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Paul Auster - Sunset Park
nice book... could be better.
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Posted 19 June 2012 - 10:05 AM
That's still very broad. Hm... I recently read and really enjoyed Dirk Wittenborn's Fierce People. If you're looking for something in a more traditional vein, I'm particularly fond of W. Somerset Maugham, and I've recently been reading Graham Greene as well.
The last book I read: Elling by Ingvar Ambjornsen. I loved it.
The last book I read: Elling by Ingvar Ambjornsen. I loved it.
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Posted 28 June 2012 - 06:22 PM
tercat, on 19 June 2012 - 10:05 AM, said:
That's still very broad. Hm... I recently read and really enjoyed Dirk Wittenborn's Fierce People. If you're looking for something in a more traditional vein, I'm particularly fond of W. Somerset Maugham, and I've recently been reading Graham Greene as well.
I don't know. Just something good. Haha. Yeah that is broad too. Idk, its just that I've spent most of my time reading trade mags. I'd like to fall in love with a story again, just don't know where to start.
Gehain, on 20 June 2012 - 06:09 PM, said:
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.
Again.
Again.
One of my faves!
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Posted 29 June 2012 - 08:16 AM
The End of the Affair was very good. It's really stuck with me.
The Cure, on the other hand, was a major disappointment. It's rare that I just can't connect with characters, especially when so much is happening to them, but that's what happened when I read this book.
The last book I finished was John Wray's Low Boy. It's about a paranoid schizophrenic 16-year-old boy who goes off his meds and sneaks away on the NYC subway. In many ways, it's quite good, but the side of the story about his mother is unsatisfying, and as a result the ending isn't what it could have been. Still, it's a quick and entertaining read, sometimes sad and sometimes disturbing, with a healthy dose of suspense.
Now I'm reading Maugham's The Painted Veil. I'm enjoying it--Maugham has never let me down--but the racism, which may have been considered the norm when this was written, is distracting.
The Cure, on the other hand, was a major disappointment. It's rare that I just can't connect with characters, especially when so much is happening to them, but that's what happened when I read this book.
The last book I finished was John Wray's Low Boy. It's about a paranoid schizophrenic 16-year-old boy who goes off his meds and sneaks away on the NYC subway. In many ways, it's quite good, but the side of the story about his mother is unsatisfying, and as a result the ending isn't what it could have been. Still, it's a quick and entertaining read, sometimes sad and sometimes disturbing, with a healthy dose of suspense.
Now I'm reading Maugham's The Painted Veil. I'm enjoying it--Maugham has never let me down--but the racism, which may have been considered the norm when this was written, is distracting.
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Posted 23 August 2012 - 11:18 AM
I am struggling through Laura Lamont's Life In Pictures by Emma Straub. For a while, I was reading about a book a week, but this is taking me ages. It's not a difficult read at all, it's just... not very good. I want it to be better. I received an advance reader's copy and I'd heard good things about this author, but the character development is poor and the book is just not holding my interest. I've still got about 100 pages to go and I just need to power through them because I have a bunch of books to read that I think I'm going to enjoy a lot more.