Airplane reading for my flight from JFK to PDX visit our daughter.
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I've been watching Lincoln Lawyer on Netflix - knew nothing about but thought Old Abe somehow figured in it (spoiler he doesn't the titular Lincoln is the car). Anyway liked the characters and show enough that I binged both seasons and am now dipping a toe into the series of books the show is based on.
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Final book in Steven Saylor's historical fictional trilogy on the lives of an ancient Roman family. Spans a millennia from the founding to the Roman Kingdom to the fall of the western empire. I started this series over a decade ago and never got around to finishing it.
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Mostly because Sherman is a fascinating character and there are huge holes in my knowledge of the Civil War which I should fix.
I think I read all the Harry Bosch books, but out of order and some so long ago that I can't remember everything he did. Same with Mickey Haller. But I love the new cold cases that Harry Bosch is solving with the female detective who works the night shift in Hollywood. Renée Ballard. I always hope Connelly will write another one of those.Connolly is great fun. The Lincoln Lawyer series is excellent.
I've seen bits of that - it featured some odd processing, to make the movie look like rotoscopy? Very interesting, but I came in after it had been running for a while, & I couldn't remember enough of the novel to make sense of it. Maybe I'll track it down in DVD, & be able to back up on the parts I was dubious on ...View attachment 67476059
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick (1977) I finally managed to snag a new print edition of this book, and it's typical PKD at his best and worst: a tremendous goldmine of ideas, yet almost undone by opaque writing. It's set in the near future when America lost the drug war. Bob Arctor is a narc whos tasked with finding the supplier of a new drug called Substance D, a powerful opiate that can split the mind in half and destroy it. Arctor is an unreliable narrator because he becomes addicted to the drug, and he ends up becoming two people: one being a leader of a small group of junkies whos paranoid about police being out to get him, and another being a narc who spies on his other self.
The book is partly autobiographical since PKD opened his house to a group of junkies and stopped writing for a few years after his first divorce when his wife left him. The writing is also dense and stilted, and I had to reread a number of passages in order to fully grasp what was going on. Nevertheless, its a mindbender of a novel, and was even made into a movie starring Keanu Reeves and Robert Downey Jr. Rating 8/10
I tried reading one of the Bosch books, but it felt so generic I couldnt finish it.I think I read all the Harry Bosch books, but out of order and some so long ago that I can't remember everything he did. Same with Mickey Haller. But I love the new cold cases that Harry Bosch is solving with the female detective who works the night shift in Hollywood. Renée Ballard. I always hope Connelly will write another one of those.
Yeah, they sort of animated it to save on the budget. It doesnt cover the whole book, so you might want to check it out on both mediums.I've seen bits of that - it featured some odd processing, to make the movie look like rotoscopy? Very interesting, but I came in after it had been running for a while, & I couldn't remember enough of the novel to make sense of it. Maybe I'll track it down in DVD, & be able to back up on the parts I was dubious on ...
Thanks. Yah, maybe that's why my memory didn't seem to track with the events in the movie. Maybe I remembered stuff that wound up on the cutting room floor? Darkly appropriate, it was a Phillip Dick novel, after all ...I tried reading one of the Bosch books, but it felt so generic I couldnt finish it.
Yeah, they sort of animated it to save on the budget. It doesnt cover the whole book, so you might want to check it out on both mediums.
Not read it but it is ironic that you brought this up today. In another forum, someone brought up the topic of Islam (they're broad brushing the religion to be all the same as Hamas), and something about a fatwa was mentioned, and of course that led to issues with Rushdie and the fatwa that Khomeini laid against him.I'm trying to read Salman Rushdie's 'Satanic Verses' to see what the fuss is about. Whoa! Not sure if I'm going to continue. Has anyone here read it?
I won't spend any time defending Michael Connelly. I will look for his next book about Harry Bosch and Renée Ballard, because I really enjoy those. He is not one of my favorite authors, however. My husband and I just had an interesting conversation ranging over a few days about Civization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud, which he is now reading. That is a book I defended. My husband was absolutely hating it as he read it, finding it very hard to read. He just gave a presentation about Freud to a meet-up group he attends and I was surprised that he found it so difficult to read this one. That is one book that I really loved.I tried reading one of the Bosch books, but it felt so generic I couldnt finish it.
Yeah, they sort of animated it to save on the budget. It doesnt cover the whole book, so you might want to check it out on both mediums.
I recently read The Maze by DeMille. I didn't rush to read it, given the reviews, and there was no reason to have have rushed. I loved some of DeMille's early work with real intrigue like Plum Island and books about possible terrorism. I found this book to be mediocre. I hope you enjoy (or enjoyed) it.I am close to finishing The Asset by Saul Herzog.
It is an international spy thriller well done. The first book I’ve read by Herzog. I’ve already downloaded the next one in the series on my Kindle.
Also on deck are the recent releases by Nelson DeMille and Jo Nesbo.
I recently read The Maze by DeMille. I didn't rush to read it, given the reviews, and there was no reason to have have rushed. I loved some of DeMille's early work with real intrigue like Plum Island and books about possible terrorism. I found this book to be mediocre. I hope you enjoy (or enjoyed) it.![]()
I read By the Rivers of Babylon, which although dated, was still very good.The Maze was, I think, the first book DeMille co-authored with his son. I agree, it wasn’t among his best. Plum Island was pure DeMille, a fine read.
Could the bolded be a ripoff from Shakespeare? Whether and how Godot comes I will leave to your eager eyes. Suffice to say I find more value in life as a human than does Beckett.Samuel Beckett said:It is true that when with folded arms we weigh the pros and cons we are no less a credit to our species. The tiger bounds to the help of his congeners without the least reflexion, or else he slinks away into the depths of the thickets. But that is not the question. What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in this immense confusion one thing alone is clear.We are waiting for Godot to come.