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Just finished "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime" by Mark Haddon. It's a most unusual book -- both the first person writing and the protagonist, who is a 15-year-old...
One of my favorite books.
Haddon manages to bring us deep inside Christopher's mind and situates us comfortably within his limited, severely logical point of view, to the extent that we begin to question the common sense and the erratic emotionalism of the normal citizens who surround him, as well as our own intuitions and habits of perception. https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/15/b...f-the-dog.html
The best book I've ever read is The Magus by John Fowles. Don't skip ahead its important. The Woodstock book which is all anecdotes , can't put it down. The parts about the trust fund kid who put it on but didn't expect 250k people to show up are the best. I got in trouble for recommending this before but Charles Manson - Tex Watsons books are online and Paul Watkins book. Motley Crues book is another can't put it down. And of course And Then There Were None.
Author basically sets out to write a more nuanced general history of Pan-American Indians. I guess he finds both the slanderous and hagiographic versions of Indian history to be a disservice to understanding. Just finished first 2 chapters, covering varying creation myths & the rise and cultural impact of growing corn.
I just finished reading a book that requires massive amounts of anti-depressants to get thru: Broken, by Shy Keenan
Child abuse books are very challenging and depressing to read.
It's a total miracle she survived all that never-ending abuse from age 4 to age 14 and miraculous that, after 2 decades, she was able to put her pedophile Step-Father into prison finally.
I am almost done with Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer. When it came out in 1969-70 (there was apparently an early release in Europe in October 1969, then release as translated in late August 1970) there was fawning press coverage about the "good Nazi." Speer got his start as Hitler's architect, and then progressed to be a director of armaments. Apparently the book's contents have become what is accepted history of the Third Reich. Unfortunately to some extent it humanizes Hitler, and throws a lot of blame on Goering and Bormann. These people were monsters, full stop.
Tomorrow, I will likely have a fuller review, with key excerpts quoted.
Reading some books by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the latest being Purple Hibiscus
I really enjoy reading about other countries, other cultures.
In cases like book, it shows how, generally speaking, poverty in the US may look like pretty damn good living as compared to some other societies.
I've just finished The Red Tent. It's another one that so many have read and somehow escaped me until now. It was quite different, and though a very interesting book, it was not an easy read in that there were so many names and characters and places. It's a historical fiction version of a blblical character. (Dinah, sister of Joseph, daughter of Leah).
I think it might be one to read again in a year or two as it was very good and I am certain that I missed some of it.
I still would give it 4 stars.
I don't get much time to read lately. I am currently reading A New American Space Plan by Travis Taylor. I like the way he writes, has a way of quoting statistics in that doesn't put me to sleep.
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