What Are You Reading Now?

[falafel]

That's the main reason why I can't read McCarthy. His dialogue is unreadable and terribly distracting to the story.

I actually really like his style. Especially when the dialogue is in spanish.

[SteelBlue]

I actually really like his style. Especially when the dialogue is in spanish.

I think of it as the cost of admission to view his art. It's always been well worth it to me but I get why it bugs others.

[SeattleUte]

That's the main reason why I can't read McCarthy. His dialogue is unreadable and terribly distracting to the story.

McCarthy's novels are works of art. What you're saying is like you don't like Shakespeare because much of his works were in an invented vernacular that people didn't or don't really speak. The absence of quotation marks is like scripture or other ancient text or some chronicle of a lost people by an anonymous narrator.

I realize some people don't read novels for art. Not all novels are very artistic.

[LiveCoug]

I have 4 credits burning a hole in my audible account. Suggestions? Maybe a series?

I'm more of a popcorn reader than learn something or super prosy reader....

[BigPiney]

I have 4 credits burning a hole in my audible account. Suggestions? Maybe a series?

I'm more of a popcorn reader than learn something or super prosy reader....

I have the Expanse series queued up.

I’m right in the middle of Imaginary Friend. I think you’d like it. Very Stephen King-ish.

[SeattleUte]

I finally finished "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" by Richard Rhodes. One of the greatest books ever written, in my opinion. It's a classic that will withstand the ages. It covers exhaustively its primary subject matter, from the makeshift experiments tucked away in universities and institutes over a hundred years ago, to the revolutionary discoveries of the early twentieth century, still pretty much small-scale affairs, to the sudden scaling up to the atomic industrial complex, vast as multiple cities. Meanwhile, fascism moves forward and is repulsed by the West. It's dramatic and artful like a great, sprawling novel.

But this book is about something deeper and even more transcendent than the atomic bomb, ironically. It's about why some nations succeed and others fail. And I mean succeed for better or worse--succeed in winning massive wars and creating weapons that could destroy the planet as well as increasing the standard of living and life-span of their citizens. We see that liberalism's greatest virtue is that it works. A country's liberalism is pragmatic.

[Northwestcoug]

"Piranesi" by Susanna Clark. Marketed as fantasy, but it's more of an alternative reality connected to this one. She won the Women's Fiction of the year for this.

Quick read, finished it on a round trip flight. Very well written. Keeps you guessing until the end. I'm going to check out her first book which is also supposedly good.

[SteelBlue]

"Piranesi" by Susanna Clark. Marketed as fantasy, but it's more of an alternative reality connected to this one. She won the Women's Fiction of the year for this.

Quick read, finished it on a round trip flight. Very well written. Keeps you guessing until the end. I'm going to check out her first book which is also supposedly good.

I really liked Piranesi. Besides being a good novel, it sent me down a cool rabbit hole learning about the artist/architect for whom the book was named. Piranesi is one of those books that I enjoyed for the feeling of angst and mystery the whole time you set foot in that world. Similar, for me, to The Invention of Morel, House of Leaves, and several works by Borges.

Her first novel, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell has a cult following because she built a world that's so pleasant to be in. It's a doorstop but I was grateful for that as I enjoyed her world and wanted to stay in it as long as possible. There's a high quality, true to the book streaming adaptation from BBC that streams on Netflix.

[Northwestcoug]

I really liked Piranesi. Besides being a good novel, it sent me down a cool rabbit hole learning about the artist/architect for whom the book was named. Piranesi is one of those books that I enjoyed for the feeling of angst and mystery the whole time you set foot in that world. Similar, for me, to The Invention of Morel, House of Leaves, and several works by Borges.

Her first novel, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell has a cult following because she built a world that's so pleasant to be in. It's a doorstop but I was grateful for that as I enjoyed her world and wanted to stay in it as long as possible. There's a high quality, true to the book streaming adaptation from BBC that streams on Netflix.

Oh I thought Piranesi was some mythological character from a labyrinth. I'll have to check that out. And thanks for the info on her first book

[SteelBlue]

Oh I thought Piranesi was some mythological character from a labyrinth. I'll have to check that out. And thanks for the info on her first book

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovan...tista_Piranesi

Admittedly it is an assumption on my part that her novel gets its name from this gent, but it seems too perfect not to be true.

[Pelado]

This post caused me to look at Doerr's catalog. I've already read All the Light We Cannot See. Last week, I ordered a paperback copy of his debut novel, About Grace and started reading it to my daughters tonight.

I'm just a few short chapters in, but so far, so good.

Still reading About Grace. I'm glad that I was no longer reading it to my daughters when I started reading a part including some marital infidelity.

[PaloAltoCougar]

Finally getting around to The Coddling of the American Mind. Halfway in, it's a compelling and breezy read.

[SteelBlue]

A Canticle for Leibowitz. Really enjoying it so far. The first third of the book takes place in post-apocalyptic Utah.

[BigPiney]

A Canticle for Leibowitz. Really enjoying it so far. The first third of the book takes place in post-apocalyptic Utah.

so, current day?

[SteelBlue]

so, current day?

Ha Ha