No, but it's definitely forthcoming.
*What book are you reading? (part 2)
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krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
And Scorsese is set to adapt The Wager as well!
Love reading about the Bounty so this book should be perfect.
Wow!!!
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Was lucky to come across a copy of Killers of the Flower Moon a few months ago in a second hand book shop and reading it, could totally see why MS is directing.
Outstanding and jaw dropping piece of writing and grim recent history.
Will get hold of it. Thank you for the recommendation.
izz
Increased Leisure Citizen
Re-read Plainsong by Kent Haruf recently and now on the sequel Eventide. The writing is reminiscent of McCarthy or Proulx, especially as they're set in a town in Colorado but he manages to write about loss extremely well, so much so that I couldn't bear buying the third book in the trilogy but once I'm done crying over this one I might, this time.
BoatieBird
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BoatieBird
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Apart from Barkskins, once was more than enough.
izz
Increased Leisure Citizen
well quite
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
The 1960s?
newme
Giant in Pastyland now
Being born in the 80s may have facilitated this to sonme degree, my granddad was a bomber pilot so I persisted with it.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Indeed. I’m suggesting it’s of its time. Plus I think it helps being young when you read it. I was probably 12.
Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
For those who like crime fiction/contemporary noir, I'm currently reading Jeffrey Fleishman's three Sam Carver novels. Set in LA, they're incredibly well written, almost poetic in style.
Eta: Fleishman is also an LA Times journalist and Pulitzer finalist - i.e. a journalist of the non-muckraker variety.
Eta: Fleishman is also an LA Times journalist and Pulitzer finalist - i.e. a journalist of the non-muckraker variety.
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izz
Increased Leisure Citizen
I'm fond of good prose, you have me intrigued, thank you
Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
izz
Increased Leisure Citizen
Too kind, I was about to wiki
Nikkormat
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The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution by David Wootton. About 30 pages in and I am enjoying it very much.
jeff_leigh
What happened to Dubversion ?
Catch 22 at 12 years old is quite impressive I was still reading The Beano
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
It was read by a few classmates around that age, but looked a bit meaty. Was reading Doctor Who novels, James Herbert, Stephen King, 2000AD and, er, the Bible
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I'm reading 'Making It So', Captain Picards autobiography. Impossible not to hear his voice when reading the lines.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
A great book. I'd forgotten there was a sequel, downloaded it now.
jeff_leigh
What happened to Dubversion ?
Where did you download it from ?
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
I am on The Left Behind by James Morrison.
It's a very interesting read on how the term has been used since 2016, usually in an incredibly patronising or demonising way, even when those saying it think they're doing the opposite. It was clearly written as part of a Phd or some other funded research tho and thus very academic. Which is mostly fine, but Chapter 3 is clearly funded by a team looking at semiotics and Morrison is obliged to include and explicitly point out very possible every possible example of over-literization (saying the same thing with three synonyms for emphasis) and of intertextuality, which gets rather a drag as they're generally pretty dated obvious. He has literally genuinely just written '"...they think we're all people from Ken Loach films" - an intertextual reference to [can you guess it yet?] the films Ken Loach.'
It's a very interesting read on how the term has been used since 2016, usually in an incredibly patronising or demonising way, even when those saying it think they're doing the opposite. It was clearly written as part of a Phd or some other funded research tho and thus very academic. Which is mostly fine, but Chapter 3 is clearly funded by a team looking at semiotics and Morrison is obliged to include and explicitly point out very possible every possible example of over-literization (saying the same thing with three synonyms for emphasis) and of intertextuality, which gets rather a drag as they're generally pretty dated obvious. He has literally genuinely just written '"...they think we're all people from Ken Loach films" - an intertextual reference to [can you guess it yet?] the films Ken Loach.'
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
It can't happen here by Sinclair Lewis.
A reminder that it can happen here and is being actively planned in the US
A reminder that it can happen here and is being actively planned in the US
seventh bullet
sovietwave
Ana Pauker: The Rise and Fall of a Jewish Communist by Robert Levy. Stalinism, misogyny and anti-Semitism come together in this sympathetic political bio of one the leading figures in the establishment of Communist rule in Romania, who became a scapegoat for its earlier excesses, and was almost turned into a corpse by the very system she believed in, her life saved by the changed political climate after Big Mustache was found in a puddle of his own urine.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Nothing wrong with The Beano at some years past that
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