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  1. snakybus

    What Book Did You Read Last Night???

    My post-Karamazov reviews. This lists my reading right up to December 31st. I read 33 books in 2024, which is not that many I guess but better than going on Facebook and shit. The Raptures by Jan Carson Well written Norn Iron story about a girl from an evangelical family who can see dead people...
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    What Book Did You Read Last Night???

    Since I last posted here six weeks ago I've read just one book - The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It took be that long because it's, well, a proper doorstop, but also dense. I wanted to give it a proper read - you have to read it slowly. There are large tracts that are hard to get...
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    What Book Did You Read Last Night???

    Deadly book.
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    What Book Did You Read Last Night???

    Definitely on my list!
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    More shite from me. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy I posted about this earlier. Mind blowing. Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami This was pretty much as different from Cormac McCarthy as you can get; Japanese feminist modernism all about boobs and assisted reproduction. It was pretty...
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    What Book Did You Read Last Night???

    Aha! I thought it was but your analysis makes more sense.
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    I hear what you're saying about the mystery/tension but I decided when reading this time to find out the meaning for any word I didn't understand because that sentiment bogged me down the first time. I landed on this handy list a bit too late and found out that e.g. the word 'scurvid' appears to...
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    What Book Did You Read Last Night???

    Yeah I reread this very recently and just as I finished it, he died. Well, a few days later, but anyway. I feel like it was a significant thing and marks it down as a sort of milestone in my life, which I know is a bit cracked but it really was that big a deal reading it; I was astonished by...
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    What Book Did You Read Last Night???

    Just started this today! (A re-read. Because it has to be done.)
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    What Book Did You Read Last Night???

    More musings on recent reads. The Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami I’m still digesting this and thinking about it. It’s a really great book. At least, I think it is. It’s such a strange book that goes down so many narrative alleys, it’s really hard to say, other than that I enjoyed it...
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    What Book Did You Read Last Night???

    I have not, must check it out. He also played the laconic sheriff at the end of Deliverance, fun factoid.
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    What Book Did You Read Last Night???

    Too tough for me, I would say.
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    Neuromancer definitely isn't an easy read. I think that counts for a lot. Good though. I liked the razor girl.
  14. snakybus

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    haha how could this be anything else. John Illsey! Luckiest pub bassist in '80s rock.
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    What Book Did You Read Last Night???

    My reading's gone to shite since last time, mainly because of stupid work. Anyway, got bac on the saddle and managed to get through a few and here are my reviews. After Dark by Haruki Murakami This isn’t one of Murakami’s classic/big books, but I loved it. It had a lot of weird magical realism...
  16. snakybus

    What Book Did You Read Last Night???

    The dirty yoke.
  17. snakybus

    What Book Did You Read Last Night???

    Oh really? Pull his micky out or somesuch?
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    Some more Irish, literary and sci fi. Sure why not. Dance Move by Wendy Erskine Decent collection of some brilliant, some not so brilliant (but still good) short stories. I think I preferred her first collection, Sweet Home, which was more consistent. But this was still good. She’s very funny...
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    What Book Did You Read Last Night???

    Oh wow, that's also amazing but in a different way. I waver between which one I like better.
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    What Book Did You Read Last Night???

    Also my first Murakami book. Good. Reading another right now, Norwegian Wood, and enjoying quite a bit. Also enjoying the love for The Dispossessed here. Fab book, one that really stuck with me.
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