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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Mar 25, 2021 3:46:34 GMT
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Post by jimmalone on Mar 26, 2021 19:38:56 GMT
Olga Tokarczuk - The books of Jacob
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Post by speeders on Mar 27, 2021 17:41:43 GMT
The Silent Patient.
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Post by Joaquim on Mar 30, 2021 5:54:46 GMT
Os Lusiadas
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Mar 30, 2021 17:20:27 GMT
just finished this a week ago. Let us know what you think about it.
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Post by cheesecake on Apr 6, 2021 20:20:06 GMT
And Then There Were None ~ Agatha Christie.
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Post by TerryMontana on Apr 6, 2021 21:00:32 GMT
And Then There Were None ~ Agatha Christie. I read it very recently, just a few months ago and loved it!!!
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Post by DeepArcher on Apr 8, 2021 18:51:20 GMT
Just finished this. Not much of a nonfiction person generally and this was very Wikipedia-y for my taste, but the amount of research poured into this thing is insane and Grann's writing is great, reminded me a lot of Erik Larson's. Very much a page-turner in the traditional sense. Definitely made me even more excited for the movie to see how the story would benefit from having, like, actual scenes and whatnot.
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 10, 2021 20:39:37 GMT
Arrived yesterday....
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Apr 14, 2021 1:30:07 GMT
I never finished The Great Influenza. Just started listening to it at a bad time and the loan expired. Will probably start it from scratch when I get back around to it. DeepArcher , I hear what you're saying about that Grann being Wikipedia-y but I made the mistake of getting the audiobook which is narrated by three different people (what the hell) which made the story and names even harder to follow. Took me way too long to get a grasp of the major players and by then I was already kind of checked out. I'm sure the Scorsese flick will clear everything up
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Post by ireallyamsomething on Apr 15, 2021 5:14:22 GMT
Just finished reading 'The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God' by Etgar Keret.
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 15, 2021 20:37:41 GMT
Arrived yesterday.... This is a really great book - like it can stand with the ones Keith Richards and Elvis Costello wrote and it is laugh out loud funny.......highly recommended - stephen who I know is a fan........... and this is exhaustive on his Fairport Convention days stories btw for fans of his folk era.......
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Post by TerryMontana on Apr 20, 2021 16:27:03 GMT
Just started Clive Barker's Imajica.
I love Barker and Weaveworld was amazing but I don't get good feedback for this one...
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Post by stephen on Apr 20, 2021 20:42:15 GMT
Just started Clive Barker's Imajica. I love Barker and Weaveworld was amazing but I don't get good feedback for this one... Imajica is awesome. I liked Weaveworld more but I think Imajica has more potential for an adaptation.
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Post by DeepArcher on May 6, 2021 16:17:11 GMT
For whatever reason I was under the impression that the road trip of the opening section would be the entire story, I was a bit disappointed when it was resolved so quickly. I feel like the book peaks early with that first section and then as it goes into disparate character-focused sections it gets a lot more inconsistent: some are powerful, others just merely interesting. Pretty entertaining book overall.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on May 6, 2021 18:18:09 GMT
this has been on my radar for a bit. And I've been enjoying Klein's podcast so much that it became a priority. Haven't given up on The Great Influenza but the loan ran out (again) so I'm back in the waiting list. It was just starting to get good too...
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on May 12, 2021 17:11:01 GMT
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Post by stephen on May 12, 2021 23:29:33 GMT
God, Steinbeck. I went through a phase of reading him in high school and man, talk about a voice. Funnily enough, even though there are incredible and iconic adaptations of his work from John Ford and Elia Kazan, I think the closest someone has gotten to capturing the true spirit of Steinbeck is PTA in the first few scenes of The Master. I'd love it if he took a crack at Cannery Row.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on May 13, 2021 14:35:13 GMT
God, Steinbeck. I went through a phase of reading him in high school and man, talk about a voice. Funnily enough, even though there are incredible and iconic adaptations of his work from John Ford and Elia Kazan, I think the closest someone has gotten to capturing the true spirit of Steinbeck is PTA in the first few scenes of The Master. I'd love it if he took a crack at Cannery Row. "Her head was small and round and it held small, round convictions" Definitely enjoying it so far. Love the small splashes of droll humor he intersperses into the telling, and then on the other hand his description of Charles' murderous rage is downright terrifying. Can't wait to see the Kazan adaptation!
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Post by DeepArcher on May 13, 2021 20:50:04 GMT
Ah yes, the original "we live in a society" text. Quite liked it of course. What an incredible closer this is :
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Post by pacinoyes on May 14, 2021 19:13:21 GMT
Amy Rigby - Girl To City: A MemoirLike her music, quite humorous and smart and extremely self aware........makes a good flip of the coin to Richard Thompson's book too.......and look at that cover - what a Punk Rock Girl
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Post by Mattsby on May 14, 2021 21:54:16 GMT
The Devil's Candy (1991) Julie Salamon. In-depth detailing of Bonfire of the Vanities production... a little uncalled for, not just when she calls De Palma fat and aloof a few times lol.... but the production seemed to me a lot less chaotic than most other big budget movies, and all the big players continued successful careers. This is like a dowel compared to The Big Goodbye's armoire masterpiece.
Key line comes later from one of the movie's editors - "Very little is known about what goes on because all of us lie." Every player from the studio to the crew seems to sugarcoat or hide from harsher truths.... At best the book does a good job portraying the movie biz as a dodgy, uncertain, sensitive place.
And they should've listened to Vilmos - while filming the dreadful decency speech climax, after take two he says, "Why is this in the movie? This is a speech - it's boring." At least the operatic slo-mo sword fight would've been exciting.
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Post by cheesecake on May 18, 2021 1:31:44 GMT
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones.
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Post by Mattsby on May 19, 2021 19:24:58 GMT
On Booze - F Scott Fitzgerald rewatch (oops, I wrote it so I'm keeping it). Pithy collection of alcohol-eared lists and writings. My fav section changes with every read - this time it's the 'My Lost City' part.
"The city was bloated, gutted, stupid with cake and circuses, and a new expression "Oh yeah?" summed up all the enthusiasm evoked by the announcement of the last super-skyscrapers. My barber retired on a half million bet in the market and I was conscious that the head waiters who bowed me, or failed to bow me, to my table were far, far wealthier than I."
Would make a good mixed-drink with last year's Bloody Nose Empty Pockets which was set at a bar called The Roaring 20s mind you.
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Post by cheesecake on May 20, 2021 20:31:04 GMT
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