7 reviews 3 YES · 1 DNF · 3 DEPENDS Who this is

• NONFICTION Roundtable Into Thin Air Jon Krakauer · 1997 The book works because it does not turn that responsibility into a clean lesson. The Mountain Was Not the Only Thing That Failed YES
• HISTORICAL FICTION Roundtable Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry · 1985 I can say that the opening did not make me want to spend several more hundred pages in the company of these men. I Had Enough of the Dust and the Talking DNF
• CRIME & THRILLER Roundtable Only to Sleep: A Philip Marlowe Novel Lawrence Osborne · 2018 I would recommend this to readers who want atmosphere, old-school detective talk, Mexican settings, and a Marlowe who is more vulnerable than capable. Marlowe Still Has One More Case in Him DEPENDS
• HORROR Roundtable Swan Song Robert R. McCammon · 1987 I still finished it because the people mattered, and because the question underneath all the explosions mattered more than the explosions themselves. The World Ends, Then the Work Starts YES
• HISTORICAL FICTION Roundtable The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco · 1980 I would recommend it to a reader who wants a mystery that keeps asking what counts as evidence and who has enough patience for long arguments about theology and power. A Murder Mystery With Too Many Circuits DEPENDS
• CLASSICS Roundtable The Razor's Edge W. Somerset Maugham · 1944 That is enough to make this old book still serviceable. A Fine Question, With Too Much Furniture Around It YES
• NONFICTION Roundtable Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert M. Pirsig · 1974 Read it if you want a book that treats repair, teaching, writing, fatherhood, and thought as related forms of responsibility. A Good Motorcycle, an Unreliable Map of the Mind DEPENDS

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