Reading suggestions

[Torque’sHeadBump]

Anyone here read Blood Meridian?

Need some fiction to take my mind off of work and have never read so many westerns. What’s the opinion of Brothamen on this book?

 

[guest]

Recently read Lonesome Dove. Thought it was pretty good.

 

[guest]

Also if you need some sort of escapism and a world to lose yourself in, i’m re-reading Lord of the Rings and loving it.

 

[Punished Dan Mullen]

The Long Goodbye is great

 

[Torque’sHeadBump]

Also if you need some sort of escapism and a world to lose yourself in, i’m re-reading Lord of the Rings and loving it.

Im a huge faggot who’s never read the books or seen the movies

 

[FrogmanKurlan]

Blood Meridian reads pretty good. Just finished No Country for Old Men and it was really good as well.

 

[Carl Winslow]

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (1959) by Alfred Lansing is bad ass.

The past 50 or so pages are a rush.

 

[HH Brother]

A Guy's Guide to Equity Compensation.

 

[HeyItsVos]

Also if you need some sort of escapism and a world to lose yourself in, i’m re-reading Lord of the Rings and loving it.

I’m reading the Silmarillion for the first time currently and enjoying it.

 

[guest]

I’m reading the Silmarillion for the first time currently and enjoying it.

Never read the Silmarillion, probably will after this. Always wanted to dive deeper into the lore.

 

[Carl Winslow]

As far as Blood Meridian goes. It's a classic for sure. I have no issue calling it the pinnacle of books honestly. A number of people have done their doctoral thesis on the book, and I think one did their whole thesis on rather the Judge was Satan or not? Think I read that some where?

I need to re-read it, I have read it twice, but both times were when a lot of personnel shit was going on in my life, and the 2nd was on my last deployment in the military. Just the lighting hitting the tree part really stands out from the book. Many other parts as well.

 

[Torque’sHeadBump]

@Nigger Jim
Im very uncultured when it comes to reading, in that I read only a few authors over and over again (Faulkner, Hemingway, Melville, Conrad, etc).

I want something new and out of my wheelhouse. Would you recommend getting into CM?

 

[DeadWithoutMyDavid]

As stated Lonesome Dove was great. Blood Meridian is also great. It's largely just some guy traveling around Texas being a violent degenerate.

For other westerns I read Appaloosa which was turned into a movie like ten years ago, and it was pretty good. Interesting and easy to read but not particularly memorable.

 

[guest]

Is not a western but I liked it.

Life of PI (cuntfucker)

And yes I am a faggot

 

[Carl Winslow]

@Nigger Jim
Im very uncultured when it comes to reading, in that I read only a few authors over and over again (Faulkner, Hemingway, Melville, Conrad, etc).

I want something new and out of my wheelhouse. Would you recommend getting into CM?

I've only read Blood.

 

[Chapel]

Never read the Silmarillion, probably will after this. Always wanted to dive deeper into the lore.

Unfinished tales is also good. It goes into back stories like how Saruman had been searching for ring and found Isildur’s corpse.

 

[Dennyislife]

Get on the train and go straight to London.

 

[Princess Alena 2]

If you don’t mind the holohox misinformation and extreme kikery, Philip Kerr’s Bernie Günther series reads pretty good.

 

[guest]

I’m reading the Silmarillion for the first time currently and enjoying it.

You should check out the full First Age books when you get a chance. I'm currently re-reading Children of Hurin and listening to the audiobook at the same time, because it's read by Christopher Lee. Beren and Luthien and The Fall of Gondolin are good too, but not straightforward narratives. There's a lot of editorial notes in those, but Children of Hurin is an actual novel and much more depressing than anything else Tolkien ever wrote. If you like the Silmarillion, you'll almost certainly like that one.

 

[guest]

Oh and Blood Meridian is fucking great @Torque’sHeadBump

All the Pretty Horses, No Country For Old Men (even if you've seen the movie), and The Road are all worth reading.