This is good to hear. I read The Road when I was in high school but I've yet to dive into his other works. Happy to hear you've liked some of his other material!
Just finished What Is The What by Dave Eggers. In a nutshell: simply loved the first 50-60% of the novel. Language feels very pure and efficient. The right images at the right time. Good rhythm in the story telling and so on. What I loved a lot is the way the different faces of violence and injustice are shown throughout that first part. How those faces are described under very different circumstances and in very different forms. But how the reader feels they are both as ugly and horrible, both times around. Then, I felt the story somewhat slumbed and I had to force myself getting to the end. Which I was happy doing as the final chapter again contains some great quotes. I've now started rereading one of the greats: The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway. Tom
I spent most of today reading Margaret Atwood's The Tent, an odd, surreal collection of short stories. Perfect choice for a rainy Saturday and loved it overall.
I am about half-way through Jonathan Franzan's new novel "Purity." Keep asking myself "why am I reading this?" Not really enjoying the rambling story, wholly unlikable characters, and gratuitous focus on masturbation and female anatomy; but somehow compulsively driven to finish it. How'd he get so famous?
I just received Octavia Butler's Dawn from Amazon. I've never read Butler before, but she has a huge reputation in sci-fi circles and I need to find out about her stuff. It's next on my pile - I'll probably start it today between football games.
I've only read The Corrections, and I have to say it is a brilliantly crafted novel. Stick with it, you might be pleasantly surprised.
I've put up a slightly longer review of What Is The What by Dave Eggers up here: http://intersectiondiaries.com/2015/10/07/guillermo-reads-whats-the-what-the-autobiography-of-valentino-achak-deng-dave-eggers/ Tom
I normally read a book and listen to an audiobook at the same time. right now I am currently listening to Dresden Files Blood Rights I am also reading The Color of Magic Disc World Book One by Terry Pratchett both are wonderful.
Slasher Girls and Monster Boys, an excellent collection of short horror stories. So far every one I've read has been fun.
All of the Reacher books are good. Page turners that you can finish in a day if you want to spend the day reading. I'm getting ready to start the latest one.
True that. The language is pretty simple and the story well-told. Are the rest of the books worth it ??
Don't you love it when your characters command you to go to the library for research? Two of my characters from two different stories have done just that and now I have two books about neck pain and one book that's basically an intro to physical therapy. Hey, research what you don't know and all that. The other two books are for entertainment: A Knight of Seven Kingdoms by George R.R. Martin. It's a collection of three novellas set 100 years before the events of Game of Thrones. Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs. It's the third novel in his Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children series.
Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline. This is the second time I borrowed it but the first time reading it through. Multiple copies kept popping up in the library and I'm glad I gave it another go and got over the lackluster start.
I'm reading The Adventures of Sally by P.G. Wodehouse. Seems to be a love triangle so far, spun in Wodehouse's usual comic way. Can't go wrong with Wodehouse.
The Secret History-Donna Tartt, Bossypants-Tina Fey, Mathematics for the Nonmathematician-Morris Kline
