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Finished "Beyond the Hundredth Meridian" and like it.Finally finished Wallace Stegner's "Big Rock Candy Mountain". Weeks of joyless self punishment.
BRCM was perhaps too close to home and caused to much self inspection. When you crawl to the end, you are wondering if you are any better father that the hate-able Harry "Bo" Mason.
Dear Lord I hope so.
Every time I start a Stegner I kick myself. I haven't found one yet that wasn't too long. too slow, and too depressing.I am, in the words of @Cornell2012 , a "completionist." I always have to finish the set. Sad but true. I'm actually queuing up "Beyond the Hundredth Meridian" now. I've heard its Stegner's best work
Started to read the Gormenghast triology by Mervyn Peake
Titus Groan, Gormengast, Titus Alone .
I think I might watch the BCC tv series too.
It's not.Finally finished Wallace Stegner's "Big Rock Candy Mountain". Weeks of joyless self punishment.
BRCM was perhaps too close to home and caused to much self inspection. When you crawl to the end, you are wondering if you are any better father that the hate-able Harry "Bo" Mason.
Dear Lord I hope so.
Every time I start a Stegner I kick myself. I haven't found one yet that wasn't too long. too slow, and too depressing.I am, in the words of @Cornell2012 , a "completionist." I always have to finish the set. Sad but true. I'm actually queuing up "Beyond the Hundredth Meridian" now. I've heard its Stegner's best work
purchased. I'll trust a nameless rec over about anything (except all the jocko stuff... LOL)A while back I heard a podcast with Bret Easton Ellis. I actually have almost nothing in common with him, but he said some things that resonated so I read his first book, written in the 80s when he was 19 years old, Less Than Zero. It was ok.
On the recommendation of @Nunyacreek I am currently reading River of No Return. The author's prose and story telling are enthralling, and whether or not I ever find myself in the country of the book, good grief it's good.
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I really enjoyed this bookA while back I heard a podcast with Bret Easton Ellis. I actually have almost nothing in common with him, but he said some things that resonated so I read his first book, written in the 80s when he was 19 years old, Less Than Zero. It was ok.
On the recommendation of @Nunyacreek I am currently reading River of No Return. The author's prose and story telling are enthralling, and whether or not I ever find myself in the country of the book, good grief it's good.
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LeCarre is one of my Favs! Read Len Deighton's books after I went through LeCarre. You might enjoy them too if you haven't read them.Having consumed all of the late John LeCarre novels I'm on my first of Charles McCarry's espionage works. Good writing, excellent character development, and compelling style of weaving a riveting story.
Not in the same rare air as LeCarre, but who is...
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Will do, been riddling myself on Deighton, thx for the push.LeCarre is one of my Favs! Read Len Deighton's books after I went through LeCarre. You might enjoy them too if you haven't read them.