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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? August 18 (discuss.online)
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Oh, I forgot about today's weekly thread. So without further ado,

What have you all been reading or listening to lately?

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[–] 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I’m about a quarter of the way through Tom’s Crossing by Mark Z. Danielewski. He’s the guy who did House of Leaves

It’s an updated take on the western genre (I love McMurty, McCarthy and Michener…) set in the 80s. Fantastic writing.

Last week I finished:

  • Biological War by Annie Jacobsen. Not quite as thrilling a start as her Nuclear War but ended in a much more concerning place
  • When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stand. I liked the constrained storytelling conceit. I wish it were longer…
  • Unsouled by Will Wight. I did not really like it… I thought Lindon was a weasel
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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I loved House of Leaves, but never read anything else from him. Is Tom's Crossing similar in anyway e.g. atmosphere?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    It’s a sprawling western. More about the characters and the journey than anything else.

    New kid Kalin March “steals” two horses and takes them on a journey through the Utah valley to release them. The owners of the horses are an affluent family who are more interested in power and its trappings than in the actual value of the horses. Kalin’s friend’s sister Landry is from the rival affluent family (they’d been feuding for over a hundred years) and she joins Kalin on the journey.

    it’s not the weird meta fictional style novel like House of Leaves, which admittedly I have not read, but it is sprawling with a lot of characters and overlapping perspectives and retrospective comments on the events from years in the future.

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