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09-24-2020, 06:51 PM #551sick, spiteful, bad liver
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09-24-2020, 06:59 PM #552
I actually didn't know that until I spiraled down the Jim Thomson InterWebz rabbit hole after reading Savage Night.
I read Pop. 1280 years ago, though.
Cannot find Coup de Torchon streaming anywhere and it is not available via NF DVD, either.
Funny that so few of Thompson's works have been turned into films....though the ones that have, which I have seen, have been solid: After Dark, My Sweet and The Grifters, specifically.
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10-04-2020, 08:28 AM #553
^^started reading Piranesi yesterday evening and I'm over 100 pages in now. If I didn't have stuff to do I would have finished it by now. Really an incredible book - somewhat reminiscent of Mark Danielewski's House of Leaves. I'll share more thoughts when I finish.
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10-06-2020, 09:45 AM #554
just finished Piranesi. i thought it was incredible. the parallels to House of Leaves are striking - if you like Piranesi and enjoy horror, you should read HoL. HoL is like Piranesi but a million times scarier and weirder. it's also a blast to read. get it in print though, not on kindle. here is an example page from it:
it seems crazy - and it is - but part of the experience of reading the book is a descent into madness. by the time you get to sections like the one i posted above, it'll make sense.
one more plug for this book though, because i can't recommend it strongly enough. one of the most important books i've ever read:
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10-06-2020, 07:02 PM #555
Received notice last week from Green Apple Books (https://www.greenapplebooks.com/) that READY PLAYER TWO drops in November...
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10-06-2020, 08:09 PM #556
I started Piranesi last night. It won’t take too long. This is next. Just arrived today:
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10-15-2020, 07:57 PM #557
As somebody with a masters in forestry that grew up in the bay area, I thought Overstory was a slog all around
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10-16-2020, 07:17 AM #558Banned
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I recommend reading books by Daniel Keyes. They are very interesting, not trivial. A bit of fantasy, intense plot. Read in one breath. If you love adventure novels, then definitely Jules Verne and Alexandre Dumas.
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10-17-2020, 04:34 PM #559"When the child was a child it waited patiently for the first snow and it still does"- Van "The Man" Morrison
"I find I have already had my reward, in the doing of the thing" - Buzz Holmstrom
"THIS IS WHAT WE DO"-AML -ski on in eternal peace
"I have posted in here but haven't read it carefully with my trusty PoliAsshat antenna on."-DipshitDanno
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10-21-2020, 11:22 AM #560Banned
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In The Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
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10-21-2020, 01:13 PM #561
My hold on David Mitchell's latest novel Utopia Avenue just came through, although I haven't started the book yet. His writing has been somewhat hit or miss for me. I've loved some (Cloud Atlas, for example) and others have been a bit meh. Overall he's still one of my favorite current authors.
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10-21-2020, 06:03 PM #562
Educated, 2018.
A memoir or a Mormon girl named Tara Westover“How does it feel to be the greatest guitarist in the world? I don’t know, go ask Rory Gallagher”. — Jimi Hendrix
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10-21-2020, 10:26 PM #563
If you enjoyed that one check out “Pilgrim’s Wilderness” - somewhat similar story from Alaska.
“The bizarre and tragic true story that unfolds in the pages of this extraordinary book is like nothing else I have ever read. Through prodigious research, blending compassion with investigative skill, Tom Kizzia has woven a mythic tale out of that most mythic of American landscapes – Alaska.”
–David Roberts, author of Alone on the Ice and Mountain of My Fear
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11-18-2020, 09:35 AM #564
Read a couple good ones by Ann Patchett lately: State of Wonder and The Dutch House. She's a great writer.
The Dutch House I listened to as an audiobook. It's read by Tom Hanks and he does an excellent job, as you would expect.
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11-18-2020, 03:06 PM #565
I just read the first chapter of 2020, the comic series by Jamie Delano.
Man, it is creepy. It was first published in 1997 and details a deadly pandemic with no cure, rich people living lavish and the poor and middle class struggling under an oppressive government that values consumerism over humanism.
Interersted to see where chapters 2, 3, and 4 go (it was initially a 12-issue comic book series with each "chapter" being 3 issues long and illustrated by a different artist. It was eventually collected into TPB).
Delano is one of the 1980's "British Invasion" comic book writers (along with Garth Ennis, Neil Gaimon, Alan Moore, Peter Milligan, Warren Ellis, and others).
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11-23-2020, 03:38 PM #566
now about 1/2 way through english creek REALLY ejoying it. best news is there is a sequel!
"Can't you see..."
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11-23-2020, 03:52 PM #567
Yeah that's a good one. The sequel is actually a prequal and it's also excellent--about a very interesting time in Montana history that's often overlooked. The third book in the trilogy is set in modern day and I would probably say it was not my favorite, but certainly still worth reading if you've read the first two. Enjoy!
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11-23-2020, 04:12 PM #568
Moonshine thread reminded me.
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11-23-2020, 04:35 PM #569
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11-23-2020, 04:39 PM #570
Tender is the Flesh by Augustina Bazterrica... Not recommended if you are squeamish
what's so funny about peace, love, and understanding?
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11-23-2020, 07:09 PM #571
Mark Kurlansky has a good new one out "Salmon" that I just finished
like all of his other books a good blend of naturalist, history, geography
lots of excellent pictures in this one tooskid luxury
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12-06-2020, 06:37 PM #572
RIP William Kittredge. He died Friday at age 88. I had a bunch of writing workshops with him at the University of Montana and also a few conversations in the bars around town. Good guy who had a lot of influence on a lot of Western writers.
https://missoulian.com/news/local/au...257b5ca44.html
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01-05-2021, 10:04 AM #573
Time for a new book - any suggestions?
Bump, just finished The North Water, that’s a quick and fierce read. What’s next?
crab in my shoe mouth
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01-05-2021, 04:34 PM #574
“Metazoa” by Godfrey-Smith is pretty good so far. His last book, “Other Minds” was very good.
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01-05-2021, 09:50 PM #575
This one is arguably better, but pricey, and maybe hard to come by. I found a copy at the library.Last edited by fomofo; 01-05-2021 at 09:58 PM. Reason: updated info
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