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Weekly "what are you reading" Thread #86

To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers.

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I'm reading "Petersburg" as part of our book club, but because it's a one chapter per week basis I started "Brothers Karamazov" this week as I never read it before and I recently got a wonderful edition by Editora 34 (the only Dostoevsky book I had read was C&P).

So far I wonder if terrible fathers are just a recurrent theme on Dostoevsky's works.

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Started and dropped a few books because they just weren't all that interesting, but I think I might just have a low tolerance right now.

Dropped Every Dead Thing by John Connolly about halfway through because it felt like a whole book already, starts out with a tragedy and a guy trying to focus on work to keep his mind off it which opens him up to a new mystery. Well the new mystery is resolved at this point and I just really don't care enough to continue on.

Finished The Ballad of Black Tom and it was good for the most part, except I just don't really care for cosmic horror. Also, the black main character says to shitty white cop, I'd rather deal with Cthulhu than you devils!" :marseyeyeroll2:

Started A House With Good Bones because I enjoy haunted house and mystery books, but the main character is a fat, nerdy, quippy white woman and I just can't stand the constant silly little zingers and marvelization of modern "comedy".

I've been forcing myself to continue The Elements by Michael McDowell which is starting to get more interesting with the spookiness and the mystery, but it took so long in the beginning to give me anything to care about.

Here's to hoping it gets better, but I'm starting to think I wasted money on books I won't like. :marseysad2: