Book recommendations

Recently finished The Setup by Dan Bilzerian

American writer Richard Yates was a master of the short story.

Liquid romantic prose of Keatsian quality.

The American Chekhov

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The American Chekhov

OMG I love this book. It may be my single favorite book of short stories.

His comic vision has a secure place in the English literary imagination.

One of the greatest contemporary writers of short stories in the English language.

Just cracked this open last night.

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Just cracked this open last night.

That's on my list of books to read

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That's on my list of books to read

I thought of you reading it! It’s got references to slasher movies and final girls on every page!

On Basilisk Station and the rest of the Honor Harrington Series if you love GREAT Sci-Fi. It's space combat meets C. S. Forrester's Horatio Hornblower. David Weber even gives a little cameo to Forrester in his book.

I read this a couple of months ago and it was by far one of the best reads in a long time

Originally written in the 80s and released as little serials of sorts now in one great big book.

It's like North and South was horror ( only It's after the Civil War but that's what it reminded me of )

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I read this a couple of months ago and it was by far one of the best reads in a long time

Originally written in the 80s and released as little serials of sorts now in one great big book.

It's like North and South was horror ( only It's after the Civil War but that's what it reminded me of )

you should read And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave. You really should. plot: And the Ass Saw the Angel tells the story of Euchrid Eucrow, a mute born to an abusive drunken mother and a father obsessed with animal torture and the building of dangerous traps. The family live in a valley of fanatically religious Ukulites, where they are shunned. Euchrid's mental breakdown includes horrific angelic visions, and the story builds towards Euchrid exacting terrible vengeance on the people who have made him suffer.

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you should read And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave. You really should. plot: And the Ass Saw the Angel tells the story of Euchrid Eucrow, a mute born to an abusive drunken mother and a father obsessed with animal torture and the building of dangerous traps. The family live in a valley of fanatically religious Ukulites, where they are shunned. Euchrid's mental breakdown includes horrific angelic visions, and the story builds towards Euchrid exacting terrible vengeance on the people who have made him suffer.

I've never heard of that. I'll look it up.

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Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler.

I'd insert pic here but it's at my place(im at my fiancés place at the moment) I've shared pic before w/ Mickey Mouse hoodie as background.

This copy was gifted to me by my History teacher. This book lives next to the Bible and the Satanic Bible by LaVey.

Originally published in Esquire magazine (1940-41), these seventeen stories, filled with self-parody and nostalgia, draw on Fitzgerald's experience as a screenwriter in Hollywood.

Nabokov's most perfect novel...a book about poetry and obsession, deluded characters and confused identities.

I just finished The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray. It is a fictionalized account of the very real woman that was J. P. Morgan's personal librarian. She was a black woman passing as white. It's an amazing story that's also very enlightening. See this NPR interview with the authors who are both award-winning for prior writing. https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2021/08/31/1031802246/the-story-of-j-p-morgans-personal-librarian-and-why-she-chose-to-pass-as-white I highly recommend it!

Hi, is there a list of books written from a womans perspective for things like threesome and cuckold? I can only find men perspective so far

Finished this a few months ago. Given it was in the crime drama(drugs specifically)genre, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I thoroughly enjoyed this series …. https://www.goodreads.com/series/43037-camel-club

I've been a spy-genre fan for a long time (favorite author Charles McCarry - Tears of Autumn is an absolute masterpiece), then started reading Lisa Gardner's procedural thrillers this summer. She's got a real sense of suspense, action and hanging the reader over the cliff. They've all been so good so far it's hard to pick but I'd have to pick The Perfect Husband for the ending I absolutely did not see coming.

I've shifted gears this month, though. To prepare for the alleged Noir competition, I've started sampling that genre. Tried to read Maltese Falcon, but I'm embarrassed to say the writing style just didn't grab me, and I'll probably watch the Bogart movie instead. Sorry. But I have started reading Raymond Chandler (starting with The High Window, with The Long Goodbye on deck), and I'm absolutely seeing how he was so influential in setting the conventions of Noir. Highly recommended.

I thoroughly enjoyed the last 2 books I read.

Mr Wilder & Me by Jonathan Coe. It's about the making of Billy Wilder's making of his penultimate movie Fedora. As one reviewer said "A love letter to the spirit of cinema".

Wilder fled Berlin to Hollywood via Paris in 1934 after the rise of the Nazi party. The Author Hans Fallada had a chance to escape Berlin in 1938 but decided to stay. He wrote what would become Alone in Berlin in a "white heat" in just 24 days and completed it a few days before his death in1947. The book is based on a true story. It really brings home what life was like under the Nazis - he had just lived through it. The book was eventually translated ( wonderfully) in 2009.

I have a few books on the go but I have just started I Could Have Sung All Night a biog of Marnie Nixon. You might not know her name but you will have heard her sing. Looks interesting and right up my street.

Finished this a few months ago. Very much enjoyed it, I must say.

The Sound and the Fury!!!! If you're looking for something lighter, try The Tin Drum.

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Nabokov's most perfect novel...a book about poetry and obsession, deluded characters and confused identities.

I thought was considered his best. Or was that even Nabokov?

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Liquid romantic prose of Keatsian quality.

I think FItzgerald is absurdly overrated. His stuff edges in on experimental and I find the structure of his sentences just plain irritating. There is no tone to find. Maybe he can write. No one will ever know, if you want my opinion.

“The Complete Sherlock Holmes” ….never read any of these before but found them to be fascinating. Almost anything by Anne Rice… anything by Dos Passos…the list goes on and on.

Highly recommend Peng Shepherd. Relatively new author. Already won several awards. Very unusual/interesting stories, I'd say at least partly in the supernatural genre. They make you think.

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I thought was considered his best. Or was that even Nabokov?

It is Nabokov and certainly his best-known novel. However, that does not make it his best.

I am bookless right now so nothing really to recommend.