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What are you reading Chapter 4
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I recently completed Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton. It's going to be George Clooney's next film as both director and actor... set to be released on Netflix later this year. The movie will be titled The Midnight Sky.
The book is solid... end-of-the-world kinda stuff... but not what most would expect of this genre.
The book is solid... end-of-the-world kinda stuff... but not what most would expect of this genre.
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Reading “Moonshadow” - a comic book of sorts, but more of a medium form novel with pictures. Strange, almost mythical quality about it, and incredibly hard to describe. For those of you who enjoy odd, but very good stuff (and comic books), I highly recommend anything by J.M. DeMatteis. Not terribly active these days, but at least his old, original, stuff is excellent. Never tried his stuff dealing with other mainstream comics properties.
Tiger Woods (which is REALLY good)
Ben Hogan's - Five Lessons
Mickey Wright - Play Golf The Wright Way
Ben Hogan's - Five Lessons
Mickey Wright - Play Golf The Wright Way
Good Morning, quarentiners!
Re-reading Guy Debord's - The Society of the Spectacle.
"Debord traces the development of a modern society in which authentic social life has been replaced with its representation: "All that once was directly lived has become mere representation." Debord argues that the history of social life can be understood as "the decline of being into having, and having into merely appearing." This condition, according to Debord, is the "historical moment at which the commodity completes its colonization of social life."
The Society of the Spectacle - Wikipedia
Sounds about right.
"Debord traces the development of a modern society in which authentic social life has been replaced with its representation: "All that once was directly lived has become mere representation." Debord argues that the history of social life can be understood as "the decline of being into having, and having into merely appearing." This condition, according to Debord, is the "historical moment at which the commodity completes its colonization of social life."
The Society of the Spectacle - Wikipedia
Sounds about right.
To my credit I started these before the plague gave everyone such good incentive to stay in and read.
Started reading this as a soft entry into Russian literature with Dostoevsky, Gogol, and Tolstoy as my long-term aims. I was hoping my familiarity with Soviet history and culture would help me break into the particularities of parsing Russian literature.
And
This was my favorite professor's favorite work by Tolstoy and he gave me a copy so of course I had to go ahead and read it even though I hadn't finished Children of the Arbat yet.
Started reading this as a soft entry into Russian literature with Dostoevsky, Gogol, and Tolstoy as my long-term aims. I was hoping my familiarity with Soviet history and culture would help me break into the particularities of parsing Russian literature.
And
This was my favorite professor's favorite work by Tolstoy and he gave me a copy so of course I had to go ahead and read it even though I hadn't finished Children of the Arbat yet.
Started the 2nd Dirk Gently novel tonight, “The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul”. Recently finished some comics, both heavy and light. Seems like I’ll have plenty of time for reading and music in the future...
I'm not much on non-fiction, but thanks to Black History Month and corresponding events at my work place (last month, obviously), I got to hear the author, Hannibal Johnson, talk about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Everyone who attended got a free copy of his book, so I'm reading it now. Because of it, I discovered that I am distantly related to a white Tulsa taxi driver, Homer Nida, who was shot and killed by another white man, Roy Belton, who was later lynched and killed. That says a lot about how volatile the city of Tulsa was at that time.
I haven't read this bad boy since my freshman year of high school. This translation makes it much easier reading than I remember my first time through. Well, I suppose I would hope my reading ability has also increased since then . . .
I love referencing this, and people agreeing that it’s got great ideas. Clearly, they have no idea what I’m talking about!
Not a clue.....but still willing to throw in an uninformed opinion.....
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