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Finished R. F. Delderfield's wonderful Long Summer Day, the first book of his A Horseman Riding By trilogy.
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I haven't read Delderfield in a long time, so I found this hint intriguing. I read the first couple of pages of "Long Summer Day" using Amazon's "look inside" feature, and decided to take the plunge again.
Currently, I'm reading Robertson Davies' "The Deptford Trilogy", which I read years ago (and therefore probably missed a lot of). Had to get it in a dead trees edition because Amazon seems woefully unimpressed with Davies' work. The Folio Society edition I'm reading is illustrated with full color tarot-card-style impressions of the events of the novels...and are enough to give one nightmares.
In my humble opinion, "The Deptford Trilogy" is one of the classics of 20th century fiction. It's a pity that it languishes in such obscurity.
My inch-through-it-one-paragraph-at-a-time project is "Dereliction of Duty", by H. R. McMaster (ebook). It's an analysis of what got us so deeply into that Tar Baby called Vietnam. Very dense reading, not to mention disillusioning and discouraging...hence, "inching through". (The government
really played that fast and loose with people's lives? I should be surprised?)
I've been reading a lot of Stephen King recently. I'm not overly taken with his "horror" horror, but his borderline stuff, even including "The Stand", is very good. Wonderful thing about King: from the first paragraph, I know I'm in the hands of an accomplished storyteller, and that he won't let me down with cheap tricks or hand-waving. I enjoy his asides and quirky sense of humor, too. ("Hearts in Atlantis", I should mention, is a true gem.)
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