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Cataract City by Craig Davidson

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Davidson goes for "literary" and, in my opinion, gets it often (but not always). I understand he writes with two other pseudonyms: horror and one other genre. I'd be curious to read one of those. Cataract City is partly Stephen King's "The Body" and partly... Chuck Palahniuk? I read somewhere that the two writers are similar. I've only read Fight Club and I wasn't remembering it being much like Cataract City . As a local, it was very cool to recognize many of the places such as Memorial Arena (where I too watched professional wrestling as a boy). Favourite quotes: "That strong childhood magnetism that draws one boy to another -- sometime that magnetism abruptly switches polarities, flinging those same boys away from each other, setting them on new trajectories." "There are moments you realize that when you carry through a given plan of action, you're gonna come out a changed man. Won't be noticeable on the outside but

Reading "Books" Again

Could it be possible that I read better, more, and deeper when I have an old school real book in my hands? I used to read like a fiend when I was younger -- somewhere between forty and fifty books a year. In recent years, it's been between twenty and thirty. I found several things had been happening in recent years (even after retirement): I was only reading at night; I was reading mostly electronic versions (Kobo); my power of concentration was greatly diminished; and I was reading mostly fiction. Could be age, less brain power...? Nah... So in the last few months I've been reading good old-fashioned library books -- it's amazing what a two or three week deadline with the threat of a ten or twenty or  thirty cent fine will do to your reading quota :) Not only have I been reading more, what I've been reading is sticking better. And just to prove it... I thought it'd be fun to do a brief review of the last few books I've read, so here it goes: Lethal Wh