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#51
Finished Mickey 7 and the sequel Antimatter Blues. Really enjoy this author.
 
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Recently finished Fire & Blood by G.R.R. Martin. I havent read any of his other books but my take away from his writing style in this one is he writes exactly how he looks..like a dude who says "m'lady" to women in real life while wearing a goofy hat. It was ok.
 
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Just finished The Guest by Emma Cline. She is a helluva writer, lean and yet flows nice. Just didnt care too much about the protagonist and the ending was definitely open for interpretation.
 
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Just finished "The Fall of the House of Zues" about Dickie Scruggs, the tort lawyer from Mississippi.
 
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@Orange_Crush or @Orange. - a while back one of you commented on the Book of Job and mentioned a modern re-write/dramatization of it. What was that? I know the Coen brothers did A Serious Man. What was the one you referenced?

I’m reading Harold Kushner’s book on Job. It’s really good.
 
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franklinpence said:
@Orange_Crush or @Orange. - a while back one of you commented on the Book of Job and mentioned a modern re-write/dramatization of it. What was that? I know the Coen brothers did A Serious Man. What was the one you referenced?

I’m reading Harold Kushner’s book on Job. It’s really good.
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I don't remember, but I've read it. It's a play (1958) called J.B. by Archibald MacLeish. I don't recall being particularly impressed by J.B.. but it's short, and it may be better than I remember. I read it as an assigned freshman text. I've never read Kushner. Have you ever read Leon Kass's The Beginning of Wisdom?
 
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Orange. said:
I don't remember, but I've read it. It's a play (1958) called J.B. by Archibald MacLeish. I don't recall being particularly impressed by J.B.. but it's short, and it may be better than I remember. I read it as an assigned freshman text. I've never read Kushner. Have you ever read Leon Kass's The Beginning of Wisdom?
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Kushner is worth the read. I haven’t read Kass. I’ll pick it up.
 
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GroverCleveland said:
Just finished "The Fall of the House of Zues" about Dickie Scruggs, the tort lawyer from Mississippi.
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If you liked it, Mississippi Mud: Southern Justice and the Dixie Mafia (about Biloxi) and Cadaver King and the Country Dentist (2 docs and their defective forensic "science" scheme) are worth reading.
 
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I finished my chronological Bible a couple months ago, started over in a standard Bible and am now early in Psalms. Reading Job while having a recent diagnosis of ulcerative colitis was powerful.

Also reading a CISSP exam study guide and an A+ exam study guide. CISSP book is pretty intimidating.
 
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Orange. said:
If you liked it, Mississippi Mud: Southern Justice and the Dixie Mafia (about Biloxi) and Cadaver King and the Country Dentist (2 docs and their defective forensic "science" scheme) are worth reading.
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Thank you for the recommendation.
 
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I just read that Alice Munro died yesterday. In case there are other readers of the short story writer here.
 
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Went old school and read The Thread that Runs so True. It's pretty good and in parts very good. I knew Kentucky's public school system was bad way back when (and not great now) but Jesse Stuart's writing shone a light on how bad it was.
 
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Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor. I get blown away by classic novels written by a writer at such a young age. Her grasp of dialogue and the awkward grind of bad human interaction is just mind-boggling. My envy of her talent runs deep.
 
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Angels of Darkness by Gavin Thorpe.

set in the 40k universe. only interesting because it gives a peak behind one of the mysterious factions in the universe.
 
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Sofia Petrovna by Lydia Chukovskaya. A really interesting novella written in 1939-40 about events in 1937 during the Stalinist Great Purge. It depicts how ordinary Soviet citizens denied or rationalized their own experiences, based upon dissembling media accounts, the opinions and power of "authorities" in the workplace, and their own hopes.
 
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Orange. said:
Sofia Petrovna by Lydia Chukovskaya. A really interesting novella written in 1939-40 about events in 1937 during the Stalinist Great Purge. It depicts how ordinary Soviet citizens denied or rationalized their own experiences, based upon dissembling media accounts, the opinions and power of "authorities" in the workplace, and their own hopes.
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That's on my list, haven't reached it yet.
 
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