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Old 03-06-2014, 08:21 PM   #121 (permalink)
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Brain Candy - The Wolves of Mid-Winter

This one is not deep or anything but Ann Rice is alway a good read and a lot of fun. The first book in this series is called The Wolf Gift and that is good too. There is a lot of religious imagery in this (even more than the vampire series) which I can take or leave but overall af general good time.

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On the Road by Jack Kerouac.

I've tried a few times. Never got far.
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BrianAlt, I have heard it's not for everyone. People either love it, or hate it. It's not an easy read either. He jumps all over the place, conversations and imagery starting and ending abruptly etc. Let's just say, I read it...very.slowly.
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I'm kind of hurting for reading material right now...any suggestions? That last few good books I read were Ancestor by Scott Sigler, The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman, and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson.
I don't know if you would like them, but I'm on book 3 of the Game of Thrones series. LOVE them.
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This is a fantastic thread! I’m definitely going to come back here if I need suggestions for a new book to read.

The current books I’m reading are Greg Dean’s Step by Step to Stand-Up Comedy, and John Vorhaus’s The Comic Toolbox. Both are excellent in dissecting the magic of a stand-up routine which comedians perform so effortlessly.

My two favorite contemporary authors are Neal Stepheson, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

From Neal Stephenson I’d recommend the Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of World), or The Cryptonomicon. The Baroque Cycle is a huge sci-fi novel which spans the entire globe during the late 17th century. While The Cryptonomicon is a sci-fi novel which takes place during World War 2, and the nascent Silicon Valley tech bubble of the early 1990s. Both novels can be thought of as prequels or sequels to one another, and vice versa. I really enjoy Neal Stephenson’s witty, clever, asshole-ish writing style.

From Chimamanda Adichie I’d recommend Half of a Yellow Sun a novel about the Nigerian civil war. Adichie’s characters have depth, and verisimilitude. The novel isn’t filled with heroes, or villains just ordinary people making difficult, harrowing choices.
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I don't know if you would like them, but I'm on book 3 of the Game of Thrones series. LOVE them.
I enjoyed them too, but found that I needed to use the Wiki of Ice and Fire to look up characters now and then. (A Wiki of Ice and Fire)
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I enjoyed them too, but found that I needed to use the Wiki of Ice and Fire to look up characters now and then. (A Wiki of Ice and Fire)
Yes, they can definitely be a bit hard to follow with the characters and names. I don't know how the author kept them straight!
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I'm reading In Paradise, a novel by Peter Matthiessen
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There's fisting in Fifty Shades of Grey, and it all happens in a place called "the red room of pain", so...
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