I knew My Struggle was a book for me when I read this early paragraph:

Couple of other early gems:

I'm reading Slaying the Tiger, which refers to the Tiger of golf fame - its the author's experiences last year covering the PGA golf tour, by Shane Ryan ex of Grantland.

You don't have to be a fan of golf, or indeed sport, to read it, its very well written and a bit of a page-turner. There are several extracts floating about online, if you like them you will like the book.

Just started Dark Places by Gillian Flynn, the Gone Girl lady. It's cool so far, very dark! Also I bought the great Bob Ryan's memoir Scribe: My Life in Sports which should be great because he's awesome.

Interesting, adding to the queue. He's writing a Twin Peaks novel to be released before the new season, so I might as well get on board now.

I get it.

Hi, since I want to know about graphics in computer, I started reading "Fundamentals of Computer Graphics" 3rd ed. by P. Shirley, S. Marschner. This could guide me in terms of comprehensive and introduction to computer graphics. It also tackles the mathematical foundations of computer graphics with a focus on geometric intuition.

good sir, thank you for reminding me of this book. i had read a really great excerpt (for golf books) from it in the golf forum and will purchase it today

here's the excerpt: http://tobaccoroadblues.com/2015/01/30/the-villain-patrick-reed/

No problem - its definitely a cut or three above your standard golf book - what marks it out is his honesty and craftsmanship. Its rare you get someone who can actually write doing an "insider" look at the PGA, and rarer still that person will be honest about it.

There's other excerpts floating around the internet as well: one on the Masters, Jason Day and Bubba; two of those three don't come out particularly well in the book.

Replay is a really well-written fantasy.

Not available for Kindle?? Haven't seen that in a while.

Kinda surprised it's not available on Kindle. Espescially since I listened to it on Audible, which is an Amazon subsidiary, and they like to promote those Whispersync deals.

Last night I listened to a writing self-help book called Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott, read by Susan Bennett. It's definitely not Strunk & White. It's often humorous and is chock full of anecdotes about her friends and family, the writing life, and so on. There's not a ton of stuff you won't get elsewhere, but it's a good read with a lot of solid basic information.

Next on my list is Blackout: a woman's memoir about drinking to great excess for many years.

Finished Seveneves.

Really enjoying Ben Lerner's 10:04. Also got a copy of House of Leaves in the mail via Barnes and Noble for under $13, new. That'll be next.

Finished a re-read of Peter Handke's The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick.

I re-read it specifically to see how Handke described and used the dissociative experience that occurs just short of the midpoint of the novel.

Read 4 (awesome) and 5 (over-the-top awesome, just suspend all disbelief upon entering) of The Expanse Series.

Really wish someone had mentioned that #5 was a setup to a further (two?) books: if you're like me and hate waiting for the story arc to complete, I'd suggest avoiding #5 until 6 (or 6 & 7) come out.

PS: I saw someone linked the trailer for The Expanse Series... Took a look at it and I have to say that that if I was creating a generic trailer for a SciFi universe, it'd look something like that.

Any major ties to Back to the Future other than the title and the meta time-travelly premise?

So far a few mentions. It's not so much similar in plot to b2tf as it is in a deeper philosophy. Uses b2tf to illustrate points a few times so far.

I actually find it most similar to Lunar Park by BEE, minus the supernatural horror

Started All That Is by James Salter.

Which one is it Mad Dog or his ghost written autobiography which was awful?

If you want a book about the Troubles in Ireland read the Shankill Butchers. In short they kidnapped innocent Catholics by roaming Belfast in a black taxi. Victims were then tortured with meat hooks, skinned alive and then had their throat cut in an alley on the Shankill estate in Belfast.

They are Britain's most prolific serial killers but were all released as part of the peace agreement. I have a friend who plays football with the son of one of the Butchers.

They still walk the streets of Belfast except Lenny Murphy, John Murphy and William Moore. Mr. A and Mr. B in the book were Lennys elder brothers William and John. The entire family knew what they were up to but kept quiet. A very harrowing book buy well worth reading.

I read The Girl with All the Gifts by M. R. Carey. Finty Williams narrates admirably. The book is post-zombie-apocalypse, and though I don't think I've ever actually read any zombie books before, I can't imagine that there are too many better than this one.

It lags a bit in the middle, I think, and there were a couple times when I was shaking my fist at the author for lowering himself to Walking Dead / 28 Days Later tropes or putting plot ahead of character. But these are only nitpicks, as overall the book is very original for its genre.

I absolutely love the ending. As the book was winding down, I kept thinking that there was no way it could end satisfactorily in so little time, but boy was I wrong.

Halfway through My Struggle Vol 1. Knausgaard is often called the Norwegian Proust but so far feels more of a Scandinavian Henry Miller, the way he effortlessly weaves deep wisdom into narrative.

Quick take: Phyl-Undhu: Abstract Horror, Exterminator by Nick Land. This popped up randomly as I was surfing Amazon and I bought it based on the title and some positive reviews. Land is not a bad writer, he turns several choice phrases throughout the (very) short book, but spends much time answering questions like Could the levels of the cyclopean screw correspond to echelons of duration? which you never asked. Lovecraft meets William Gibson in the attention span of a gnat. Then the last 12% of the book was an appendix about horror, which I never felt reading his actual horror writing. I will give the man this sentence though - There was no glory that was not also a billion screams, and all-enveloping ruin was the only true God. - which recalls the thesis statement of Blood Meridian: War is God.

I stopped reading The Bayou Trilogy, the Cajun Noir dialog was getting on my damn nerves.

Cajun noir, who knew? I dipped my toes in some Irish noir, which is apparently a thing, but it didn't really take. And I'm onto like the sixth Aberystwyth book, which is Welsh noir, only written by someone with Terry Pratchett's sense of the absurd.

in regard to the noir - I like Woodrell, Donald Ray Pollock, etc but yes you can only take so much of that before you need a break.

Read Amsterdam by Ian McEwan.
I loved the first three quarters of the book, specially the passages involving Clive, a composer. I really enjoyed reading the description of Clive's hardwork and how he builds opportunities to let in some inspiration to lift a piece. It was interesting seeing how inspiration is only a small piece of the technical work a composer has to do (at least this composer).
I was a little disappointed with the ending, but overall the book was a worthy read.

Among the books I've read by McEwan, this might be the one I like the least. I would order them as follows:
Saturday > Solar > Children Act > Amsterdam.
I am planning on re-reading Saturday this summer and then try a few other books by McEwan. I really enjoy his prose.

Lock In by John Scalzi. We follow Chris, a rookie FBI agent who has a disease which immobilizes its victims and forces them to use robot bodies. The book is a futuristic murder-mystery with Scalzi's typical witty dialogue, unique characters, and fast-paced plot. But I get the feeling he kind of phoned it in on this one. It's decent, but definitely not Scalzi's best. I listened to the Amber Benson narration, but there's a Wil Wheaton version, too. She's decent, but sometimes too whisperish while doing deep male voices.