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Post by Mr. Kaplansky on Nov 17, 2015 11:37:48 GMT -5
(If you have some favorite boos, please share titles).
I just finished: "The Book Of Joan" by Melissa Rivers.
Iam currently reading: "I'll Never Write My Memoirs" by Grace Jones. She is an interesting character.
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Post by erik on Nov 17, 2015 18:10:33 GMT -5
Paul Seydor, author, frequent film editor, and an authority on all things to do with Sam Peckinpah, wrote this extremely penetrating look at the behind-the-scenes turmoil involved in the making of what would be the final Western of that controversial Hollywood maverick (and also, arguably, the greatest Western of the 1970s). Seydor also looks into the real-life Old West legend that gave rise to it, the film's eventual revival from the ashes of poor reviews and mediocre box office in 1973, and how the utterly tragic nature of the story itself informed not only the America of the early 1970s (Watergate; Vietnam), but also the America of today. Hector Tobar's book about the Chilean mining disaster that left thirty-three miners trapped almost half a mile beneath Chile's Atacama Desert for sixty-nine days in the summer and fall of 2010 is a very compelling read, comparable to the classic 1974 Piers Paul Read book Alive (about the 1972 Andean plane crash in which the survivors were forced into cannibalism). This book is the basis for the equally compelling film THE 33.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2015 20:58:51 GMT -5
Actually listening to the audiobook... Steven King accurately described it as THE time travel novel...
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Post by erik on May 24, 2018 9:31:04 GMT -5
Michael Benson looks at the four year-long process of director Stanley Kubrick and writer Arthur C. Clarke trying to make what Kubrick hoped would be the "proverbial good science fiction movie"...which, in the end, resulted in the creation of a (quite controversial) masterpiece that is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.
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Post by eddiejinnj on May 24, 2018 10:20:02 GMT -5
I am an avid Patterson reader but I do read a great variety of books. I am currently reading "The Girl in Alfred Hitchcock's Shower" by Robert Graysmith. Very interesting read so far. eddiejinnj
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Post by erik on Jul 12, 2018 8:41:14 GMT -5
Before leaking the Pentagon Papers in 1971, Daniel Ellsberg also was involved with planning nuclear war strategies at the Rand Corporation and the Pentagon. In this book, Ellsberg describes in detail that entire history of his, and the whole of the history that surrounds it.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2018 12:10:57 GMT -5
In kind of a nostalgic mood so I reading this book my brother left for me... Attachments:
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Post by Partridge on Jul 12, 2018 13:08:46 GMT -5
Not ready anything so heavy these days- I just finished Everything's Bigger in Texas- The Life & Times of Kinky Friedman and I have just started Every Night is Saturday Night, the biography of Wanda Jackson (foreword by that noted a-hole Elvis Costello, who we still wish a speedy recovery.)
Next up on my list is a classic, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2018 16:45:03 GMT -5
I would have been tempted to vote for Kinky Friedman when he ran for governor of Texas..
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Post by erik on Mar 24, 2019 12:44:28 GMT -5
Author W.K. Stratton looks at one of the seminal films of the turbulent late 1960s, namely director Sam Peckinpah's magisterial (and extremely violent) 1969 Western epic THE WILD BUNCH. The film goes into detail of the production itself, and how what the director once called "a simple adventure story" about American outlaws caught up in the rush of the Mexican Revolution of 1913 turned into one of the most debated movies of any kind in Hollywood history.
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Post by Partridge on Mar 25, 2019 14:37:07 GMT -5
I am currently reading Educated, by Tara Westover.
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