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Post by Ronv69 on May 18, 2021 12:59:45 GMT -5
It doesn't go out of the way to be morbid, but it is real. That's about what I imagined. I don't know what it says about me, but I like that sort of thing. Documentation of tragedy fascinates me. That's just human.
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Post by terrapinflyer on May 18, 2021 14:23:27 GMT -5
Whew!
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Post by fadingdaylight on May 18, 2021 14:55:14 GMT -5
Notice he didn't say what kind of human? 🤪
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Post by terrapinflyer on May 18, 2021 14:59:42 GMT -5
D'oh!
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Post by bigwoolie on May 18, 2021 18:02:42 GMT -5
Longfellow’s “Ballads and other Poems”.
“There are no birds in last year‘s nest“
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Post by Gypo on May 19, 2021 21:36:19 GMT -5
Impossible Beyond This Point. My brother lent it to me 100 pages in and enjoying it very much. Finished the book today and my brother was right I really enjoyed it.
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Post by dingobob on May 21, 2021 19:41:32 GMT -5
Blood Meridian; Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
This is about my sixth time reading it. I love every word in this book.
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Post by urbino on May 21, 2021 23:13:07 GMT -5
Blood Meridian; Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy This is about my sixth time reading it. I love every word in this book. It's always my prime example of landscape being a character in a novel.
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Post by Gypo on May 22, 2021 15:24:03 GMT -5
Dear Mad'm , It is about an 80 yo lady from San Francisco who goes to live in a cabin for a year up on her gold claim in the 1940s on the Klamath River near Happy Camp CA.
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Post by toshtego on May 22, 2021 17:25:48 GMT -5
Blood Meridian; Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy This is about my sixth time reading it. I love every word in this book. It's always my prime example of landscape being a character in a novel. Which brings Ethan Frome to mind.
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Post by dingobob on May 22, 2021 20:50:31 GMT -5
It's always my prime example of landscape being a character in a novel. Which brings Ethan Frome to mind. IMHO, McCarthy did for the Southwest what Faulkner did for the South. He brought the landscape, the culture, and the attitudes of its people into such focus that it is almost disturbing. What an amazing author.
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Post by urbino on May 22, 2021 22:52:14 GMT -5
Which brings Ethan Frome to mind. IMHO, McCarthy did for the Southwest what Faulkner did for the South. He brought the landscape, the culture, and the attitudes of its people into such focus that it is almost disturbing. What an amazing author. I may or may not have ever read Ethan Frome. My brain cannot differentiate "Ethan Frome" from "Adam Bede." I've read one of them.
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2021 1:55:51 GMT -5
Started Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World. It looks promising so far.
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Post by urbino on May 27, 2021 1:00:43 GMT -5
About to finish up a re-read of Dennis Lehane's The Given Day, which I think a lot of you guys would like. About a family of Irish cops in Boston during the era of anarchist violence in America. Also about -- though very much less so -- Babe Ruth.
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Post by terrapinflyer on May 27, 2021 4:13:53 GMT -5
About to finish up a re-read of Dennis Lehane's The Given Day, which I think a lot of you guys would like. About a family of Irish cops in Boston during the era of anarchist violence in America. Also about -- though very much less so -- Babe Ruth. I might check that one out. Most of his novels I have read remind me of home. We don't like to be reminded of Babe Ruth, though.
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Post by dingobob on May 28, 2021 9:41:19 GMT -5
My daughter picked up Alan Moore's Swamp Thing run off my shelf for her school summer reading project, so I'm going to reread it so that we can talk about it.
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Post by JimK on May 28, 2021 11:12:42 GMT -5
I'm going through all seven Harry Potter novels on Youtube audiobooks right now. I'm up to #6 "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince." (OK....you can laugh now.)
What I like about JK Rowling's writing is her extensive use of folklore, mythology, and even Victorian floral symbolism, as in the place in the first novel "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" where Prof. Snape asks him "Potter! What would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?" Asphodel I learned, is a type of lily, which happened to be Harry's mother's name. Wormwood was symbolic of absence, implying deep sorrow.
It's that type of writing that you don't come across very often. JRR Tolkien was another master in the genre.
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Post by dingobob on May 30, 2021 12:13:55 GMT -5
I'm going through all seven Harry Potter novels on Youtube audiobooks right now. I'm up to #6 "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince." (OK....you can laugh now.) What I like about JK Rowling's writing is her extensive use of folklore, mythology, and even Victorian floral symbolism, as in the place in the first novel "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" where Prof. Snape asks him "Potter! What would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?" Asphodel I learned, is a type of lily, which happened to be Harry's mother's name. Wormwood was symbolic of absence, implying deep sorrow. It's that type of writing that you don't come across very often. JRR Tolkien was another master in the genre. She really wrote the essential urban fantasy. I read it at the recommendation of my wife, and I was really impressed with the prose and the intentionality with which she writes. I've heard that her post-Potter stuff is very weak by comparison, which is a bummer.
