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WhitewaterWoman said:
Alice Munro. An excellent writer.
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Yes, so far I'm very impressed. She has a patience, power, and sense of observation I see in writers like William Maxwell, David Malouf, or even Jeanette Winterson and Julian Barnes. Maybe even Jane Gardam. I tried Philip Roth recently and it was so showy and hollow. The opposite.
 
I don’t think much of Roth either. I don’t know the other authors, or at least don’t remember the names. Not an infrequent occurrence I’m afraid.
Will put them on my list to try.
 
View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
 
A repeat- The Brave Cowboy by Edward Abbey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brave_Cowboy---A horseman not willing to be a part of 1950's progress.

A movie closely following the book's plot was produced starring Kirk Douglas.
The movie is unusual in that most of the dialog is between the protagonist
and his steed-in-training, rather than just being a typical western movie prop.
Douglas has said it was his favorite movie to star in. It was not distributed much.
Full version:
https://ok.ru/video/1616383183600
 
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The Good Ancestor: How to think long term in a short-term world by Roman Krznaric
I Belong Here: A journey along the backbone of Britain by Anita Sethi
 
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I’m reading Morning Star: A Novel by Karl Ove Knausgard.

He has an incredible ability to eek out the essence of each moment from a wide variety of personalities.

I am bogged down by one chapter in which the narrator is so creepy it makes my skin crawl.
 
I have quite a few at the moment —but my dad gave me some Terry Pratchett books to read yesterday, so I hav e started on the Color of Magic. =)
 
WhitewaterWoman said:
I’m reading Morning Star: A Novel by Karl Ove Knausgard.

He has an incredible ability to eek out the essence of each moment from a wide variety of personalities.

I am bogged down by one chapter in which the narrator is so creepy it makes my skin crawl.
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He has a real talent for getting all the details in there. :) Did you read "My Struggle"? That was looong.
 
Forest Cat said:
He has a real talent for getting all the details in there. :) Did you read "My Struggle"? That was looong.
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A radio program reviewed My Struggle which is how I heard of him. So when a book of his popped up on Amazon specials list, I bought Morning Star for kindle for 1.99.

I read a lot and can’t afford to purchase books at the regular price and don’t have easy access to a library.

The translation seems to be excellent. The English grammar is better than most native English writers.
 
WhitewaterWoman said:
A radio program reviewed My Struggle which is how I heard of him. So when a book of his popped up on Amazon specials list, I bought Morning Star for kindle for 1.99.

I read a lot and can’t afford to purchase books at the regular price and don’t have easy access to a library.

The translation seems to be excellent. The English grammar is better than most native English writers.
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When that guy writes about something mundane like making breakfast one morning, it turns into a series of at least 3 books. :) The thing about "My Struggle" is that he wrote about his personal life, wife, friends, people he had met and it was often a bit personal, so he upset some people. He wrote about such personal things and shared so many details from his life. And he was so absorbed with the writing that his wife went through a depression and was hospitalized for a while, it turned into a big thing.
 
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Forest Cat said:
When that guy writes about something mundane like making breakfast one morning, it turns into a series of at least 3 books. :) The thing about "My Struggle" is that he wrote about his personal life, wife, friends, people he had met and it was often a bit personal, so he upset some people. He wrote about such personal things and shared so many details from his life. And he was so absorbed with the writing that his wife went through a depression and was hospitalized for a while, it turned into at big thing.
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I could see going into a big depression over having my personal habits described in the excruciating detail his writing achieves. Poor lady.

I do find the style oddly attractive. Maybe because he spells out the things that are a mystery to me In terms of how others see themselves and others. At least in Morning Star.
 
Owliet said:
Dad has recommended that I do read Mort after I finish reading Color of magic. =)
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Most of them can be read as individual novels, The Light Fantastic follows directly on from The Colour of Magic.

It does pay to sort of follow a chronological order because many of the later books assume prior knowledge of what happened in the earlier ones.
 
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