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First Dickens' book that I've ever disliked:

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Currently reading an absolutely wonderful book, it's non-fiction but reads like a novel. I think it should be required reading for just about everyone in America - it tells the story of the "black migration" from the South to the North during the 20's - 60's.

THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS - by Isabel Wilkerson

very thoroughly researched, it focuses on three individuals and their families from different eras - - their lives in the south under Jim Crow laws, how they made the decision to move up north and their lives adjusting to the north. It's a long book but very engaging and eye-opening.

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/books/review/Oshinsky-t.html

“The Warmth of Other Suns” is Wilkerson’s first book. (Its title is borrowed from the celebrated black writer Richard Wright, who fled Jim Crow Mississippi in the 1920s to feel the warmth of those other suns.) Based on more than a thousand interviews, written in broad imaginative strokes, this book, at 622 pages, is something of an anomaly in today’s shrinking world of nonfiction publishing: a narrative epic rigorous enough to impress all but the crankiest of scholars, yet so immensely readable as to land the author a future place on Oprah’s couch.
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Interesting read on one of the greatest albums ever. Great way to pass the time on a plane.
 
Finished 12th book of Wheel of Time and I have to say the latter part of the book was amazing and I am very excited for the next book. Whoever having second thoughts about quitting should definitely bear.

Currently reading The Fall (La Chute) by Albert Camus I thought it would be boring first few pages, it's a monologue, but it sucked me in. It is also going great.
 
I'm trying out this reading story books to waste time thing and have no clue how to go about finding a good book. Suggestions please.

I'm into vampires-witches-werewolves type fantasy and read The Hollows Series

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and the two available books in The All Souls Trilogy

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The first was good and long and the second series is bad ***. It's written by a historian who winds some pretty accurate science and historical information into the mix that sprinkles a nice touch onto an great story line. Can't wait for the final chapter (probably 3 years away still).
 
I started this series on google books - first 5 chapters available. Has anyone read it? Seems to show up on a lot of recommended reading lists. I don't know about the boy on boy rape though, hope that stops soon.

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King is my favorite author, and Shawshank is my favorite movie. So it's a mystery why I've waited until now to read Different Seasons. Read "Shawshank" in a couple days, and really enjoyed it, but I'm going to side with those who feel the movie was better. It's quite rare for a movie to eclipse a book, but it makes sense in this case as it was just a short story (about 100 pages), so the movie could take everything from the book, and then add on to it to make it better.
 
BTW, for those looking for good reads, may I suggest this blog that I came across? The guy does a great job of reviewing books without giving anything away. I've picked a handful of books to read from his blog and must say that if I were Elaine from Seinfeld, he'd be my Vincent.

https://manly-but-bookish.blogspot.com/
 
Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

It gave me a new appreciation for how much mathematics has changed in the past 100 years.

Before that, Christian Science by Mark Twain
 
From Gyp.

Gone Girl, and Dark Places, both by Gillian Flynn. I can't recommend these
enough. Both are being made into movies and for good reason. I'll admittedly
say I have trouble getting into a female author but this woman brings it and
brings it in spades. There's a reason her latest novel is being helmed by David
Fincher and stars Ben Affleck. She kicks major ***. I have not read her first
book, Sharp Objects, but based on what I know, recommend it.
 
franklin said:
I started this series on google books - first 5 chapters available. Has anyone read it? Seems to show up on a lot of recommended reading lists. I don't know about the boy on boy rape though, hope that stops soon.

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a 5-chapter long boy on boy rape scene? Yikes!
 
Anyone read Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand?
 
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