What book are you reading and why

Should be required reading for every High Schooler, and blind patriots.

I’m reading this:

It’s a very interesting reading about the history, the life and the techniques of James DeWitt Yancey.

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This is why it’s great to still have unread classic King books kicking around.

An absolute King banger so far.

This is an example in sore need of a new audiobook format I think about, with lots of music or sound examples through the book.

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And read by Madlib, Questlove, or The Rza.

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If anybody is interested Ubik is currently in the Kindle sale for about £1 (in the UK at least). Haven’t read it yet but I read Valis years ago and it was the most insane book I’ve ever read (in a good way!)

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heavily recommended / verso is an awesome publisher

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Then I recommend Tolstoy’s War and Peace.

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If that ever swing around to the Bolshevik Revolution and the early days of the Soviet Union, I recommend Stephen Smith’s Russia in Revolution. To this layman, it felt very thorough and even-handed to all the competing powers of the time

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Revisited the following book after many years:

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Thank you for the recommendation. That ones done and dusted.

I’m looking that one up now. Thank you.

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The Man in the High Castle
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Ubik Yes, read!
Martian Time-Slip
Dr. Bloodmoney
Now Wait for Last Year
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
A Scanner Darkly (the first one I thoroughly enjoyed)
A Maze of Death
VALIS
The Divine Invasion <- currently reading
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer <-up next

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