Books
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I'm reading this at the moment….
Second-Hand Time by Svetlana Alexievich - It's first-hand accounts of the fall of the USSR
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/books/review/secondhand-time-by-svetlana-alexievich.html?_r=0
It is seriously heavy and unpleasant reading. I spent a few years working in Russia in the early 90's, so I am forcing myself to understand a little bit more...
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@trail:
1Q84 - Murakami (first half awesome, 2nd sucked)
exactly!
Goddamn it. I'm just about at the halfway point of this book.
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Currently reading 'Black Banners' by Ali Soufan. Very good read if you are interested in middle eastern terrorism and the inner workings of Al Qaeda. Soufan was the lead interrogator for the FBI during the years leading up to and after 9/11. There is an incredible amount of dialogue between him and high ranking Al-Qadea members in the book. Unfortunately or fortunately, depending on how you look at it, the CIA scrubbed the book prior to it going to print so many of the pages later in the book discussing more recent events are redacted.
Just read the following which are also very good reads on the conflict in the middle east and terrorist cells:
The Looming Tower
The Terror Years
Black Flags
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Bringing this thread back from the dead…Currently reading this book. It's a fun, easy read. Autobiographical so obviously a true story and more interesting for me probably because the bulk of it took place in my home town (Phoenix). The story of a Federal Agent who went undercover with the Hells Angels for 21 months in Arizona. Not only interesting because of the events he experienced while in that inner circle, but also because of how he loses himself and becomes who he is "pretending" to be and how that affected him and his family. Good read.
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Just finished The Chronicles Of The Unhewn Throne trilogy. Really enjoyed it, though the last book seemed a bit bloated. I'm glad to see that the author, Brian Staveley, has signed a contract for four more standalone books. I'm looking forward to the first of those, Skullsworn, which is scheduled to come out next month.
Lots of fun stuff to read while I'm waiting for Patrick Rothfuss to finally finish that last book in the Kingkiller Chronicles…
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Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam Grant
The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli -
Think I'm going to start the first round of my semi-annual date with Blood Meridian. It's been too long since the Judge and I conversed. I'm obsessed with this book. Anyone else share my addiction?
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Think I'm going to start the first round of my semi-annual date with Blood Meridian. It's been too long since the Judge and I conversed. I'm obsessed with this book. Anyone else share my addiction?
Blood Meridian is great. Still waiting for a proper film adaptation
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Think I'm going to start the first round of my semi-annual date with Blood Meridian. It's been too long since the Judge and I conversed. I'm obsessed with this book. Anyone else share my addiction?
Blood Meridian is great. Still waiting for a proper film adaptation
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While I would like to see this, I submit that casting the Judge is utterly impossible. That's not to mention that you'd need a savant directing as well.
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Think I'm going to start the first round of my semi-annual date with Blood Meridian. It's been too long since the Judge and I conversed. I'm obsessed with this book. Anyone else share my addiction?
Blood Meridian is great. Still waiting for a proper film adaptation
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While I would like to see this, I submit that casting the Judge is utterly impossible. That's not to mention that you'd need a savant directing as well.
I could see David Morse playing the judge. I think there are a few capable directors out there – the guy who directed The Revenant comes to mind. The question is, how faithful to the source material would they have to be?
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Think I'm going to start the first round of my semi-annual date with Blood Meridian. It's been too long since the Judge and I conversed. I'm obsessed with this book. Anyone else share my addiction?
Also agree. Blood Meridian is one of my all time favorites. Basically everything Cormac writes is gold.
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Think I'm going to start the first round of my semi-annual date with Blood Meridian. It's been too long since the Judge and I conversed. I'm obsessed with this book. Anyone else share my addiction?
Blood Meridian is great. Still waiting for a proper film adaptation
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While I would like to see this, I submit that casting the Judge is utterly impossible. That's not to mention that you'd need a savant directing as well.
I could see David Morse playing the judge. I think there are a few capable directors out there – the guy who directed The Revenant comes to mind. The question is, how faithful to the source material would they have to be?
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For me it's less about faithfulness to events than to capturing the feeling of it. For instance how do you communicate the below:
"In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of grass could put forth claim to precedence. The very clarity of these articles belied their familiarity, for the eye predicates the whole on some feature or part and here was nothing more luminous than another and nothing more enshadowed and in the optical democracy of such landscapes all preference is made whimsical and a man and a rock become endowed with unguessed kinship."
The convenience store scene in no country does a phenomenal job of capturing McCarthy. The shot of the slowly uncrumpling wrapper is perfection. However in Blood Meridian you have the added complication that events may not actually be as they seem, and this is difficult to do in a non-farcical way. Also I've read the damn thing going on 7 times now and I still don't fully feel like I have the complete picture, so how could some crucial, and yet mostly hidden, aspect of it not get lost in translation?
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Awesome description @tvenuto
Looks like we found said, 'savant director'!Your write up whet my literary curiosity way more than Wikipedia's, lol. Checking into used copies now…
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Awesome description @tvenuto
Checking into used copies now.!!!! -
Just read Hillbilly Elegy in a day and a half this past weekend. Very interesting and easy read. Without going into the political details I can see some folks getting quite upset with some of the content. Highly recommend reading…... Especially for the American folk on here.
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Just finished American Gods on a friends recommendation. Didn't love it, but wasn't bad. Just didn't really feel significant in any way. The characters may have learned something along the way, but I don't feel like I did.
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Equoid by Charles Stross. A novella you can read for free on Tor.com, set in the Laundry universe (which I really need to work through) about unicorns and Lovecraftian stuff.
I'm about halfway through. Apparently it gets really twisted in a not-at-all-suitable for children manner.
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Just read "The Minority Report" and "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" for the first time. Thoroughly enjoyed both, plus I now understand the meaning behind No Kipple!
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You must explain it to me some day
