It's oddly not terribly dated either.

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Department Q series by Jussi Adler-Olsen

Parker series by Richard Stark

Quarry series by Max Allen Collins

Charlie Parker series by John Connolly

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Except for the original title.

...and the second title.

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Darko's right, though--it is still so readable whereas contemporaries of her are weird and hard to read (H. Rider Haggard, for instance)

Well yeah there's that.
The copy I got from the lie berry says "originally published as the little indians" and I thought, oh was it now?

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Reading Blood Meridian was about as uplifting as reading the poetry of Sylvia Plath. The book also makes you thirsty. Wow, was that bleak.

Chris, Blood Meridian was something else. It was very strange, stark, and ugly. The ending was so goddamn trippy, too.

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Yeah. I'd read it before (in college), but the whole book--and the ending--is making me feel a little sick.

Why does the ending make you feel sick? Just looking for your perspective. It's one of the great modern literary debates.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

The trial by Kafka. Depressing and bleak. Sort of like Chicago sports.

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2013 CSFMB ROY

Anything by him is like that

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

The Trial is hilarious, though

Just an awful end to an awful journey as the idiots in the bar do the Danse Macabre. The Kid had a chance to end this several times and didn't, and that strikes me as realistic, since people like the Judge seem to float through life somehow. Of course, the Judge might be a demon/El Diablo/etc., and I can also see how the Judge and The Kid might even be the same person.

Those are all intriguing interpretations, but I tend to think that the real humans--the ones with some semblance of morality, the capacity to change, even if it is a tiny capacity--including The Kid, Toadvine, and the ex-priest, all die (or seem to die), while the creatures driven by their appetites (the drunks) and the irreparably broken trying to survive (the hookers) are all dancing with the Judge at the end. It's like the Dirlewangers win--and celebrate. I'm not saying that that is what I think the book's ultimate message is, but that's the feeling it leaves me with.

I've been on a Western kick lately, and this sure as hell kills that.

Sorry if that made no sense!

"In the Penal Colony" is my favorite Kafka

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I just finished Infinite Jest so you don't have to.

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I read Gravity's Rainbow reflected in a mirror.

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tl:dr

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Was listening to the golf show on the radio Saturday morning and they had Armen Keteyian on to talk about the new Tiger Woods book he co-wrote.
Arrived on my doorstep yesterday. Should be a pretty interesting read. Got about 15 pages in before I fell asleep last night.

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I had missed it earlier. I had read elsewhere that the Judge was raping the kid, which is the only thing that could make the men turn away in disgust since they had seen just about all other types of violence.

It's an incredible book, but I think I really knew what was going on maybe 60 percent of the time.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

My kid wants me to read the I Am Number 4 series. Will I want to kill myself by the end?

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Blood Meridian might be the best book I've ever read.

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Kind of kills any Westerns I watch now, though.

But yeah, that was one hell of a book. All his other books are basically Blood Meridian-lite.

Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign

Just finished and would say it was a very good read. Much to my surprise, It had more depth on the primary and the damage inflicted by Bernie than it did on the General election v. Trump. Interesting in that is was a Democratic party fluff piece yet still put out plenty of shots / flaws of Hillary.

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Anyone read the new Stephen King book? Any review or recommendations?

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

Every review I have seen has been positive. I am trying to get done with this Tiger Woods book so I can move on to something else.
Hoping to finish it in the next few weeks.

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Here's a book you might have read when you were a kid: The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter. I just re-read it and I'm gonna have my thirteen year-old son read it next. I was surprised at how much I still enjoyed it as well as how the writer didn't fake a happy ending.

The novel is about a fifteen year-old who had been kidnapped by Indians when he was four. Over the years, he became an Indian and was accepted as one, but a treaty forced his Indian family to give him back to the whites, whom he had grown to hate. Things get messy fast.

I didn't realize this as a kid, but this was based on events that took place in the 1760s, just after the French and Indian War.

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History, by SC Gwynne.

Outstanding book about the Comanches and their last commander (who was half-white). The Comanches ruled a vast empire and the Americans, when they got around to fighting them after the Civil War, had no idea (at first) how to take them on. As seen in many books and movies (like Blood Meridian and The Outlaw Josey Wales), the Comanches were expert horsemen and unforgiving warriors. Their last leader, Quanah Parker, was actually half-white, the son of a captured pioneer woman. In any case, this book is one of the most readable books I've read in a long time; it's enjoyable, shocking, engrossing, and I couldn't put it down. It's both history and biography, and Quanah is a person worth reading about. Also provides a glimpse into the pioneer mindset and the US Army. Awesome book.

sounds inneresting. From Blood Meridian and other western related stuff the Comanches seem really frightening.

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