What book are you reading?

vant0037

Lemon Yellow Sun

Gone - James Patterson

dankind

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vant0037

F Me In The Brain

vant0037 wrote:

Just read about this earlier today and put on my wish list. Do me a favor and let us know how you liked it when you are done? Thanks!

don smith

The Gospel According To Judas

Leezestarr313

For workout: Jonny Bails Floatin'

In bed:
Behind the Mask of Innocence - Sex, Violence, Prejudice, Crime: Films of Social Conscience in the Silent Era by Kevin Brownlow.

I found this copy for 8 bucks at the awesome antique book store went went to in Detroit. I think it's a pre-press or something. I am a sucker for Hollywood's Silent Era and the roaring twenties and I already have Brownlow's The Parade's gone by, which is also pretty good. So far, a very cool read

Enkidu

Leezestarr313 wrote:

For workout: Jonny Bails Floatin'

In bed:
Behind the Mask of Innocence - Sex, Violence, Prejudice, Crime: Films of Social Conscience in the Silent Era by Kevin Brownlow.

I found this copy for 8 bucks at the awesome antique book store went went to in Detroit. I think it's a pre-press or something. I am a sucker for Hollywood's Silent Era and the roaring twenties and I already have Brownlow's The Parade's gone by, which is also pretty good. So far, a very cool read

Wow, I never heard of this. Kevin Brownlow is fabulous and I love The Parade's Gone By. Let me know if it's worth a read.

Leezestarr313

Enkidu wrote:

Wow, I never heard of this. Kevin Brownlow is fabulous and I love The Parade's Gone By. Let me know if it's worth a read.

I would say you would probably find this one interesting too I do so far!
"The silent movies most known by film-goers paint a charming picture of a relaxed, innocent bygone America. Yet documentary filmmaker Brownlow has unearthed hundreds of forgotten silents that realistically delved into social and political issues: police corruption, white slave rackets, racial tensions, slum conditions, strikes, divorce, venereal disease. Many of these silents took a progressive standpoint softened by melodramatic devices; there were also racist films, Red Scare films, prejudiced caricatures of immigrant groups. By the 1920s, conservatism set in, censorship was widespread, the "star system" was in full swing and the socially conscious silents vanished. Brownlow's spellbinding canvas is peopled with the likes of D. W. Griffith, Margaret Sanger, Henry Ford, Upton Sinclair, temperance firebrand Carry Nation."

It seems it's a trilogy, the last one being "The War, The West, and the Wilderness".

Enkidu

Leezestarr313 wrote:

Enkidu wrote:

Wow, I never heard of this. Kevin Brownlow is fabulous and I love The Parade's Gone By. Let me know if it's worth a read.

I would say you would probably find this one interesting too I do so far!
"The silent movies most known by film-goers paint a charming picture of a relaxed, innocent bygone America. Yet documentary filmmaker Brownlow has unearthed hundreds of forgotten silents that realistically delved into social and political issues: police corruption, white slave rackets, racial tensions, slum conditions, strikes, divorce, venereal disease. Many of these silents took a progressive standpoint softened by melodramatic devices; there were also racist films, Red Scare films, prejudiced caricatures of immigrant groups. By the 1920s, conservatism set in, censorship was widespread, the "star system" was in full swing and the socially conscious silents vanished. Brownlow's spellbinding canvas is peopled with the likes of D. W. Griffith, Margaret Sanger, Henry Ford, Upton Sinclair, temperance firebrand Carry Nation."

It seems it's a trilogy, the last one being "The War, The West, and the Wilderness".

I think I have to track it down. Have you read Silent Stars by Jeanine Basinger? It's great and I see you can get used copies of it on Amazon.

decides2dream

*just* finished minutes ago, "Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls."
i LOVE david sedaris, read all his books. it was good, not his very best, but still sedaris worthy good.

Leezestarr313

Enkidu wrote:

Leezestarr313 wrote:

Enkidu wrote:

Wow, I never heard of this. Kevin Brownlow is fabulous and I love The Parade's Gone By. Let me know if it's worth a read.

I would say you would probably find this one interesting too I do so far!
"The silent movies most known by film-goers paint a charming picture of a relaxed, innocent bygone America. Yet documentary filmmaker Brownlow has unearthed hundreds of forgotten silents that realistically delved into social and political issues: police corruption, white slave rackets, racial tensions, slum conditions, strikes, divorce, venereal disease. Many of these silents took a progressive standpoint softened by melodramatic devices; there were also racist films, Red Scare films, prejudiced caricatures of immigrant groups. By the 1920s, conservatism set in, censorship was widespread, the "star system" was in full swing and the socially conscious silents vanished. Brownlow's spellbinding canvas is peopled with the likes of D. W. Griffith, Margaret Sanger, Henry Ford, Upton Sinclair, temperance firebrand Carry Nation."

It seems it's a trilogy, the last one being "The War, The West, and the Wilderness".

I think I have to track it down. Have you read Silent Stars by Jeanine Basinger? It's great and I see you can get used copies of it on Amazon.

I haven't! Thanks for the heads up :thumbup: When I started getting interested, I got a bio about Clara Bow, and then got books by and about Louise Brooks and also a bio about Rudolph Valentino. I was engulfed in silent movies and their stars, I loved it! I'm so glad I found more about the whole topic in this book store. I have to go back there. It was such a cool bookstore too. An old warehouse in Detroit, full of books of all kinds.... I could get lost in there for days!

ldent42

vant0037 wrote:

I read 'a heartbreaking work of staggering genius' by him. I think it might be one of my favorite book titles ever. (the story wasn't bad. but the title was better.)

I'm currently reading nothing.

F Me In The Brain

duska3419 wrote:

vant0037 wrote:

I read 'a heartbreaking work of staggering genius' by him. I think it might be one of my favorite book titles ever. (the story wasn't bad. but the title was better.)

I'm currently reading nothing.

You read the title and it was all downhill from there?
That is a pretty funny book title....right up there with The Baby Jesus Butt Plug

JBii

Private Berlin

mcgruff10

Stalingrad by anthony beevor. Man both the Germans and Russians were sick fuckers in ww2.

Digital Twilight

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

ShimmyMommy

Daring Greatly by researcher Brene Brown

As I started reading it...it was as if it was written as a companion piece to the song Inside Job...wow...just amazing!!

Eraserhead

Kafka's The Castle

vant0037

decides2dream wrote:

*just* finished minutes ago, "Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls."
i LOVE david sedaris, read all his books. it was good, not his very best, but still sedaris worthy good.

Couldn't agree more. I like his ability to write an essay and weave in other stories tangentially, but this collection felt a little too tangential.

It's very readable, but he's definitely done better. I suppose though, like a similar band we all love, it's harder and harder to maintain the same emotional intensity on topics that once plagued you, once you've exercised all those demons and become successful.