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Another Book Thread

Books read so far this leave:

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
The Martian
Fight Club

On deck: Darkly Dreaming Dexter
 
dxmnkd316 said:
Books read so far this leave:

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
The Martian
Fight Club

On deck: Darkly Dreaming Dexter
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Completed (1,989 pages)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
The Martian
Fight Club
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
A Game of Thrones

In Progress:
A Clash of Kings

I thought Dexter the series was significantly better than the book, especially how they played the whole Biney/Dexter/Deb storylines. Still enjoyed the book.

A Game of Thrones was fantastic. That first season really lived up to how good the first book was. Some interesting editorial choices in the series.

I know a criticism is that he’s long-winded. Which, fair. But I also appreciated the depth of detail. It really allows you to paint your own mental images of the characters and scenery. You can almost taste and smell the locations. Reminds me a bit of Stieg Larsson’s detailed imagery.

Anyways, I wasn’t planning on starting book two right away but after I how I liked the first I don’t think I had a choice.
 
Just finished “A Fever in the Heartland” by Timothy Egan. It’s about the explosive resurgence of the KKK in the Midwest in the early to mid 20s. A timely read.
 
Holy shit. TIL Rudy Rucker is the great-great-great-grandson of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel!
 
Great Pynchon quote:

The object of life is to make sure you die a weird death. To make sure that, however it finds you, it finds you under very weird circumstances.
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About 100 pages into Washington Black, by Esi Edugyan, about slavery on a Caribbean plantation. Rich, compelling.
 
How’s this for an elegant simile about that ruffian, Tom Sawyer, in HF?:

“When he got a-front of us he lifts his hat ever so gracious and dainty, like it was the lid of a box that had butterflies asleep in it and he didn’t want to disturb them . . . .”
 
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My FIL sells used books over the interwebs, mostly purchasing a personal library from families whose relatives have died. There’s a lot of junk, some absolute crap, but then there are others that are pretty cool. Also, people have no idea how much their used books are worth. Wow! I just entered a book written by Henry Van Dyke, a future Ambassador to a few European countries on behalf of President Wilson. This edition was printed in 1901, and appears to be going though reprints to this day.

He appears to have bought this batch from a Jewish family, based upon the huge trove of Jewish-based biographies and some religious texts.

Also, there was a Bloom County print in a frame that appears to have been made specifically for Breathed Berkley to use for signed autographs.
 
St. Clown said:
My FIL sells used books over the interwebs, mostly purchasing a personal library from families whose relatives have died. There’s a lot of junk, some absolute crap, but then there are others that are pretty cool. Also, people have no idea how much their used books are worth. Wow! I just entered a book written by Henry Van Dyke, a future Ambassador to a few European countries on behalf of President Wilson. This edition was printed in 1901, and appears to be going though reprints to this day.

He appears to have bought this batch from a Jewish family, based upon the huge trove of Jewish-based biographies and some religious texts.

Also, there was a Bloom County print in a frame that appears to have been made specifically for Breathed Berkley to use for signed autographs.
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I bought a used book on Amazon over the summer and it was a personal copy of a well regarded post war mystery author(not the author of the book I purchased.) I had never heard of the guy until I got the book. I read a couple of his books and they were decent enough.
 
St. Clown said:
My FIL sells used books over the interwebs, mostly purchasing a personal library from families whose relatives have died. There’s a lot of junk, some absolute crap, but then there are others that are pretty cool. Also, people have no idea how much their used books are worth. Wow! I just entered a book written by Henry Van Dyke, a future Ambassador to a few European countries on behalf of President Wilson. This edition was printed in 1901, and appears to be going though reprints to this day.

He appears to have bought this batch from a Jewish family, based upon the huge trove of Jewish-based biographies and some religious texts.

Also, there was a Bloom County print in a frame that appears to have been made specifically for Breathed Berkley to use for signed autographs.
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That is very cool. Does he have a site? I am a sucker for old books.
 
Still working on Anna Karenina. 12 months, just made it to 90%. It's certainly the best novel I have ever read. I am dragging because I will feel loss when it is over, like with Middlemarch and The Idiot (not with Brothers Karamazov or War & Peace, though. Those should end at the halfway point! And don't even get me started on Crime & Punishment. That could have tapped out happily at 10%.)
 
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St. Clown said:
HistoryBound.com
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He has some non-book products, too. People get crazy about stamps, and he just took possession of one of the first mass-produced stamps made. It’s not up on the site yet, he’s behind on getting things listed. There are so many books, albums, stamps, etc. that he needs to post.
 
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