Don Quixote
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I do not have it. It looks like he was posting in the Israel-Iran thread around the time disappeared — so, maybe? I just checked the alt Discord, but I don’t see him on the member list there.
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The FBG Top 300 Books of All Time (fiction edition) | #2 The Stand by Stephen King | #1 The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien ... it's a wrap (3 Viewers)
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Don Quixote
Footballguy
Dr. O posted in the MAD thread that Kupcho indicated he was taking a social media break, including FBGs. So, sounding like no ban and just a planned break.
Don Quixote
Footballguy
Behind a paywall for me, but NYT apparently has an article about men not reading novels anymore. Need to send the authors this thread.
Chaz McNulty
Footballguy
Along the same vein, The Song of Achilles and Circe were good reads.
Don Quixote
Footballguy
Both are great and made my list. Had Circe at #8 and Song of Achilles at #48.
Psychopav
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rockaction
Footballguy
I archived it and read it (I'm sorry, NYT). I think the answer to the question "Why did men stop reading fiction?" is a complex one, one that the article rightly points out is a question of time and competition from other pursuits that seek to take up that time (video games, internet, gambling) in either activity or research. The author also briefly touches upon two things that I think are huge ones for those of us that read: the suspicion and problems with which someone like David Foster Wallace readers get associated with, and that most contemporary novels are written either by or for women.
I think those three things are a very big start. Like, away you go and there's no need for me to espouse any identity arguments or gripes any further. I was going to go further with an observation that I used to make about novels that women are going to dominate the form someday and that the very form lends itself to a sex-differentiated response, but I have no really good penetrating insights that one should prove that with other than, "I just have a feeling based on behavior, temperament, and what I believe to be sex differences," so I won't go any further. The article does a bunch of paragraphs that deal with socialization and how popular novels were once dominated by women in the mid-19th century, but there is nothing about innate sex differences (smart author!) to report.
Eephus
Footballguy
He'll return with forty or fifty book reports
kupcho1
Footballguy
I did not since I hadn't received any requests at that point. I've sent the link to those that have asked for it.
Back for Doc's album countdown.
kupcho1
Footballguy
I just finished The Winds of War this evening. I thought it was good, if a little "soap opera-ish" at times. I did like the inserts of the German General's viewpoint (through V. Henry's translation) as it added some, let's just say, interesting viewpoints.
I'll eventually read the second part, War and Remembrance at some point.
I'm on to the @guru_007 #1 pick, Siddhartha.
kupcho1
Footballguy
Nope, just a little social media holiday (and I include FFA in that). If you haven't done one, I highly recommend it. I needed a break after countless consecutive days doing this countdown.
kupcho1
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