Just finished "Robin" by Dave Itzkoff. It's a biography of Robin Williams which I really enjoyed and picked up "A Fever in The Heartland" by Timothy Egan which is a non-fiction book about the KKK but reads like a horror film! So far it's excellent.
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"A Gentleman in Moscow" is one of my all time favorites. When you're finished I recommend "The Lincoln Highway", also by Amor Towles.
Also recommend anything by Douglas Valentine on the early stages of our intelligence, surveillance and drug enforcement agencies.
I read a lot of fiction, most recently a bunch of Irish writers. Right now I’m enjoying Michelle Gallen’s Factory Girls set in N. Ireland in 1994 when the Troubles were still raging. Before that read an excellent short story collection called Homesickness by Colin Bennett. And one of my favorite reads in the past year was another Irish story collection by Claire Keegan called Walk the Blue Fields from about 10 years ago. Her most recent book from last year was excellent too, something called Small Things Like These, I think.
If you like that sort of crime/legal based stories, Lescroart has published a whole string of novels with the Protagonist named Dismas Hardy. It is recommended that you start with his earliest work, and follow the Protagonist's character development.
Lescroart, in his younger day, has also fronted a rock band as a persona called Johnny Capo.
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I read "The Road" and I thought it was so inaccessible and terrible. I really want to read more of McCarthy but I am scarred by that incident!
Blood Meridian is a great book. Possibly his best. And (without spoiling anything) in "the judge" features one of the most memorable characters in fiction IMO. The character's introduction is one of the most hilarious scenes I've ever read. It's a strange and disturbing book but so is much of his work.
And Essex, I’d recommend trying All the Pretty Horses, the first in a trilogy. Some darkness but not like The Road.
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I read "The Road" and I thought it was so inaccessible and terrible. I really want to read more of McCarthy but I am scarred by that incident!
The Road was a very easy novel for McCarthy to write, cashing in on his well deserved fame. His earlier books are phenomenal. The Road was a sell out.
Going to finish "The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen Wise, and the Holocaust".
After that - "Critical Race Theory: An Introduction"
RE: KKK - earlier this year, I read "The Invisible Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Florida"
Recently read a very interesting book chapter - "Long-Legged Yankee Lies: The Southern Textbook Crusade" (McPherson) in "The Memory of the Civil War in American culture".