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Post by geddyleeridesagain on Jun 15, 2018 19:38:36 GMT -5
American Gods is terrific.
I would suggest "The Book with No Pictures" by B.J. Novak...definitely not too cerebral. In fact, it's a children's book, but since I have a 5 year old it counts as great literature. Yeah, I don't get to read as much as I used to.
As an aside, I was going through some stuff in storage not too long ago and found about fifty old Louis L'Amour westerns my dad had. I started digging into them, and they ranged from crappy pulp to "can't put it down." I mean, they all pretty much feature a tall, handsome stranger who is handy with a shootin' iron, but they can be fun, particularly the Sackett and Talon series.
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Post by Northern lights on Jun 15, 2018 19:41:04 GMT -5
I went to Indigo today and just took the advise of the girl who worked there. The purpose for me is just to read and be entertained. The best part of reading is that all the characters are modeled in your mind. Tonight I started to read “Everybody’s Son” by Thirty Umrigar. So far it has been good.
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Post by Thrill of the 'ville on Jun 16, 2018 6:04:18 GMT -5
American Gods is terrific. I would suggest "The Book with No Pictures" by B.J. Novak...definitely not too cerebral. In fact, it's a children's book, but since I have a 5 year old it counts as great literature. Yeah, I don't get to read as much as I used to. When I was a elementary school librarian, that was our most popular book. Although we had multiple copies, it was hardly ever available so I had to find alternate suggestions for kids and try to convince them that there were other funny books. |
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Post by Thrill of the 'ville on Jun 16, 2018 6:12:32 GMT -5
I went to Indigo today and just took the advise of the girl who worked there. Most of the books I’ve enjoyed have come from suggestions of women I know. I struggle choosing books on my own (I’ll think something sounds interesting or it is a genre/topic I’m interested in but then not enjoy reading it) so I like to have people, typically women I’m interested in, make suggestions because they usually pan out well but also because it allows me to have great conversations with the person and also get to understand them better. Another great thing about my method is that the suggestions are so diverse that I get to dip my toe into different genres that I never bothered considering on my own. Currently a woman I’m getting to know is into autobiographies and feminist literature so we’ll see how that goes... |
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Post by bigfan on Jun 16, 2018 11:09:09 GMT -5
Go to a library.
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Post by love2vball on Jun 16, 2018 11:29:09 GMT -5
I usually only view the Beach tab on this site but, for some reason, today I was lured here. At the risk of sounding self-promoting, I have a suggestion. I recently published a novel that I have been writing for the last four years. When I was a kid, I became enchanted by the lines of Ernest Lawrence Thayer’s classic poem, Casey at the Bat. It has, of course, been a revered piece of Americana for over a century and now hangs in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY. His lines have always been somewhat shrouded in mystery and the figure of Casey and those of the Mudville Nine have never been linked to any particular players. The author himself never regarded the work as worthy of the accolades bestowed on it. But, in spite of it all, the stanzas gained fame and notoriety.
So who was Casey? Well, since any factual pages lied unsettlingly empty, I decided it was time to complete the story that surrounds Thayer’s efforts through factual based imagination. But, although the underlying theme reflects our National Pastime, the book is much more than just another “baseball story”. It is historically accurate and time-lined, and is best served if you don Victorian attire, attempt your best Irish brogue and have fun getting into character with the others. I think that you may be entertained throughout all of the twists and turns that will eventually culminate with Casey, Paddy, Rosie, Larry and the others becoming your adopted literary family. In addition, the pages were composed to be easily adapted to a film script featuring the infancy of Baseball and envisioned as a 1880s predecessor to the movie, The Sandlot. Hey, I live in LA….who knows, right?
So….if you think you may enjoy something a little more heartfelt than the never-ending wholesale slaughter of zombies….written by “one of your own”…at least check out the “Look Inside” on Amazon when you punch in “They Called Me Casey”. Thanks if you do; No Worries if you don’t.
To the sands of Hermosa…………games await!
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Post by azvb on Jun 16, 2018 12:18:40 GMT -5
I can read Charles Dickens any day, any time, and be extremely happy and satisfied. It doesn't matter what he writes about, reading his works is a joy. I can say the same about Margaret Atwood, ever since The Handmaid's Tale. Have you watched Handmaid’s Tale on Hulu? Really good. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2018 12:59:10 GMT -5
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Post by Northern lights on Jun 29, 2018 10:59:40 GMT -5
Back to the bookstore today. Indigo has a small section for kids. A mother was showing a young girl how to open a book and look at the pages. The kid was just amazed and thrilled at what was next. I thought with everything going electronic images like this will be fewer. Myself, I can not read from a computer screen.
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Post by mikegarrison on Jun 29, 2018 15:55:39 GMT -5
American Gods is terrific. I would suggest "The Book with No Pictures" by B.J. Novak...definitely not too cerebral. In fact, it's a children's book, but since I have a 5 year old it counts as great literature. Yeah, I don't get to read as much as I used to. As an aside, I was going through some stuff in storage not too long ago and found about fifty old Louis L'Amour westerns my dad had. I started digging into them, and they ranged from crappy pulp to "can't put it down." I mean, they all pretty much feature a tall, handsome stranger who is handy with a shootin' iron, but they can be fun, particularly the Sackett and Talon series. So from "crappy pulp" to "well-done pulp"? As a SF reader, I understand that a commercial writer doing genre fiction can still write good stuff. Occasionally some of them write superb stuff. Helen MacInnes wrote about 20 novels, of which probably 15 of them could be described with the same blurb: "a smart and resourceful professional who is not an intelligence agent accidentally becomes the key to defeating a plot against the western nations and also falls in love with someone endangered by the plot". All of them are pretty good novels; some are better than others. |
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Post by c4ndlelight on Jun 29, 2018 16:14:20 GMT -5
Neil Gaiman: American Gods, Anansi Boys, any of his short story anthologies
Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita
Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children
Patrick Rothfuss: The Name of the Wind
Brandon Sanderson: Mistborn Trilogy
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