What are you reading?
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Re: What are you reading?
"Game of Shadows"...about Victor Conte, Greg Anderson, Marion Jones, Barry Bonds and the BALCO steroid scandal. I can't believe the amounts and types of drugs (some, concocted by self-styled "pharmaceutical chemists" and entirely experimental) which the athletes were putting into their bodies.
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I'm reading or mostly looking at the pretty pictures, some English home decorating book. She does mostly for rich British rock stars and some such, and her interiors are fabulous.
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Re: What are you reading?
Kaputt by Curzio Malaparte
Synopsis: Curzio Malaparte was a disaffected supporter of Mussolini with a taste for danger and high living. Sent by an Italian paper during World War II to cover the fighting on the Eastern Front, Malaparte secretly wrote this terrifying report from the abyss, which became an international bestseller when it was published after the war. Telling of the siege of Leningrad, of glittering dinner parties with Nazi leaders, and of trains disgorging bodies in war-devastated Romania, Malaparte paints a picture of humanity at its most depraved.
Synopsis: Curzio Malaparte was a disaffected supporter of Mussolini with a taste for danger and high living. Sent by an Italian paper during World War II to cover the fighting on the Eastern Front, Malaparte secretly wrote this terrifying report from the abyss, which became an international bestseller when it was published after the war. Telling of the siege of Leningrad, of glittering dinner parties with Nazi leaders, and of trains disgorging bodies in war-devastated Romania, Malaparte paints a picture of humanity at its most depraved.
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Re: What are you reading?
Human Devolution by Michael Cremo. It will just blow your mind. It's a Vedic (Hindu) interpretation of Darwins theory of evolution. Cremo made his name researching out of place artifacts which he published in Forbidden Archaeology. Things like manufactured artifacts in rock strata dating from 50 million to a billion years before the accepted date for the dawn of man. He presents his argument that humans have existed on this planet off and on thru the eons rising and falling and forgotten in time to those who discover the remains. He presents the physical evidence then takes on Darwin eventually seeking a proper explanation thru ancient scriptures ultimately defining the model of what a human really is.
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Michael Ruhlman's "House"
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Re: What are you reading?
I'm just finishing up the hundred year old man who climbed out a window and disappeared. Read contact by Carl Sagan recently. It was quite good, but I think he was better at TV than writing novels
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Re: What are you reading?
Mikhail Bulgakov (Михаи́л Афана́сьевич Булга́ков), "The Master and Margarita" (Мастер и Маргарита), again.
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Re: What are you reading?
Weird, I just started that today.Palinka wrote:Mikhail Bulgakov (Михаи́л Афана́сьевич Булга́ков), "The Master and Margarita" (Мастер и Маргарита), again.
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Re: What are you reading?
I'm halfway through the Maltese Falcon by Dasheill Hammett.
That was a great book!Mr. Viking wrote:I'm just finishing up the hundred year old man who climbed out a window and disappeared.
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Now, that is a great book. I reread, at least, every two years.kowalski wrote:I'm halfway through the Maltese Falcon by Dasheill Hammett...
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Re: What are you reading?
I take it you've seen the film as well? How do you think the two compare?Palinka wrote:Now, that is a great book. I reread, at least, every two years.kowalski wrote:I'm halfway through the Maltese Falcon by Dasheill Hammett...
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Re: What are you reading?
There are a lot of versions.
The 1931, Maltese Falcon.
The 1936 version, Satan Met a Lady.
And the, more famous, 1941 version, The Maltese Falcon; which is the one that most people are familiar with.
And that's without counting all the TV and Radio versions.
To be honest, all of the films that I have listed all have something going for them. However, the book, as any book can, gives so much more. In the end, really, comparing books and film is akin to comparing "apples and oranges" (as the old saw, has it). My best suggestion is to enjoy them all (do seek out the 1931 and the 1936 versions).
The 1931, Maltese Falcon.
The 1936 version, Satan Met a Lady.
And the, more famous, 1941 version, The Maltese Falcon; which is the one that most people are familiar with.
And that's without counting all the TV and Radio versions.
To be honest, all of the films that I have listed all have something going for them. However, the book, as any book can, gives so much more. In the end, really, comparing books and film is akin to comparing "apples and oranges" (as the old saw, has it). My best suggestion is to enjoy them all (do seek out the 1931 and the 1936 versions).
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Re: What are you reading?
Much to do with Zenarchy and cabbages and such. A big boy made me do it.
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Re: What are you reading?
Just finished the 'Black Dahlia Avenger' Steve Hodel. Talk about murder mysteries solved, this is total documentary no shit.
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