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What are you reading Chapter 4

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My son gave me this absolute masterpiece for Father's Day.
Stunning artwork, and a minimalist but quite affecting story.
It's from the guy who inspired the excellent Tales From The Loop TV series, Simon Stalenhag, and while it may not be to everyone's taste, I'm giving it a solid thumbs-up.

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Jeff Scott said:
I bought this book along with a whole bunch of other reference material on the Arts & Crafts, from a friend of mine who is and A&C dealer (I've bought several Stickley pieces from him, too over the years). Just started on reading it, yesterday.

Charles made the most unique furniture of anyone during the turn of the 19th century, akin to the wacky pottery of George Ohr.

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This is a really cool book with really different and wonderful furniture.
 
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the harp unstrung said:
A question...

Being a non-fiction kinda guy, I thought I was pretty sure about which novel was the ‘best’ novel I’ve read.

Doing some ‘deep cleaning and loading up bags to take to Goodwill’ this past week, I came across a novel I hadn’t thought of in years...maybe decades!

Now it seems I have an ‘A & 1A’
situation. :)

Do you have a novel that you think is the best you’ve read?
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Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres
 
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Just started a math book that is actually fun to read. " Gamma - Exploring Euler's Constant". Its a mixture of story and formulas and it's fairly straight forward. I use math but I don't have a degree in it. If you had a couple of semesters of calculus, its doable.

If you dont have calculus, but understand geometry, I highly recommend "Journey to Genius" which is an easy to understand text with a lot of history on math spanning from the Ancient Greeks to Cantor and the number line. I have bought copies for gifted 9th graders with some success.

I have bought math books in the past that were very difficult reads, including Steven Hawking's book on the famous proofs which is gathering dust somewhere.
 
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A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis- Sigmund Freud. These are a series of lectures he gave to medical students which outlined his general theories in a conversational way. Freud is not light reading but this one is easier than most of his stuff, very interesting though. I will usually follow a book like this with light reading, I also have a few on deck such as:
White Line Fever-Lemmy,
Good Lovin': My Life as a Rascal, by Gene Cornish
Ladies and Gentlemen, Lenny Bruce!! (which I also read years ago),
Frank, (Frank Sinatra).
I also have the John Bolton book coming tomorrow:
The Room Where It Happened,
I will sometimes have more than one book going especially when I read a heavy book such as a Freud.

I have had a Kindle for years now, the books are usually about half price from the hardcover versions and are in my Kindle the second I order them, no having to wait around while they're being mailed. I will still occasionally buy hardcover books though if they're not available for Kindle.
 
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Mrs Freddy said:
If I were to crack and try Salinger again, where should I start?
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Nine Stories is a great place to start. It's a brilliant short story collection. And, of course, you can never go wrong Catcher which is almost a novella that you can read in an afternoon at the beach. Honestly, his works are all so good.
 
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Frampton said:
Nine Stories is a great place to start. It's a brilliant short story collection. And, of course, you can never go wrong Catcher which is almost a novella that you can read in an afternoon at the beach. Honestly, his works are all so good.
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Thank you. That's what I'll order from the library first. (Junior high many, many years ago stopped me reading Faulkner, Salinger and Shakespeare. It was a bad year for me.)
 
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