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Just Finished "The Alienist" by Caleb Carr.

Great Book.

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wart57 wrote:Just Finished "The Alienist" by Caleb Carr.

Great Book.
I liked the sequel, Angel of Darkness, even better.

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redbirdjazzz wrote:
wart57 wrote:Just Finished "The Alienist" by Caleb Carr.

Great Book.
I liked the sequel, Angel of Darkness, even better.
That one is next on my list.

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Really good so far. I didn't know this story.

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One of the humbling realizations in adulthood, for me anyway, was finding out I can’t know everything about even one thing. I’m 100 pages into this book and I already have a list of a few dozen names I’m tracking. Every page references or probes a character or anchillary story that’s worthy of its own book probably. History is overwhelming

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This. It's very good.

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You owe me a dollar Radbird.

I went looking for this book on Kindle Unlimited but nothing by Philip Roth is available on there which is bad enough but then I was looking through other eligible books and I meant to click on 'Read for Free' but I accidentally clicked on the button below it. One click purchase. They aren't kidding. Thankfully the book was only 99 cents but there is no way to undo that [expletive] once you accidentally click it for an ebook.

If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't have even been on Amazon this morning. I really need to turn that setting off so I don't accidentally do that again.

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heyzeus wrote:This. It's very good.

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since your plug for "Lincoln in the Bardo" was squarely in my wheelhouse - I'm doing this.

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Freed Roger wrote:
heyzeus wrote:This. It's very good.

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since your plug for "Lincoln in the Bardo" was squarely in my wheelhouse - I'm doing this.
Glad you liked Lincoln in the Bardo. Have you gone back and read any of Saunders' short story collections yet? If not, get right on it. He's one of the best writers working today.

Visit From The Goon Squad is a little experimental too - nothing too difficult though, it's no Gravity's Rainbow. The narrative is engaging and easy enough to follow. Consider it like a Russian nesting doll of a novel. Each chapter is told from a different narrator, but it will fit snugly inside the ones that came before somehow. You just have to figure out how.

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