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The Last Book you Read


For me I DNF'ed The Making of the Atomic Bomb. It was too difficult for me to read.

Currently I am reading 2 books;
1) Genius in the Shadows by William Lanouette
2) A Storm of Swords by GRR Martin

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I gave up on GRRMs books after the horrid last season of GOT

I haven't read books in years because of my failing eye sight. Last I remember was sword of truth series and mistborn trilogy.

Signed, million man.

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You don't rate audiobooks?

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No. I space out too much while driving.

Signed, million man.

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Currently reading Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign, June–July 1863 by Shelby Foote

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Foote is an inconsistent writer.

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I tried to read his first novel, Tournament, I didn't get very far.

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Deliver Me From Nowhere by Warren Zanes - the story of the making of Bruce Springsteen's album Nebraska

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The last:
Make Them Die Slowly: The Kinetic Cinema of Umberto Lenzi
Troy Howarth

My current:
Real Depravities: The Films Of Klaus Kinski
Troy Howarth

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How Star Wars conquered the Universe by Chris Taylor.

started reading How I Made A Hundred Movies In Hollywood and never lost a Dime by Roger Corman. Yet to read it again.

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Excellent choices, sir.

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Thank you kindly.

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This one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Call_of_Cthulhu_and_Other_Weird_Stories

Excellent footnotes.

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I nearly read this. Don't remember why I changed my mind though. Happy reading.

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I recommend it. There's three volumes in total put out by Penguin.

We live in a age of horrors, might as well read some horror to go along with it.

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Well there are two kinds of Sci fi. Fantasy, and reality.

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I read the two Del Rey Lovecraft collections, he was ahead of his time for sure. Great short stories.

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Last: Nostalgia by Mircea Cărtărescu.

Really a short story anthology rather than a novel, despite the author's claim to the contrary, but pretty good nonetheless.

Current: The Blood Countess by Andrei Codrescu

...As you can probably tell, I'm on a bit of a Romanian kick at the moment.

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You did not say if you were Romanian or not, but I guess these books are as literary as heck.

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It was not in English and it is not well known outside of norway.

A very dark personal history about growing up in a small Sami community(population 2000). In this specific sami community the majority of people tend not to involve the police no matter which crime because of historical reasons and the fact that it is a small culture with a Us vs them mentality. So anyone could with very little risk do whatever they wanted, except for murder and visibly violent actions where police automatically got involved.

" In 2016, eleven women and men in Tysfjord came forward in the media and spoke about sexual abuse. Police investigations have uncovered a total of one hundred and fifty-one sexual assault cases, related to the Lule Sami community in Tysfjord(population 2000). This is the story of how society failed conveyed through one of the victims' stories - a story about adults' responsibility for children and the classic conflict between the larger society and small, closed environments"

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Wow. Very obscure stuff. I suppose there is even a chance of it absent from the very extensive data base of Goodreads.

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