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[jlhoots]

18 hours ago, kinuta said:

I'm slowly working my way through the Bosch series. 

I've enjoyed them all so far.

It's The Black Echo, not The Black Hole. Sorry for the error.

[kinuta]

Some helpful suggestions, all duly noted.

I'd recommend the Icelandic police procedural series by Arnaldur Indridason.

Read in order, starting with Jar City.

Edited January 23, 2019 by kinuta
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[kinuta]

[kinuta]

[paul secor]

Somewhat of a disappointment for me.

[Brad]

Having just finished Howards End, one of the best books I've read in a long time, I'm now starting

 

[ghost of miles]

Just started this one, which comes with a back-jacket plug from an Organissimo member who shall go nameless (but who walks in Brooklyn  ):

[kinuta]

I was going to start The Narrows but the consensus seems to be that it's best to read The Poet first.

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Just finished this. What a verbose slog. It could easily lose 100 pages,

Whenever the evildoer gets his comeuppance four chapters before the end, you know you're being set up for ' the big reveal '.

Edited February 3, 2019 by kinuta

[HutchFan]

Sought this book out after seeing 2001: A Space Odyssey for the first time on a big screen:

[T.D.]

Always looking for good Irish detective stories. Previously read Kerrigan's Midnight Choir; interesting plot but oddly flat writing style. He keeps getting good reviews, so trying this one.

[jlhoots]

Anne Hillerman: Cave Of Bones

[kinuta]

I was unimpressed by The Poet but this is more immediate and focussed with much less waffle.

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Unrelated question. Has anyone read Haruki Murakami's 1Q84?

If so, is it worth the daunting challenge of a thousand pages ?

Edited February 4, 2019 by kinuta

[paul secor]

41 minutes ago, kinuta said:

 

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Unrelated question. Has anyone read Haruki Murakami's 1Q84?

If so, is it worth the daunting challenge of a thousand pages ?

Yes - at least it was worth it to me. Not daunting at all.

[kinuta]

37 minutes ago, paul secor said:

Yes - at least it was worth it to me. Not daunting at all.

Thanks for the reassurance.

[jlhoots]

If you want to read a great 900+ page book, go back to Shantaram. Never made it to the screen. Mira Nair was supposed to direct it, but it never got done.

There's talk now of a TV series - but who knows!!

Edited February 4, 2019 by jlhoots

[kinuta]

1 hour ago, jlhoots said:

If you want to read a great 900+ page book, go back to Shantaram. Never made it to the screen. Mira Nair was supposed to direct it, but it never got done.

There's talk now of a TV series - but who knows!!

Thank you. I'm partial to anything concerning or set in India so it will make a good addition to my reading list.

[T.D.]

6 minutes ago, kinuta said:

Thank you. I'm partial to anything concerning or set in India so it will make a good addition to my reading list.

I read the whole Raj Quartet some years ago. Pretty good, but it (close to 2,000 pages in 1-book edition) became a labor to finish and more or less permanently put me off super-long novels.

[jlhoots]

19 minutes ago, kinuta said:

Thank you. I'm partial to anything concerning or set in India so it will make a good addition to my reading list.

Suketu Mehta: Maximum City (Bombay Lost & Found) - non-fiction, great book.

Edited February 5, 2019 by jlhoots

[kinuta]

I never managed to finish Raj Quartet.

For a light but enjoyable read, The Widows Of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey is good.

Suketu Mehta: Maximum City is duly noted and added to my list. Thanks.

I visited Bombay in '73, before it became Mumbai.

[ejp626]

4 hours ago, kinuta said:

Thanks for the reassurance.

I'm going to be honest, I didn't think it was worth it.  It isn't particularly challenging, but takes far too long to get where it is going and the payoff is pretty modest.

[kinuta]

2 hours ago, ejp626 said:

I'm going to be honest, I didn't think it was worth it.  It isn't particularly challenging, but takes far too long to get where it is going and the payoff is pretty modest.

I appreciate your comments. It gives me all the more reason to hesitate before commiting 2-3 weeks to something that may not be all that satisfying.

The last Murakami I read was Wind Up Bird Chronicle which I really enjoyed.

[kinuta]

[Brad]

6 minutes ago, kinuta said:

He has a new book coming out later this year about the East India Company in the late 18th Century. 

[ejp626]

Finally finished up The Iliad and The Odyssey.  Taking a bit of a breather before diving into The Aeneid. 

I was about to launch into Hideo Furukawa's Slow Boat, but then he revealed it was a bit of a riff off of a Murakami short story "A Slow Boat to China."  I decided to detour and read The Elephant Vanishes first (it contains that story), then Slow Boat and then The Aeneid.  Maybe by then Atwood's The Penelopiad will be in at the library...

[jlhoots]

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