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  1. #901
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    Quote Originally Posted by stealurface831 View Post
    is brautigan worth reading?
    It’s been so long since I read Brautigan…. I remember really liking Trout Fishing In America, but I don’t really know if it has aged well. But it’s pretty short - give it a shot.

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    THE THICKET - Joe R. Lansdale (2013)
    I’ve yammered enthusiastically about Mojo storyteller Joe Lansdale before and will most likely do so again.
    For those unfamiliar with him, he’s a veritable and versatile genre chameleon, flitting effortlessly between horror, thriller, mystery, and western with nimble aplomb.
    This novel is a bristling western that feels like a cross between Twain (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Portis (True Grit), and L’amour (take your pick).
    The story is a coming of age yarn filled with bounty hunters, bad men, whores with hearts of gold, and a wild hog. It’s also teeming with some genuinely hilarious dialogue and whip snap action.
    If you like westerns that deviate from the genre while still being incredibly true to it, then I highly recommend this joint.

    It’s also been made into a film starring Peter Dinklage, which hits theaters on 9/6.
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    one day in the life of ivan denisovich by solzhenitsyn.
    details, you guessed it, one day in the life of ivan denisovich, a political prisoner in a gulag. quick, easy read but incredibly powerful.
    swing your fucking sword.

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    "The Villian" by Jim Perrin, The Mountaineers Books

    when he's not on-sighting 5.10 X first ascents in the rain,
    the Godfather of Grit is beating the shit out of any and everybody

    the rise and fall of Don Whillans

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    Older book, but “The Wolverine Way” by Douglas Chadwick is great. Centers around the Glacier National Park wolverine study in the early aughts.


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    Has anyone here read James? It's a rewrite of Huck Finn from Jim's perspective. It's gotten great reviews.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The AD View Post
    Has anyone here read James? It's a rewrite of Huck Finn from Jim's perspective. It's gotten great reviews.
    Not yet, but also was oblivious to it being a re-imagining of Huck.

    Percival Everett has been on my “to read” radar ever since I saw American Fiction. Really dug the film and am curious about the novel it was based because of that.

    I have seen James at my local used bookstore for a bit. May have to pick it up.

    Ironically, I have been thinking about revisiting Twain’s novel (and finally reading the three others in the Tom and Huck series), so this might be a cool tie-in…
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    Huck is such a superior piece of writing , not sure I want the cross contamination but I’ll chk it out

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    I'd be curious to check out James, but I feel like I'd have to re-read Huck Finn first to really appreciate the new perspective.

    Quote Originally Posted by MagnificentUnicorn View Post
    Older book, but “The Wolverine Way” by Douglas Chadwick is great. Centers around the Glacier National Park wolverine study in the early aughts.
    I read that book years ago and liked it. Sure would love to see a wolverine in Glacier some day, but the odds are long.

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    Bit the bullet(s)…

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    "Man, we killin' elephants in the back yard..."

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    Just finished Demon Copperhead. Pretty much blew my socks off. Almost 600 pages and it really doesn't let up for a single fucking sentence, it's just relentless in its brilliance. Creating the character of Demon is an amazing achievement, and Barbara Kingsolver is well deserving of the Pulitzer Prize IMO. I have not enjoyed a book that much in a long time. Bravo.

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    Did you read the book or watch the movie of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road? Did it move you? Do graphic novels appeal to you? Then consider the graphic version by Manu Larcenet. It’s fkn stunning. A perfect (imo) graphic format of that story.
    https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL

    Amazon has it too.
    https://www.amazon.com/Road-Graphic-...680980-4382551

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    Quote Originally Posted by yeahman View Post
    Just finished Demon Copperhead. Pretty much blew my socks off. Almost 600 pages and it really doesn't let up for a single fucking sentence, it's just relentless in its brilliance. Creating the character of Demon is an amazing achievement, and Barbara Kingsolver is well deserving of the Pulitzer Prize IMO. I have not enjoyed a book that much in a long time. Bravo.
    I just started it and it's beginning to draw me in.

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