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  • A Little Slow

    Posted by Bookmason, 2 years ago

    My favourite of the year. If you like comics at all this is a novel you must read. If you like great fiction of any sort, it should be in your must read pile as well.

    Reading slowed down at end of August. One kid to university, one just ready for school, did some painting I'd promised my wife I'd finish a month earlier. But I did finish a few since last post in mid-August and all were read's I would highly recommend

    73/ Maps & Legends by Michael Chabon - Non-fiction - Essays on writing, the process, the business and the struggle. Quite an interesting collection, especially liked essays on influence of Conan Doyle, Howard Chaykin and Cormac McCarthy on popular culture. 4/5

    74/ The Stormcaller - Tom Llyod - Fantasy - Book 1 of the Twilight Reign, good start, not up to Cook or Erikson level but better than Goodkind. Not a happy world, but a unique one, looking forward to the next sitting in my pile, 3rd of 5 due around Christmas. 3.5 of 5

    75/ The Last Colony - John Scalzi - Scifi - Third in the Old Man's War series. If you like well written SciFi focusing more on the human side then the science Scalzi is like a modern day Heinlein with a little better sense of humour. This is has been an enjoyable series from start to finish (may be not over yet) and I will keep Scalzi at the top of my must read list. 4 books so far and all have been 4 stars.

    76/ The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon - Wow, I should have read this year's ago. I started reading Chabon at a friend's suggestion, this is my second and Yiddish Policeman's Union is up next. This novel had just about everything and was a wonderful read from start to finish. If you are a fan of comic books you must read this, follows 2 comic book creators through their strange trials and tribulations in New York circa WWII. Some of the best chapters are comics without pictures, but have you imagining the art. Chabon's writing is infectious, can't say enough good things about this. Moved to the top of my favourites for this year.

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  • newtrunner

    2 years ago

    I read Chabon's Yiddish Policeman's Union and Gentlemen of the Road this summer and thoroughly enjoyed both. Kavalier and Clay is next. Thanks for the review.

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  • Christine L

    • Most Helpful

    2 years ago

    Yiddish Policeman's Union is next on my list after I get back from vacation ... now I really am looking forward to it

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  • DLOTS

    2 years ago

    To say something is better than Goodkind is hardly high praise. Oh the weeks I'll never get back.

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  • Bookmason

    • Top List Publisher

    2 years ago

    DLOTs - but I read the first Goodkind and unlike you couldn't bring myself to try another. It is much better and is only supposed to be 5 books.
    netwrunner - loved Gentlemen of the Road that is what lead me to Kavalier & Clay. Yiddish up shortly.

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  • Claire Humphrey

    • Indigo Employee
    • Most Helpful

    2 years ago

    Chabon is one of my all time favourite writers: Kavalier and Clay, Gentlemen of the Road both awesome. I haven't got around to Yiddish either. You'll probably beat me to it as I have a huge stack of things to read this month--let me know how it is!

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  • Colleen Easter

    • Indigo Employee
    • Top Book Reviewer

    2 years ago

    It is so funny how you never hear of someone then you hear his name everywhere - you are the fourth person (including Claire above) to talk about John Scalzi to me in the last week - before that I'd never heard of him. 2 people at work were raving about Old Man's War - it sounds like my kind of book and it is nice to get some more confirmation. I've only read Kavalier and Clay so far and I really want to get to Gentlemen of the Road soon - thanks for the post.

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  • Wendy Middleton

    • Most Helpful

    2 years ago

    Someone recommended Kavalier and Clay to me about three years ago, and I was hesitant because I thought that it was a graphic novel, and I didn't want to be like some people I knew who were still reading comic books in their 50s. When another friend praised the book a year or so ago, I finally did read it. As I was reading, I really wanted to see the comic book, so I checked the title and the graphic novels do exist. Chabon contributed to the writing of the first one. Now three years after I rejected Kavalier and Clay because I thought it was just a comic book, I am very interested in reading Persepolis and I am in my 50s, so perhaps I am less becoming less biased with age. I did read Yiddish Policemen, but was not as thrilled with it.

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