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01/02/10: The Killer Inside Me by Jim ThompsonVintage 1991 edition, 244 pages
(according to both Goodreads and Amazon listings of this edition, the page count is 256...)
01/07/10: The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienBroadway 1998 edition, 246 pages
I guess I’m building up the short-ish ones before I get to An American Tragedy or The Magus or Savage Detectives or the rest of Gore Vidal’s Lincoln…
You must let me know what you think of this book. It has been on my TBR for awhile. It has always been near the top but other books seem to always come ahead of it.
I liked it a lot more than I thought I would. The meta elements don't come across as cheap or a cop-out, but rather an honest attempt on his part to contextualize and understand his perception of the war decades after the fact. In that sense, it's occasionally much more about the act of writing about the war than the war itself, but then he'll get into full fiction mode and it'll still be beautifully written and evocative without becoming hyperbolic (unlike me right now, ha).
If you like military history you might like Flyboys: A True Story of Courage by James Bradley. However, this is a non-fiction book. The writing is not cleverly put to bring you in. It is written to tell the tale and the words of the people.
Phrases like "A True Story of Courage" are usually warning signs for me, but I'll definitely look into it, thanks for the recommendation.01/14/10: Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Doubleday 1999 edition, 311 pages
Total so far: 1041 pages
Figure I'll do a count every five books or thousand pages or something...
Yes, that can put someone off. I felt like this book was well researched. I was greatful that it also carried words and stories from both sides of the war. It laid out the history and societies expectations. The book drew me in and left me awed about some pieces I didn't know about. (being that I'm a history major.) in the end Flyboys didn't take sides but gave you information to digest.
On the WW2 note, I'm really looking forward to checking out Studs Terkel's The Good War; seems pretty righteous...01/27/10: The Wanderer by Knut Hamsun
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1975 edition, 281 pages
01/27/10: Sadness by Donald Barthelme
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1973 edition, 183 pages
Yes, I heard of that one. Lots of good things. I just haven't had much time so I haven't tried to round it up.
The Magus, ahahahahahahahahaha (lemme know how it is)(ps im using your last tally update for when i list everybody's in a second, we can factor in more recent the next time)
Long, long dead period, but I guess I'm back for the time being, anyway...01/30/10: Great Days by Donald Barthelme
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1979 edition, 172 pages
04/06/10: Jerry Lewis by Chris Fujiwara
University of Illinois Press 2009 edition, 158 pages
04/08/10: A Night at the Movies Or, You Must Remember This by Robert CooverPrentice Hall & IBD 1987 edition, 187 pages
Total so far: 2022 pages
04/14/10: The Wide Net and Other Stories by Eudora WeltyHarcourt Brace 1971 edition, 214 pages (not listed)
Total so far: 2464 pages
04/15/10: Men and Cartoons: Stories by Jonathan LethemDoubleday 2004 edition, 160 pages (Goodreads says this edition's 176, but mine stops there...)
04/19/10: Lost in the Funhouse by John BarthAnchor 1988 edition, 224 pages (the last page in mine is 201, but I guess they count the multiple forewords and author notes, so I am too, dern it)
04/22/10: A Confederate General from Big Sur by Richard BrautiganDelacorte Press/S. Lawrence 1979 edition, 159 pages
04/23/10: The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G.K. ChesteronPenguin Books 2007 edition, 210 pages
Total so far: 3217 pages
04/30/10: The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966 by Richard BrautiganSimon & Schuster 1971 edition, 226 pages
05/27/10: The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western by Richard BrautiganSimon & Schuster 1974 edition, 216 pages
Total so far: 4100 pages
06/10/10: Jacques Tourneur: The Cinema of Nightfall by Chris FujiwaraJohns Hopkins University Press 2001 edition, 344 pages
Total so far: 4444 pages
10,000 Pages in 2010
Books mentioned in this topic
The Killer Inside Me (other topics)Hunger (other topics)
The Things They Carried (other topics)
Flyboys: A True Story of Courage (other topics)
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Jim Thompson (other topics)Knut Hamsun (other topics)
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