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I thought Cloud Cuckoo Land was middling, but loved All the Light…
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Posted by DT
on March 12, 2024, 14:13:34, in reply to "
Oh man I am not into this hot take
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I think the multiple stories didn’t really come together for me, but I don’t remember exactly why I was underwhelmed with CCL.
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I did enjoy Cloud Cuckoo Land and I really enjoy everything Doerr writes. But All the Light is worth the hype.
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Been a while since we had a book thread - The Secret Hours by Mick Herron
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larue33
March 11, 2024, 15:51:54
Troubled by Rob Henderson is a solid memoir*
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Potomac
March 12, 2024, 12:45:09
Loved Cloud Cuckoo Land. Better than his previous, which won the Pulitzer, I think.*
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cpsteine
March 12, 2024, 10:32:25
Oh man I am not into this hot take
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Jackie
March 12, 2024, 10:37:10
I thought Cloud Cuckoo Land was middling, but loved All the Light…
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DT
March 12, 2024, 14:13:34
Recently read Killers of the Flower Moon, in preparation for seeing the movie
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theBard
March 12, 2024, 7:52:19
Way Overdue for me; Breakfast of Champions
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timmer
March 12, 2024, 5:37:33
I went through a Vonnegut phase in HS and read a bunch of his novels in a short period
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DT
March 12, 2024, 6:39:27
Kilgore Trout!*
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MtHoodIllini
March 12, 2024, 16:49:07
I was just browsing the books in a thrift store this week and saw a group of classics
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Jackie
March 12, 2024, 7:49:33
I would gladly choose waterboarding over reading The Scarlet Letter again. *
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larue33
March 12, 2024, 11:30:16
I read it as an adult and thought it was good. Wuthering Heights, on the other hand…
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DT
March 12, 2024, 14:16:01
Oooooooh, I loved Wuthering Heights *
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Jackie
March 12, 2024, 15:40:52
There was (and still is) a lot of WTF by the people choosing books for school
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DT
March 12, 2024, 7:58:59
Totes. GenX exposed to all kinds of inappropriate material as children
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Jackie
March 12, 2024, 9:19:38
I went out to Dresden one day in Dec 2022 to see it for myself
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timmer
March 12, 2024, 7:46:04
The Road Home by Jim Harrison. Like it a lot so far.....100 pages in to it*
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MtHoodIllini
March 11, 2024, 19:30:24
Harrison was my favorite living American writer until he died. *
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larue33
March 11, 2024, 19:37:30
Haven't read enough of his work, but this is not my first. Compelling stuff*
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MtHoodIllini
March 12, 2024, 0:24:49
Elsa Morante’s Lies and Sorcery, THANK YOU DT*
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Jackie
March 11, 2024, 17:08:23
Nice! Glad you liked it. I remember struggling trying to describe it and sell it.*
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DT
March 11, 2024, 17:18:00
I’m about halfway through. All you had to say was that it’s a spiritual progenitor of the Neapolitan
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Jackie
March 12, 2024, 7:45:42
About 200pp into Burner, one of the more recent Gray Man novels*
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bjl63
March 11, 2024, 16:49:25
I recently re-read Startide Rising. I thought the writing was kind of painful*
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gvibes
March 11, 2024, 16:46:03
I also read Seth Dickinson's latest (non-Baru), Exordia. Great great fun*
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gvibes
March 11, 2024, 16:52:13
I remember really liking that in HS, and then being pissed he never wrote a real sequel
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DT
March 11, 2024, 16:50:42
Read several exceptional books recently
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DT
March 11, 2024, 16:23:18
Also read Harlem Shuffle by Whitehead, which was quality
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DT
March 11, 2024, 16:44:35
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