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favourite books you read this year?


i just finished a book today, & updated my goodreads account.

i just took a glance, and i see that according to my account, this was my 48th book of the year.

not a brag. i just have a lot of spare time. or more than most people, anyway. & lots of people probably read more than that.

perhaps i shouldn't read quite so quickly, though. in going through most of the titles, i found myself straining to remember some of them.

i'd say the best books i read were, in no particular order:

say nothing by patrick radden keefe (with a hat tip to hownos for his recommendation of that title)

nutshell - ian mcewan - definitely the best book i've ever read that was narrated by an unborn child.
ubik - pk dick (i re-read about 15 dick books this year - i like all of them a lot, but this is probably my favourite)
the anti-chomsky reader (co-editor berlinski is a complete nut, but there's some good stuff in here)
how innovation works - matt ridley
the road - cormac mccarthy
open borders - bryan caplan
last days at hot slit - andrea dworkin

anyone read anything that stuck with them? i'm always looking for something new.

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Currently working through a stack, all excellent!

A Thousand Brains, Jeff Hawkins
Extraterrestrial, Avi Loeb
The Human Cosmos, Jo Marchant
Love, Kurt - The Vonnegut Love Letters 1941 - 1945
Mental Immunity - Andy Norman

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Great thread topic damosuzuki!

I just finished Cathedral (Ben Hopkins) an absolute epic. Would make for an amazing film.
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/53362511-cathedral

Earlier this year, I read The Four Winds (Kristin Hannah). Like the Grapes of Wrath from a mother's perspective.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53138081-the-four-winds

As for nonfiction, I really enjoyed this one about the modern movie industry.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38488114-the-big-picture

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I just read a bio of Captain James Cook who was hanging out with my ancestors in Newfoundland back around 1750.

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I'm in awe of early sailors like Cook. Those men were straight-up fearless. The distances they sailed...without any connection to help...astounding stuff.

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I will add a couple more that I've read recently which I really liked.

The Midnight Library - Matt Haig
The Dressmaker's Gift - Fiona Valpy

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The trilogy of " the forgotten Legion " an " The Guardians".

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My book reading has declined severely in the last decade. I was never a fast reader to begin with but I am always working on something regardless of how long it takes. Only 2 books this year so far (better than just one for all of last year!). Neither were worth recommending so take this as a warning instead.

Agency by William Gibbson: A follow up to a previous better book of his. This one is a meandering waste of time. I think it might be the last of his I ever read. Finally tired of his "allusionist" technique after decades of reading all of his shit.

Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline: The first book used nostalgic references in a skilled manner to weave an interesting story. This one reads more like a list of nostalgic references. First book: A- (helps to have been alive in the 80s). This book: D+

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Last Man Standing: Mort Sahl And The Birth of Modern Stand-Up Comedy (Jim Curtis)
Loving John (May Pang)
In The Pink: Not A Hunting Memoir (Nick Sedgewick)

I just got a book I pre-ordered months ago
"Jim Morrison: Poetry, Journals, Transcripts, And Lyrics"

And a handful of other biographies of Jim Morrison, mostly concentrating on his pre-Doors life.. Some John Lennon biographies, including one huge book of postcards he sent others.

And many I started but didn't finish on people like:
-Senator Eugene McCarthy
-Sam Peckinpah
-Robert Altman
-Todd Rundgren (The Individualist)
-Marlon Brando

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The Millennium trilogy by Stieg Larrson. Excellent.

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Probably A Sci-Fi romance that makes men out to be alot better than they actually are:) Just a guess from my kindle.

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