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Spoilers What Book Are You Reading?
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I am currently wrapping up "Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn. Pretty good book, looking forward to the movie later this year!
Reading several of the classic Philip Marlowe detective series by Raymond Chandler and thoroughly enjoying them
I'm so glad you liked it too. Now we have to wait for more books and the TV series.....
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Have been up to my eyebrows in onerous tasks so instead of curling into a fetal position I've been reading guilty pleasures: the original Nancy Drew mysteries (weirdly fascinating like a warped, neatly starched Time Machine) and the Wimpy Kid series which makes me laugh out loud. I got hooked after the iTunes 12 Days of Christmas freebie.
i liked the de luce series (although i didn't read all the books yet), i loved flavia, although i find her completely implausible for her supposed age
as a sort of stream-of-consciousness connection, the chemistry lab somehow reminded me of oliver sacks' "chemical memoir", Uncle tungsten, which i read some time ago.
very enjoyable book
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Devil's Advocate film series books > The Thing by Jez Conolly. Nowhere near as good as Anne Billison's BFI book on Carpenter's The Thing from 16 years ago and much shorter too.
Just zipped through recently published Captain America The First Avenger screenplay. Why some of the scenes and captions were omitted from the final product I could not say, but it certainly makes me appreciate this film more. Some choices were smart, others not. I sure hope Marvel publishes the screenplay for the subsequent Cap films. I want to compare how Markus and McFeely's writing styles and character understanding/growth changed.
Devil's Advocate film series books > The Thing by Jez Conolly. Nowhere near as good as Anne Billison's BFI book on Carpenter's The Thing from 16 years ago and much shorter too.
Just zipped through recently published Captain America The First Avenger screenplay. Why some of the scenes and captions were omitted from the final product I could not say, but it certainly makes me appreciate this film more. Some choices were smart, others not. I sure hope Marvel publishes the screenplay for the subsequent Cap films. I want to compare how Markus and McFeely's writing styles and character understanding/growth changed.
Nice, read a book by Sacks couple of years ago - very entertaining! Something like "The man who mistakenly took a hat for his wife"
Will check yours out too....
....when finished with my two 600+ books Ulysses and The Pandora Box - Story of WW I. Could take some time..
Started an interesting book called "The Sling and The Stone [On War In The 21st Century]" by Thomas X. Hammes.
Nice, read a book by Sacks couple of years ago - very entertaining! Something like "The man who mistakenly took a hat for his wife"
Will check yours out too....
....when finished with my two 600+ books Ulysses and The Pandora Box - Story of WW I. Could take some time..
Who is the author of The Pandora Box?
Jörn Leonhard - no idea if it got translated already, published by C.H.Beck this year in Febuary.
Sounds fascinating (I looked it up on Amazon as it is exactly the sort of book - especially this year with the centenary of the outbreak of the war - that I would find fascinating); alas, it does not seem to have been translated into English (at least, not yet; we can hope).
In any case, please let us know how you find it and what you think of it.
I will. Although it could take a while
I'm not exactly fast when it comes to complicated books and this isn't one to stomach after long hours of work / before going to bed either.
You shoud definitely keep an eye on it.
I will. Although it could take a while
I'm not exactly fast when it comes to complicated books and this isn't one to stomach after long hours of work / before going to bed either.
You shoud definitely keep an eye on it.
especially if you are going to tackle Ulysses first.....
especially if you are going to tackle Ulysses first.....
Just looked it up, about 2200 pages combined. I'll call you back end of next year then!
Thanks for the information.
Agreed. I've read a few books on WWI and would love to read this if it ever gets translated to English.
I'm currently working on these three. Finally have entire "Wheel of Time" collection on Kindle, starting at the beginning, as it's been years since I read book 7 in what became a 13 book dodecology++.
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especially if you are going to tackle Ulysses first.....
Yes, indeed. Agreed.
Actually, I am familiar with (and sympathetic to) the idea behind 'The Slow Food Movement'; however, - and I usually devour books - Ulysses most certainly falls into the 'Seriously Slowly Read' category .
