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just bob said:
That's on my list, haven't reached it yet.
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It's simple and poignant. I reread it yesterday. Not what you'd expect from someone today imagining events.

It was scheduled to be released second in the short-lived "Khrushchev thaw," but the first (Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich) caused such an uproar that Sofia was cancelled for a long time after.
 
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bignewt said:
Twilight by William Gay. If you are jonesing for that Cormac McCarthy southern gothic fix, he is your guy.
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I think you mentioned him earlier and that you were going to read him. Is this the one you'd say to start with?
 
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bignewt said:
I know some of you still read books right? A few maybe? Let us know if you finish a good one.

I just read Dark Matter by Blake Crouch. Good read, the plot centers around alternate realities. Should make a good film.

I also read the graphic novel My Friend Dahmer, which also was just made into a movie. Very well done was interesting and dark.

Starting Lincoln in The Bardo tonight.
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I am going to make a McKay's run in a few months and stock up on reading material.
 
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On book three of the Southern Reach trilogy. I’m really enjoying it. Vandermeer is the author’s name. Hope he lands it well.
 
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Two books on LBJ. Really enjoyed Robert Caro's The Passage of Power about LBJ's 1960 campaign, the VP years, and the relationship with the Kennedys. I had read Caro's Master of the Senate about 8 years ago: really good, too. Been waiting 12 years (!) for Caro's final volume on the presidency. I hope he actually finishes it, and if he doesn't, that it's released as it stands rather than given over to another hand. Impatient, I read the final volume of Robert Dallek's LBJ biography Flawed Giant, instead. Very interesting but not as good as the two volumes by Caro.
 
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Read another Warhammer 40k book, about the Blood Angles. It was the 2nd Omnibus.

covers some interesting bits of modern lore.
 
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another issue of the New Yorker
subscription way birthday gift, and I m spending too much time in waiting rooms
 
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Orange. said:
Two books on LBJ. Really enjoyed Robert Caro's The Passage of Power about LBJ's 1960 campaign, the VP years, and the relationship with the Kennedys. I had read Caro's Master of the Senate about 8 years ago: really good, too. Been waiting 12 years (!) for Caro's final volume on the presidency. I hope he actually finishes it, and if he doesn't, that it's released as it stands rather than given over to another hand. Impatient, I read the final volume of Robert Dallek's LBJ biography Flawed Giant, instead. Very interesting but not as good as the two volumes by Caro.
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I love Caro! Have made it through the first three of the LBJ series. Curious if you've read The Power Broker?
 
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“I Must Betray You” by Ruta Sepetys.

It’s historical fiction about communist Romania in the 80s. My daughter had to read it for school summer reading, so I read it too. I really enjoyed it.
 
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My new novel dropped today if you are so inclined:

July, 1976. Instead of celebrating a bicentennial, the former United States is on the verge of reuniting 100 years after a protracted Civil War that neither side seemed able nor willing to win.

Along the heavily patrolled border between The Northern and The Southern, citizens of both sides are lined up waiting for the wall to fall so they can move freely and seek a new life within one nation... A nation now stripped of its shared identity, technology, and culture; bereft of soul.

But can a fledgling government succeed in bringing it all back together, or will the shadowy forces of dissention reclaim the cracks that held?

B.H. Newton's THE CRACKS THAT HELD: IN THE LAST STALL OF BENNY'S BORDER PETROL is a thought-provoking, mystical epic set in an alternate past.


It is on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc
 
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Govolsman98 said:
I love Caro! Have made it through the first three of the LBJ series. Curious if you've read The Power Broker?
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Wifey and I were talking about reading The Power Broker a couple of days ago. She's the one who told me about Master of the Senate. I started with the Senate book and never went back and read the first two volumes. They must be good if they got you in for the long haul. I'm reading a book about the Truman Presidency now. The two volume set by Donovan. I like it.
 
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KoachKrab127 said:
“I Must Betray You” by Ruta Sepetys.

It’s historical fiction about communist Romania in the 80s. My daughter had to read it for school summer reading, so I read it too. I really enjoyed it.
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Check out the Pitesti Experiment. Goes along with Communist Romania, not as enjoyable a read though...... yikes.
 
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