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Post by Ronv69 on May 30, 2021 12:42:20 GMT -5
I'm going through all seven Harry Potter novels on Youtube audiobooks right now. I'm up to #6 "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince." (OK....you can laugh now.) What I like about JK Rowling's writing is her extensive use of folklore, mythology, and even Victorian floral symbolism, as in the place in the first novel "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" where Prof. Snape asks him "Potter! What would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?" Asphodel I learned, is a type of lily, which happened to be Harry's mother's name. Wormwood was symbolic of absence, implying deep sorrow. It's that type of writing that you don't come across very often. JRR Tolkien was another master in the genre. She really wrote the essential urban fantasy. I read it at the recommendation of my wife, and I was really impressed with the prose and the intentionality with which she writes. I've heard that her post-Potter stuff is very weak by comparison, which is a bummer. Most people are lucky if they can come up with one good thing in their life. She done good. Not everyone can be a Tom Clancy. Robert Jordan, one great series of books that he didn't finish. JD Salinger. George RR Martin, And that most despised of all authors, Patrick Rothfuss. But occasionally you get a Bernard Cornwell or an Isacc Asimov to keep the publishers busy.
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Post by JimK on May 31, 2021 11:15:45 GMT -5
I'm going through all seven Harry Potter novels on Youtube audiobooks right now. I'm up to #6 "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince." (OK....you can laugh now.) What I like about JK Rowling's writing is her extensive use of folklore, mythology, and even Victorian floral symbolism, as in the place in the first novel "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" where Prof. Snape asks him "Potter! What would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?" Asphodel I learned, is a type of lily, which happened to be Harry's mother's name. Wormwood was symbolic of absence, implying deep sorrow. It's that type of writing that you don't come across very often. JRR Tolkien was another master in the genre. She really wrote the essential urban fantasy. I read it at the recommendation of my wife, and I was really impressed with the prose and the intentionality with which she writes. I've heard that her post-Potter stuff is very weak by comparison, which is a bummer. I read Harry Potter & the Cursed Child, and thought it was pretty weak. However, I should point out that that play was written by committee. I haven't read anything written after Cursed Child. I've read a couple of ancillary books of hers; for example "Tales of Beedle the Bard" which was kind of interesting, providing a little cultural background for the imaginary wizarding world. I'm looking forward to further installments of the "Fantastic Beasts" franchise.
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Post by addamsruspipe on May 31, 2021 11:33:07 GMT -5
My son recommended "The beginners guide to napping, sunbathing and slaughtering your prey". Amusing so far. 😁
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Post by oldcajun123 on May 31, 2021 12:09:25 GMT -5
Warriors by McClosky, WWII vets who were Alaskan Fisherman, end of war with Japanese vet who was a fisherman, chronicles their life with startup of fishing industry around the Bering sea, very informative and great writing.
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Post by Ronv69 on May 31, 2021 18:05:03 GMT -5
My son recommended "The beginners guide to napping, sunbathing and slaughtering your prey". Amusing so far. 😁 It's about a cat!
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Post by addamsruspipe on May 31, 2021 18:18:03 GMT -5
My son recommended "The beginners guide to napping, sunbathing and slaughtering your prey". Amusing so far. 😁 It's about a cat! Yup. Amusing so far. Kind of a nice break from deeper reads.
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Post by terrapinflyer on Jun 4, 2021 17:32:10 GMT -5
Reading The Mirage Man by David Willman. It's about Bruce Ivins, the anthrax mailbomber and contemporary events. I knew the guy was a little off, but was really off.
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Post by instymp on Jun 4, 2021 17:55:37 GMT -5
The Man I Knew: The Amazing Story of George H. W. Bush's Post-Presidency
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Post by dingobob on Jun 4, 2021 18:55:40 GMT -5
Donny Cates's Venom run.
This is the best I've ever seen Venom/Brock. Their relationship is one of the greatest platonic love stories of all time. Up there with Sal and Dean.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 4, 2021 23:24:29 GMT -5
Just read the first two books in the Walt Longmire series. Makes me want to visit e Wyoming. (with a gun)
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Post by fadingdaylight on Jun 5, 2021 8:51:49 GMT -5
Just read the first two books in the Walt Longmire series. Makes me want to visit e Wyoming. (with a gun) I really enjoyed the show, how are the books?
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 5, 2021 9:37:44 GMT -5
Just read the first two books in the Walt Longmire series. Makes me want to visit e Wyoming. (with a gun) I really enjoyed the show, how are the books? Better than the show.
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