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Somehow got this in the wrong thread:
These were put-downable: Jamie Quatro -- I want to show you more Meh. A couple of the shorter pieces on affairs were nice, but most of the stories sounded like things i've heard in my writers' group. Which is not to say that these aren't polished or properly edited, quite the contrary. It's just that narrative point of view, the settings & narrative content cover familiar territory, even when the narrative form is magical realism. But i did zip right through it. It helps that many of these pieces are the right size for my commute. John Krich -- Music in every room: Around the world in a bad mood Can't decide if this is a parody of travel writing or just overwritten. Sometimes the narrator drops the baroque exclamations and repetitions for a quieter, almost elegaic mode. I liked those moments best. Once in a while the prose matches the setting. I think that happens in the Istanbul chapter. Also, some of the passive aggressive dynamics with Iris and other travellers are amusing. Again, it helps that this one comes in commuter-sized chunks. This one has held my interest more: Keynes -- General theory The paper copy has been on my shelf for 15 years. Something made me want to read it after all thee years, but i couldn't find it. I dug up an epub online somewhere. At about the halfway point, i'm finding it surpisingly readable. Last edited by barutanseijin; 04-03-2013 at 11:40 PM. Reason: argh -- wrong thread. |
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A Memory of Light, the final Wheel of Time book. But then I'm a huge fan of the series.
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I'll make a shout-out for Ian Sales' Across the Sea of Rains and The Eye Which Beholds the Universe. Sea of Rains just won the British SF Award for best short fiction of last year (although in truth, it's novella-length). Definitely one of the best pieces of sf I've read in some time.
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The last two books that I found quite addictive were The Fault in Our Stars by John Green and Erebos by Ursula Poznanski. The former one isn't something I would usually read, but it had great characters and I absolutely loved it. At the moment, I am alternating between two very good reads: Red Planet Blues by Robert J. Sawyer and The Man from Primrose Lane by James Renner. The new Sawyer is a SF/mystery crossover set on Mars, the latter one is a crime novel that is supposed to have some SF elements as well, but so far (I am 40% in) they haven't shown up. But it has interesting characters and the mystery is interesting too. |
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(Non-Fiction) "The Grip of Death" Michael Rowbotham (1998)
(Non-Fiction) "The Grip of Death" Michael Rowbotham (1998)
Not so much the writing, as the content. About our money system, and the peculiar way it works, probably the reason why our economy (and not just ours) is in such a bad way. Still very relevant. |
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For a recent read that turned out much better than expected: An Inquiry Into Love and Death - set in 1920's England featuring an Oxford student drawn into a village mystery by the death of her estranged uncle there. Fans of the Maisie Dobbs series should like this one. |
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Mullumbimby by Melissa Lucashenko. Absolutely brilliant.
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The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin
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The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Potzsch
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A Memory of Light.......can't put it down because after so long I want to see how it ends Only 19% in but so far, so good!
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James Salter -- A sport and a pastime
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