- Location
- Seattle
- Name
- Andrew
Might be a good way for me to experience these, as I can never seem to sit through Classic Trek episodes on TV.
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What books are you reading for pleasure these days?
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Moved onto 'Legends & Lattes', almost finished...
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- Seattle
- Name
- Andrew
Kudos for the Alpenflage Swiss camo! I had a surplus jacket for many years as a teen/early twentysomething.
Cheers! I figure its a form of recycling. Unless I'm at work, I just need something hard-wearing and cheap to potter around the garden, DIY around the house of slob-out in - no point buying anything new (probably my camera/lens/computer ethos nowadays too).
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- Seattle
- Name
- Andrew
I needed something fast to read around the end of the year, so I chose Men of Iron, by Howard Pyle. An 1891 historical novel for boys, but well-written, and one I remember liking from my youth.
I'm still in the Bobiverse, now about a quarter of the way through book 4, Heaven's River by Dennis E Taylor. Kindle Unlimited is managing to squeeze 2 months paid subscription from me as Book 5, Not Until We Are Lost, is available from 5 January. After that I'll try to pick up The Shining by Stephen King again. I think I got half way through it before I got distracted by the Bobs.
- Location
- Texas
For Christmas my wife bought me the second novel by Garth Risk Hallberg, The Second Coming. For those interested, I highly recommend his first novel, City on Fire. It is a historical novel set in New York City in the 1970's.
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- Gloucester, UK
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- Mark
Once again, I forgot to start reading Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ early enough to finish it Christmas Eve. On realising that I turned to a book I’ve had sat on my Kindle account for a few months: Iain Banks’ ‘The Wasp Factory’. Dark but compulsive.
Holoholo33
Regular
- Location
- Hawaii
- Name
- Walter
At the recommendation of Kirk Tuck (visualsciencelab.blogspot.com) I bought The Traveling Photographer's Manifesto ebook by David Hobby. The first few pages look great. Looking forward to the rest.
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- Seattle
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- Andrew
I am starting off the year by putting all of my recently purchased books on my "want to read" list in the hopes of getting through them in the first half (ish) of the year. Started an old book of Emerson's essays (first one in the volume is Self Reliance), and A Pillar of Iron. The latter especially looks to be an interesting read.
StephenBatey
Rookie
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- Sussex UK
- Name
- Stephen
Two books on the go: "Van Gogh's Ear" by Bernadette Murphy and "Lens Design Fundamentals" by Rudolf Kingslake and Barry Johnson.
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- Gloucester, UK
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- Mark
The 14th Science Fiction Megapack in the Kindle app on my phone.
A collection of short stories mainly from the 1950’s and some from the 1960’s. My goodness, how social norms have changed. And so many of the characters smoke! Some of them on spaceships!! I’m finding about 50% of the stories are so bad as to be unreadable but the book only cost a couple of quid so I’ve nothing to complain about.
A collection of short stories mainly from the 1950’s and some from the 1960’s. My goodness, how social norms have changed. And so many of the characters smoke! Some of them on spaceships!! I’m finding about 50% of the stories are so bad as to be unreadable but the book only cost a couple of quid so I’ve nothing to complain about.
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- Currently PHX AZ
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- Mark Peterson
I'm currently traveling and brought along one book: John Irving's 2015 novel Avenue of Mysteries.
I've been a fan of Irving's writing since my 20s. When I was in grad school, he taught in the graduate writing program at my university (where he had also done his MFA in the '60s). Though I wasn't in that program I used to attend many of his public readings on campus and at local bookshops, and I started collecting first-edition copies of his novels. I've ended up finding most of his books as first-editions, except for a few elusive early ones that are decades out of print (for years I've scanned used bookstores and thrift shops for weathered copies of these). Anyway, I've had Avenue of Mysteries on the shelf since it was first released, but I haven't gotten around to reading it. So I'm looking forward to diving in this week.
I've been a fan of Irving's writing since my 20s. When I was in grad school, he taught in the graduate writing program at my university (where he had also done his MFA in the '60s). Though I wasn't in that program I used to attend many of his public readings on campus and at local bookshops, and I started collecting first-edition copies of his novels. I've ended up finding most of his books as first-editions, except for a few elusive early ones that are decades out of print (for years I've scanned used bookstores and thrift shops for weathered copies of these). Anyway, I've had Avenue of Mysteries on the shelf since it was first released, but I haven't gotten around to reading it. So I'm looking forward to diving in this week.
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- Texas
Mark, I have several John Irving novels, all of them first-edition, but, for whatever reason, when I started reading A Son of the Circus, I could not finish it. To me, it became tedious and boring- something I never thought would happen with one of his novels. I haven't read one since. That is too bad, because he is a master storyteller and I truly loved his early work. What do you think of his newer stuff? Let me know what you think of Avenue of Mysteries.
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- Currently PHX AZ
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- Mark Peterson
Rick, ahh yeah you've well-described A Son of the Circus as tedious. Irving often is referred to as Dickensian (even by himself) and that one is a particularly loonnnggg book - I'm sure you're not the only one to white-flag that novel! In terms of his newer stuff, I enjoyed Until I Find You (2012 I think), just started Avenues... (2015) today, and still also need to read The Last Chairlift (2022) which he has said is his last full-length novel. I ordered that one the day he announced it as I thought the first editions would likely sell out to fans quickly. His prior one to these three was Last Night in Twisted River which I also really liked: Great story, classic Irving foreshadowing and humor, detailed character development but not quite so tedious like Son of the Circus. I got a bit into Avenue of Mysteries this afternoon, and it's off to a good start - I'll sure let you know how it goes (though I'm a slow reader). Cheers!
