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    "Just one more thing..." Northern Star's Avatar
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    I sometimes read books that mostly go over my head, but I still enjoy them. The Name of the Rose was one of them. I love Shakespeare too, even though I understand maybe half of a play, if that.
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    RIP Dan Jenkins, one of the only great writers of sports books both fictional and non-fictional.
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    Reading "Freedom" by Jonathan Franzen.
    I was just thinking about how terrible this book was on my way to work today.
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    I'm trying to get through Don DeLillo's White Noise and it's just not as good as I remember it being.

    Making a stack of books to donate to the library before I move and I think this one is going there.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mvp 78 View Post
    I'm trying to get through Don DeLillo's White Noise and it's just not as good as I remember it being.
    I read that a couple of years ago. I liked it. It's weird, of course.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bellhorn04 View Post
    I read that a couple of years ago. I liked it. It's weird, of course.
    I remember reading White Noise and really enjoying which caused me to buy Mao II right after. Mao II is very forgettable. For whatever reason, I'm just not enjoying this read through of White Noise.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mvp 78 View Post
    I remember reading White Noise and really enjoying which caused me to buy Mao II right after. Mao II is very forgettable. For whatever reason, I'm just not enjoying this read through of White Noise.
    I read Mao II as well, and Cosmopolis.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mvp 78 View Post
    I'm trying to get through Don DeLillo's White Noise and it's just not as good as I remember it being.

    Making a stack of books to donate to the library before I move and I think this one is going there.
    I read Great Jones Street, which was underwhelming, and got maybe 60 pages into Libra and couldn't finish it.
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    I think I might have to concede defeat with Gravity's Rainbow and I haven't even started it yet. Just read the first two pages a while back and put it back on the shelf.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mvp 78 View Post
    I'm trying to get through Don DeLillo's White Noise and it's just not as good as I remember it being.

    Making a stack of books to donate to the library before I move and I think this one is going there.
    Good idea, make other people miserable as well.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Northern Star View Post
    I think I might have to concede defeat with Gravity's Rainbow and I haven't even started it yet. Just read the first two pages a while back and put it back on the shelf.
    Ha ha...I like Pynchon's last 2 books, Inherent Vice and Bleeding Edge.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Northern Star View Post
    I think I might have to concede defeat with Gravity's Rainbow and I haven't even started it yet. Just read the first two pages a while back and put it back on the shelf.
    Hated it.
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    Reading Don Quixote for the first time.

    Blows me away that it was written over 400 years ago.
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    Quote Originally Posted by moonslav59 View Post
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    Andrew Jackson should not be on the $20 and Columbus Day should not be a holiday. Couple misconceptions that I'm sure are in that book
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