Wot u readin'?

[Samanator]

Decided to start reading the Lee Childs Reacher series which I think is at 30 books now. Been through four so far. They are great for entertainment books and a few are very different from the style of the ones they've made the series and movies from. I will never understand how Tom Cruise was Reacher in the movies. I've met him and I'm taller, but no one calls me the big guy.

[Kronos]

I thought I'd next try to tackle one of the many classics I have never read.




This may be a challenge. It's over 800 pages and the writing style seems a bit stilted for 1925 (the year it was published).


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Well, it was a worthwhile exercise.

The book is overwritten, I think, and Dreiser, to my mind at least, is not much of a stylist. His prose is turgid and too full of curlicues and double negatives. For much of the book, the
plot moves glacially.

With all that said, he never lost my interest. I was interested in the antihero at the center of the book and Dreiser really takes you inside his thoughts and emotions, even when they are a jumble of contradictions. The book has made me curious about the real life events that inspired Dreiser.


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[Kronos]

Currently alternating between these two:



From the NY Times Book Review:

>> “Judgment at Tokyo,” by the Princeton professor of politics Gary J. Bass, [ is] an elegantly written and comprehensive treatment of the prosecution of Japanese war crimes after the Second World War.<<

Bass also talks a lot about the impact of the war and the tribunal on subsequent developments in Asia.




From the New York Times review:

>>Anonymity creates disinhibition,” Emily Cockayne writes in “Penning Poison,” a lively survey of the practice of sending anonymous letters “with the aim, or apparent aim, of unsettling the person they were sent to.” <<


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[Kronos]

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This one is actually a very academic work. It is too detailed, too dry and 100% focused on 18th and 19th century Britain.

I've moved on without getting very far into it.


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[Kronos]

>>NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The powerful story of an inspiring doctor who made a difference, by helping to create a program to care for Boston’s homeless community—by the Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains<<


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[pacifico66]

Waited 7 years for this one to be released. I am Pilgrim was one of the best I have ever read hope this one lives up

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[rodia77]

And with the Clowns Came Tears. Takes me back to my university years when I would listen to it from audio cassettes.

[Lonestar]

Just finished James by Percival Everett. A reimagining of Huck Finn from Jim's point of view. Finished it in 2 days. Pretty much follows Jim and Huck's river journey for the first 100 pages or so but follows what happens to Jim when they get separated. Absolutely fantastic book. Highly recommended.


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[Spooky]

Gotta start them young.


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[Kronos]

This was well done, I thought. Entertaining.


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