Two of my favorite books
I feel like youād be into Nassim Nicholas Taleb; wrote Black Swan, Skin in the Game, et al.
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Unfortunately the Dark data book turned out to be really repetitive with no great insights. I donāt recommend it.
Penthouse lettersā¦ Still
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Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank
The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald
Black-And-White Thinking: The Burden of a Binary Brain in a Complex World by Kevin Dutton
Iām reading a bit more than usual this month. Itās great 
Let me know how this one is.
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Seeing this thread pop up reminds meā¦this book! OMG, WTF? Iāve set it down, because it felt like an absolute slog through the worst kind of (unnecessary) misery. His and mine! I may pick it back up after a palette cleanser to see if any redemption is possible for this protagonist (heās in Alaska where I am in the book, sleeping on furs in the shed of his poor young friend), butā¦maybe not.
Youāve practically killed me dead with your recommendation!
Finished listening to the new release by Preston & Childā¦ The Scorpionās Tail. Story was solid but the narrator absolutely ruined the end.
Ovid - Metamorphoses
Well I DID warn you it was heavy going emotionally!
If youāre up for heavy going but beautiful writing, have a go at The Fault In Our Stars by John Green. I made the mistake of reading that on my commute, which meant I ended up crying in public every day for a week!
I realize that may not sound like a recommendation, but it really is a beautiful bookā¦ (I loved it so much I bought a signed first edition - which is kind of embarrassing because itās actually classified as āyoung adultā fictionā¦)
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Agree to disagree with your recommendation. The writing is superb, but the story is maudlin.
I found it too āfirst world problemā ish for me
Note: I have a general aversion for anything romantic and spent most of high school studying WWII and Stalinist USSR
Anything by Orwell is appropriate in these times, when both the left and the right in America have a tenuous relationship to facts and the truth and distort both in order to wield power. Animal Farm is my favorite, and of course 1984.
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Is that the first book with those two ladies as the main characters? I only just finished Still Life with Crows. Can I read this w/o āmissingā anything? (I googled and already know Corrie Swanson is now an FBI agent)
I canāt do audible books with action fiction. The characters are always so much more awesome in my imaginationā¦LOL.
Plus, I got my only speeding ticket ever while listening to an audio book hah.
The first book was Old Bones, this one makes references to the first but you wouldnāt get too lost without reading the first one.
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I donāt mind heavy. What I mind is that the main character irritates me. Heās weak beyond what I can feel sympathy for. Aw, did your daughter maybe die and you donāt even know because you couldnāt manage to stick around and find out? Aw, did the wife you love move on and then years later die after you left her to fend for herself and her child during a disaster? Thatās really, really, sad. Also sad is that the girl you fell in love with was only a kid when you fell! That sucks so much! Also sad is that youāre letting that girl, now a college student, support you and nurse you back to health after you destroyed yourself through stupidity and passivity.
I just hate him. Heād be someone Iād have hundreds of posts of arguments with if he showed up at TNation, haha.
Iām familiar with this for some reason - either because itās already waiting in my kindle or because it keeps getting recommended to me by the various online players in my life. Iāll check it out!
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Recent finishes:
Hocus Pocus by Vonnegut
Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Skinny Legs and Allā¦ by Tom Robbins
Drunk Tank Pink by Adam Alter
Wild Ones by Jon Mooallem
The Terrible by Yrsa Daley-Ward
Toss up between Feral by George Monboit or House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski next.
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Add me to the list, please.
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Well now you put it like that, yeah heās hard to like!
I think the book needed to be 100 pages shorter, it rambles off into self-indulgence.
Reminds me of āWe need to talk about Kevinā - I really wanted to love that book but it needed to be MUCH shorter.
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@anna_5588 Oof! Kiddie cancer is āfirst world problemsā? Youāre setting a tough standard there! 
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