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On our vacation, I finished "Sapiens" and "Hunger Games".  The first was an OK read, well written, but a lot of it seemed prosaic, to me, a bit like the Germs and Steel book that made a splash a few years back.  I would not have this anywhere near a top whatever.  The latter was very well written, pretty compelling, I could see it top 100, but for me it wouldn't rank with those others in the list cited here, but it was very good.

I haven't seen that movie all the way through.

I'm using the Libby app almost exclusively, which means at times I'd like a book but get on a HOLD for weeks if it's well known.

Joseph Heller (1923)
...Catch-22 (1961), a satiric commentary on the absurdity of war and bureaucracy.

Catch-22 is the only school assigned reading that I gave up on. Didn't finish.

Got me thinking back to what my assigned readings were in high school:

9th grade: My Brother Sam Is Dead, Flowers For Algernon, Dairy of Anne Frank

10th grade: Romeo & Juliet, Treasure Island

11th grade: As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner), The Great Gatsby, A Farewell To Arms (Hemingway), To Kill A Mockingbird, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Catch-22

12th grade: The Glass Menagerie (Tennessee Williams), Death Of A Salesman, and also Jurassic Park/Lost World/Sphere/Congo as part of a 10-page research paper to study a single author's body of work. Had to convince my English Teacher that Michael Crichton was literary enough and that Jurassic Park wasn't just a "film book."

I really don't remember any assigned books in high school but,............. that was over 4 decades ago

Pardon me if this has already been discussed, but how do y'all feel about audio books?

I have about a 50 minute commute to and from work four days a week, which would give me ample time to get in a lot of books via audio that are on my list.  A while back we signed up for Spotify and I tried an audio book for the first time, but I found I couldn't pay attention as I can when I'm reading it.  Whether it's the difference in listening vs. reading, or I'm too preoccupied with traffic, some combination, or another thing entirely, I don't know.  I didn't do very well and after a couple of days trying it, I gave up. 

My wife says she has just a little bit of that, but overall not much problems, and her commute is a good time to get in "reading" that she hardly ever has time for at home.  Frankly, she is killing me in the reading department right now. 

How do y'all do with audio books, if you've tried it?  Do you get as much out of it, or have trouble retaining what you're hearing?  

I've never tried it. I know myself, and I have a very good ability to tune out when it comes to listening to things as opposed to reading them. 

So I feel like there would be a very high likelihood that I'd not retain any of it. 

I'm going back through some John Sanford novels, detective stuff mostly, I wish I could write like that.

I listen at times to say Mozart and wonder what sort of genius is required to create such things.  Also reading a book about da Vinci, which is kind of boring to me, but that was a dude, even if he liked other dudes.