Got 'I Am a Strange Loop' the other day so shall delve into that over the weekend. Loved Godel, Escher & Bach. It doesn't seem as highly regarded as his original, but I saw it in Waterstones and thought why not.
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The GOT Book Club
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A real page-turner; I can't put it down.
Yep, read the one about dog-fighting...very well done. Gonna try and pick up a few more.
I am reading "The Power of the Dog"...great Mexi/American Narco crime novel. Good stuff.
Read this in the past few days
California Fire and Life was good as well. Got a few more of his on my list. A good collection if you like those two authors is The Bayou Trilogy from Daniel Woodrell (who wrote Winter's Bone if you saw the film).
For something completely different, I just finished The Ocean At The End Of The Lane from Neil Gaiman (who I think has been mentioned on here before). Again different, I enjoyed the Wool series from Hugh Howey on the Kindle, which is kind of in the 'end-of-the-world' genre, but in a claustrophobic sense (take a look and you'll see what I mean).
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Utter Cad.
Currently reading All Quiet on the Western Front. It has me gripped.
GwladysBlue
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Just finished reading The Great Gatsby again and it reminded me how much I love reading the American Classics. I've read so far: The Great Gatsby, Catcher in the Rye, Of Mice and Men, The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Anyone recommend another one of the Classics (Not Moby Dick, heard it's not very good).
To Kill A Mockingbird should definitely be one if you've not read it already, also The Crucible. Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck sounds like it might be up your street as well. Some newer American novelists might be worth experimenting with also, Cormac McCarthy, Don Delillo and Tom Wolfe are great writers exploring later 20th Century North America.
I thought Moby Duck would be a real chore but I absolutely loved every minute of it, reading it was a true pleasure for me.
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what was your verdict, Bruce?Read this in the past few days
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echoing what ste says, I think you might really enjoy a lot of Steinbeck's work
books like cannery row, the pearl, tortilla flat, the red pony all good reads and short enough to deal with in a few days
east of eden is great too but quite long, but a very grand and sweeping dynastic epic, well worth a look
I also won't hear a word against the duck, dunno who told you it wasn't very good, probably some save the whale green-peace loving rainbow eco-warrior no doubt
I hardly have time to read but the last book I read was "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" - a history of the Native American Indians - before that the Roberto Duran biography. I'm hoping to read The Road by Cormac McCarthy and Battle of Wits (about WW2 Espionage) when I go away for 4 days in early September.