mjazzg Posted December 18, 2021 Report Posted December 18, 2021 1 hour ago, BillF said: Any good? I never enjoy McEwan novels as much as all the hype suggests I should but always willing to give him another shot Quote
BillF Posted December 18, 2021 Report Posted December 18, 2021 7 minutes ago, mjazzg said: Any good? I never enjoy McEwan novels as much as all the hype suggests I should but always willing to give him another shot Well, who's better in this country today? Dwarfed, though, I'd say, by the likes of Jonathan Franzen and Richard Ford, but they're American. As in jazz, a shortage of giants today IMHO. Quote
Gheorghe Posted December 20, 2021 Report Posted December 20, 2021 I usually order my books by Romanian online libraries. I This one is very fine. Sure I "could" read it in english, but that would take to much time, I might have to use the dictionary quite often...... Quote
mjazzg Posted December 20, 2021 Report Posted December 20, 2021 (edited) On 18/12/2021 at 7:08 PM, BillF said: Well, who's better in this country today? Benjamin Myers would get my vote but then again I'm no huge McEwan fan as I said Edited December 20, 2021 by mjazzg Quote
Rabshakeh Posted December 27, 2021 Report Posted December 27, 2021 46 minutes ago, mjazzg said: Xmas gift Wow. Looks good. On 18/12/2021 at 6:53 PM, mjazzg said: Any good? I never enjoy McEwan novels as much as all the hype suggests I should but always willing to give him another shot I'm with you on the first. I find that he tends to meet expectations at best. Quote
ghost of miles Posted January 1, 2022 Author Report Posted January 1, 2022 One of several books in progress right now: Quote
Bluesnik Posted January 7, 2022 Report Posted January 7, 2022 (edited) On 12/13/2021 at 9:30 AM, BillF said: Oh, I recently read Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy which I liked. Edited January 7, 2022 by Bluesnik Quote
jlhoots Posted January 8, 2022 Report Posted January 8, 2022 Finally got around to Franzen: Corrections. Liking it. Quote
BillF Posted January 8, 2022 Report Posted January 8, 2022 11 hours ago, Bluesnik said: Oh, I recently read Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy which I liked. Probably Le Carré's best. 3 hours ago, jlhoots said: Finally got around to Franzen: Corrections. Liking it. Rereading it now. Quote
Rabshakeh Posted January 8, 2022 Report Posted January 8, 2022 31 minutes ago, BillF said: Probably Le Carré's best. Have you read The Perfect Spy? On 25/11/2021 at 8:02 PM, mjazzg said: This one perhaps? Very good, written by Bennett and two very good actors in Oldman and Molina https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prick_Up_Your_Ears I watched this one at school in English class. I remember really enjoying it. About three years ago, I remembered it and decided it would be a good film to watch with my wife and mother in law when she was staying with us over the Christmas period. I'm not actually sure that it was such a good film for that purpose. My mother in law still talks about it. At least it was an education for her too, I guess. Quote
BillF Posted January 8, 2022 Report Posted January 8, 2022 2 hours ago, Rabshakeh said: Have you read The Perfect Spy? I watched this one at school in English class. I remember really enjoying it. About three years ago, I remembered it and decided it would be a good film to watch with my wife and mother in law when she was staying with us over the Christmas period. I'm not actually sure that it was such a good film for that purpose. My mother in law still talks about it. At least it was an education for her too, I guess. Yes, I have read The Perfect Spy. I haven't seen the film version of Prick up Your Ears, but I've read the book. (See above.) Quote
BillF Posted January 8, 2022 Report Posted January 8, 2022 14 hours ago, Bluesnik said: Oh, I recently read Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy which I liked. Le Carré's a master at grabbing the reader's interest with a memorable opening scene. That one with the guy living in a caravan at the end of the school playing fields is unforgettable. Clearly a guy with a history, but we don't know what. Great stuff! Another favourite opening scene is in The Looking Glass War, which begins with an assassination outside a snowbound airport in northern Europe. Quote
Ken Dryden Posted January 8, 2022 Report Posted January 8, 2022 The Boys, by Ron and Clint Howard, was a fun autobiography. Quote
Bluesnik Posted January 8, 2022 Report Posted January 8, 2022 Hat off to Ghost who hipped me to this. It's an in-depth survey on glam rock and its followers, by Simon Reynolds, one of the most interesting writers on popular culture from the last times. I know his Retromania, Pops obsession with its own past. Turns out he's my age. So he's lived through both glam and post punk. Just as me: the first as a kid, the second in my twens. Glam and Post punk are the two faces of the same coin. And Reynolds has books on both, which I both have. Quote
Gheorghe Posted January 13, 2022 Report Posted January 13, 2022 (edited) I like the British author Jeffrey Archer and have some of his books. But for fluent reading I read them in romanian language. this one is the "continuare" of "Kane and Abel" ( Cain și Abel ) and when I´m through with it there will be a third volume , something with "President".... Edited January 13, 2022 by Gheorghe Quote
ghost of miles Posted January 26, 2022 Author Report Posted January 26, 2022 Reprint of a 1964 book penned by a writer who spent several months with the Beatles in late 1963 and early '64... very candid, matter-of-fact account of them navigating Beatlemania: Quote
ghost of miles Posted January 29, 2022 Author Report Posted January 29, 2022 New book by a friend, fellow Bloomingtonian, and native Southerner about the band the Drive-By Truckers: Quote
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