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Gary

Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
Nov 17, 2018 - 05:39pm PT
What, Gary, you finally broke down and got an English version?

I got a version that had a list of the characters with all of their various names! Finally, I knew who was who.
SC seagoat

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, Bozeman, the ocean, or ?
Nov 17, 2018 - 05:41pm PT
Some of the more recent Steven King books except for the latest “Outsider”.

I loved his early stuff but the last few years just couldn’t get into his books. It really may be my aging and that my tastes have changed.

Susan.
Aeriq

Social climber
Location: It's a MisterE
Nov 17, 2018 - 05:41pm PT
This was another one I just couldn't wrap my head around...I finally gave up.
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I guess it's some kind of cultural statement?
zBrown

Ice climber
Nov 17, 2018 - 08:36pm PT
Naked Lunch
Also Sprach Zarathustra
Crime and Punishment
Lituya

Mountain climber
Nov 17, 2018 - 08:42pm PT
The Stand, by Stephen King.
ecdh

climber
the east
Nov 18, 2018 - 03:14am PT
I liked Ulysses. Funny and surprising.

Lord of the rings was silly, nostalgic and childish.

Magister ludi was overly involved tho a good ending. Other Hess stuff is good tho.
AP

Trad climber
Calgary
Nov 18, 2018 - 07:55am PT
I have read Gravity's Rainbow several times cover to cover but never at home, only while travelling/working in places like India or Pakistan. Your mind has to be in a different space to read this book.
By the way as in all Pynchon novels you never do learn what is really going on.
Gregory Crouch

Social climber
Walnut Creek, California
Nov 18, 2018 - 05:38pm PT
^^^^ My hero ^^^^
Fat Dad

Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
Nov 18, 2018 - 06:28pm PT
Gravity's Rainbow has long been on my list, along with Under the Volcano and The Magic Mountain, a copy of which I carried around in the back of my car for so long and which got so beat up I had to chuck it.
Aeriq

Social climber
Location: It's a MisterE
Nov 18, 2018 - 08:26pm PT
perswig

climber
Nov 19, 2018 - 02:43am PT
Island of the Day Before
Memoir from Antproof Case
Pillars of the Earth

Took a couple starts to get through Gravity's Rainbow.
Vollmann's The Rifles has been sidelined several times but remains on my must-finish-or-die-trying list.

Dale
Mike Honcho

Trad climber
Glenwood Springs, CO
Nov 19, 2018 - 10:52am PT
The Sugar Barons by Mathew Parker.
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/matthew-parker/sugar-barons/

Cotton slaves at least had a reasonable chance at some type of survival, the sugar slaves were done for in a few terrible years. Was just too grim for me, I read more than enough to get the idea and then stuck it in one of my book shelves where it just sits.

It was also considered the final straw for America starting the Revolutionary War. The sugar barons were sending their product back to England for fantastic profits and had representation in Parliament that represented them. America was doing the same but for far less profits and no say or representation in England's Parliament. Boom.

Caylor!
Scole

Trad climber
Zapopan
Nov 20, 2018 - 05:27pm PT
"Gravity's Rainbow. Thomas Pynchon. The screaming that came across the sky was me throwing the book across the room sixty pages in when I couldn't figure out what the hell was going on."

I had the same experience. I tried to read that POS twice. I got 600 pages in both times. The first time I burned it, the second I shot it full of holes.
two-shoes

Trad climber
Auberry, CA
Nov 20, 2018 - 06:40pm PT
GIANTS, the global power elite. by Peter Phillips

This book is all about the Transnationalist Capitalist Power Elites, and who rules the world. How all the giant transnational corporations own stock in one another, to the point where they are totally in cahoots with each other. No wonder they are too big to fail !!!

This book is "so heavy" I can only manage a few pages a night, then I must put in down.
Gunkie

Trad climber
Valles Marineris
Nov 21, 2018 - 06:31am PT
At least two of the books on Trump (Wolfe, Bernstein). The real news was far more interesting and up-to-date.
ydpl8s

Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
Nov 21, 2018 - 02:57pm PT
I actually got through Gravity's Rainbow, but then faltered trying to read Pynchon's "V".

I put down The Name of the Rose, too ponderous for me.

Loved Cryptonomicon, had to put down Anathem, I was always lost.
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