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I'm reading The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest. Loved Dragon Tattoo and Fire. The problem with this one seems to be the writers habit of giving each character a long, drawn out backstory that does nothing for the plot. He over explains everything. I've started skipping pages because of it. Its the slowest of the three, for sure.

Still, a good read. I'm looking forward to starting Game of Thrones next.

Mike Piazza's autobiography, LONG SHOT. Enjoying it.

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Currently reading Candide.

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The Magician King, despite how much The Magicians ended up pissing me off.

I actually liked Magician King better.

(And now I want to go back to Florence and Venice!)

Have you read The Monster of Florence?

I recently powered through a bunch of stuff...

All four Tana French novels:
In the Woods
The Likeness
Faithful Place
Broken Harbor

I liked all of them, but Likeness was by far my favorite.

We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
After all the discussion here about the novel, I decided to read it and couldn't put it down. Kind of glad I saw the film first as I would have been much more disappointed in it if I read the novel first. Particularly with the characterization of the mother, which seemed wildly different. An excellent read, though my only quibble was that with the first person narrative, the mother's voice seemed articulate to the point of distraction at times. Yes, she's a writer (of travel books), but her word choices almost seemed evocative of another period, like Jane Austen or Oscar Wilde.

Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
Predictable, but hugely entertaining. An absolute MUST for anyone with an affinity for video game history and classic 80s video games.

Redshirts - John Scalzi
Hilarious and inventive fun for anyone with even the most pedestrian knowledge of Star Trek.

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
A friend recommended it to me because it is being made into a film with Harrison Ford. Very intriguing and for a sci-fi adventure novel with a child protagonist, much more mature than I thought it would be. I'm curious to read more in the series.

Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
One of my favorite films and just now getting around to reading the novel. The dialogue is not only exquisite, but often hilarious.

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COMPILERS by Aho, Lam, Sethi, and Ullman while tele-working from home this week on yet another deadline. I'd rather watch paint dry but it's required reading for my current project.

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I'm currently reading (and very much enjoying) Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple.

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Just finished Fun Home by Alison Bechdel, and now I'm reading If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This by Robin Black.

Recently finished:
Crocodile on the Sandbank
by Elizabeth Peters

Currently half way into:
Story of O
by Pauline Réage

Finally went back to finish Alan Hollinghurst's "The Stranger's Child." I'm not sure why I put it down almost a year ago.

Also started Rezla Aslan's "Zealot."

Homer & Langley by E L Doctorow, author of Ragtime.
This is a fictionalized telling of the true story of the Collyer brothers.

This the male equivalent of Grey Gardens. Two wealthy brothers live in a four story mansion on Park Ave in NYC. One is blind and the other crazy as a result of wartime chemical exposure. The crazy brother collects newspapers, machines, etc. Even has a car moved into their living room. They spend their lives there until they die. NYC fire dept has to break through the roof of the home to retrieve the bodies as the stairwells and lower rooms were so blocked with "stuff".

The story is told from the point of view of the blind brother interestingly enough.

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And then there's also David's kids...

'Also started Rezla Aslan's "Zealot."'

I'm going to get around to reading it as well as soon as I can put some work-related stuff behind me.

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henrikegerman,

Correct me if my history of Christendom has grown rusty but isn't James attributed with establishing the orthodox Christianity of the East (Byzantium) as well while Paul is regarded as church father of the East (Holy Roman Church)? I agree that the fault line you note would make for a great play. When I have some free time, I'm going to read up on the what led to the Primacy of the Bishop of Rome.

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