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oh lol I'm literally dropping off some books at Little Yenta today

 

loooooove it there

 

I liked that the least out of the three I read. Horseman or Last Picture were better

 

He's doing A Children's Bible next. Might skip that to keep going with Lonesome Dove.

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Lol I was not expecting Jeselnik to get choked up talking about the end of the novel. Caught me off guard, even though he dropped the old facade years ago.

 

Finished actually reading The Odyssey yesterday. It was worth it. I don’t think I can make it through The Iliad though.

 

idk which translation of The Odyssey you read but I thought that Emily Wilson's version of the Iliad was really readable! there's lots of great videos of her reading it too

 

I only ever knew him from his standup where he would really push the line of good taste / what you can say, and it was really cool to see him talking about books like this.

 

Peter Green. I bought the boxset after hearing an interview with him about it. His approach sounded compelling to me.

 

Top 100 reader novels

Guardian again, this time readers. Very interesting to compare. LotR at #1.

 

Enjoyed The Wager when I read it a few years ago. Will probably end up reading The Wreck of the Mentor too. The similarity between the covers made me laugh though. It’s basically the same thing.

 

I finished the Children of Men. It was okay but the movie is much better. It's interesting what they pulled out of the book to make the movie.

 

I didn't even know Children of Men was based on a book.

 

Im halfway through the Wager right now!

Great read, but god, also terrifying

 

Definitely an example of the movie being a better experience

 

Finished The World Is Going To Love This: Up from the Basement with The Strokes by Gordon Raphael the other day. His writing was a little off-putting but I finished it cause I can't get enough of music related books. I would love if Will Yip, Matt Squire, Mark Trombino, or other prominent producers from the "scene" would write autobiographies.

About 70 pages in on Seek the Traitor's Son. Went to a local bookstore a few weeks ago and a worker there was raving about it and basically shoved it into my hand lol. The worldbuilding is cool, and I'm enjoying it so far, but I didn't realize it was a "romantasy" book until last night. I generally stay away from romance books but going to keep an open mind.

 

Has anyone else read Yesteryear?

 

My wife did. She liked it overall but thought the ending was contrived.

 

You’re supposed to hate the main character, but it’s kinda wild to feel how much the author hates the main character.

 

The twist sounded pretty outrageous when she described it to me.

 

Can't stop reading Chekhov.

 

Watch out for his gun

 

Spoiler

 

I just started Harlem Shuffle. I have never read anything from Colson Whitehead before and that seems wrong. Loving it so far.

 

Just about finished reading The Sun Also Rises

 

Both of those books are so good. Can’t wait for the last one later this year.