Here's Joe's website.
http://www.joerlansdale.com/
Here's Joe's website.
http://www.joerlansdale.com/
We're trying to build a monument to show that we were here
It won't be visible through the air
And there won't be any shade to cool the monument to prove that we were here. - Gene Parsons, 1973
Currently on the Kindle: Virginia Woolf's first series of "The Common Reader." Interesting essays on old books, pretty much none of which I have read or intend to...
Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.
For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History
Fascinating read.. especially if you partake of a cuppa' now and then..
Now up on the Kindle: The God Particle, by Nobel prize winner Leon Lederman.
Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.
I'm in the middle of The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides. My wife urged me to read it. Nice story, which runs of course to a who done it?
Just started "How To Be An Antiracist" by Ibram X. Kendi.I recently read a feature article about Kendi in The New Yorker and bought his book based on that article.
"please do not understand me too quickly"-andre gide
Paul Sears' book Angels & Demons That Play.
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
That's on deck for me.Originally Posted by NogbadTheBad
Currently, I'm reading a recent Hard Case Crime release, A Bloody Business, by Dylan Struzan. It's a monster tome, over 600 pages; a novelization of the beginnings of organized crime in America, the key players being Meyer Lansky, Charlie Luciano, and Benny Siegel, all just teenagers. Yeah, I know it's been done before, but I'm enjoying it.
Lou
Looking forward to my day in court.
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
Paul's book is a fun read.
The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin (1929-2007)
Published 1972
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Re-reading Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., now that the end of the world is fast approaching.
We're trying to build a monument to show that we were here
It won't be visible through the air
And there won't be any shade to cool the monument to prove that we were here. - Gene Parsons, 1973
I have a hypothesis... Writer/Director, Richard Kelly modeled Donny Darko after Cat's Cradle.
Lately I've been reading a lot of super-short short stories (1-3 pages). Back in 1982 I read and enjoyed a collection (by Howe and Howe) called "Short Shorts" and after finishing last month a 500-page novel by Connie Willis ("Crosstalk," it actually went pretty fast) I decided to treat myself to some short attention span reading. This genre is now called "flash fiction" and there's a ton of it out. I read an international compilation and I'm on my third American compilation. Like anything else some of the stories are meh, some are pretty good and some are jaw droppingly good.
After reading The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence, which has Vonnegut all over it, and these two remarks, I really should invest some more in him. Besides his most read Slaughterhouse Five I haven't read anything by him. And I love Donny Darko!
Yup, the Vonnegut world is worth spending a few months inhabiting. I recommend:
- Cat's Cradle
- Breakfast of Champions
- Slapstick
- Galapagos
- Hocus Pocus
- Timequake
- Welcome to the Monkeyhouse
- Wapeters, Foma and Granfalloons
^^thanks for the recommendations. Don't know if some of them are translated into Dutch, so maybe I have to go for the originals.
I'm also reading that now.
Fantastic list. Allow me to add "Sirens of Titan". I named my dog after Kazak , the Chrono-Synclastic Infundibulated space hound. Kazak also appears in Galápagos and Breakfast of Champions as a Doberman pinscher, a vicious guard dog which attacks Kurt's character.
I ordered a second hand copy of a translation of Cat's Cradle. It seems a lot of his books got a translation, although most of them are out of stock, so you have to go for the second hand market, which offers plenty.
The Midnight Book Club Super Box Set
Almost 600 pages of horror, in short stories and short novels by Jeremy Bates. Bates is a gifted author. I've previously read a half dozen of his
books and have enjoyed them all. This is quite good as well. Highly recommended!
A Comfort Zone is not a Life Sentence
I would honestly say that Vonnegut's masterpiece is Mother Night, which you did not list. It is the story of a man who committed (technically) war crimes (broadcasting pro-Nazi propaganda) as part of being a US spy in Germany during WWII. But his role as a spy is secret, so he is considered a war criminal, and the Nazi-hunters find him, and...
Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.
They made a movie of Mother Night, which I have seen. Good one; worth seeing if you can track it down. 1996 film starring Nick Nolte.
IIRC, Vonnegut has a cameo appearance.
We're trying to build a monument to show that we were here
It won't be visible through the air
And there won't be any shade to cool the monument to prove that we were here. - Gene Parsons, 1973
Yes, excellent film. I would read the book first though.
Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.
I have been reading the new book on Crosby Stills Nash & Young by David Browne. I am really enjoying it as it really covers a lot of ground in great detail. I had ready both of Crosby's books, Young's book, and Nash's book all of which are great, but this one sums up the whole story from all of the different perspectives. If you are into this "band" at all you would probably find it a good read.
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