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[rich]

recently read
Heinrich Boell's Billiards at Half-Past Noon
Peter Ackroyd's history of Venice
The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan--very well written and highly recommend it


to be read:

new novella (at least in book form) by Denis Johnson called Train Dreams
Ian Kershaw's history of the last year of ww2 in Germany called The End
new history of the Russians in Afghanistan called Afganisty written by
former British diplomat (his earlier book Moscow 1941 was excellent)
down the road finally english translation of new biography of Heinrich
Himmler by Peter Longerich (German reviewers favorably compare it to
Kershaw's great Hitler biography); Longerich has also recently written
a biography of Joseph Goebbels but has not been translated from German
as of yet
Wild Coast by John  Gimlette (about Guyana and environs) --wonderful
travel writer, past books about Newfoundland, Paraguay were excellent

Rich

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Stone Junction by Jim Dodge, intro by Pynchon, was good.
> Call It Sleep by Henry Roth was good on the second try.
> A Fan's Notes, Fred Exley, great!
> Hotel Honolulu, Paul Theroux, a favorite.
> Omensetter's Luck by William Gass was one of the most unusual and
> interesting
> books I've read.
> Point of No Return by John Marquand, very good.
> A literature professor friend got me hooked on James Lee Burke and Michael
> Dibdin,
> if you want to stay up late turning pages and cursing yourself for having
> too much fun.
> I'd put Henning Mankell on that list, too.
>
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Lawrence Bryan <lebryan at speakeasy.net>
> wrote:
>>
>> > Thinking about old books I read a long time ago, I went deep into the
>> > nether reaches of my basement book case and came up with "October Light" by
>> > Gardner. I wanted to make a film out of it, using an old black and white
>> > Errol Flynn pirate movie for the insert. Don't recall much discussion of
>> > Gardner's work except "Grendel".
>>
>> Lawrence
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