And the MeFi 2014 book recommendations are out: http://ask.metafilter.com/273482/What-books-from-2014-blew-your-socks-off
Thaths On Thu Dec 04 2014 at 11:55:49 PM John Sundman <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Dec 4, 2014, at 6:59 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > > > > On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Thaths <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Where is everyone else on this thread this year? Sankarshan? Udhay? > Rashmi? > >> Lahar? Suresh? Divya? Sumant? Etc. > > > > This year I discovered Flann O'Brien & read all of his novels -- the best > & most famous of which is At Swim Two Birds. This is just sublime stuff. > > I've also waded into the waters of William T. Vollman, whose work is as > abundant as nitrogen & denser than a neutron star. I've been reading > Argall, a novel based on the Europeans in North America at Jamestown, and > the story of John Smith & Pocahantas, since sometime in late August. I like > it, but it's work. > > I read Tony Horwitz's Midnight Rising, a history of John Brown and the > raid at Harper's Ferry that sparked the U.S. Civil war. It is a complex and > profound story, very well told. > > I also read Tony Horwitz's mini-book "Boom", about his travel by pickup > truck along the route of the proposed KXL pipeline. It too is a complex and > profound story, well told. But much lighter, in many ways, than Midnight > Rising. > > That's it for now. Maybe some other titles later. > > jrs > > > >
