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What book are you currently reading, or recommend?

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Been hitting Blake Crouch hard since I read Dark Matter above. Also read Recursion, and Pines, with Wayward waiting at the library. Not the prettiest prose, it's a little bland, but he knows how to tell a compelling story and keep the pages turning.

Also hit The Charm School and Cathedral from Nelson Demille. Charm School was good, Cathedral was pretty meh.

Woken Angels, the second Takeshi Kovacs book. I didn't get into this one at all, it was a slog all the way through.

Right now it's Stephen King's newest, Later, which I'm quite enjoying so far.
 
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Abenaki said:
Been hitting Blake Crouch hard since I read Dark Matter above. Also read Recursion, and Pines, with Wayward waiting at the library. Not the prettiest prose, it's a little bland, but he knows how to tell a compelling story and keep the pages turning.

Also hit The Charm School and Cathedral from Nelson Demille. Charm School was good, Cathedral was pretty meh.

Woken Angels, the second Takeshi Kovacs book. I didn't get into this one at all, it was a slog all the way through.

Right now it's Stephen King's newest, Later, which I'm quite enjoying so far.
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The DeMille books I liked the best were The Lion’s Game and The Lion. The John Corey character is interesting and an entertaining wise-ass as a narrator.
 
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The DeMille books I liked the best were The Lion’s Game and The Lion. The John Corey character is interesting and an entertaining wise-ass as a narrator.
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I like the Corey series as well. I think The Lion's Game through The Lion are a little better than few that came before and after. Though I do have the new Corey book, The Maze on hold at the library for when it's released. I think some of his other books suffer a little for having lesser versions of Corey as the main character.

Outside of Corey I really enjoyed Up Country and The Gold Coast.
 
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About 3/4 through this and easily one of the more unique novels I've read in a long time. Very enjoyable.

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Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle

Regular subscribers to the What song are you listening to? thread may (correctly) assume that
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but I have recently realized that the Mountain Goats’ frontman John Darnielle is also a novelist... And so yeah, this incredible weirdo who recorded about 10 albums on a boombox and a dozen others since (basically all 7+ ratings on pitchfork) went on to write a National Book Award-finalist novel about Conan the Barbarian and D&D and choose-your-own-adventure games that is really about the incredible power of imagination, at its very best and worst.

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I can’t really tell if this book would work at all for someone else, but because of my age and interests I really identified with the subject matter... but I can say that John Darnielle as a writer is so interesting (and uplifting) because of how empathetic he is to the darker spaces that people can find themselves in, and this is like a book-length version of one of his best songs. I want to play The Trace Italian. It’s about 200 pages, I flew through it in one evening.
 
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The Bloomsbury “33 1/3” series has well over 100 cute little (12 x 16 cm, ~100 pages) books, each dedicated to or inspired by a famous album.

And so they employed John Darnielle, singer for the Mountain Goats in case you didn’t know, to write about Black Sabbath’s “Master of Reality,” and he begins like this:

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It’s written from the POV of a kid who is committed to a psychiatric facility and has to write in a daily journal, and he spends the whole time trying to convince the doctors to give him back his walkman and Black Sabbath tapes.

If only they could understand…. Fuck you Gary!
 
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