Now reading...

[paul secor]

Spent a couple of hours this afternoon looking at the photographs and reading the documents in Chan Parker's and Francis Paudras' To Bird with Love.

[jlhoots]

Nic Pizzolatto: Galveston

[jazzbo]

Re-reading "Gateway" by Fredrick Pohl

[BillF]

Re-reading "Gateway" by Fredrick Pohl

A favorite!

[Jazzmoose]

I started rereading The Space Merchants by Pohl & Kornbluth. Every time I read this one it seems less like SF and more like a documentary...

[BillF]

I started rereading The Space Merchants by Pohl & Kornbluth. Every time I read this one it seems less like SF and more like a documentary...

Yet another favorite! (Reminds me in some ways of PKD's Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch)

[BruceH]

I started rereading The Space Merchants by Pohl & Kornbluth. Every time I read this one it seems less like SF and more like a documentary...

I know what you mean. Depressing, isn't it?

[Van Basten II]

Read about 100 pages so far. Not sure if we are supposed to take the main character at face value but griping and fascinating story nonetheless.

My last comment about this series if the story is griping, can't say the writing by itself distinguishes itself positively from other polars, either the way it is written is a at times clumsy because the writer is not great or because the main character/narrator thinks he is smarter than he really is and that's a way of showing it.

[paul secor]

Colin Dexter's The Secret of Annexe 3

[B. Goren.]

[ejp626]

Nice one. One of the last things I read prior to leaving the UK. It's a nice photo, though it is a bit odd to use one of London when probably 3/4 of the book takes place in Paris. Must be a couple of photos floating about of people sleeping rough near the banks of the Seine...

[Shawn]

THE KILLER INSIDE ME - Thompson

Watched the movie, now digging into the novel. I noticed that in the introductory scenes of the book, the dialogue was copied almost word for word in the film.

[jazzbo]

That is pretty much how it is throughout the (remade) movie. The director DID decide not to film some scenes, and much of Lou Ford's interna "dialog" is not "narrated" either, which adds surprise to some scenes. . . in the book Ford talks to himself about "the sickness" returning, etc. and that gives a bit of warning and explanation for the violence that so abruptly erupts in the film.

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There was a time in the 'eighties when reading Orwell seemed to be eerie. . . it's as if I could easily bond and share his viewpoint and ideas.

Only two other authors have ever really reached me in the same way: Dick and Miller.

Edited September 24, 2010 by jazzbo

[BillF]

Only two other authors have ever really reached me in the same way: [Dick and] Miller.

Is that Arthur or Henry?

[jlhoots]

Jill McCorkle: Going Away Shoes

[jazzbo]

It's not Arthur.

[BillF]

Still with those English "kitchen sink" novels c.1960

[Jazzmoose]

It's not Arthur.

I was thinking Frank...

[jazzbo]

I admire a lot of Frank's work, but. . ..

[ghost of miles]

[jazzbo]

Fredrick Pohl, "Beyond the Blue Event Horizon"

[Matthew]

On October 7, the Noble Prize in Literature will be announced. I'm getting a feeling in my bones that Thomas Pynchon will be named. I have no reason to think this, but it's just a hunch. Philip Roth would be nice also....

The betting line

Edited October 2, 2010 by Matthew

[Matthew]

City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s by Otto Friedrich. One of my all time favorite Hollywood books.

[ghost of miles]

City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s by Otto Friedrich. One of my all time favorite Hollywood books.

Yes! I read this a few years ago...your post makes me want to pull it out again. Thanks for the reminder, Matthew.

[Matthew]

City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s by Otto Friedrich. One of my all time favorite Hollywood books.

Yes! I read this a few years ago...your post makes me want to pull it out again. Thanks for the reminder, Matthew.

Ghostie: Have you read Friedrich's book on Berlin in the 1920's? I hear that's supposed to be very good also.