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What are you reading Chapter 4

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I haven’t watched an NBA game from start to finish since the early ‘70s...still, this guy’s ‘family First, working man’ persona caught my attention on some SportsCenter or another, like 20 years ago.

This book comes from 2012.

‘Lunch bucket, Blue plate’ he ain’t, but he knows what you’re supposed to be celebrating 30-40 years from now.

He was wise beyond his years. :thumbsup:
 
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The screenplay of Sunset Boulevard. It's published by the University of California Press, and unlike a lot of other screenplay-to-book offerings, this isn't a transcription to modern print: It's a photocopy of the 1949 typewritten pages by Billy Wilder and his co-writers, right down to the Paramount legal blurb and steno department's stamps at the front. It's great fun to read these pages exactly as they would have been seen when they were written & submitted. :thumbsup:
 
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Oddly said:
I've just finished Neil Young's autobiography 'Waging Heavy Peace' (2011)

Highly recommended.
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I thought that ‘Waging Heavy Peace’ was a Much better book than ‘Shakey’...

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I felt like the McDonough book swerved back n forth from star struck to tabloid kinda crap.
I just never got a sense of Flow from it...it was a long slog.

Oddly, you picked the right Neil Young book. :thumbsup:
 
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I've never read this series but have heard good things. So far it's been ok. It falls a bit into the "jumps around too much" vein as I've gone 1/4 through the 2nd book. Also, Tad seems to really like to flex his thesaurus muscles. Otherwise it's been a fine read. Not the "best of the genre" I've read in reviews so often though. IMO of course.

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Cheerful!
My grandmother spent a few days locked up there after the Easter Rising. She was a runner for DeValera in Boland's Mill. The family always said she only got involved because a chap she fancied was one of DeValera's aides.
She didn't get the fella, but got a nice little state pension and medal as an active volunteer.
 
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The Deerslayer - James Fenimore Cooper

Was mentined by The Harp Unstrung and sounded intriguing.

The first in the timeline of the 5 novels making up The Leatherstocking Tales, although interestingly, was the last of the novels written.

A hunter/woodsman and a trapper come to a lake in upper New York to meet the former's friend who has a two daughters living on the lake. Hunter is there to rondevous with his lifetime Native American friend. The two trappers stir up trouble with an Indian tribe camped on the shore and a skirmish ensues.

The main character Deerslayer was raised by the Delaware Tribe so understands the "gifts of the Red man" and differentiates with "the gifts of the White man". A book that treats and recognizes Native Americans as human beings with character instead of describing their ways as animalistic or cartoonish.

I enjoyed it. Mark Twain hated it. Long read. Lots of dialogue, lots of description, lots of action; but really wordy - especially the dialogue. But a lot of good ideas on moral values and decent principles expressed.
 
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Speaking of wordy, I'm not almost through with volume VII of Study of History. Toynbee isn't an easy read at all. I don't remember half what I read along the way. It's a little like reading the Bible cover to cover (which I did and had eyes that were glazed over in the process.) But, because it's there. There are four more volumes, including the 1962 reconsideration to get through. Volume VII is the longest volume, although I think VIII is pretty close to the same length. The rest are slimmer, only 500 or 600 pages.

This is an exercise in pretending to be a pointy headed intellectual or self punishment or something.
 
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