The Syndicate

I am currently reading:

In Hoffa's Shadow - Jack Goldsmith
Talking to Strangers - Malcolm Gladwell
Olive Again - Elizabeth Strout

Edit: So Hoffa's Shadow was an interesting book. Even though I was in labor relations I never heard the story of Jimmy Hoffa and his death, and I love true crime so it was right up my alley. On to "Olive Again" the sequel to "Olive Kittredge".

ColinIsCool wrote: ↑Sat May 25, 2019 11:33 am I thought it was tremendous. "Like" is a strong word maybe but I'm glad I read it. Haven't seen the movie.

I loved it. I read the ending while flying to NY and I remember I felt like "wot just happened" - I was sitting on that plane and my eyes were spinning - it felt surreal. His other books haven't had that kind of impact on me but I just got his latest book, Machines Like Me, from the library.

ColinIsCool wrote: ↑Sat May 25, 2019 10:05 am I have been reading a lot lately. On pace to finish my 20th book of the year today (I think I'm shooting for 52, but quality > quantity.)

Best ones lately:
John Darnielle - Wolf in White Van [read in one afternoon, super dark but very affecting]
Ian McEwan - Atonement [is "ooooof" a review?]
Stephen King - On Writing [obviously, he has some good advice]

So Colin did you like Atonement or not like it? Also did you see the movie before you read the book?

ColinIsCool wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2019 1:00 pm

juliets wrote: ↑Tue Feb 26, 2019 3:48 pm I'm about to start "Less" which won the Pulitzer last year for fiction but got mixed reviews from critics.

I just finished this! I liked it a lot, particularly as it went on. Some really wonderful passages and I laughed a good amount.

I was about to start it and then I didn't but I plan to read it this week. Thanks for letting me know!

I'm about to start "Less" which won the Pulitzer last year for fiction but got mixed reviews from critics.

Ok finished Women in the Window - great beach read, suspenseful and twisty all the way through.

Now I'm on to The Looming Tower, winner of the Pulitzer Prize a while back. Very interesting so far.

I am reading The Woman in the Window. Good so far, suspenseful. I want to know what's coming next.

Quin wrote:

thellama73 wrote:

Sloonei wrote:I started reading Ulysses, but felt like it had been too long since I last read The Odyssey, and then remembered I never finished The Iliad when I picked it up a few years ago. I've spent the weekend diving into Homer so that I can finally introduce myself to Joyce later.

I love the Iliad. I like the Odyssey. I didn't like Ulysses. I hope you do, though!

I initially had to read the Iliad over the school holidays as a school assignment. It was the most boring thing I'd ever read, so I put it off until about a week before school started again. I picked it up again and for some reason this time I absolutely fell in love with it. I'd read the rest of his work if I ever had the patience to go look for it it in a book store.

Quin you make me laugh!