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Post by Finntrovertigo on Sept 1, 2016 10:59:22 GMT
Which is surprising, because my parents were prolific readers. Maybe the milkman wasn't. Sorry mum. We don't have milkmen working much anymore in the U.S. Maybe that explains the declining birthrate.
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Post by Finntrovertigo on Sept 1, 2016 11:09:46 GMT
Thanks for that, Introvertigo. I've never read the books and have only seen a couple of the films. They're such classic movies that I forget that they were adapted form books. I hadn't seen this movie in awhile until it was on television a few nights ago, but a good adaptation of a Chandler novel is the film "Marlowe," starring James Garner. The film is based on "The Little Sister," (the film is actually referred as "The Little Sister" in the closing credits, and "Little Sister" is the title of the theme song, so I am guessing that at the last minute the title was considered too vague, with the hopes that "Marlowe" would be more recognizable to viewers) and while the action has been moved from the late Forties to the late Sixties, the movie is largely faithful to the novel, outside from a family blowup at the end of the movie. With the update to the Sixties, the film has a bit a James Bond/Diamonds Are Forever vibe (I'm guessing Chandler would have approved, as late in his life he became friends with Iam Fleming). There is also an odd cameo appearance by Bruce Lee, who uses his martial arts skills to trash Marlowe's office. That part, surprisingly, was not in the novel.
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Post by Finntrovertigo on Sept 24, 2016 0:41:02 GMT
I am currently rereading the only Ross MacDonald novel I own, The Moving Target. I rather like it, but for some reason I have never bought any of his other books. I might have to remedy that situation.
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Post by peggs on Sept 24, 2016 22:49:51 GMT
After not having read science fiction for many years, I'm gravitating toward it once again (see what I did there? ). I'm a fan of Kim Stanley Robinson's novels and found Fifty Degrees Below at my local used bookstore. I know I read it a long time ago but even after the first dozen pages nothing seems familiar. One of the many joys of getting older...memory loss!
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Post by Finntrovertigo on Oct 1, 2016 4:08:26 GMT
I have been on a detective fiction jag and somehow skipped over The Maltese Falcon. My favorite part is the scene where Sam Spade disarms a gun-crazy punk and then turns the weapons over to the punk's boss with the line, "A crippled newsie took them away from him, but I made him give them back."
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Post by donavan on Oct 1, 2016 20:00:24 GMT
Pulp Fiction......such a good film.
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Post by peggs on Oct 10, 2016 1:26:38 GMT
When will anothersatellite's new novel be published? I'm looking forward to it. As I stated earlier, I started reading Kim Stanley Robinson's novel then realised it was book two of a trilogy. I'm more than a little OCD and need to start from the beginning. Today at the bookstore I found all three of the novels in one edition. Yeah! Now I can start over and read it properly.
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Post by peggs on Oct 11, 2016 11:04:42 GMT
My apologies to anothersatellite. Devouring God is available and is on my list. Keep up the good, sir.
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Post by Finntrovertigo on Oct 15, 2016 3:51:25 GMT
I am currently rereading Stephen King's "The Stand." Oddly enough, a friend of mine mentioned earlier today that while he does not anticipate getting a tattoo soon, or ever, if he did get one it would be this image.
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Post by anothersatellite on Nov 2, 2016 16:42:21 GMT
My apologies to anothersatellite. Devouring God is available and is on my list. Keep up the good, sir. It's $0.99 now...
Madness, possession, ritual vivisection, sexual obsession and collateral cannibalism. In short, your kind of love story. Halloween treat from HarperCollins: THE DEVOURING GOD is $0.99!
If anyone is surprised at my crass commercialism...well, it's nice to finally meet you.
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Post by anothersatellite on Nov 2, 2016 16:44:26 GMT
And I am reading Waiting for Contact, about the history of thought on extraterrestrial life and the arc of SETI from 1961 to present.
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Post by Dr Hugbine on Nov 7, 2016 15:28:06 GMT
The last-but-one book I read was the excellent Sweet Caress by William Boyd, read over 4 days on holiday. I'm now taking a holiday from reading despite buying Ian McEwan's "Nutshell" a while ago, interrupted by Paul Morley's intermittently great stream-of-consciousness "The Age Of Bowie". (Prefer to do The Times Polygon in bed these days).
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Post by peggs on Nov 7, 2016 18:04:35 GMT
Nice to see you Dr. H.
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Post by Dr Hugbine on Nov 7, 2016 20:09:35 GMT
You too peggs *hug*
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Post by Finntrovertigo on Mar 3, 2017 0:34:36 GMT
Just got a four-novel collection of Ross McDonald, featuring his private eye Lew Archer. I like the Archer novels, but I much prefer either Hammett or Chandler.
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