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Post by mikef6 on Mar 12, 2022 17:05:58 GMT
"Spade & Archer: The Prequel To Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon" by Joe Gores (2009).
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Post by Zos on Mar 13, 2022 12:14:51 GMT
The first bit is tough as written in the first person by a neolithic male in a tough vernacular but gets better. . Sounds great! Speaking of which, sort of, have you ever read William Golding's The Inheritors, which popped into my mind the other day? It was a somewhat challenging, for me not entirely successful, but interesting read which I'm thinking I might have another bash at soon. The inheritors in question being us, the disinherited Neanderthals. It was more fun than Lord Of The Flies anyhow. No, only done "flies" back in school days, will give it a look though. Ta.
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Post by lafayette on Mar 13, 2022 16:20:14 GMT
Epictetus' Discourses and Selected Writings Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Post by Captain Spencer on Mar 15, 2022 3:16:19 GMT
Death Wish by Brian Garfield. I'll be starting on this tonight. It's going to be very interesting comparing it to the movie that propelled one of the most popular action movie franchises. It's been said the vigilante is supposed to be a despised villain in the book, whereas the movie made him out to be heroic. And this made author Garfield very angry.
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Mar 19, 2022 1:57:51 GMT
State of Terror by Hillary Clinton and Louie Penny.
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Post by theravenking on Mar 23, 2022 21:21:10 GMT
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Post by Nalkarj on Mar 24, 2022 20:08:05 GMT
I’m alternating between a collection of Neil Simon’s plays and a Helen McCloy mystery novel (an odd combo, I know). A few weeks ago I finished Simon’s book for the musical Promises, Promises, which adapts Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond’s script for The Apartment (1960). I’ve never seen Promises, Promises performed, but I found Simon’s script pretty terrible. Wilder and Diamond did everything better—character, joke writing, plot. (As in Come Blow Your Horn—and unlike in The Apartment—the characters don’t seem to change much because of the plot.) One of Simon’s most inexplicable decisions is changing Miss Kubelik’s immortal final line, “Shut up and deal,” to “Now shut up and play cards.” Sure, it’s one line, but it’s probably the most famous line in The Apartment—and Wilder and Diamond’s version is pithier and easier to say. I’d love to know the thought process behind this change; it makes no sense to me. Promises, Promises is also one of those musicals where every song could be cut without changing a thing. I like Burt Bacharach, too (and lyricist Hal David is OK), but show music just isn’t his thing. “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again” is good pop songwriting, but that’s exactly the point: Bacharach and David always were pop songwriters; that’s just the way it crumbles, cookie-wise. Ehh. Anyway, I’m on to Plaza Suite, which I’m liking much more than Come Blow Your Horn and Promises, Promises.
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Post by Marv on Mar 25, 2022 0:51:20 GMT
A little Hatred on audiobook Rose Madder on paper...tho far slower.
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Post by Zos on Mar 25, 2022 13:26:48 GMT
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Post by sunshine on Mar 26, 2022 17:46:40 GMT
An excellent book by Ron and Clint Howard
The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family
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Post by mmexis on Mar 27, 2022 6:43:54 GMT
"] And STILL Sleeping Beauties (so slow but want to see the ending. Am now "jumping" uninteresting bits) Have read many books in between. Most recently
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Post by novastar6 on Mar 27, 2022 23:12:47 GMT
I just finished the novelization of the 1980 movie The Hearse.
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Post by gspdude on Mar 28, 2022 11:59:42 GMT
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Apr 1, 2022 23:54:01 GMT
Hard Times by Charles Dickens. I might put it on pause when a new Star Wars book comes out that I've been waiting for.
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Post by novastar6 on Apr 2, 2022 4:07:32 GMT
Just finished The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells, currently reading The Poseidon Adventure, and Tell it to the Birds.
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Post by Marv on Apr 2, 2022 18:32:13 GMT
Just started The Fires of Vengeance today...glad i did Im already into it. Its a sequel to Rage of Dragons.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Apr 2, 2022 21:06:36 GMT
I am reading Which is a book about the development of human biology, and how it evolved. I also decided to give audio books a try, so i am also listening to the Lord of the Rings by Tolkien read by Andy Serkis
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Post by gw on Apr 2, 2022 23:59:38 GMT
Just finished off Homo Deus. It is about how religion evolved, turned into Humanism, and what comes next in the future.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Apr 3, 2022 4:26:22 GMT
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Apr 7, 2022 21:41:19 GMT
Queen's Hope by E.K. Johnston
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