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F Me In The Brain said:brianlux said:F Me In The Brain said:Great book
It really is, for sure. The timing was off for me, that's all. I've read books by Charles Bowden that describe things that were even more horrific that what Hillenbrand describes. I knew they would be and went into reading them with a fair idea of what they were going to be about. Somehow I was thinking that Hillenbrand's book was going to be more along the lines of some of Hampton Sides work.
Just started Commanche Moon. (Part of the Lonesome Dove run)
I know I'm not getting too deep into things. Been reading a lot of historical fiction and them a horror book. Wanted to grab something lighter from the pile. (Even if it is a heavy physical book!)McMurtry, good move!I'm probably going to go for something lighter soon as well. Maybe take a short break from a book to read these two goodies I found in the garage a few days ago:
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Changed my mind...After reading Laura Hillenbrand's most excellent but brutal Unbroken, I figured it was time to go for something both entertaining and well written next. So when I read this excerpt from Bill Flanagan's Author's Note at the beginning of this book, I decided to jump right in. (Besides, Flanagan was always one of my favorite editor/ writers from the Musician magazine days.)
"Those aristocrats who fall on the floor writhing and swallowing their tongues when writers put rock & roll into the same boat as high art, poetry, philosophy, and other university subjects should get out now. You won't like it here. But if you want to understand U2, you have to understand how they draw from the highbrow as well as the dumb things down in rock & roll's designated station.
And it might save a fistfight or two if I spell this out: when I talk about U2's relationship with Bill Clinton or Salman Rushdie or Wim Wenders or other cultural bigshots, it is not to suggest that U2 influenced those people; it is to show how those people influenced U2.
All right, that should shake off the whiners. Let's go."
Yes siree, with pleasure!
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Just finished Harlem Shuffle and then Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead. Both awesome books and I can’t wait for the third book in this trilogy.Just started the Underground Railroad tonight by the same author. It won the Pulitzer Prize a few years ago.0
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I finished Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson. I liked Black Cake better, but this was a good read. It began with the dismantling of a relationship, and that relationship is the weakest part of the story.There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird0 -
I got a kick out of this quote from Flanagan in the U2 book I'm reading. I told my wife it sounds like a slightly exaggerated version of her:"Many people on this planet say they hate horseshit, but no one hates horseshit as much as Larry Mullen Jr., does. The possibility that he might somehow add to the rising stew of crap that threatens to submerge our civilization in hype and nonsense appalls him so much that he slaps on a scowl and shuts his mouth at the first inkling of glad-handing, backslapping, false sincerity, sucking up, ass-kissing, air-kissing, overpraise, fair-weather friendship, freeloading, hyperbole, ligging, flattery, posturing, complement chewing, ego-stroking, bootlicking, cheek smooching, groveling, pratspeak, toadying, , leg lifting, fame-grubbing, schnoring, idol worship, starfucking, or brown-nosing.Boy, did he pick the wrong business!"I'm not even sure I know what some of those things are. "liggin"? "pratspeak"? "schnoring"?
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Athens 2006. Dusseldorf 2007. Berlin 2009. Venice 2010. Amsterdam 1 2012. Amsterdam 1+2 2014. Buenos Aires 2015.
Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.
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julieooliern said:"It's a sad and beautiful world"-Roberto Benigni0
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Just finished The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. Really enjoyed it.Now I’m going to start Stoner.0
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May 30th said:Just finished The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. Really enjoyed it.Now I’m going to start Stoner.There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird0 -
Rereading Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman, audiobook.There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird0 -
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Finished Stoner by John Williams and am now reading Sag Harbour by Colson Whitehead.0
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I finally finished On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder. Who knew an itty bitty book would take so long to finish? My local bookstore is starting an anti-fascist book club, and this is the first selection.There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird0 -
Malroth said:There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird0 -
Just finished The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead. Now I’m going to start No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy.0
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