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    Yeah, that was pretty unexpected. He seemed to know a lot about it!
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    Quote Originally Posted by interbellum View Post
    It's on these 41 pages somewhere, but now it's my turn to say I've begun reading The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick in a new Dutch translation.
    I think I was the one who originally posted about it. To be honest I was underwhelmed with the book, but opinions seem to vary greatly on it.

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    A Passion for Leadership by Robert Gates
    I am not a regular reader of that type of book.
    It was handed out at an IT conference I attended.
    There was a 5 hour plane flight home, so that was my 'entertainment'.
    It was a good read. He talks about his time at CIA, Texas A&M, and Sec of Defense along with some other stuff.
    He seems like a pretty straightforward guy, in spite of the spooky nature of his business history,
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    Just finished book 2 of Game Of Thrones, onto book 3.
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    Haruki Murakami - Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

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    Quote Originally Posted by interbellum View Post
    It's on these 41 pages somewhere, but now it's my turn to say I've begun reading The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick in a new Dutch translation.

    Quote Originally Posted by SteveSly View Post
    I think I was the one who originally posted about it. To be honest I was underwhelmed with the book, but opinions seem to vary greatly on it.
    Thanks for getting back on this. Well, I must admit I'm not a hard-core SF-reader, but I was intrigued when I read a review recently and because I never read anything by him before I bought it.

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    Personally, PKD is one of my top 5 SF writers. I started quite accidentally by picking up The Divine Invasion back in 86 (certainly not the easiest place to start!) and now have most of his works.

    As for my reading, I am still trying to catch up on my graphic novels.
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    The Cosmic Landscape by Leonard Suskind - A bit of a long read, but it is probably the most intelligent discussion on why many Physicists are still uncomfortable with the concept of intelligent design. I think he spells out both "sides" very well, so far it has been well reasoned and above all - respectful.

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    Quote Originally Posted by interbellum View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by interbellum View Post
    It's on these 41 pages somewhere, but now it's my turn to say I've begun reading The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick in a new Dutch translation.



    Thanks for getting back on this. Well, I must admit I'm not a hard-core SF-reader, but I was intrigued when I read a review recently and because I never read anything by him before I bought it.
    I believe it is the only book I have read by him as well (unless I am forgetting something way back in the day). I was intrigued when the television series came out (which I have not seen), and decided to take a chance on the book. It was not really what I expected, and did not really fulfill my expectations, but as I said before, opinions really seem to vary on this one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zeuhlmate View Post
    Haruki Murakami - Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
    A friend has recommended Murakami over the years and has even given me a book of his (forgot which one) to get me started. Just can't get into it.

    One Japanese author I do like a lot is Yukio Mishima. He wrote The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea. Much better book than the Kris Kristofferson movie would indicate. The little kid is just plain evil. His other novels and short stories are quite good, though be slow going at points.
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    I started a few books that failed to reel me in within the first few chapters. The one I ended up sticking with is "Burn What Will Burn," a backwoods murder mystery by C.B. McKenzie. Good, so far.
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    Doctor Sleep by Stephen King

    Sequel to the shining. Very good! Going to make for a good movie. (potentially)
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    Quote Originally Posted by interbellum View Post
    "A Brief History Of Seven Killings" by Marlon James

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    JAMAICA, 1976

    Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley's house, machine guns blazing. The reggae superstar survives, but the gunmen are never caught.

    From the acclaimed author of The Book of Night Women comes a dazzling display of masterful storytelling exploring this near-mythic event. Spanning three decades and crossing continents, A Brief History of Seven Killings chronicles the lives of a host of unforgettable characters - slum kids, drug lords, journalists, prostitutes, gunmen and even the CIA. Gripping and inventive, ambitious and mesmerising, A Brief History of Seven Killings is one of the most remarkable and extraordinary novels of the twenty-first century.
    Yesterday I finished this 700+ pages book. What an adventure!

