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4. _Stoner_ by John Williams

Sun May 12, 2013, 07:45 PM

May 2013

Saw the post a couple of weeks ago here and it intrigued me as I'd never heard of it before and it sounded like I should have. A few chapters in and the quiet, reserved prose and observations remind me a bit of Sinclair Lewis: very matter of fact, but precisely paced and with emotions seen through a looking glass of some sort.

Listening: _The Wise Man's Fears_ by Patrick Rothfuss. Big, messy fantasy book--will finish it this evening. It would clearly have made more sense to split this into a couple of books, but Rothfuss kind of set himself up in the first book to a three book arc--one for each day of the telling--so he had to fit a couple, or three, very different adventures in one book. Still, I'm enjoying it.

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