What are you reading?

Hank Kingsley said:
I really don't give a shit if you think it's lame.

It's how I feel about it. and my wife is a reader too, so we'd need 2? Like everybody has a cell phone...
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In the future, would you and your wife please run your opinions past ill first? Thank you.
 
Shame the Devil - George Pelecanos

Love it. Pelecanos wrote for Treme, The Wire and The Deuce.
 
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More George Pelecanos. The Turnaround.

More or less DC based.

Next up, Sacred by Dennis Lehane.
 
finishing Jim Butcher's Codex Alera series now
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listening to The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

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For Whom the Bell Tolls by some guy named Hemmingway.

I gotta say, I'm not that into his writing yet.
 
MTVike said:
For Whom the Bell Tolls by some guy named Hemmingway.

I gotta say, I'm not that into his writing yet.
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I've never read Hemmingway...not sure I could
 
ill said:
I've never read Hemmingway...not sure I could
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I mean, I've always been intrigued by him and watched the Ken Burns special on him. I also intended to read the classics I had missed along the way when I retired.

So far, I'm just not getting it.
 
MTVike said:
I mean, I've always been intrigued by him and watched the Ken Burns special on him. I also intended to read the classics I had missed along the way when I retired.

So far, I'm just not getting it.
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I'm not sure if this holds true but it seems there was a genre of men's fiction in the 40s and 50s that touched on being a "man". I collect old outdoor fiction and you can see the style of writing shine through. Hemingway's writing drips with testosterone

I see The Old Man and the Sea as the perfect novel.
 
Kburjr said:
I'm not sure if this holds true but it seems there was a genre of men's fiction in the 40s and 50s that touched on being a "man". I collect old outdoor fiction and you can see the style of writing shine through. Hemingway's writing drips with testosterone

I see The Old Man and the Sea as the perfect novel.
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There is that, which i don't necessarily have a problem with. But this "thee" and "thou" rhetoric...am I reading Shakespeare?
 
MTVike said:
There is that, which i don't necessarily have a problem with. But this "thee" and "thou" rhetoric...am I reading Shakespeare?
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The book is nearly 100 years old. Language changes. It's a challenge for sure.
 
Kburjr said:
The book is nearly 100 years old. Language changes. It's a challenge for sure.
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80 years old.

I think it parallels hemmingways experience as an ambulance driver in WWII...falling in love with a local in the midst of war. Still, its pretty clunky.
 
MTVike said:
80 years old.

I think it parallels hemmingways experience as an ambulance driver in WWII...falling in love with a local in the midst of war. Still, its pretty clunky.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls I believe was set in the Spanish Civil War. So yeah, not quite 100 years old.
 
Kburjr said:
The book is nearly 100 years old. Language changes. It's a challenge for sure.
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I don't think people spoke like that 80 yrs ago.
 
Kburjr said:
I wasn't there.

I haven't read the book in years so I don't know in what context the "thees" and " thous" were used.
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So, after reading the Wiki article on the book, the thees and thous makes more sense. Supposed to convey a direct translation from Spanish in which there are important differences in the formal and familiar translations.
 
Dennis Lehane - The Given Day

Excellent.

John Sandford - Ocean Prey

A good read.
 
finished Shadow & Bone...it was just too soft of a fantasy novel. I don't know if I want to finish the series.

started How Much of These Hills is Gold last night and put a hold on the first book from the Longmire series.

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