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03-22-2019, 03:22 PM #426
I finished this about a week ago (read it over the course of 2 days):
Wryly sarcastic road trip odyssey by a great (and often overlooked) American author. Portis is best known for penning True Grit, but so far his two follow-up novels, Norwood, and this one, have delivered.
This is supposedly the first in a "loose" trilogy of secret society books (followd by Master of Atlantis and Gringoes)...I definitely think there were more than a few things "hidden" between the lines and pages in this book that went over-my-head, at least in terms of references and what not. But regardless, it's a well-written, easy going romp with a sly sense of the absurd running through its undercurrent.
Here's a nice piece about Portis and his work for the uninitiated:
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-portis-reader/#!
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03-23-2019, 12:08 PM #427I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. -אלוהים אדירים
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04-01-2019, 11:20 PM #428
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04-02-2019, 12:52 AM #429
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04-15-2019, 11:11 PM #430
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05-01-2019, 08:16 PM #431
Two excellent fiction novels by Chigozie Obioma... The Fishermen...and An Orchestra Of Minorities
what's so funny about peace, love, and understanding?
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05-02-2019, 09:11 AM #432guy who skis
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The River by Peter Heller is very good (though I'm also a fan of the rest of his work). Makes me want do a Canadian/Boundary Waters river trip.
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05-16-2019, 12:44 PM #433
I'm not sure it's recommended, but I just read it. Found it by grabbing random books in the library fiction section.
Quin's Shanghai Circus by Edward Whittemore.
It's an odd book. Not a great book, but an interesting book- a shorter pynchon. From the "rectum of lunacy" it's an absurdist realist journey to the east. Here's the opening
Some twenty years after the end of the war with Japan a freighter arrived in Brooklyn with the largest collection of Japanese pornography ever assembled in a Western tongue. The owner of the collection, a huge, smiling fat man named Geraty, presented a passport to customs that showed he was a native-born American about as old as the century, an exile who had left the United States nearly four decades before. The collection contained all the pornographic works written in Japan during the last three hundred and fifty years, or since the time when Japan first closed itself to the West... The manuscripts were illustrated with ink drawings exquisitely detailed to show every hair. Even the cat hairs could be counted, where cats appeared.
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05-16-2019, 12:52 PM #434
I need a new book, should scan this thread for ideas.
Just finished the Art of Racing in the Rain, recommended in some other thread. Good read but annoyed me too."fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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05-17-2019, 05:42 PM #435
I also did not love The Art of racing in the rain despite many loving it. with all due respect to those that liked it- I thought it was consistently cheesy/ cringeworthy
have you checked out Natural Born Hero's?
It's a great blend of an exciting band of real WWII rebels as well as some running & nutrition info sprinkled in
Bet you'd dig itskid luxury
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05-17-2019, 06:19 PM #436
'In Our Mad and Furious City' - interesting tragedy told in contemporary London street slang.
Slices out some fucked up truths, but I liked the way it moved words around.Merde De Glace On the Freak When Ski
>>>200 cm Black Bamboo Sidewalled DPS Lotus 120 : Best Skis Ever <<<
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05-18-2019, 06:31 PM #437"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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05-18-2019, 08:31 PM #438
Just finished Baldacci "The Fallen". Gripping and entertaining
“How does it feel to be the greatest guitarist in the world? I don’t know, go ask Rory Gallagher”. — Jimi Hendrix
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05-18-2019, 11:35 PM #439
Just finished the NOFX book. Riveting. Thanks for the suggestion
Bunny Don't Surf
Have you seen a one armed man around here?
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05-19-2019, 06:55 AM #440
getting ready to start all creatures great and small with the boy. my first novels and my favorite for years. i wanted to be a vet until my first pet died and i was so crushed i knew i could never be a vet.
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05-19-2019, 10:55 AM #441
I’m reading “a really big lunch” for the first time. Not fiction, but a rad collection of articles. Highly recommended. Harrison is a master.
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05-19-2019, 10:58 AM #442
"Dancing Bears", an allegory between the dancing bears of eastern Europe who, after being freed, continue to dance when in the presence of people and citizens of eastern Europe who pine for the good old days under tyranny.
It starts out well but kind of diverges into unfocused and seeming random stories. Maybe it's just me but I was initially interested but that waned as the book progressed.Merde De Glace On the Freak When Ski
>>>200 cm Black Bamboo Sidewalled DPS Lotus 120 : Best Skis Ever <<<
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05-20-2019, 11:46 AM #443
about 1/2 way through something in the water. Riveting, but in a worthless beach read sorta way.
"Can't you see..."
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05-22-2019, 07:39 PM #444
I wish all books could be this good. First in a trilogy.
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05-22-2019, 08:33 PM #445
That's one of my favorites. I just worked my way through This House of Sky.
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05-22-2019, 09:09 PM #446
^^Great, classic memoir. I almost prefer his novels though. Have you read The Bartender's Tale? Good one, lots of plot twists but still nothing melodramatic, which I appreciate about Doig.
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06-10-2019, 03:07 PM #447
Just finished The Fifth Season by NK Jemison (recommended to me by pegleg, but not in this thread). Really cool book. Now I have to wait till the sequel is free at the library.
I checked out Natural Born Heroes from the library, but haven't cracked it yet."fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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06-26-2019, 01:51 PM #448"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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06-26-2019, 11:19 PM #449Registered User
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Here’s one I just picked up, by Aaron Franklin, of Franklin BBQ fame:
https://www.amazon.com/Franklin-Stea...0964/ref=nodl_
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06-27-2019, 01:57 PM #450Registered User
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