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White Noise
White Noise
Don DeLillo | 2011 | Fiction & Poetry
4.0 (1 Ratings)
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"If I had to choose my number 1 favorite book of all time, it would be this. (And as this is widely considered one of the great American novels, I’m clearly not the only person who’s been hugely affected by it.) White Noise uses the story of a college professor and his family in small Midwestern town to explore American paranoia, consumerism, and novelty academic intellectualism. I love this book for its ability to to be dark, beautiful, smart, and hysterically funny, all at the same time."

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A Clash of Lions (100 Years War, book 2)
A Clash of Lions (100 Years War, book 2)
AJ MacKenzie | 2021 | Fiction & Poetry
5
5.0 (1 Ratings)
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The second of AJ MacKenzie three 100 Years War novels following the exploits of the Herald Simon Merrivale, which - this time - moves the setting from France across to the Scottish border.

I'm also finding this a little bit hard to rate: whilst the *story* was interesting, as was the history, I found the prose itself to be a little bit too dry; never really grabbing me and sucking me in the way a, say, Bernard Cornwell might.

I'll still read the next in the series, though.