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Post by OldSamVimes on Sept 2, 2019 21:28:31 GMT
"A Confederacy of Dunces" -- John Kennedy Toole Hilarious so far. Love that novel. Just finished it. Very enjoyable. Not sure if the guy could have wrote it today (not politically correct). Next up is either: The Pickwick Papers : Dickens or The Magus: John Fowles
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2019 22:07:31 GMT
Just finished it. Very enjoyable. Not sure if the guy could have wrote it today (not politically correct). Next up is either: The Pickwick Papers : Dickens or The Magus: John Fowles Such a talented writer, though. Especially the way he created such colorful characters and dialogue.
Sad he never lived to see his successes.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Sept 3, 2019 2:15:19 GMT
Tonight I'll be starting on a horror paperback called Hands Of Lucifer by John Tigges.
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Post by OldSamVimes on Sept 3, 2019 5:00:17 GMT
Just finished it. Very enjoyable. Not sure if the guy could have wrote it today (not politically correct). Next up is either: The Pickwick Papers : Dickens or The Magus: John Fowles Such a talented writer, though. Especially the way he created such colorful characters and dialogue.
Sad he never lived to see his successes.
Reminded me of Tom Wolfe a bit. Perhaps I'll read his other book sometime.
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Post by Prime etc. on Sept 3, 2019 7:51:29 GMT
Sidling aft along the narrow deck outboard of the cabin, he glanced at the shoreline. All the shoulder-to-shoulder communities lining Long Island dunes had always looked the same to him, but he was pretty sure he had anchored on the doorstep of Amity.
The Great White swam south, 20 feet below the surface, leaving Block Island to her right. She came left, dead on course for Mantauk Point. She was gravid with young in both uteri and her hunger was overwhelming. She had fed last night off Natucket on a school of cod and all night long she had held course southwest along the coast of Rhode Island. She had swept into Newport Bay and found nothing, banked graceful like a cargo plane, and resumed her track south. Her six-foot high tail propelled her bulk with stiff, purposeful power. Before her, an invisible cone of fear swept the sea clean, from bottom to surface. For a full mile ahead the ocean was emptying of life. Seals, porpoises, whales, squid, all fled. All had sensors-electro-magnetic, aural, vibratory, or psychic--which were heralding her coming. As she passed, the Atlantic refilled in her wake. JAWS 2
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2019 17:52:54 GMT
Sidling aft along the narrow deck outboard of the cabin, he glanced at the shoreline. All the shoulder-to-shoulder communities lining Long Island dunes had always looked the same to him, but he was pretty sure he had anchored on the doorstep of Amity.
The Great White swam south, 20 feet below the surface, leaving Block Island to her right. She came left, dead on course for Mantauk Point. She was gravid with young in both uteri and her hunger was overwhelming. She had fed last night off Natucket on a school of cod and all night long she had held course southwest along the coast of Rhode Island. She had swept into Newport Bay and found nothing, banked graceful like a cargo plane, and resumed her track south. Her six-foot high tail propelled her bulk with stiff, purposeful power. Before her, an invisible cone of fear swept the sea clean, from bottom to surface. For a full mile ahead the ocean was emptying of life. Seals, porpoises, whales, squid, all fled. All had sensors-electro-magnetic, aural, vibratory, or psychic--which were heralding her coming. As she passed, the Atlantic refilled in her wake. JAWS 2 What was your final overall rating for Peter Benchley's Jaws?
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Post by Prime etc. on Sept 3, 2019 18:02:14 GMT
What was your final overall rating for Peter Benchley's Jaws? About a 7/10.
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Post by jackspicer on Sept 4, 2019 17:41:21 GMT
Titanic and Other Ships by Charles Lightoller. Lightoller was the most senior officer to survive the Titanic disaster.
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Sept 11, 2019 3:57:38 GMT
After biding my time with some short fiction, I just started Stephen King's new book, The Institute.
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Post by Prime etc. on Sept 11, 2019 8:23:42 GMT
JAWS 2 was very different from the movie. The basic scenes of the opening attack, the water skier, the photo of the shark, the scuba diver school, helicopter attack, and the sailing ship-(younger son stowing away on brother's boat race)-cable junction with electrocution were in the book, but everything else was different. No mention of Hooper beyond a reference to a young marine biologist-which seemed to indicate the author was trying to link the book to the first novel as much as the movie. Some characters from the first book not shown in the movie appear (the newspaper guy Meadows and Daisy the lesbian). There is a new mafia character as well. The oddest difference is a sub plot about Brody caring for an injured seal pup named Sammy, who was shot by a cop linked to the mafia guy and who is suspected of killing the divers and the water skiers! The mother of the seal as well as a trained dolphin (a military boat has a prominent part in the story) are also given their own scenes--and the book ends with an epilogue suggesting at least one of the baby sharks from the electrocuted mother survives--to try to take a bite out of Sammy, while Sammy hanging out on a beach with an older seal who is not his mother but finding comfort in her company.
I think what is most surprising is that despite the awfulness of the general plot--things like a pointless thread about a pharmacist who wants to sell his business after seeing the shark photo (he is convinced Brody lied about the shark dying) and a ballistics expert examining the shots from the cop's gun to see if he killed the divers etc. the sea writing is really well done. Searls writes good ocean scenes, and the seal stuff has poignancy--the theme of the book is about offspring and the continuation of Nature, and so it has a poetic quality you definitely would never expect from a movie sequel tie-in novel.
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Post by Zos on Sept 11, 2019 12:10:53 GMT
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Post by jackspicer on Sept 16, 2019 5:58:52 GMT
I am reading no country for old men and I think it is very close to the movie although I am going from memory and I will have to watch it again to make sure that I am correct since I saw it once about ten years ago and the author's fetish for run on sentences and phobia of punctuation marks was grating at first but I think I managed to get used to it but one thing I cannot abide is writing should've as should of which I thought was done only by autistic twitter and youtube users and I was both surprised and disappointed to see it in an actual novel but overall it has been an enjoyable experience so far
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Post by louise on Sept 16, 2019 15:37:46 GMT
Victoria, A Life by A.N. Wilson. And Watson's Choice by Gladys Mitchell.
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Sept 16, 2019 16:50:31 GMT
I am reading no country for old men and I think it is very close to the movie although I am going from memory and I will have to watch it again to make sure that I am correct since I saw it once about ten years ago and the author's fetish for run on sentences and phobia of punctuation marks was grating at first but I think I managed to get used to it but one thing I cannot abide is writing should've as should of which I thought was done only by autistic twitter and youtube users and I was both surprised and disappointed to see it in an actual novel but overall it has been an enjoyable experience so far McCarthy's style definitely takes some getting used to.
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Post by Archelaus on Sept 16, 2019 19:37:53 GMT
The Hero from Otherwhere by Jay Williams
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Post by mmexis on Sept 17, 2019 4:27:46 GMT
Re-reading before I read The Testaments
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Post by Ass_E9 on Sept 20, 2019 15:23:03 GMT
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Post by Captain Spencer on Sept 20, 2019 15:56:57 GMT
Show Of Evil by William Diehl, the sequel to Primal Fear.
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Post by politicidal on Sept 21, 2019 1:23:34 GMT
I tried to read The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl. Except it didn’t hold my attention at all. Sticking to Kuzneski again for the time being.
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Post by klandersen on Sept 23, 2019 20:39:21 GMT
Currently re-reading Orwell's 1984.
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