Books

[Giles]

Thank you. Funnily enough, we had friends around for dinner. Richard loves books, so I told him about Finding Endurance, and how much it had affected me and how much I loved it. I used the example of the finite and infinite game, as one of fundamental things I had learned from the book.

He took my copy home with him.

[endo]

My personal Mumbai/India trilogy. Only if anyone is interested and wants to read about 2000 pages of exquisite literature.

[goosehd]

@endo I enjoyed Shantaram and found it a good recreational read. Well written and hard to discern reality from embellishments. I have thought about picking up the following book, but have heard mixed reviews.

[endo]

@goosehd I wouldn't call Shantaram the strongest of the three, but I just read it and enjoyed it. It took me back to the 90s when I read the other two and then spent some time in Mumbai on a trip from Istanbul to Goa, especially at 'Leopold's Cafe'.

[Karol]

Another read of this awesome diary. But finally first time in paper form.

[nurunuru]

Anyone else subjected themselves to this? It is, for the most part, competently written. The unpleasantness is so unrelenting that one becomes pretty much inured to it by the last third or so. I don't regret reading it, per se, but it is a miserable bloody thing that I am glad to be done with. I don't know why it exists and couldn't really recommend it.

Now I'm reading some Jeeves and Wooster. Way better

[Karol]

I finally got my hands on probably the only copy available is Sweden. I was searching online in vain for years. Libraries rule!

[endo]

[Aetas]

Erich Kästner-Going to the Dogs: The Story of a Moralist.

[steelworker]

Horrific.

[SKT]

@steelworker adding it to the list

[Giles]

Ordered, I might say with some trepidation.......

[steelworker]

@Giles

After that you may find his memoir of ww2 interesting .
Thats the writer on both jackets
Luck for us he wasn’t one of the slaughtered

[Giles]

Thank you

[Karol]

Digital copy only but maybe one day I will find a paper one in some library.

[Shaun]

Slightly unusual suggestion I suppose based on the calibre of the books usually posted here but, my partner and I have been reading the “Dungeon Crawler Carl” series this year and (aside from the fact that it keeps us spending time together despite her living 600 miles away) I think it may well be one of the most enjoyable works of literary fiction in existence.

If you’re ever looking for a bit of escapism that won’t talk down to you and doesn’t take itself too seriously then I cannot recommend this more enthusiastically

[mclaincausey]

I wanted to get into that one but LitRPG is not for me. Much respect for the writer and all his success. My recent obsession is Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time series. On the latest, 4th, installment and love them and the narrator’s lovely English accent and character impersonations on Audible. Great sci fi for the nerds.

[sabergirl]

@Shaun Princess Donut is one of the best book characters of all time! I whipped through the whole series in a few months. Love it ️

[Shaun]

@sabergirl I couldn't agree more! Please no spoilers as we're only on book 7 at the moment