What books are you reading?

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Nothing better on a rainy day than sitting down with John Waters

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Liarmouth, the first novel by John Waters, is a perfectly perverted “feel-bad romance,” and the reader will thrill to hop aboard this delirious road trip of riotous revenge.

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a hilariously sleazy story of a con artist in which the villains are good guys, the good guys are silly, and everybody gets down and dirty. The heroine, Marsha “Liarmouth” Sprinkle, knows she is “better than other people” (and “smarter, too”). She teams up with a guy named Daryl who lives for the deal they’ve struck: once a year, amid their airport baggage scams and false accident claims, he gets to sleep with her. But Liarmouth is out to swindle everyone; not only Daryl but her daughter, Poppy, leader of a band of misfit trampoline fanatics who literally bounce through life; and her mother, Adora, who performs cosmetic surgery on pets. Liarmouth also wants her ex-husband dead, while self-righteous
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I have read all the Vietnam books and Chickenhawk was the best but all these years later there are so many better books. Vets have decided to tell their stories or the kids have found dairies in the attack after dad died. So many great books recently. But an older book, hard to find but the best is "Flying Through Midnight". A young man sent to a Thai airbase and tasked with flying above the HCM Trail at night seeking truck convoys. The best book of the whole war for me.
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Shantaram.
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If u have read the book and enjoyed it, as i did, than this upcoming show will be worth watching'
A First Look image from Shantaram shows the 42-year-old Sons of Anarchy alum riding a motorcycle through India's largest city. The series will show Hunnam's Ford, an Australian prison escapee who's living a double life in Bombay — running a local health clinic by day while becoming increasingly entangled with the Bombay mafia.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/shant ... r-AA10GviE

if you haven't read it, do so before the tv series comes out
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The New Yorker's award-winning war correspondent returns to his own country to chronicle its accelerating civic breakdown, in an indelible eyewitness narrative of startling explanatory power
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“Indispensable . . . The great New Yorker battlefield reporter immerses himself with American militias you’ve only heard about, providing a firsthand account of those countrymen who are increasingly turning on their government. It reads like a first draft of the breakdown of American democracy.” —Chicago Tribune

“An account of great consequence by one of the best reporters in the world. It is no coincidence that Luke Mogelson happened to be in the crowd outside the Capitol on January 6, 2021. He had been tracking this movement for months. And it is no surprise to read how he joined the surge because in that moment and in countless others, all over the globe, Mogelson has been a model of courage, daring, and attentiveness. He is the indispensable witness of our times, and he brings deep insight to this essential document.” —Ted Conover
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just finished:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive, this "tale of survival and the miracle of goodness only adds to McCarthy's stature as a living master. It's gripping, frightening and, ultimately, beautiful"
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now going to watch the movie:
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phuketrichard wrote: Sun Oct 09, 2022 1:51 pm just finished:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive, this "tale of survival and the miracle of goodness only adds to McCarthy's stature as a living master. It's gripping, frightening and, ultimately, beautiful"
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now going to watch the movie:
A good book, ruined by a shit ending.
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^^ I remember it as a good read, but that was a while ago.
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phuketrichard wrote: Thu Aug 18, 2022 7:04 am Shantaram.
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One of the best reads ever...could not stop reading it and men..it has some pages.
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truffledog wrote: Mon Oct 10, 2022 12:25 am
phuketrichard wrote: Thu Aug 18, 2022 7:04 am Shantaram.
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One of the best reads ever...could not stop reading it and men..it has some pages.
@truffledog/PR : I will try to find that - looks interesting (and since it's also thick and a long read, should last a while).

At the mo, I'm reading a novel called Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry, which was passed on to me by a friend. The author is Canadian, but is originally from India,and the book describes three generations of Indians learning to live together in close proximity (with all the claustrophobic smelly stuff that this involves.) You feel for everyone - it's not easy when grandpa moves in with his bedpans - enough said.

So far, I like the book, amazingly upbeat for a difficult subject. Anyhoo, not finished yet. :pardon:
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I have" Across the fence" as ebook if anyone wants it

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