No Country for Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy. Loved the movies from years ago. Javier Bardem. Is there any better actor out there? Incredible. Anyway, have wanted to read the book for a while. So worth it. This is an incredible book in a neat style. Not a damn quotation mark anywhere, but I never had an issue figuring out who was speaking. If you've seen the movie or not, this book is worth it. Very short read. Said it was 300-something pages but the style he wrote in it flies by. Bottom line: don't steal a drug corp's money or drugs.
The Breast, by Philip Roth. What. The. Fuck did I just read. Seriously? This is a campus novel (according to Rose City Reader's list)? Weird. The main character is a professor, okay. But turning into a breast? Too crazy.
The Once and Future King, by T.H. White. Awesome book, till the last 10% or so. Ugh. OK, I get it. Communism bad. Enough with the geese. Otherwise this book was great. I loved The Sword in the Stone as a kid, and the first third of this book was all of that. The second third was basically Excalibur (one of my favorite movies in high school [love love love Helen Mirren]). 33 frigging hours. Took forever. Listened to the Anthony Burgess Foundation's podcast on this, lots of fun, except the professor they found was more concerned telling us about all the Arthurian books and novels out there where Merlin was gay or Morgana was or Arthur was non-binary. Really horrible. First podcast from the Foundation where I did not want to read any of the discussed books. #99Novels
System Collapse, by Martha Wells. Dammit all to hell. I love Murderbot. Loved the first six novels. Bought this one before it was even out based on loving the first six. Got 18 or so percent into this one and here comes that pronoun nonsense (this shit will not stand the test of time). No, vi and vir are not pronouns and no I don't want to read your stupid books anymore. /insert sad emoticon/
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