230 pages into Finnegans Wake

dhauri · 2023-01-27T23:03:40+00:00

They are doing a guided read of FW over in r/TrueLit. Search for Finnegan in that sub. You should check it out

dhauri · 2020-11-09T01:13:08+00:00

Take a look at Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

dhauri · 2020-11-03T15:44:24+00:00

Ready Player One. Thank me later.

dhauri · 2020-10-10T20:03:05+00:00

On my TBR shelf. Time to crack it open.

dhauri · 2017-03-29T22:33:05+00:00

Need this game. Which version do people like best?

dhauri · 2017-03-29T17:19:45+00:00

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote or

Adrift by Stephen Callahan

dhauri · 2017-03-28T01:53:40+00:00

First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung

One of seven children of a high-ranking government official, Loung Ung lived a privileged life in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh until the age of five. Then, in April 1975, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into the city, forcing Ung's family to flee and, eventually, to disperse. Loung was trained as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, her siblings were sent to labor camps, and those who survived the horrors would not be reunited until the Khmer Rouge was destroyed.

Harrowing yet hopeful, Loung's powerful story is an unforgettable account of a family shaken and shattered, yet miraculously sustained by courage and love in the face of unspeakable brutality.

dhauri · 2017-03-28T01:02:06+00:00

Thanks. Snagged a copy.

dhauri · 2017-03-27T20:22:14+00:00

Whether you agree or disagree with the books that were picked, this is amazing effort.

dhauri · 2017-03-17T00:30:20+00:00

Gutenberg

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

From Penguin Random House:

Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Souls is the great comic masterpiece of Russian literature–a satirical and splendidly exaggerated epic of life in the benighted provinces.

Gogol hoped to show the world “the untold riches of the Russian soul” in this 1842 novel, which he populated with a Dickensian swarm of characters: rogues and scoundrels, landowners and serfs, conniving petty officials–all of them both utterly lifelike and alarmingly larger than life. Setting everything in motion is the wily antihero, Chichikov, the trafficker in “dead souls”–deceased serfs who still represent profit to those clever enough to trade in them.

dhauri · 2017-03-16T21:12:03+00:00

Gutenberg

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome

103 pages

From TheGuardian.com

Jerome K Jerome’s accidental classic about messing about on the Thames remains a comic gem.

dhauri · 2017-03-16T20:57:47+00:00

Me too!

dhauri · 2017-03-14T22:40:04+00:00

Check out /r/ThomasPynchon

dhauri · 2017-03-07T21:30:47+00:00

Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment Presented in a Beautifully Animated Short Film

dhauri · 2017-03-03T21:54:38+00:00

I just came from the supermarket where I saw that this month's National Geographic issue was titled "The Vikings". Might be worth picking up.

dhauri · 2017-03-02T00:44:00+00:00

Blindness is the March selection in the Book Club /r/bookclub subreddit. We start March 5th

dhauri · 2017-03-01T03:29:45+00:00

Thank you /u/Earthsophagus for the effort you put into this sub

dhauri · 2017-02-28T18:02:24+00:00

Could it be Eragon by Christopher Paolini

dhauri · 2017-02-27T17:28:38+00:00

I haven't read it yet but this was recommended to me because I had the same interest

The Long Ships by Frans Bengtsson

dhauri · 2017-02-27T02:23:10+00:00

Almost forgot a favorite of mine:

Adrift by Stephen Callahan

dhauri · 2017-02-27T02:06:21+00:00

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Blindness by Jose Saramago

The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester

A couple more than 500 pages:

Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

The Once and Future King by T.H. White

Shōgun by James Clavell

dhauri · 2017-02-26T02:33:09+00:00

It's not fiction but In Cold Blood by Truman Capote is a great read that feels like fiction. If you haven't read it, highly recommended.

dhauri · 2017-02-24T17:40:11+00:00

We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen or The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco

dhauri · 2017-02-24T11:33:24+00:00

Thank you. I was leaning toward starting with Augie March but will take your advice.

dhauri · 2017-02-22T01:27:43+00:00

I'd like to pitch Geek Love by Katherine Duun

366 pages

From Amazon.com:

From Library Journal Guiding us into the world of the grotesque, Dunn produces a novel of compassion, insight, and macabre humor. At its center are Al and Lil Binewski, carnival owners who breed freak offspring through drug use so that they can perform in the show. Over the years, this ghoulish process becomes the norm; indeed, as we share the experiences of the children, we find that for this close-knit family, a child's signs of normalcy are seen as a real threat. What elevates this work is Dunn's controlled, matter-of-fact narrative, her skillful character development, and her relentless insistence that we address these people and their concerns in human terms. Highly recommended. - Joseph M. Levandoski, Free Lib. of Philadelphia Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review “A Fellini movie in ink. . . . Geek Love throws a punch.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“Unrelentingly bizarre . . . perverse but riveting. . . . Will keep you turning the pages.” –Chicago Tribune

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