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Post by anothersatellite on Jul 26, 2016 17:24:11 GMT
Reread Samuel R. Delaney's Dhalgren via online book club. Also read my own second book, produced with insane deadlines, and found a dozen corrections, about half of them outright typos.
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Post by peggs on Jul 27, 2016 1:21:33 GMT
Great news, anothersatellite. Not the deadlines and typos but the second book. I'm looking forward to it.
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Post by Introvertigroo on Jul 27, 2016 2:19:05 GMT
I am rereading a collection of Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op detective stories. I am a sucker for hard-boiled detective fiction.
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Post by miles on Jul 28, 2016 17:26:55 GMT
Currently reading Philip K Dick's "The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike."
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Post by Introvertigroo on Aug 9, 2016 1:50:54 GMT
I just went through a Dashiell Hammett kick (The Continental Op, The Thin Man, Red Harvest, The Woman in the Dark, The Dain Curse, The Big Knockover), and now I am reading the other great hard-boiled detective fiction writer, Raymond Chandler, reading the first volume of his collected works from the New American Library--currently working on his short stories.
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Post by Introvertigroo on Aug 20, 2016 2:26:19 GMT
I am reading through Raymond Chandler's novels. I have read 'The Big Sleep," "Farewell, My Lovely," and "The High Window" in the last few days, and I am currently working on "The Lady in the Lake."
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Post by peggs on Aug 21, 2016 23:38:57 GMT
Introvertigo, have you have seen any of the films made from the Hammett and Chandler books? I wonder how closely the movies follow the story lines of the books. And if you have seen the movies, do the characters in your mind's eye look like Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, William Powell and Myrna Loy?
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Post by Introvertigroo on Aug 22, 2016 8:14:25 GMT
Peggs, I have seen a number of the films. I know that the films of Chandler's works can vary wildly in terms of following the novels. "The Big Sleep," for example, is a mess of a film, because the producers wanted more scenes between Bogart and Bacall, so scenes with the two actors kept being added with no thought as to the actual plot. The film is well acted, but the plot is unwieldy. John Huston did a good job of transferring Hammett's "The Maltese Falcon" from page to screen.
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Post by peggs on Aug 26, 2016 1:36:19 GMT
A worrisome yet hopeful end to "Lucifer's Hammer" today, a story of survival after a comet strike to the earth. It made me realize that if a comet strikes Earth in my lifetime, I'm a goner; not physically fit enough to withstand the trauma and no useful skills to contribute to a new society if I did.
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Now on to something completely different. "The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century" by Alex Ross. It's a series of essays about Classical/Modern music in the 1900s. I think I'll be skipping around a bit; the section covering 1933-45 sounds quite interesting.
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Post by donavan on Aug 26, 2016 5:17:45 GMT
I've been reading the same 500 page book now for exactly 12 months. And I've still got 100 pages to go. Finished
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Post by peggs on Aug 29, 2016 22:59:08 GMT
Peggs, I have seen a number of the films. I know that the films of Chandler's works can vary wildly in terms of following the novels. "The Big Sleep," for example, is a mess of a film, because the producers wanted more scenes between Bogart and Bacall, so scenes with the two actors kept being added with no thought as to the actual plot. The film is well acted, but the plot is unwieldy. John Huston did a good job of transferring Hammett's "The Maltese Falcon" from page to screen. 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.
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Post by peggs on Aug 29, 2016 23:01:40 GMT
I've been reading the same 500 page book now for exactly 12 months. And I've still got 100 pages to go. Finished I forgot to ask you at the time, what book were you reading? Was it worth the long reading journey or are you someone who finishes a book even though you may not care for it? (I've done that from time to time)
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Post by donavan on Aug 30, 2016 9:26:26 GMT
Anger is an Energy: My Life Uncensored by John Lydon.
Johnny Rotten’s ridiculously entertaining new (2014) memoir shows how he turned youthful rebellion into a 40-year career.
It was OK, very funny in parts. A bit boring in others if you're not a big PiL fan. But worth it. I only really read on the train coming home from work. So after a long day, I'm falling to sleep after a few pages. But I enjoyed the book and looked forward to my journey home. I had a hospital appointment the other day so finished the book whilst sitting in the waiting room for two hours.
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Post by peggs on Aug 30, 2016 22:28:42 GMT
Like you, donavan, my reading is mostly restricted to a specific time each day; lunch time at work. I miss the days when I could curl up in a comfy chair and read for three or four hours at a stretch.
I hope all went well at your appointment.
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Post by donavan on Aug 31, 2016 21:25:44 GMT
Thanks peggs, more steroid injections for pain control coming up shortly. Happy days, eh? You know I have only ever read a book in a couple of days and that was a flimsy paperback by Spike Milligan. The first of his war memoirs. Laugh out loud funny. But I'm a slow reader and I lose concentration and have to constantly reread. Which is surprising, because my parents were prolific readers. Maybe the milkman wasn't. Sorry mum.
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