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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 4/27/2020 7:59:07 AM   
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“Night Boat to Tangier” by Kevin Barry. It was good, not very good nor great as many have touted but I finished and somewhat enjoyed this quick read anyway.

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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 4/27/2020 8:08:42 AM   
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"Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation" by Andrew Marantz

What a title. What did you think of this book?

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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 4/27/2020 8:21:14 AM   
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I'm currently reading "From the Heart" by Laura Bush, so far it's interesting, I think it will get better in another 30 pages or so.

I've also started "Say Nothing" by Patrick Radden Keefe, it's about The Troubles in Northern Ireland. Haven't gotten far enough into it to render a verdict, but I expect a fairly gripping read.

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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 4/27/2020 10:12:52 AM   
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I finished "Educated" a week or so ago. Interesting but it wasn't as good as I had hoped.


I had the same reaction. It was interesting certainly (if nothing more, than from a slightly morbid fascination with what some people on this planet believe!), but it came across as if it was written by a non-writer...which, obviously, it was.


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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 4/27/2020 10:14:11 AM   
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Status: offline 		Just finished Dog Stars by Peter Heller. I loved it. It was brutal at times, but thoroughly engaging. It was also interesting to read in a time like this with a global pandemic on our hands. Very occasionally, his writing style annoys me with its herky-jerky first-person as-spoken style, occasionally compounded with the fact that he doesn't use quotation marks.

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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 4/27/2020 1:03:57 PM   
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I've also started "Say Nothing" by Patrick Radden Keefe, it's about The Troubles in Northern Ireland.


I read a similar book, but based on the NY/NJ area, called "Aluminum Bats and Pinelands Vacations".

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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 4/28/2020 10:06:57 AM   
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I finished "Educated" a week or so ago. Interesting but it wasn't as good as I had hoped.


I had the same reaction. It was interesting certainly (if nothing more, than from a slightly morbid fascination with what some people on this planet believe!), but it came across as if it was written by a non-writer...which, obviously, it was.




I kept questioning if this was a work of fiction or an autobiography. I do believe that overall the descriptions of events and attitudes were quite accurate. Very frightening to consider there are people like her father out there.

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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 4/28/2020 1:50:33 PM   
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Very occasionally, his writing style annoys me with its herky-jerky first-person as-spoken style, occasionally compounded with the fact that he doesn't use quotation marks.


Try "Far Tortuga" by Peter Matthiessen. All dialogue with no other descriptives.

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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 4/29/2020 7:36:04 AM   
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Very occasionally, his writing style annoys me with its herky-jerky first-person as-spoken style, occasionally compounded with the fact that he doesn't use quotation marks.


Try "Far Tortuga" by Peter Matthiessen. All dialogue with no other descriptives.

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That sounds pretty brutal to read. Interesting concept I suppose, but I don't find myself eager to read it for the aforementioned reasons. What did you think?

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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 4/29/2020 12:25:32 PM   
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That sounds pretty brutal to read. Interesting concept I suppose, but I don't find myself eager to read it for the aforementioned reasons. What did you think?


Enjoyed it, but it took a while to get into the rhythm of the book.

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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 6/3/2020 12:18:39 PM   
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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 7/13/2020 7:52:22 AM   
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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 7/13/2020 8:03:42 AM   
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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 7/27/2020 9:58:30 AM   
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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 7/28/2020 5:18:48 AM   
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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 8/3/2020 8:39:50 AM   
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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 8/7/2020 9:33:15 AM   
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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 8/8/2020 6:48:50 AM   
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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 8/8/2020 8:15:15 AM   
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Rescued from page 3 this time...

“Night Boat to Tangier” by Kevin Barry. It was good, not very good nor great as many have touted but I finished and somewhat enjoyed this quick read anyway.


I like his collected short stories best I think.

He's got real skill with language, that's for sure, something very Irish/Joycean in his prose.

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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 8/8/2020 8:19:43 AM   
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I finished "Educated" a week or so ago. Interesting but it wasn't as good as I had hoped.


I had the same reaction. It was interesting certainly (if nothing more, than from a slightly morbid fascination with what some people on this planet believe!), but it came across as if it was written by a non-writer...which, obviously, it was.



I liked Educated, which I'm pretty sure is an autobiography. To me it seemed less plot driven than a replication of the glacial process of realizing your most core beliefs are BS. It's no surprise so few people really change their minds.

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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 8/12/2020 2:11:54 PM   
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Watched the series, now reading the book.

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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 8/13/2020 1:50:07 PM   
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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 8/13/2020 6:40:26 PM   
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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 9/2/2020 11:41:44 AM   
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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 3/20/2021 1:29:49 PM   
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Great read by Ambrose

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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 3/20/2021 4:31:30 PM   
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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 3/21/2021 7:43:30 PM   
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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 3/22/2021 10:02:15 AM   
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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 3/22/2021 12:44:40 PM   
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RE: NWR: I just read/am reading.... - 3/22/2021 2:08:25 PM   
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Great read by Ambrose

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If you are still interested in the subject, I would highly recommend the book "Neptune" by Craig L. Symonds...for that matter, I'd highly recommend ANYTHING by Symonds, who if I recollect correctly is a professor at the US Naval Academy now. I typically listen to Audio Books and the Audible versions of both Neptune and his book "Battle of Midway" are some of the best documentary books I've ever read/listened to. So much great detail...

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