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I'm such a sucker for books about life with dogs....."Marley & Me", "A Good Dog", etc. But I always wind up crying my eyes out and getting a headache when the dog dies!

you might like this one then:

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Story...61374227/?itm=1

i've heard really good things about it

Any flu content?

yeah, there are chapters devoted to the flu epidemic...scary stuff

i was able to get an advanced copy of Dennis Lehane's The Given Day, a historical novel set in 1918 Boston...it's epic in scope (over 700 pages) and is a real artistic progression for him. I am about 250 pages in and loving it. even Babe Ruth makes an appearence.

Holy coincidence! I was just about to put this up too. Re-reading it again, possibly my favourite book of all time. Now being made into a movie with Leo DiCap and Kate Winslet....I am so very afraid!

yeah, this is a great book. Yates writes perfectly. You should try another of his novels, Easter Parade....another masterpiece in my opinion.

Good for you. Enger writes uniquely and brilliantly imo. There are times reading that book where I'll just pause to re-read some magnificently constructed sentece/phrase/section.

 

I really hope he puts out more work. He supposedly wrote under a pen name with his brother for some mystery books for a spell, but I'd love to see another novel as richly written as Peace....

you're in luck, here is info on the new novel:

http://www.amazon.com/So-Brave-Young-Hands...6253&sr=1-2

Does anyone know if there is a national release date for The Asassination of Jesse James....? I have looked all over the internets and can't seem to find anything.

i don't think it's getting one. it's intelligent and artistic. but it doesn't show shit blowing up every five minutes. translation = it won't make money

i rented it from my hotel room last week. my favorite movie of the year, next to No Country for Old Men.

i think The Known World will be regarded as a classic...one of best novels i've ever read.

seriously, please read it.

Your year in books

i saw the Assassination of Jesse James...the other day. excellent movie. the acting was incredible, especially Brad Pitt. i can see people complaining about the lengh and pace of it, but i found it pretty captivating. i would say that it is a close second behind No Country for Old Men for my favorite this year. the one movie that i am really looking forward to is There Will be Blood.

it may be a turn off for many of you who aren't into Radiohad, but Yorke has an incredible voice...he has an amazing range. not too many like him in rock music.

and i haven't heard a better album this year than In Rainbows. Nude is probably up there with the most beautiful songs i've ever heard.

you want to talk annoying voices...i would say Wayne Coyne is right up there. Flaming Lips are so revered on this board, but i just find his voice pretty much unlistenable.

So I got In Rainbows and OK Computer. So far I am impressed and can't believe I have gone this long without listening to Radiohead. some of the layering is absolutely amazing and gorgeous.

that's awesome that you discovered them...i envy your first listening experiences, although Radiohead is a band that rewards repeated listens.

you should definitely get the Bends next, a more conventional, guitar-based album, but great nonetheless. then, if you are really into them, go on to the "weird" or challenging ones like Kid A and Amnesiac.

I'm going to go ahead and open the flood gates....

 

I've been a massive RH fan since The Bends....

 

In Rainbows might be my fave album of theirs... It's so damn good.

i am starting to feel that way too...

it's exceeded my expectations...it's a masterful album

The last three or four Radiohead albums have had music on them, sure. But it is music made by someone, I feel, who has a visceral dislike for music, as I have a visceral dislike for writing.

maybe you mean that Radiohead doesn't pander to anyone and delivers music that they are comfortable expressing, without regard to other people's notions of what "music" is...i'd say that it's a pretty admirable quality. they put it out and if you like, fine, and if you don't, that's fine too. it's a very personal art form, and if it somehow connects with anyone else out there, then that it makes it all the more powerful.

if you are a Radiohead fan, i don't see how anybody can be disappointed with this album. it's got everything - lush orchestration (Reckoner, Faust Arp), menacing rockers (Bodysnatchers), gorgeous, goose-bump inducing songs (Nude, All I Need, Argeggi, House of Cards), funky experimentalism (15 Step)...

i am pleasantly surprised by Reckoner and Faust Arp...they don't grab you on first listen, but they are rich songs. i didn't like the grunged out live version of Reckoner. i am so glad it's a different song.

right now, i am just in awe of the last minute of All I Need

totally surprised by Reckoner...amazing song. unrecognizable from the live versions.

i haven't received the activation code yet...anyone else in that situation?

I've heard live versions of most of the songs...i am curious as to whether the studio tracks differ in any way. the song Nude has been around since OK Computer days and they have worked on it off and on for years. i hope they don't tinker too much with it, as i think it's one of their most beautiful songs. the only songs i am not too sure about are 15 step, with Yorke almost singing rap, and House of Cards, which is a little cheesy by Radiohead standards.

if Nigel Goodrich works his magic again, i think this album has the potential for greatness.

 

Not sure how I got through being an English major without ever hearing about his book.

this is a great book, perfectly written...

they are adapting it for the screen, with Leo DiCaprio in the lead.

Yates' other books are excellent as well.

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the first album is awesome ...second one was disappointing, although there are some really good songs, especially the last one - True Adventures.

they are so much better when they just rock out. looking forward to hearing this new song. heard a live version and it kicked ass.

can't wait to see them in NYC in Oct.

I loved this book - but I loved the movie first, so that may have something to do with it.

haven't read the book, but the movie was great. Anthony Hopkins was amazing. I always remember that scene in the library where the Emma Thompson character tries to take away the book from him to see what he is reading. very sad movie.

Paul Potts:

the only thing that movie Dig did for me was open my eyes to how fucked up and crazy that dude is...i hadn't even heard of BJM before seeing the movie, and the movie just turned me off to ever listening to them. seriously, there was not one decent human being in that movie, including those idiots the Dandy Warhols.

The Bourne Ultimatum was awesome...one of the best action movies i've seen in years.

i thought this book was one of McCarthy's weakest. I was woefully underimpressed. It was as if the book was being written as a screenplay, knowing it would be bought and turned into a movie. I want to know when someone is going to make a film of Suttree, or Outer Dark or the Orchard Keeper.

agree that it isn't nearly as strong as McCarthy's other works. but The Road was a return to form - a tremendous novel.

i hear that Ridley Scott wants to make Blood Meridian, but they are still looking for a good script. they approached Nick Cave and asked him whether he would be interested in writing it. he flatly refused, saying something like, "i don't want to be known as the guy who screwed up one of the greatest books ever..." Outer Dark was made into a film by some students at a university (can't remember the school), but they didn't have the funding to finish it.

and the guy who directed "The Proposition," a great Australian western that starred Guy Pearce, is set to make The Road.