I've begun to dig into the original 'Conan The Barbarian' stories written by Robert E. Howard. Full of battles and steel and swords and sorcery.
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What are you reading Chapter 4
- Thread starter slobake
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Damn that John Steinbeck.
He got me again...
As I realized the story was over, I gasped, and then teared up... just like I did the first time I read Of Mice And Men in 1968.
He got me again...
As I realized the story was over, I gasped, and then teared up... just like I did the first time I read Of Mice And Men in 1968.
Latest from Anthony Bourdain, except it's not.
It's a cheap cash-in, purporting to be a travel guide by him, in reality a hack job by someone who took one planning interview with Anthony, grabbed a couple of quotes from his shows, got his brother and some others to write a couple of paragraphs, stuck in some very basic tourist info on each country, and shamefully published this.
Apparently she worked for him for several years, but I can only imagine if she tried to publish this while he was still alive, he'd have sacked her on the spot, and kicked her ass from one end of Manhattan to the other.
Avoid.
Please.
It's a cheap cash-in, purporting to be a travel guide by him, in reality a hack job by someone who took one planning interview with Anthony, grabbed a couple of quotes from his shows, got his brother and some others to write a couple of paragraphs, stuck in some very basic tourist info on each country, and shamefully published this.
Apparently she worked for him for several years, but I can only imagine if she tried to publish this while he was still alive, he'd have sacked her on the spot, and kicked her ass from one end of Manhattan to the other.
Avoid.
Please.
Neil Peart - Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road
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I just finished Dead Wake by Erik Larson. It’s about the sinking of the Lusitania.
He writes about some interesting subjects.
Check out The Devil in the White City. This is the first of his work I read. ( Chicago Worlds fair with a serial killer)
He writes about some interesting subjects.
Check out The Devil in the White City. This is the first of his work I read. ( Chicago Worlds fair with a serial killer)
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What would you do if you could talk to your younger self in dreams? What if those conversations changed your current life? What would happen?
Whitewash II: The FBI-Secret Service Cover-up
Report On the President's Commission on the Assassination of John F. Kennedy
by Harold Weisberg ©1966
Report On the President's Commission on the Assassination of John F. Kennedy
by Harold Weisberg ©1966
You've got me intrigued...
I'll just mention here for those who want to take the plunge into "Infinite Jest":
"IJ" is a novel you get from IKEA. It comes unassembled. But in this case some crucial parts are missing, and there are no instructions or pictures on the outside of the box to tell you just what the heck it is you're putting together.
And, yes, I finished it.
B.
Jordan Peterson - 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
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You're a better man than I, then.
I've had a copy of that on my bookshelf since it released.
I've tried several times to read it, but I just can't.
To me, it's a mess.
It is indeed a mess. The '"author" just spewed...and apparently admitted privately that he really didn't know what the point of the book was. (Check the Wiki article.)
The book was obviously neither proofed nor line edited: numerous spelling errors in the omnicient narrator sections, sentences that lose their way after a pair of em dashes, interpolated, 40 page, "plot" critical footnotes that have obviously been crammed in after the fact, and on and on.
But literary critics love this stuff because they find it "meaningful" and can write papers and articles about it.
It's not how well you write; it's who you know and who you can snow.
B.
