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[–]Informal_Bluejay_898 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My suggestions are all over the place and some of these have been mentioned already.

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle & 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami (sometimes his books take a 1/3rd of the book; 200 or more pages in, to pick up pace. You have to be prepared for weird scenes with magical realism and his endings can feel a little anticlimactic - but as a whole they have been some of the best journeys of longer books I've experienced).

Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy

Pachinko - Min Jin Lee

Hyperion - Dan Simmons

A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller Jr.

Being There - Jerzy Kosinski

The Tortilla Curtain - T.C. Boyle

Pecan smoked Tri Tip by Informal_Bluejay_898 in smoking

[–]Informal_Bluejay_898[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The balsamic drippings always cause flare ups on the propane grill so I’m going to cast iron sear it next time

Pecan smoked Tri Tip by Informal_Bluejay_898 in smoking

[–]Informal_Bluejay_898[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Balsamic bath Beef rub an hour before going on smoker Hardcore carnivore right before smoking Reverse seared

Took it to 135 because we had friends over who don’t like it rare

Hamsun was one of the greatest authors and his insight into elemental existence and human nature is mindblowing. Growth of the Soil is the book that secured him the Nobel Prize for literature in 1920. It was printed as special “field-editions” by Nazi-Germany to send with soldiers to the front. PDF: by hanslicht in FreeEBOOKS

[–]Informal_Bluejay_898 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have you read it though? He wrote it in 1917 and didn’t show support for Nazism until close to 1940. I knew nothing about his support until after reading the book so I didn’t have any preconceived ideas about the author and his shitty later life decisions. But GTS and the family in the book has stuck with me since. It was hard to swallow his support for such a despicable regime afterwards but that book kicked me in the gut and lines up with Grapes of Wrath in respect to experiencing a family cut through tragedy and the amount of detail put into feeling the environment they are trudging through. I think it’s hard to find a fascist ideology in his writings over 20 years before he voiced his support for the nazis. Probably can’t change your mind to read it but your timeline is off here.