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Don't think I've ever preordered a book before but I'm tempted on this one:

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I'll keep you all posted.

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Currently reading a book that PhillyJim76 would love: Holly by Stephen King, focusing on the Holly Gibney character that has appeared in several of his recent books. The main timeline of this book is happening in July of 2021.

I'm 30% into the story and so far:

* characters all freaking out about COVID and talking about people who didn't get the jab. That summer, in real life, the vaccine had been out for a while, everything had gone back to business as usual. Nobody gave a fuck, in real life, if you were vaxxed or not, everyone had realized COVID wasn't really all that serious.

* main characters have TDS and are often crying about MAGA. I'm not sure I ever hear anyone in real life complain about politics on either side. Oh wait, crazy old man at Quik Trip the other day yelling Biden is the worst president ever! Forgot about him. But, I think most sane people realize politics is just pro wrestling-like entertainment, not to be taken seriously.

* A character going into a building and seeing that the lady she was looking for was "womaning the front desk." There's been a few other PC phrases I can't remember.

There seems to be a good story in this book, but just King going off the deep end is very distracting.

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Jan 8, 2024 14:30:48 GMT -5 Iron Mike Sharpe said:

Currently reading a book that PhillyJim76 would love: Holly by Stephen King, focusing on the Holly Gibney character that has appeared in several of his recent books. The main timeline of this book is happening in July of 2021.

I'm 30% into the story and so far:

* characters all freaking out about COVID and talking about people who didn't get the jab. That summer, in real life, the vaccine had been out for a while, everything had gone back to business as usual. Nobody gave a fuck, in real life, if you were vaxxed or not, everyone had realized COVID wasn't really all that serious.

* main characters have TDS and are often crying about MAGA. I'm not sure I ever hear anyone in real life complain about politics on either side. Oh wait, crazy old man at Quik Trip the other day yelling Biden is the worst president ever! Forgot about him. But, I think most sane people realize politics is just pro wrestling-like entertainment, not to be taken seriously.

* A character going into a building and seeing that the lady she was looking for was "womaning the front desk." There's been a few other PC phrases I can't remember.

There seems to be a good story in this book, but just King going off the deep end is very distracting.

Steve King is Robert DeNiro with a laptop.

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Theny Members Sandman Groomer Posts: 4,403	Books Jan 8, 2024 15:05:15 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Theny on Jan 8, 2024 15:05:15 GMT -5 I’d read a King book about Holly Sonders.

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Jan 8, 2024 14:30:48 GMT -5 Iron Mike Sharpe said:

Currently reading a book that PhillyJim76 would love: Holly by Stephen King, focusing on the Holly Gibney character that has appeared in several of his recent books. The main timeline of this book is happening in July of 2021.

I'm 30% into the story and so far:

* characters all freaking out about COVID and talking about people who didn't get the jab. That summer, in real life, the vaccine had been out for a while, everything had gone back to business as usual. Nobody gave a fuck, in real life, if you were vaxxed or not, everyone had realized COVID wasn't really all that serious.

* main characters have TDS and are often crying about MAGA. I'm not sure I ever hear anyone in real life complain about politics on either side. Oh wait, crazy old man at Quik Trip the other day yelling Biden is the worst president ever! Forgot about him. But, I think most sane people realize politics is just pro wrestling-like entertainment, not to be taken seriously.

* A character going into a building and seeing that the lady she was looking for was "womaning the front desk." There's been a few other PC phrases I can't remember.

There seems to be a good story in this book, but just King going off the deep end is very distracting.

I’m reading a book now that does similar stuff. It’s by a chick so I guess it shouldn’t shock me too much, but basically every male character is a sexist abusive scumbag member of “the patriarchy”. It’s exhausting. Which is unfortunate because the tory is pretty solid. Kinda your run of the mill murder mystery thriller I guess, but it’s quite the page Turner if you can get past that nonsense.

It’s called “Girl, Forgotten” by Karin Slaughter. More like girl forgotten how to spell Karen amirite.

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Oh, I also forgot that before the book started there was an incident of a cop killing an unarmed black motorist and not getting indicted by the grand jury. This incident had absolutely nothing to do with the story. But several characters mention it throughout. Even a cop and a former cop who think it was BS there was no indictment.

The story itself was a rather pedestrian detective story that was fairly easy to predict where it was heading.

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Jan 10, 2024 22:24:59 GMT -5 Iron Mike Sharpe said:

Oh, I also forgot that before the book started there was an incident of a cop killing an unarmed black motorist and not getting indicted by the grand jury. This incident had absolutely nothing to do with the story. But several characters mention it throughout. Even a cop and a former cop who think it was BS there was no indictment.

The story itself was a rather pedestrian detective story that was fairly easy to predict where it was heading.

Sounds like a pretty good read. You’re doing great. Steve.

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I hardly ever read anything nonfiction, but after listening to Kmele's discussion with him about it, I have decided to purchase Coleman Hughes' new book "The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America". I love basically everything I've ever heard this dude say, and am looking forward to reading his extensive thoughts on the subject.

Also, Coleman Hughes.

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Feb 14, 2024 11:44:39 GMT -5 TheWolf said:

I hardly ever read anything nonfiction, but after listening to Kmele's discussion with him about it, I have decided to purchase Coleman Hughes' new book "The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America". I love basically everything I've ever heard this dude say, and am looking forward to reading his extensive thoughts on the subject.

Also, Coleman Hughes.

Well, finish the railing in your house first before you start reading non fiction books all willy nilly.

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Feb 14, 2024 11:44:39 GMT -5 TheWolf said:

I hardly ever read anything nonfiction, but after listening to Kmele's discussion with him about it, I have decided to purchase Coleman Hughes' new book "The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America". I love basically everything I've ever heard this dude say, and am looking forward to reading his extensive thoughts on the subject.

Also, Coleman Hughes.

I would like to read that book as well

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Feb 14, 2024 12:51:50 GMT -5 UEM said:

Feb 14, 2024 11:44:39 GMT -5 TheWolf said:

I hardly ever read anything nonfiction, but after listening to Kmele's discussion with him about it, I have decided to purchase Coleman Hughes' new book "The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America". I love basically everything I've ever heard this dude say, and am looking forward to reading his extensive thoughts on the subject.

Also, Coleman Hughes.

I would like to read that book as well

Bill Maher interviewed him in the opening segment of his HBO show this past week.

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Feb 15, 2024 6:41:39 GMT -5 Prez said:

Feb 14, 2024 12:51:50 GMT -5 UEM said:

I would like to read that book as well

Bill Maher interviewed him in the opening segment of his HBO show this past week.

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The Coleman Hughes book was really good. I was already convinced of course so there’s some confirmation bias on my end, but he does a very good job of laying out concise arguments for why our obsession with race (especially in the Kendi/DeAngelo worldview) is counterproductive and we should aim for colorblind/race-neutral policies. There’s like 50 pages of appendices that I haven’t read yet, but I plowed through the rest of it in a couple days. He’s really smart and normal; more people should listen to his ideas. Sadly the people who should be listening will just keep calling him an Uncle Tom or whatever.

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Hell is a World Without You--Novel by Jason Kirk, who runs in the Spencer Hall group of football writers but was also a really strict Southern Baptist when he was young, so this is basically a fictionalized version of his high school years. Really good. Actually made the effort to make all the characters have some depth to them rather than 2 dimensional tropes.

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