I’m currently going to hospital every day to receive IV therapy so i started rereading Scott Turow’s Presumed Innocent. It’s a longish read which is why i chose it as i have four hours a day tied to a chair and without some distraction i’d be bouncing off the walls. The good part is i am reminded what a scenic writer Turow is. His words provide a seamless connection between my eyes and the eye in my mind which makes it so enjoyable and time flies when i’m enjoying myself.
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What are you reading Chapter 4
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I can’t imagine a higher compliment one could pay an author!
It brought me back to The Leather-stocking Tales!
Man! You could smell the campfire in the air...SEE the fawn look up from her sip at the brook...hear the astounding quiet of the forest up near the Finger Lakes!!
What a read!!
One of my favourite novels of one of my favourite authors. His works are much better than John Grisham's ...in my opinion of course.
I met Grisham back when he had a couple novels under his belt and was still capable of producing an interesting mystery or thriller. He was a nice guy and engaging conversationalist. In the last several years however, anything new (to me) he’s published seems like it’s written by someone else and it lacks the ability to get the reader emotionally involved like his earlier works never failed to do.
But yeah, Turow has a gift for painting very complex pictures with words without losing his reader in excessive verbiage. and his plots are always corkers in spite of being set in the stodgy world of our justice system.
Re reading The Forever War by Joe Haldeman. Needed a break after 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus and 1492: The Year The World Began
A River Runs Through It - Norman Maclean
A memoir of two very different brothers -- one reserved, the other a hell raiser -- both angling for the attention of their preacher father, who uses fly fishing as a metqaphor to teach his Cain and Abel offspring about life in early 20th Century Montana.
Good read. Short, well written.
Just so happens the movie of this book, which I haven't seen, is going to be coming on uninterrupted in a couple of hours. I hardly ever watch movies, and when I do see a movie version of a book I've read, am usually very disappointed. Gone With the Wind, East of Eden, To Kill a Mockingbird, Farewell to Arms, etc are so incomplete. Great movies to be sure, but such fractions of great, great tales. Will be interested to see "River" as I have just put down the book.
A memoir of two very different brothers -- one reserved, the other a hell raiser -- both angling for the attention of their preacher father, who uses fly fishing as a metqaphor to teach his Cain and Abel offspring about life in early 20th Century Montana.
Good read. Short, well written.
Just so happens the movie of this book, which I haven't seen, is going to be coming on uninterrupted in a couple of hours. I hardly ever watch movies, and when I do see a movie version of a book I've read, am usually very disappointed. Gone With the Wind, East of Eden, To Kill a Mockingbird, Farewell to Arms, etc are so incomplete. Great movies to be sure, but such fractions of great, great tales. Will be interested to see "River" as I have just put down the book.
never read the book but the movie is top 50 all time for me.
My Birthday present!
My good friend, Justin & I share 6/17...with M.C. Escher, George Clinton, the Watergate bunglers, And Barry Manilow: the voice of a slender part of a slender part of a generation.
The guy was a righteous Monster for a good while.
Never heard people talking trash...
My good friend, Justin & I share 6/17...with M.C. Escher, George Clinton, the Watergate bunglers, And Barry Manilow: the voice of a slender part of a slender part of a generation.
The guy was a righteous Monster for a good while.
Never heard people talking trash...
"All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be."
"We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of a dove, a tough mind and a tender heart."
And somehow I've found some time to start reading Don Nix's "Road Stories and Recipes" chronicling his adventures growing up in Memphis, witnessing firsthand the birth and rise of Stax records, crazy road stories, riding out a hurricane and much more. On top of it all, he compiled a wide range of Southern cooking recipes for the reader's enjoyment. Very enjoyable so far.
Presumed Inocent - Scott Turow
Read on recommendation of fhm555 above. Very good tale and really well written! Started kind of slow, but by the middle moved right along and really held interest. Interesting plot, believable characters. Great ending!
My only criticism would be cliched sexual interludes, but what the hell - it fits with the style of the book. Have read worse.
Never read this kind of thing = true crime, dectective serial stuff, but really glad I read this! Very enjoyable read!
Read on recommendation of fhm555 above. Very good tale and really well written! Started kind of slow, but by the middle moved right along and really held interest. Interesting plot, believable characters. Great ending!
My only criticism would be cliched sexual interludes, but what the hell - it fits with the style of the book. Have read worse.
Never read this kind of thing = true crime, dectective serial stuff, but really glad I read this! Very enjoyable read!
Sand & Steel: The D-Day Invasion and the Liberation of France by Peter Caddick-Adams (2019)
This is the companion piece to Caddick-Adams' Snow & Steel (2014) account of the Battle of the Bulge. I've read just about everything there is out there about Operation Overlord, and IMHO, this one ranks very highly. One can almost smell the cordite, and I feel I'm rather fortunate that I never had to.
The tunnel system under Cu Chi Province was started in the 1950s while the French still occupied Vietnam, and continued to grow under the Americans to a network of roughly 250 km. ...Right under their feet. Few, if any, Americans knew the expanse of it at the time. This book was given to me by a friend of mine who was there with the 25th Infantry Division as a grunt on the ground in 1968.
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