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BOOKS: What are you reading?

Given the pervasive dread of the times I was on the lookout for an escapist lark and settled on Brandon Sanderson's The Way of Kings. Lots of people love this book. Fie on those dullards. It's juvenile, repetitive, awkward, preposterous, unfunny and painfully square. I'm just going to straight up attribute that to the author's dorky Mormonist aesthetic. More problematic for me is its blithe attitude to the racism, casteism and slavery that is just a feature of the world (also reminiscent of Mormonism's racist attitudes). An epic fantasy for readers who snort and point at brown people.
 
zoltanspawn said:
Given the pervasive dread of the times I was on the lookout for an escapist lark and settled on Brandon Sanderson's The Way of Kings. Lots of people love this book. Fie on those dullards. It's juvenile, repetitive, awkward, preposterous, unfunny and painfully square. I'm just going to straight up attribute that to the author's dorky Mormonist aesthetic. More problematic for me is its blithe attitude to the racism, casteism and slavery that is just a feature of the world (also reminiscent of Mormonism's racist attitudes). An epic fantasy for readers who snort and point at brown people.
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I got an online offer for the book of $2.99, looked at the reviews, and decided that was about $2.00 too much.

He's done some good stuff, but when he's aiming at a long series IMO his quality goes

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Jacquemar said:
THE POETIC EDDA ed. by Carolyne Larrington
THE COMPLETE FAIRY TALES OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM ed. by Jack Zipes
THE DICTIONARY OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY by Pierre Grimal

When I'm done with THE ANCIENT MYSTERIES, I'll add a new fourth.
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INDIA: A HISTORY by Keay
THE LIBRARY by Apollodorus
and THE HISTORY OF THE HOLY GRAIL

Still reading THE COSMIC MACHINE.
 
"The Sociopath Next Door". My usual light reading...
 
Once Upon a Time: The Lives of Bob Dylan
 
Does anyone recommend any gay romance erotic novels? which are the best? Should I create a separate thread specifically for that?
 
I totally recommend BOYSTOWN by Jake Biondi. It sometimes has M/F in it too, but the majority of scenes is M/M. You must have to have read those books.
 
Edward IV and the War of the Roses by David Santiuste

Against the Fall of Night by Arthur C. Clarke

All Flesh is Grass by Clifford Simak


Yeah, I'm reading several at once, again. I'll be finishing the top and bottom ones tonight.


And over the weekend I finished a week-long binge of:

Dragon Blood series by Lindsay Buroker
Heritage of Power series by Lindsay Buroker

fourteen books in eight days... a little OCD there!
 
Expedition to Pluto by Fletcher Pratt and Laurence Manning.

Not a book though, but a story from an old science-fiction magazine called Planet Stories.
 
THE CASTLE OF BERRY POMEROY by Edward Montague

THE ELEGANT UNIVERSE by Brian Greene

THE ROMANCE OF MERLIN

ON THE VIRTUES by Ps. Plato

Rereading:

THE COSMIC MACHINE
 
I've been reading old Perry Mason mysteries. (For those who don't know, Mason was trial lawyer who'd defend people unjustly accused of murder, and usually get them off in a dramatic courtroom scene that proved someone else did the murder.)

Not terribly demanding or mind improving, admittedly, but a nice distraction from all the problems of the world. Indeed, I remember reading a comment written by Erle Stanley Gardner (the author) that talked about a letter he got from someone who had high demands during World War II. He read one of the books, and found it a welcome distraction from that era. IIRC even claimed to get better sleep than he'd gotten in a long time. We may not be in a war, but 2020 with all the problems and possible problems is more than any sane person can take without some distraction!
 
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