@bradstevens if you say OUATIH is better than Jackie Brown then we’re taking the gloves off too.
Inglourious Basterds>Jackie Brown
@oneeyedundertaker possibly for the opening scene and basement bar scene alone.
WRONG THREAD GUYS. Go to the movie thread!
Back to the issue of books, since a book thread necessarily moves slower than other threads, I offer everyone the request to post your favorite novels. One a time, explain why you loved it.
I'll start with Iain Pears Instance of the Fingerpost. I loved it because it was a fantastically written novel, but also because it was a case study in the concept of the unreliable narrator, and it wasn't done cheaply or with gimmicks. It was a solid story front to back.
The Great Gatsby turns 100. Why you should (re) read it:
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/baumann-f-scott-fitzgerlad-gatsby-hundred-anniversary-catholic
what's this now?For you Kindle owners:
Finishing up Edge of Eternity by Ken Follett...excellent conclusion to his series. After that, I have "Henry V - The Astonishing Triumph of England's Warrior King" by Dan Jones, "The Splendid and the Vile" by Erik Larson, "The Demon of Unrest" by Erik Larson and "The Wars of the Roses" teed up. I'll probably sprinkle in some high fantasy for a break..."Locklands" and "Shorefall" both by Robert Jackson Bennett and at some point I'll read "Wind and Truth" by Brandon Sanderson.
For those that enjoy fantasy at all...my favorite series ever is the Realm of the Elderlings by Robin Hobb. It's a 16-book epic with six different series that interconnected. Those books helped me through some really difficult times and they mean a lot to me.
Finishing up Edge of Eternity by Ken Follett...excellent conclusion to his series. After that, I have "Henry V - The Astonishing Triumph of England's Warrior King" by Dan Jones, "The Splendid and the Vile" by Erik Larson, "The Demon of Unrest" by Erik Larson and "The Wars of the Roses" teed up. I'll probably sprinkle in some high fantasy for a break..."Locklands" and "Shorefall" both by Robert Jackson Bennett and at some point I'll read "Wind and Truth" by Brandon Sanderson.
For those that enjoy fantasy at all...my favorite series ever is the Realm of the Elderlings by Robin Hobb. It's a 16-book epic with six different series that interconnected. Those books helped me through some really difficult times and they mean a lot to me.
Demon of Unrest was a book club selection last fall. Very interesting.
Gonna necro this thread with this, because I stayed up late doing Book Club reading tonight, and it's too late for me to wake up the Book Club peeps with a text, but...
Bleak House is a revelation for me. I've purposefully avoided Dickens my entire life, and two-thirds of the way through, this is now undoubtedly one of the best novels I've ever read. I'm absolutely astounded by how good it is. At first I just thought it was funny and awesome how much he hated lawyers, but as the story gets deeper and more advanced, there is so much more going on. And it's so well-written that it's still easily accessible to a modern English reader. I absolutely can't speak to any of his other works (yet), but if you want to give Dickens a shot, start with this one, and, yes, suffer through the slow exposition of the first three chapters, because once it gets going, it's incredible.
Finally started Mornings on Horseback. Hard to believe the little kid at the beginning of this was a war hero, hunted for months at a time all over the world, and was instrumental in starting modern conservation.
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for. - Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and likely Hoosier basketball fan.
POTFB
Gonna necro this thread with this, because I stayed up late doing Book Club reading tonight, and it's too late for me to wake up the Book Club peeps with a text, but...
Bleak House is a revelation for me. I've purposefully avoided Dickens my entire life, and two-thirds of the way through, this is now undoubtedly one of the best novels I've ever read. I'm absolutely astounded by how good it is. At first I just thought it was funny and awesome how much he hated lawyers, but as the story gets deeper and more advanced, there is so much more going on. And it's so well-written that it's still easily accessible to a modern English reader. I absolutely can't speak to any of his other works (yet), but if you want to give Dickens a shot, start with this one, and, yes, suffer through the slow exposition of the first three chapters, because once it gets going, it's incredible.
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