GtrPlyr Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Just finished The Beatles book, now onto the CCR one. Link to post Share on other sites
Fritz Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 Don't forget to check out the film someday - Far From The Madding Crowd (1967). Julie Christie as Bathsheba! I will indeed. Thank you. Link to post Share on other sites
Fritz Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 Just finished Far From The Madding Crowd. Thomas Hardy can just write. I found myself smiling and sometimes laughing after most sentences with pure joy. His sense of description and place and emotions is just perfect. I think Tess is still a superiuor book but I was still completely absorbed in this one and will be seeking out others soon. Time to give him a rest, though. Next up: Link to post Share on other sites
Analogman Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 Just finished Far From The Madding Crowd. Thomas Hardy can just write. I found myself smiling and sometimes laughing after most sentences with pure joy. His sense of description and place and emotions is just perfect. I think Tess is still a superiuor book but I was still completely absorbed in this one and will be seeking out others soon. Time to give him a rest, though. I once had to write a rather large paper on that book in a class I had in college. It was taught by an old school post WW II guy. The class was mainly made up of football players - who were not exactly happy about being there. Link to post Share on other sites
Fritz Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 I once had to write a rather large paper on that book in a class I had in college. It was taught by an old school post WW II guy. The class was mainly made up of football players - who were not exactly happy about being there. I can't imagine football players digging the drawn out descriptive prose of this book - but I probably wouldn't have either in my late teens or early twenties. Unintentional (on my part) tie-in between Hardy's book and the one I'm reading now, The Go Between: Julie Christie is in the film versions of both. I'm looking forward to seeking them out. Link to post Share on other sites
Analogman Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 It wasn't really my cup of tea - but it was a class we had to take. I think I still have the book around here somewhere. For those who have read The Devil In The White City - a documentary about H.H. Holmes. Link to post Share on other sites
Fritz Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 This is relentless but I'm reading it rather quickly due to being in holiday mode. I think I need something a little lighter next! Link to post Share on other sites
NoJ Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 Right in the middle of "Mystic River" by D Lehane. I read all his other books over the course of the last year or so.....this one is by far his best. Public apology....Holly, you were right, I was wrong. I gotta see the flick again. Link to post Share on other sites
The High Heat Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 Right in the middle of "Mystic River" by D Lehane. I read all his other books over the course of the last year or so.....this one is by far his best. Public apology....Holly, you were right, I was wrong. I gotta see the flick again. Read Mystic River twice and have seen the movie more times than I can count! Favorite movie and second favorite novel behind To Kill A Mockingbird! Part two of The Given Day came out yesterday: Link to post Share on other sites
Oil Can Boyd Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 Pretty remarkable story of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who, during WWII, was shot down, lost at sea, brought to a Japanese POW camp where he was beaten, starved, and tortured, and is still alive at 95. Now I'm moving on to John Irving's new one ... Link to post Share on other sites
Fritz Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 I've heard good things so this is next: Link to post Share on other sites
uncool2pillow Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 Unbroken is fantastic! Link to post Share on other sites
Oil Can Boyd Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 Unbroken is fantastic!I agree. It is interesting - I went to Amazon to get the cover picture to post here and read some reviews. Most people agreed it was great but there was a sizeable number of people who said that his story must be exaggerated or embellished and that it should be considered fiction. Link to post Share on other sites
uncool2pillow Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 You can't embellish the number of days he was on the raft. There's lots of corroboration for his POW experience. Pretty sure he'd kick their ass even at this stage of his life for suggesting it's more fiction than fact. Link to post Share on other sites
anthony Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 I've heard good things so this is next: I loved this book. Link to post Share on other sites
redpillbox Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 Re-listening to the audiobook of Justin Cronin's "The Passage" which is hauntingly read by Scott Brick...in preparation for this: Can't wait. Link to post Share on other sites
NoJ Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 "The Given Day" D. Lehane. Link to post Share on other sites
mpolak21 Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 Love this book. I'm currently reading Pete's memoir. It's very well written, I have had some trouble getting back into it, now that he's up to the eighties, I'm feeling a little less interested than say I was through the Who Sell Out/Tommy/Lifehouse parts. --Mike Link to post Share on other sites
NoJ Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 "The Paperboy" by P Dexter. Thirty three pages in to it....and its a good'un. Link to post Share on other sites
GtrPlyr Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 Love this book. I'm currently reading Pete's memoir. It's very well written, I have had some trouble getting back into it, now that he's up to the eighties, I'm feeling a little less interested than say I was through the Who Sell Out/Tommy/Lifehouse parts. --MikeLooking forward to tackling the Pete memoir very soon. That or the Neil book will probably be my next read. Link to post Share on other sites
mpolak21 Posted October 18, 2012 Share Posted October 18, 2012 Looking forward to tackling the Pete memoir very soon. That or the Neil book will probably be my next read. Yes. I've been working through them both also. Neil's is more like reading journal entries or talking to him than an actual book, but that's still fascinating to me. I would love to have tried to get a second draft out of Neil and focused that book a little more. Though I think Neil would probably run me over with his Lincvolt if I suggested that. Link to post Share on other sites
NoJ Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 Started "The Passage" recently thanks to a tip from this thread. Its getting freaky and I'm liking it. Link to post Share on other sites
NoJ Posted October 24, 2012 Share Posted October 24, 2012 Started "The Passage" recently thanks to a tip from this thread. Its getting freaky and I'm liking it. I almost quit reading it because it was getting too freaky. I've come to terms with the situation so its all good. Link to post Share on other sites
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