Went on a binge where I think the number got to seven in about a month at that time...read The Winter of Frankie Machine, The Dawn Patrol and The Gentlemen's Hour in about a week. Really liked the Surf Noir stuff. Did read Kings of Cool and Savages which were a little bit of a stretch compared to the first five. I will probably read City on Fire and the Power of the Dog series in the Winter.
What is everyone currently reading?
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The Power of the Dog/Cartel is my favorite. It should be a movie at some point.
The Border and The Force are very well done as well.
When Christmas Comes and A Strange Habit Of Mind by Andrew Klavan are absolute bangers.
I just knocked out A Strange Habit of Mind over the weekend.
I just knocked out A Strange Habit of Mind over the weekend.
@hmt5000 I'm glad to hear you liked the First Law trilogy. I just started "The Blade Itself." I'm not far enough in to have an opinion yet, but promising so far and I've read a lot of favorable reviews.
Put Confederacy of Dunces on your list. It is a masterpiece. Maybe my favorite book. Definitely top 10.
A Helen MacInnes spy novel. Assignment in Brittany. Written during WW2 about WW2. I'm more than pleased. For some reason, I'd thought she was going to be a clumsy, pulp writer. Instead, it's very good. At least one member of her marriage and possibly both did work for MI6 so she knew what she wrote about.
Lady trying out her impression of Annie Wilkes. She had me until she said cockadoodie.
I've got two going right now:
Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day
Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America's Cemeteries
Altamont is pretty self-explanatory from it's title. Over My Dead Body focuses on many of America's oldest and sometimes forgotten cemeteries, the history of the region, etc.
Before these two, I read Tarantino's Cinema Speculation, which was his take on various 70's flicks he grew up watching with some added background about the films and also his childhood of practically living in a movie theater. After reading his chapters on Dirty Harry and Deliverance, I had to watch those two again immediately.
Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day
Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America's Cemeteries
Altamont is pretty self-explanatory from it's title. Over My Dead Body focuses on many of America's oldest and sometimes forgotten cemeteries, the history of the region, etc.
Before these two, I read Tarantino's Cinema Speculation, which was his take on various 70's flicks he grew up watching with some added background about the films and also his childhood of practically living in a movie theater. After reading his chapters on Dirty Harry and Deliverance, I had to watch those two again immediately.
Reading that Tarantino book right now. Definitely makes me want to binge watch a lot of the movies he discusses.
I haven't read a lot of Roth. The Plot Against America and the beginning of American Pastoral. I got 2/3 of the way through The Plot Against America before I started skimming, I didn't even get to the skimming stage with American Pastoral. TPAA was great in the parts where he was remembering WW2 in Jewish New Jersey, but not so good with his Fascist plot. Lindbergh and his America Firsters were sketchy, but a lot of them came around when Germany declared war on us. You could wish Lindbergh had been different, but you wouldn't wish him to be the way Roth imagined him to be.
American Pastoral didn't begin well. It was like a brochure for the Rotary Club. All the little blurbs on the cover let you know it was going to Turn Out Badly. I don't mind books that Turn Out Badly but I don't want them sharing shelf space in my head.
His writing style is how he speaks, a bit scatterbrained. The passion he has for '70s films is unmatched however. Guy casually throws out 1,000 other movies in the middle of the actual films he's chosen to focus on. I've made watching random '70s films a little goal of mine after the read though. There's lots of random ass Bronson type flicks that are solid.
The absolute contempt he has for 80s cinema is funny - a lot of people my age look back so fondly on those movies.
Just watched Sixteen Candles with the wife last night, that movie is horrendously bad imo
Waiting for book six from Jack Carr May 16th!
Doing a little light reading in the meantime with Brothers Karamazov.
Doing a little light reading in the meantime with Brothers Karamazov.
Because 80s movies are incredible. The Goonies is a cinema treasure.
I'm looking forward to Lou Berney's new book coming out in September, Dark Ride. The guy doesn't have a lot of books under his belt but what he does have is quality material. November Road is probably the best book I've read in the last 10 years. The Long and Faraway Gone is also fantastic.
"We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on. It is our responsibility to leave the people of the future a free hand. In the impetuous youth of humanity, we can make grave errors that can stunt our growth for a long time. This we will do if we say we have the answers now, so young and ignorant as we are. If we suppress all discussion, all criticism, proclaiming 'This is the answer, my friends; man is saved!' we will doom humanity for a long time to the chains of authority, confined to the limits of our present imagination. It has been done so many times before.
"It is our responsibility as scientists, knowing the great progress which comes from a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance, the great progress which is the fruit of freedom of thought, to proclaim the value of this freedom; to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed and discussed; and to demand this freedom as our duty to all coming generations."
"It is our responsibility as scientists, knowing the great progress which comes from a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance, the great progress which is the fruit of freedom of thought, to proclaim the value of this freedom; to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed and discussed; and to demand this freedom as our duty to all coming generations."
Chaos
Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
(Tom O’Neill)
It’s pretty fantastic.
Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
(Tom O’Neill)
It’s pretty fantastic.
Read it a year or so ago. Leaves you with more questions than answers but it gave me a whole new perspective on Bugliosi and government involvement with Manson that I never knew existed. Pretty mind blowing stuff.
How was Heat 2. I think I might buy it next.
I just finished Kirk Herbstreit book. It was about what you would expect. Easy read.
Reading The Mastermind right now. I can already tell its going to be a damn good book.
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