This reminds me that close friends have given me *wonderful* reading recommendations, which I would have done well to heed, even at the expense of (what I usually think of as) my all-things-considered reading list. Relatedly: hey, what books should I read?https://twitter.com/AgnesCallard/status/1210368555302162435 …
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I’ve read these 3 times — they get better each time. Told in Tolstoyan style, it’s a sweeping portrait of all levels of a society consumed with its intrigues, affairs, rivalries, but which is headed for ruin. Plus, a lead character is a compulsive gambler.https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/the-transylvanian-trilogy-by-miklos-banffy/2013/12/10/c9aa2d1c-5d2d-11e3-bc56-c6ca94801fac_story.html …
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Right! Hersey’s tale gets more relevant by the day. You could read that one in a weekend; Banffy would take all winter. Both totally worthwhile... But hey, got any recommendations for all of us?
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I've read a bunch of good stuff lately but nothing that makes me want to run through the streets screaming about how good it is. Right now I'm in the middle of Halberstam's _Summer of '49_ and Ben Horowitz's new book (_What You Do is Who You Are_), both excellent so far.
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