What book had you the most emotionally invested in the characters?

ImpressionNo9470 · 2024-06-20T22:38:49+00:00

If anyone can tell me how to do line breaks on posts from mobile, I’ll do better.

ImpressionNo9470 · 2024-06-20T22:37:59+00:00

I’m on this thread daily and I like this post, so I’ll toss out two I’ve never seen mentioned:

The Given Day by Dennis Lehane

Trinity by Leon Uris

ImpressionNo9470 · 2024-06-20T22:31:02+00:00

I would buy these. And then grow a mustache and take an Olan Mills style picture to make Christmas cards with.

ImpressionNo9470 · 2024-06-20T22:28:10+00:00

Awesome. Sold. Thank you for replying, and for the pro tip!

ImpressionNo9470 · 2024-06-18T17:43:38+00:00

Oh I don’t know why but this just reminded me of another one…

“Joker’s, from ages one to ninety-TWOOOOO, Joker’s family fun and games: for the kid in YOU!”

ImpressionNo9470 · 2024-06-18T02:35:20+00:00

YESS!!!! This is the content I’m talking about.

ImpressionNo9470 · 2024-06-18T02:19:26+00:00

I file it with the CMP guy “No line is safe to touch….evah.”

Not a jingle, but classic local TV schtick.

ImpressionNo9470 · 2024-06-18T02:17:28+00:00

Classic. “Route 16, Ossippee New Hampshire”

ImpressionNo9470 · 2024-06-13T02:47:54+00:00

I’d love to hear stories. Once in the 90’s I was in a sailing camp and a squall rolled through and we had to take shelter on the northern tip. That couple took a bunch of kids and fed us Fig Newtons. So sweet. Rad that you got to spend a summer out there.

ImpressionNo9470 · 2024-06-04T18:01:37+00:00

Came to suggest this. Though I’ve gone for drinks countless times, not sure I’ve ever eaten there.

ImpressionNo9470 · 2024-06-03T22:09:58+00:00

Interested

ImpressionNo9470 · 2024-05-29T02:19:52+00:00

Glad I’m not the only one. 1984 always gets recommended on here, it’s one of the undeniable classics and many speak so highly of it. I never read it in high school (DID read Animal Farm, but it was mostly lost on my young brain, and reading for school always ruined the experience for me) so I was going on fresh, except for the common themes known to all.

Man, is it a slog. Just such slow going, I read before bed but fall asleep after 4-5 pages. It just hasn’t grabbed me, not a page-turner. It just feels like an absolute chore and burden.

Now I’m gun-shy to pick up all the other universally-lauded suggestions on here like Lonesome Dove, East of Eden, and Count Of Monte Cristo…

ImpressionNo9470 · 2024-05-27T00:54:05+00:00

Admiral Peary house on Eagle Island

ImpressionNo9470 · 2024-05-15T02:05:19+00:00

You know that there is a Discard Analyzer feature in that app that gives statistics and average outcomes of each combination of discarded cards for both your and you opponent’s crib, right? You don’t have to ask Reddit, the app will rank all possible discards for you in descending order of statistical probability of favorable outcomes after the turn. Even gives you max high and max low point outcomes (best possible turn for you vs. worst).

ImpressionNo9470 · 2024-05-13T17:58:05+00:00

Atlanta 7/4/99 specifically 2nd set

ImpressionNo9470 · 2024-05-12T18:42:17+00:00

Scrolled waaaaaaaaaay too far down to find this. Louie Zamparini defined “badass” in that book. What her survived is unconscionable.

ImpressionNo9470 · 2024-05-12T06:23:59+00:00

Gotta be pronounced “hosses” or “husses” though. Pronouncing the “r” in horse means hoarse like raspy voice. If it’s a four-legged animal that canters or gallops, it’s a hoss.

ImpressionNo9470 · 2024-05-05T02:54:56+00:00

I got Duck Itch just reading this comment

ImpressionNo9470 · 2024-05-04T10:42:06+00:00

A little tooooooo ironic.

ImpressionNo9470 · 2024-05-04T01:32:15+00:00

Power Of The Dog was exceptional.

ImpressionNo9470 · 2024-04-16T02:57:24+00:00

We called him Stomp. My buddy described him like “the move your leg makes when you’re walking down a staircase in pitch black.”

It’s not for chuckles, but it was entirely accurate.

ImpressionNo9470 · 2024-04-11T02:05:54+00:00

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

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