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BOOKS: What are you reading?

The Martian (Andy Weir). About a third way through it so far. Honestly it has been on the boring side. It's sort of like reading a boy scout manual. Hoping something changes and it suddenly gets more interesting. The Ridley Scott movie version comes out later this year, with Matt Damon. That is not so promising, considering Scott's latest movies all be disappointing.
 
The Hacienda: How Not to Run a Club by Peter Hook

 
Just finished "The Magnificent Amber sons" and "Alice Adams". Started "Scars of Sweet Paradise".
 
I have just finished reading 'The Murder of Roger Ackroyd' by Agatha Christie. Truly a masterpiece. Poirot can take on Cumberbatch anytime.
 
Pines by Blake Crouch. Trying to get the trilogy done before the show returns from its break.
 
Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes. I'm a little into the second part of the book and can honestly say it's becoming a favourite. It's so well written and easy to understand (even with it being Barthes who tends to ramble at times), it also includes a lot of the pictures it references in his reflections making it a really beautiful book.

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Comparatista said:
Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes. I'm a little into the second part of the book and can honestly say it's becoming a favourite. It's so well written and easy to understand (even with it being Barthes who tends to ramble at times), it also includes a lot of the pictures it references in his reflections making it a really beautiful book.
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Did you read the other two books in the series first? Would someone appreciate the third without doing so?
 
I stopped reading once I discovered audiobooks. I either read zombie tales, gay themed movies. Right now Im finishing up Hellifax:Mountainman and Pray the Gay Away.
 
A Play of Shadow - Julie E. Czerneda.

I've been on a bit of a binge lately. Have recently read, Oracle book six of the House War series by Michelle West. Tracker book sixteen in the Foreigner Universe series by C.J. Cherryh, and finally Sleeping Late on Judgement Day by Tad Williams, the third book in the Bobby Dollar series.

Heartily enjoyed all of them.

A Play of Shadow is the second book of the Night's Edge series.
 
The Mentor: A Memoir of Friendship and Gay Identity by Jay Quinn (just started this, but I'm impressed)

I had started with Quinn's fiction -- he writes beautifully. I've read most of his novels and some short erotic stories. He writes about relatively ordinary life experiences of gay and bi men in the South, creating settings and characters that draw you into their worlds.

Novels:
Back Where He Started - Excellent
The Good Neighbor - Excellent
Metes and Bounds - Very good
The Beloved Son - well rated, but I've been avoiding it because of the subject matter (aging parents).
Boomerang Kid - not as good as the others

His overall writing quality is consistently outstanding; what varies is the way he tells the story.
 
I was completely enthralled - or is that enshadowed? - by Kelly Creagh's Enshadowed which I finished last night. I couldn't put the book down for its final chapters. I have had it for like 2 years, started it back then and then I didn't read it for a long time, now with Book 3 OBLIVION getting closer and closer, I knew I had to start all over again which I did 2 weeks ago. Can't wait for OBLIVION in just 6 days.
 
The Diary of Anne Frank, for the umpteenth time.

I find it to be a poignant reminder of the failings of man.
 
Can anyone recommend a book on Amy Winehouse? Except her dads of course.
 
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