I've been reading Quichotte by sir Rushdie of the fatwa clan. It's a bit hackish for modern commentary, but the man is still a great writer which makes is easy to wade through.
Book update: what are you reading? Illiterates need not comment.
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100 years of solitude
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I'm reading The Romans: From Village to Empire. I'm only a couple chapters in but it's interesting so far.
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Did u get to the part where they suck wolf titties?
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How to win friends and influence people. It kinda sucks the advice is just “be a decent person and nice”
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Literally all you have to do tbh.
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Still making my way through The Brothers Karamazov. It's pretty good.
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Just finished Artists of the Floating World by Ishiguro and about to start Remains of the Day. Good book and a big fan of his writing style.
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Ishiguro was completely deserving of his Nobel Prize. Never Let Me Go is a solid book too if you haven't been spoiled on the premise ahead of time. Even knowing it's good, but it's much better if you go in blind.
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Was it that good? I read it in high school and didn’t really enjoy it.
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Never Let Me Go? I thought it was solid, and more modern than The Remains of the Day. I think Remains is still his best book though. To clarify, he won the Nobel for his total body of work, which I think was deserved.
I just like the way he tells stories, and the way he captures very specific kinds of despair. He makes it easy to viscerally understand the complex sorrow of a life that I would never choose for myself, and that takes skill.
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Ishiguro is really good
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damascus by christos tsiolkas, about paul the apostle from the perspective of him being a repressed homosexual. it’s a bit of a slog and he focuses too much on making sure we know how rancid and filthy everything is.
i only bought it cause there was a 4 for 3 sale and the cover looked nice.
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I’m gonna start The Hobbit this week. I’m waiting for my next work day.
I haven’t read or watched any Lord of the Rings but I’m sure I can just figure things out
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It's a children's book, I hope you can figure it out.
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It's an ok entry point into the whole lotr thing. All those books are so strange compared to modern novels though.
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Finished the Powder Mage trilogy last week, cool idea, shitty execution. First book was good but the last quarter of the second book sucked and so did all of the third.
Just started The Darkness That Comes Before by R Scott Bakker because I heard he has some pretty dark fantasy and I've been enjoying it so far. More intrigue than action, which I prefer, but we'll see where it goes.
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Foundation by Isaac Asimov. Honestly the least I've liked a book in ages. No sense of place after the first story, just a bunch of blank void conversations and a message that boils down to "everyone except me is an r-slured npc"
It's also hilarious to me that Apple TV tried to turn this into some epic space adventure with women and black people
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Currently making my way through discworld, reading The Fifth Elephant right now.
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I just read News of the World. It was pretty good, I guess thematically it was like Cormac McCarthy if he decided to write a happy family novel.
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Thank you for making me nuke this account. I will never visit this website again.
Goodbye all.
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