Smiley - ril good
That Old Cape Magic - Russo - excellent
OK - I grew up on the Cape, but I'm torn on Russo. I loved Straight Man and Nobody's Fool, but felt that Empire Falls was just too depressing for me. Do you think I'll like his latest? Will it make me nostalgic or p'd off? Is That Old Cape Magic his latest? I still haven't read Bridge of Sighs. And PSP, I agree with your assessment 100%. Risk Pool was also very dark. |
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« Reply #487 on: November 12, 2009, 10:50:43 PM » |
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I just finished Moo 2 weeks ago.
I must be tired. At first I thought Smiley had written a sequel. |
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« Reply #488 on: November 13, 2009, 10:59:45 AM » |
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Speaking of Jane Smiley, I finished reading Good Faith two weeks ago.
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« Reply #489 on: November 13, 2009, 03:12:35 PM » |
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I didn't like Empire Falls either. Loved The Straight Man.
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« Reply #490 on: November 13, 2009, 08:09:46 PM » |
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Loved The Straight Man.
Me too. Sometimes I go hide in Railton, PA. |
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Because, you know, that stuff on the syllabus is like, in writing, and there are so many ways you can, like, read that, but when the guys who sit by you in class, like, you know, must know what's really going on, right? -- AmLitHist, channelling student
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« Reply #491 on: November 14, 2009, 01:39:54 PM » |
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I've worked/work in the Soo-ey System.
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« Reply #492 on: November 15, 2009, 07:34:25 AM » |
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For Russo, Bridge of Sighs is my favorite, then Empire Falls. I wasn't wild about Straight Man. I haven't yet read his newest.
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« Reply #493 on: November 15, 2009, 07:50:15 AM » |
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I wasn't a big admirer of the latest Russo -- I've forgotten its name now -- but you do get the sense he is trying to break out from his 'grim tales from upstate NY' genre, and that is admirable.
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« Reply #494 on: November 15, 2009, 09:04:13 PM » |
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I'm enjoying Mary Tudor: The First Queen by Linda Porter. Nice writing and some good research.
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Because, you know, that stuff on the syllabus is like, in writing, and there are so many ways you can, like, read that, but when the guys who sit by you in class, like, you know, must know what's really going on, right? -- AmLitHist, channelling student
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