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Do not even think of reading Book of Leaves on a Kindle. You'er going to need a mirror for some of it.

Oh, and we did a book club on house of Leaves awhile back. You can probably find the thread.

ok makes sense i'm just so used to reading on my kindle or iphone apps now

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06-23-2015 , 08:33 AM

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TheHip41

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House of leaves was an experience.

Cannot imagine using an e-reader for that.

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06-23-2015 , 11:52 AM

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RussellinToronto

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I just finished Mary Norris, Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen, a memoir (of sorts) and reflections on usage and style by a New Yorker copy editor. Although interesting enough to keep me reading, I thought this was generally weak. Not a coherent narrative or argument but a series of loosely linked chapters, in which she talks about punctuation with little sense of its changing history, inserts memoiristic reflections, and concludes with an essay on pencils and her use of them and an elegy to an old New Yorker senior copy-editor. But it's almost worth getting just for a fascinating section about her correspondence with James Salter on a small issue of punctuation!

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06-23-2015 , 12:33 PM

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amplify

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I was reading the first book of Expanse and hungered for some meaty literature so I started vol. 1 of My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard.

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06-23-2015 , 01:39 PM

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Dominic

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Finished Nemesis Games - it was awesome. Now I'm back to Seveneves.

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06-23-2015 , 06:01 PM

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kokiri

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In done with Aberystwyth mon amor, Don't cry for me Aberystwyth, and Something something Aberystwyth, but I've got The unbearable lightness of being Aberystwyth left to go.

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06-23-2015 , 11:17 PM

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Currently reading All The Light We Cannot See

Anoyone else reading or read this? Im only 50 pages in but enjoy it so far

Read it, loved it, deserved Pulitzer winner.

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06-23-2015 , 11:19 PM

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NajdorfDefense

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Currently re-reading The Rook [so so awesome, every single one of you here will love it, trust me, you will grind it all weekend to finish it] and also Beyond Counting: Ex. CAA.

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06-24-2015 , 10:32 AM

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Enrique

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Still plodding through the third act in Seveneves. It's starting to get more interesting. The end is near.

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06-24-2015 , 11:35 AM

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microbet

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Thinking about Faust by Goethe.

Thoughts? Is it enjoyable or just historically important?

I read The Sorrows of young wurther or some such many years ago and remember at least somewhat enjoying that.

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06-24-2015 , 12:22 PM

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JudgeHoldem

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Is Under the Volcano as difficult of a book as it was for me? Realizing I'm an idiot who can only read the simple stuff

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06-24-2015 , 12:52 PM

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Dominic

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Loved Under the Volcano...what did you find difficult, Judge?

And I love the Faust story...but the Marlowe version is much more entertaining than Goethe.

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06-24-2015 , 01:43 PM

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I've been enjoying The List of Seven, a thriller (?) / mystery written by Mark Frost (co-creator of Twin Peaks) and starring Arthur Conan Doyle as protagonist. It's pretty damn good and boasts some elite writing for the mode.

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06-24-2015 , 01:58 PM

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One of my favorites. This book is great. Tried the sequel and it blew

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06-24-2015 , 03:12 PM

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Loved Under the Volcano...what did you find difficult, Judge?

I'm only on chapter 2, so he's wandering around town with his (ex-?)wife. I think it's just the style - the flow is a bit hard to follow - lots of words / foreign phrases I don't know. I guess I'm having a hard time trying to figure out whether it's stream of consciousness to be absorbed/felt for mood, or an actual narrative that really needs to be followed and understood. Does that make sense?

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06-24-2015 , 04:24 PM

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Dominic

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Sure...but I haven't read it in 20 years, so I just really remember loving it...and not much else.

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06-24-2015 , 06:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Dominic

Sure...but I haven't read it in 20 years, so I just really remember loving it...and not much else.

For a very different Lowry experience, try his wonderful novella "The Forest Path to the Spring." It's the concluding story in Hear Us Oh Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place.

I think Lowry may have intended Under the Volcano as the first part of a loose trilogy, which would have been continued by Lunar Caustic and concluded by "Forest Path ..." Mexico, the US (Calif.), and Canada (BC) standing in for Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. Had he lived the second and the third might have become much longer works ...

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06-24-2015 , 08:28 PM

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Mulezen

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Under the Volcano made more sense to me after reading a bio of Lowery. The movie was interesting with great leading performance by Albert Finney in a john Huston take

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06-24-2015 , 09:40 PM

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For anyone who wants more Sherlock, check out the series starting with "The Beekeeper's Apprentice" (semi-retired Holmes pushed back into the game by taking on a teenage female protege).

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06-24-2015 , 10:32 PM

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Dominic

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Sounds like a movie I made

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06-24-2015 , 10:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Dominic

Loved Under the Volcano...what did you find difficult, Judge?

And I love the Faust story...but the Marlowe version is much more entertaining than Goethe.

Cool. I've put in a request with my wife, who goes to the library often.

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06-25-2015 , 02:51 AM

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kokiri

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Originally Posted by BigPoppa

For anyone who wants more Sherlock, check out the series starting with "The Beekeeper's Apprentice" (semi-retired Holmes pushed back into the game by taking on a teenage female protege).

I was going to ask about this. The reviews of the film make it sound interesting

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06-25-2015 , 03:18 AM

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Deep

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Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke. Half complete and really enjoying it.

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06-25-2015 , 10:06 AM

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ChaseNutley26

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Childhood's End is awesome, probably Clarke's best. Enjoy.

I just listened to Ken Grimwood's Replay. Very good novel about a guy who dies, wakes back up as a teenager, and is forced to live his life over and over again. One of the great things Grimwood does is to not take the premise overboard but instead focus on how the circumstances affect characters, making the book as good of an emotional ride as a metaphysical one. William Dufris does a good job on the narration, also.

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06-25-2015 , 11:15 AM

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kokiri

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I have that somewhere, but have never read it. I'm reading Kate Atkinson's Life After Life, ATM, which has a similar conceit. Tbh, I'm thinking about abandoning it. I've nothing really to fault it for, but my heart sinks a little when I realise it's what's on my kindle ATM.

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