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Ugh, yeah, Kafka is heavy stuff. Seul's recommendation is good, the other that comes to (my) mind is "Vor dem Gesetz", engl. "Before the Law", if you just want to try a short story.
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Just started this:
Great stuff. They've just started showing a tv series based on these, so I thought I'd check 'em out.
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Have to say I prefer Elmore Leonard's early work for my western fix…
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Love Elmore Leonard also, but man cannot live on one type of cowboy mystery alone…
Actually, I've only read a bit of Leonard's 'proper' westerns, I've mostly read his more contemporary stuff. I've got the Raylan Givens books now as well. I guess they're more comparable to the Longmire stuff as they're both contemporary, despite the obvious differences.
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Well, from what I understand, he started out only writing western stories as they were well paid at the time. Then he switched to crime novels. And with the advent of Raylan Givens as a 'modern' cowboy, seems to have come fill circle.
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Finally got back to some E. Leonard at last. I find I appreciate my local library more and more since Iron Heart appeared in my life :).
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Do we have any David Foster Wallace fans around here? I'm about halfway through The Pale King after a good long reading session last night. This was his last, unfinished novel but you wouldn't know it from how 'complete' it feels. I've yet to read his masterpiece Infinite Jest but really enjoyed The Broom of the System.
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Sounds like good stuff. I've a back log at the moment, but the next time I'm without a book to read, I'll give him a go.
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Just started:
Loving it so far, I might have to hunt down the rest of his stuff. Then:
probably, (although not limited to) that order. I will have to buy 'The Long Earth' when that gets published…
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Looking forward to The Long Earth as well.
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Is the Dark Tower series worth giving a serious go?
Hmm, that depends on how much you like Stephen King and how much you like fantasy.
If you really like both and have a decent amount of time to read in each day then yes. It's not really a series you can stop and start though, it's pretty involved.
