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If you wish to find out how completely dysfunctional the US Govt has been since Trump took over (in fact, in transition before he took office) this is the book for you. Staggering.
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Dr. Baron wrote: Julius Caesar, in particular, is a motherfucker.
It was one of my books in my O Level English Literature (from when I was 15-16).... it completely blew my mind then and still does every time I read it (maybe once a decade or so). It made me really understand characterisation, plot development and structure of reasoning. "Friends, Romans, countrymen.." is probably still my favourite speech by The Bard... the way Mark Antony twists the knives against the conspirators is a sight to behold. A mighty achievement.
I may have to read it again soon!
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Plutarch's Lives is well worth reading. You'll see that Shakespeare essentially lifted whole sections from it when he read North's translated copy of Amyot's French translation from the 1550s.
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Plutarch's Lives is well worth reading. You'll see that Shakespeare essentially lifted whole sections from it when he read North's translated copy of Amyot's French translation from the 1550s.
As T.S> Eliot memorably said: "Good poets borrow, great poets steal"
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Whew!
I just finished his latest.
The first LA Quartet ( which you’re is part of) is great. Probably his best run.
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Fonz wrote:Jimbo wrote:
Whew!
I just finished his latest.
The first LA Quartet ( which you’re is part of) is great. Probably his best run.
I gave up on him after Blood's a Rover.
I just gave up on him because of that godawful repetitive short staccato style he'd adopted did my head in.
The short, staccato style. It did my head in. Short and staccato. My head was done in.
I remember reading somewhere that were something like only 47 commas in the whole of its 600-odd pages.
The earlier quartet - the one with American Tabloid - is magnificent though. As were some of his standalone books. A very, very strange man
if you've ever seen/read an interview with him
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I met him. Asked him if he liked Zappa. The El Monte connection. He didn’t. Strange man indeed.
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Two hours in and it's Cenemascopic! One character, a white man surviving off the verdant land and plentiful game of the American west and another, a white man accepted into the Shawnee tribe. Really good!
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From a lending library ..
I'm one third of the way into the book and really enjoying it. I've never seen the mini series.
I'm one third of the way into the book and really enjoying it. I've never seen the mini series.
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Couldn't get through the Mark E. Smith thing; the guy was SUCH an asshole, especially when rubbishing past bandmates.
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Snarfyguy wrote:
Couldn't get through the Mark E. Smith thing; the guy was SUCH an asshole, especially when rubbishing past bandmates.
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Other than Cape Fear and his Travis McGee series, I haven't read much of John D. McDonald.
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Travis McGee is cool. Busted Flush!
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Fonz wrote:Travis McGee is cool. Busted Flush!
Slip F-18 Bahia Mar Marina! I was with a friend in Fort Lauderdale and as we were driving by the Bahia Mar Marina, I mentioned that Travis McGee kept his boat there, sadly less than a hour later, we heard that John D. McDonald had just died.
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Sam Stone wrote:Fonz wrote:Jimbo wrote:
Whew!
I just finished his latest.
The first LA Quartet ( which you’re is part of) is great. Probably his best run.
I gave up on him after Blood's a Rover.
I just gave up on him because of that godawful repetitive short staccato style he'd adopted did my head in.
The short, staccato style. It did my head in. Short and staccato. My head was done in.
I remember reading somewhere that were something like only 47 commas in the whole of its 600-odd pages.
The earlier quartet - the one with American Tabloid - is magnificent though. As were some of his standalone books. A very, very strange man
if you've ever seen/read an interview with him
American Tabloid is part of the same trilogy as Blood's A Rover (along with The Cold SIx Thousand). Did you mean L.A Confidential ?
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Flower wrote:Fonz wrote:Travis McGee is cool. Busted Flush!
Slip F-18 Bahia Mar Marina! I was with a friend in Fort Lauderdale and as we were driving by the Bahia Mar Marina, I mentioned that Travis McGee kept his boat there, sadly less than a hour later, we heard that John D. McDonald had just died.
That is uncanny!
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Tracy Borman "Thomas Cromwell : The untold story of Henry VIII's most faithful servant"
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I finished this yesterday after being pretty gripped by it for a few weeks. Unlike my reaction to Roth's other main characters, I found myself increasingly disliking Sabbath - his utter self absorption, his disgust for emotional intimacy, the way any intimacy he did foster inevitably ended in grubby sperm events, his emotionless dissection of everyone who had tried to love him/ hadn't loved him, his empathy bypass, his endless cock gazing as though his penis had been his only friend. I got to the end of the book finding no redeeming features in him whatsoever. I was waiting to find some, to end on a high. That high didn't come.
Beautifully written, mind you!
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Just finished this, the first of the Bernard Samson series. On to number two!
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Just finished this in almost one sitting. The author describes music amazingly well.
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