    Here's a good interview with Rolling Stone, which is kind of funny, because one of the leading characters is a writer for this magazine:
    http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/...l-son-20160106

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    My Wonderful World of Slapstick by Buster Keaton. Interesting autobiography of the Great Stone Face. Funny thing is, he points out, that in many of his early two-reelers with Roscoe Arbuckle, he did laugh and yell. Only later when he started making his own movies did he adopt the deadpan face. Audiences would boo if he broke out into a smile. I haven't yet got to the part where talkies come in; I'm looking forward to seeing how he handled the transition. The first third or so of the book is about his vaudeville years. The act he did with his father, since he was three, appartently was pretty violent with him getting tossed and manhandled all over the stage. This, he says, prepared him for all the pratfalls and sightgags of his movies. He did all his own stunts, like the one in which the wall of a building collapses toward him and he's saved by an open window that passes around him as the wall falls. He did stuff like that in one take; it was too expensive to rehearse and then do several takes.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lopez View Post
    My Wonderful World of Slapstick by Buster Keaton. Interesting autobiography of the Great Stone Face. Funny thing is, he points out, that in many of his early two-reelers with Roscoe Arbuckle, he did laugh and yell. Only later when he started making his own movies did he adopt the deadpan face. Audiences would boo if he broke out into a smile. I haven't yet got to the part where talkies come in; I'm looking forward to seeing how he handled the transition. The first third or so of the book is about his vaudeville years. The act he did with his father, since he was three, appartently was pretty violent with him getting tossed and manhandled all over the stage. This, he says, prepared him for all the pratfalls and sightgags of his movies. He did all his own stunts, like the one in which the wall of a building collapses toward him and he's saved by an open window that passes around him as the wall falls. He did stuff like that in one take; it was too expensive to rehearse and then do several takes.
    Funny, just a few days ago someone posted a nice mini-docu on the Eddie Jobson-forum about Buster (including much copied the collapsing building-scene):


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    Quote Originally Posted by interbellum View Post
    Funny, just a few days ago someone posted a nice mini-docu on the Eddie Jobson-forum about Buster (including much copied the collapsing building-scene)
    Thanks for posting. Brilliant stuff. Last night I watched his Seven Chances; the boulder avalanche in the documentary is from it. Great fun.
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    Now 4/5 through Joe Abercrombie's "Before They Are Hanged", the second volume of his acclaimed "First Law" trilogy. Great stuff. I had taken a short break from High fantasy to read Jack Vance' s "Planet of Adventure" compendium, which was a great read (love me my Vance, whose "Lyonesse" trilogy got me into the past two years' devotion to High Fantasy). Really enjoying the "First Law" trilogy.

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    Finished "Burn What Will Burn" and lit into the other book by the same author, CB McKenzie, called "Bad Country." This one has conversation written with no quotation marks. Takes some getting used to. Good story so far.
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    "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman. This will be a television show in the near future.

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    Quote Originally Posted by roylayer View Post
    "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman. This will be a television show in the near future.
    That is really good.
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    Quote Originally Posted by rickawakeman View Post
    Now 4/5 through Joe Abercrombie's "Before They Are Hanged", the second volume of his acclaimed "First Law" trilogy. Great stuff. I had taken a short break from High fantasy to read Jack Vance' s "Planet of Adventure" compendium, which was a great read (love me my Vance, whose "Lyonesse" trilogy got me into the past two years' devotion to High Fantasy). Really enjoying the "First Law" trilogy.
    I've finally got Lyonesse on my iPad (along with a couple hundred other books - no really, it's a couple hundred books. I have a problem). I'm looking forward to getting into it. The "First Law" trilogy is so great, such a thrill in the way that it turns those old fantasy tropes on their heads and then CRUSHES THEM!
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    just finished Joe Hill's "The Fireman"......it was mediocre,unlike the previous book "NOS4A2", which was awesome......even though hes Stephen King's son and has a similar writing style, he has his own voice and writes from a Gen X/ Millennial perspective, which is cool

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    Just finished Carly Simon's "Boys in the Trees" autiobio -- incredibly boring. Hopefully my next one, a Barbara Mandrell autobio, will be more interesting.

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    Just finished reading Close Your Eyes, the latest work of Michael Robotham, which got an inviation on the cover by Stephen King: "His best one so far. Impossible to put away."

    Loved his work from the start and this one is "killing", with even a kind of "Sophie's Choice"-moment for Joe O'Loughlin....

    Started reading in the new Jonathan Coe, Number 11.

    " It is a contemporary, satirical novel set in Britain during the years 2003-2015. Some characters reappear from What a Carve Up! as the novel examines the continued influence of the Winshaw family and their heirs on the political and cultural life of the nation."

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    So...

    I just finished Jonathan Hickman's Avengers/Infinity/Secret Wars mega epic for marvel and was well satisfied.

    Caveat, I had previously read his FF as well as some Image trades.
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