ghost of miles Posted May 29, 2018 Author Report Share Posted May 29, 2018 22 hours ago, Brad said: Did you read the first one? Of the three books in the Liberation Trilogy, that was the best one, in my opinion. I did—if there’s a drop-off in quality, at least the first one establishes a great height. I’m only 70 pages or so into this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted May 29, 2018 Report Share Posted May 29, 2018 I lost interest in the second one half way through but eventually did return to it and finish it. I started the third one but didn’t make it that far. One of these days I will return to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted May 29, 2018 Report Share Posted May 29, 2018 Mohsin Hamid: Exit West Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Matthew Posted June 7, 2018 Report Share Posted June 7, 2018 (edited) Even in Our Darkness: A Story of Beauty in a Broken Life by Jack Deere. Deere is famous in the charismatic world, at one point in his life working with John Wimber, founder of the Vineyard Church movement in Anaheim, CA. Not your typical memoir that goes from "glory to glory"; well written, but one of the saddest accounts I've read. Comes from a family background where his father committed suicide, and his mother had a difficult personality. Deere marries a woman, who turns out to have serious emotional issues stemming from being sexually abuse by her father (he did not find this out until later in the marriage, after she tried to commit suicide a number of times), and to top that all off, his son committed suicide at the age of 23. Numerous times in his life, he tells us, he put himself first, and everyone else second, and comments he used "proclaiming the gospel" as an excuse to hide the damage he was doing to family and friends by his actions from himself. His account of his relationship with Wimber is heartbreaking in this regard. He writes of coming to be aware of all this, and I get a heavy sense of sadness and regret as he looks over his life. "Knowing yourself," it turns out, is not as easy as it sounds. Edited June 7, 2018 by Matthew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulpope Posted June 7, 2018 Report Share Posted June 7, 2018 Priceless read about one of the classical piano all-time greats .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejp626 Posted June 8, 2018 Report Share Posted June 8, 2018 Dickens' Hard Times. Not enjoying this at all. It is a total slog. Gaskell's North and South, while on the same topic, is vastly better. Philip Roth's The Professor of Desire next. That should definitely be more stimulating... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted June 9, 2018 Report Share Posted June 9, 2018 (edited) I finished All for Nothing and started this book A very odd book. Written during the Ceausescu regime, it is absurdist literature but a little too out there for me. I read one review saying that it’s best digested in small pieces. Not for me. I have picked this one up by the great crime writer Dorothy Hughes Edited June 9, 2018 by Brad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted June 11, 2018 Report Share Posted June 11, 2018 Graham Greene: The Comedians Great cover design by Geoff Grandfield Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted June 11, 2018 Report Share Posted June 11, 2018 Earlier Greene for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted June 15, 2018 Report Share Posted June 15, 2018 I received this list from Penguin and thought it might be of interest. Around the World in 32 Books Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejp626 Posted June 15, 2018 Report Share Posted June 15, 2018 18 minutes ago, Brad said: I received this list from Penguin and thought it might be of interest. Around the World in 32 Books Interesting list. I've only read 4. I quite liked Half of a Yellow Sun. Might be a bit of a missed opportunity for Costa Rica to be represented by Joan Didion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted June 15, 2018 Report Share Posted June 15, 2018 Tommy Orange: There There Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejp626 Posted June 15, 2018 Report Share Posted June 15, 2018 (edited) About halfway into Philip Roth's The Professor of Desire. Not bad, though I preferred his Zuckerman novels. I'll read The Dying Animal next to close out the trilogy, then Banfield's Ancient Light. (Oops - Banville's Ancient Light) Edited June 21, 2018 by ejp626 typo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejp626 Posted June 21, 2018 Report Share Posted June 21, 2018 (edited) Midway through Banville's Ancient Light. I didn't realize until too late that it is the third book of a trilogy, though they are fairly loosely linked and I don't feel I missed too much by skipping the others. It reminds me in just a few ways of Robertson Davies's Deptford Trilogy, though I liked that considerably more. I don't think it is terribly likely I will read the other two. Edited June 21, 2018 by ejp626 typo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted June 24, 2018 Report Share Posted June 24, 2018 Bill Browder: Red Notice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted June 24, 2018 Report Share Posted June 24, 2018 Karl Geary: Montpelier Parade Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgcim Posted June 25, 2018 Report Share Posted June 25, 2018 It's the end of the world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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paul secor Posted July 2, 2018 Report Share Posted July 2, 2018 Evelyn Waugh: A Handful of Dust Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted July 2, 2018 Report Share Posted July 2, 2018 4 hours ago, paul secor said: Evelyn Waugh: A Handful of Dust Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted July 2, 2018 Report Share Posted July 2, 2018 I was a Latin American Studies major and then a master's candidate so I'm returning to my "roots." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utevsky Posted July 3, 2018 Report Share Posted July 3, 2018 David Copperfield -- This was my first Dickens, at about 14. Haven't gone back to it since then. It's even better now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejp626 Posted July 7, 2018 Report Share Posted July 7, 2018 Kafka's Amerika (the newish translation). Benjamin's The Immortalists has just turned up at the library, so that will be next. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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