The City Trilogy (City on Fire, City of Dreams, City in Ruins) by Don Winslow

usually don't go for trilogies but I couldn't put these down. read through all three in less than a week. the first book covers an Irish mob and an Italian mob in Rhode Island that end up going to war in a storyline inspired by the Iliad. second book takes place in Hollywood and the third one in Las Vegas. they all follow the main character Danny Ryan. very readable with short chapters, many characters, and full of drama and suspense. at times I had to suspend my disbelief and these books weren't very thought provoking or anything, but damn were they fun reads. definitely recommended for anybody who enjoyed Heat 2 or is looking for an entertaining story about organized crime

8.5/10

was excited to see they'll be making a movie out of this but then I saw Austin Butler will play the main character, which is a horrible casting choice smh

just finished crime & punishment (first dostoyevsky👍) 4.5 ⭐︎

crying of lot 49 next 4 my first pynchon

on the non-fiction side i just read on photography by susan sontag & ghosts of my life by mark fisher .

switching between carl jung - man & his symbols & joan didion - slouching toward Bethlehem 👍

I love movies and I love Tarantino so this was a match made in heaven. Good stuff!

I love that cover, Peckinpah x McQueen :datass:

Nah but I really want to. When We Cease to Understand the World was truly unlike anything I've ever read before. I wonder if this one will blow up with a new crowd of people interested in Oppenheimer and mathematical theory

Ive read it since then. Book is great, but not as unique as WWCTUTW imo, there’s some beautifully written passages in this though. It does connect to the whole Oppenheimer thing although Labatut doesn’t delve in to much on the specifics of Von Neumanns work, more the ideas behind them and his personality. I might have actually found the story about AlphaGo at the end of the book the high point, which I did not really expect since I don’t know anything about the game, but that story was kind of a bittersweet story about humanity vs AI. I would def recommend reading this book since it’s not that long.

Finished 3 Body Problem yesterday
About to start Captains of the Sand and The Septology ( @KFA ) after that

making my way through this as the paperback just came out weeks ago, on like the 4th chapter. best bit so far is the story of how that football player who was trying to court his mom took him to some Blaxploitation films lol

ghosts of my life

lol yea fr i loved that part. the book is actually short on a lot of his own personal life which I do feel like are the best parts of the book but alas his insight on these films are great whether I agree with all his takes or not.

Been rereading Sun Eater books in anticipation of Disquiet Gods at the end of the month. I stand by everything I said in this post.

I should post more often so I can actually write something about what I've read cause it's too daunting to do it for multiple books at once. But I've read these recently, all good!

The Case of Comrade Tulayev - Victor Serge
A Country Doctor's Notebook - Mikhail Bulgakov
The Feast of the Goat - Mario Vargas Llosa
Darryl - Jackie Ess
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please - Raymond Carver

feel about the same way i felt about the movie which was yes, this is cool but doesn't really lean into the satire as much as I would have hoped.

3.5/5

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