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Meriadoc  ·  3499 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are you reading? Is it any good?

I do a thing where I start a bunch of books at once, so when something strikes my fancy at a given time, I can do that and switch between them as I feel. So currently I'm reading:

Rise of Endymion, book 4 of the Hyperion series by Dan Simmons. I can't give an opinion on this one yet, but I really love the series. His writing is so, so bad, but his storytelling is so, so good. I love the universe and world-building and attention to detail in creating this world realistically.

Count of Monte Cristo, this is my main focus right now. I'm only about 50 pages in, but really what can I say about it? It's the greatest revenge story of all time and we all know that.

Ravelstein, by Saul Bellow. This is the newest addition to my cycle. I have to decide if I really hate it, but I'm willing to give it a fair go.

Cancer Ward. Solzhenitsyn. Masterpiece. Gulag Archipelago is my next to tackle, but that's going to be a sole focus kinda thing.

And a lot of Jim Harrison poetry whenever I can find it. thenewgreen, I've been on a Montana kick. Any good Montana authors I should know about? I was suggested one by a native Montanan while leading a scotch tasting, but was too far gone to remember the name. I believe his first name was Ivan?





thenewgreen  ·  3499 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ted Kaczynski's writing made a pretty strong impression on people, though I've never read him myself :)

Meriadoc  ·  3496 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I actually decided to read his manifesto back in high school.

The only lasting memory I have of it was that it wasn't very good.

_refugee_  ·  3498 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's so funny I was just reading his article on Wiki today. I'm afraid that's all I have to contribute though. :-/

user-inactivated  ·  3498 days ago  ·  link  ·  

For Montana, how about some old school Charles Russell Western short stories?

He was a painter, but good friends with Bill Hart and thus had some influence on what became the Western movie industry.

thundara  ·  3499 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I've wanted to watch the count of Monte Christo since seeing V for Vendetta many years ago. Think the book is worth reading first?

Meriadoc  ·  3498 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You need to read it. It's totally different. Any of the films are fun, but everything I've heard is they fail to really capture it, but the book is a massive tome. Any film version of it cuts out huge swaths of the book to make it a proper length, and when the book is about the absolute perfect calculations of a wronged man, it has to be in full.

thundara  ·  3498 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Noted. This past year has been full of tome reading, oddly

kleinbl00  ·  3499 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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