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Post by Introvertigroo on Mar 21, 2020 0:47:50 GMT
I've been reading a collection of Ross MacDonald novels featuring private eye Lew Archer over the last couple of weeks. Currently reading The Galton Case.
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Post by donavan on Mar 21, 2020 16:25:03 GMT
Speaking of McDonald.
How does Ronald McDonald introduce his wife?
Meet Patty.
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Post by anothersatellite on Mar 24, 2020 1:57:40 GMT
There is no emoji for what I'm feeling right now.
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Post by donavan on Mar 24, 2020 3:49:12 GMT
x 100
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Post by miles on Mar 24, 2020 19:32:49 GMT
I am a big fan of European graphic novels. Just finished The Reprieve written and drawn by Jean-Pierre Gibrat. It is a prequel to The Flight of the Raven, both are set in France during WW2 and German occupation. The protagonist of Reprieve spends most of the novel hiding out in a tower and watching the village below. It feels strangely familiar.
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Post by Terra Incognita on Mar 24, 2020 19:48:29 GMT
Have you read any of Jacques Tardi's WWI graphic novels, Miles? I don't know if they're available in English, though. Absolutely harrowing.
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Post by miles on Mar 24, 2020 21:27:36 GMT
Have you read any of Jacques Tardi's WWI graphic novels, Miles? I don't know if they're available in English, though. Absolutely harrowing. I haven't yet, but I'll look for some. As a teenager I was fascinated by WW1 and made model airplanes of that period.
My current obsession is The Obscure Cities series by Francois Schuiten (art) and Benoit Peeters. They are gradually being translated into English, but I even try to read the untranslated French editions (unsuccessfully.)
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Post by miles on Apr 11, 2020 22:19:23 GMT
Have you read any of Jacques Tardi's WWI graphic novels, Miles? I don't know if they're available in English, though. Absolutely harrowing. I now have It Was the War of the Trenches in my reading pile. Harrowing is a good description. It reminds me of some of Otto Dix's WW1 artwork, with narrative.
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Post by Introvertigroo on Apr 12, 2020 1:39:10 GMT
I just started rereading one of my favorite science fiction novels, The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester. Here is my old avatar, Gulliver Foyle.
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Post by miles on Apr 12, 2020 19:59:43 GMT
I just started rereading one of my favorite science fiction novels, The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester. Here is my old avatar, Gulliver Foyle. One of my favorites too.
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Post by Introvertigroo on May 24, 2020 2:06:05 GMT
I have been slacking on my fiction reading. I started Alfred Bester's "The Demolished Man" almost a month ago, and I am still only halfway through (and it is not a long novel). I may have to restart as I can't even remember what part I last read.
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Post by miles on May 24, 2020 16:26:51 GMT
I have been slacking on my fiction reading. I started Alfred Bester's "The Demolished Man" almost a month ago, and I am still only halfway through (and it is not a long novel). I may have to restart as I can't even remember what part I last read. This has been a pattern for me lately, starting books and letting them languish. I am reading, more successfully, a non-fiction history of the the musical group, The Association. "Cherish" The story of America's first folk-rock band, by Malcolm Searles.
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Post by anothersatellite on May 25, 2020 18:11:37 GMT
Iain M. Banks' SURFACE DETAIL and J.D. Vance's HILLBILLY ELEGY
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Post by Introvertigroo on Jun 1, 2020 2:31:33 GMT
I finally finished the Bester novels and have since read about half of the latest issue of Fantasy and Science Fiction. I hope this is a sign that I will be getting back to reading things other than depressing internet articles.
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Post by donavan on Jun 1, 2020 16:24:35 GMT
It may be a sign of you getting back to the Bester times.
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