Topic: Books (Read 90638 times)

Moogmodule · « **Reply #520 on:** November 11, 2019, 08:34:42 PM »

Quote from: nimrod on September 09, 2019, 10:36:07 PM

I just started reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

That is such a bleak book. I’m sure I could feel endorphins draining from me as I read it.

Moogmodule · « **Reply #521 on:** November 11, 2019, 08:37:59 PM »

Stephen King was the author who got me into reading again as an 18 year old after several years barely picking up a book. The Stand I recall. I read everything of his for years. I haven’t kept up with him as much in recent years but I did read Dr Sleep and enjoyed it. It seems to be begging for a sequel.

Beatlemaniac64 · « **Reply #522 on:** November 14, 2019, 05:54:47 PM »

Quote from: Moogmodule on November 11, 2019, 08:37:59 PM

Stephen King was the author who got me into reading again as an 18 year old after several years barely picking up a book. The Stand I recall. I read everything of his for years. I haven’t kept up with him as much in recent years but I did read Dr Sleep and enjoyed it. It seems to be begging for a sequel.

I'm absolutely obsessed with Stephen King. I too read The Stand - the uncut version. So great. "It" also ranks high for me. My favorite is his Dark Tower series, which I'm currently reading. I'm also currently reading Doctor Sleep. I'm going to try to finish it soon so that I can then go see the movie while it's still in theaters. Have you read The Shining? Doctor Sleep is a sequel to that and you said it sounds like a 3rd could be possible too?

Normandie · « **Reply #523 on:** November 14, 2019, 06:55:33 PM »

Quote from: Beatlemaniac64 on November 14, 2019, 05:54:47 PM

I too read The Stand - the uncut version. So great.

I know your post wasn't intended for me, Beatlemaniac64, but you might want to try the edited version of The Stand. In my personal opinion, it was superior to the uncut version.

Just my (unasked-for) 2 cents.

nimrod · « **Reply #524 on:** November 15, 2019, 01:24:42 AM »

I've read a couple of books by Philip Roth on my recent holiday which I really enjoyed he's a great writer.

Normandie · « **Reply #525 on:** December 22, 2019, 10:34:57 PM »

Just finished Under the Dome by Stephen King. It was fantastic; I couldn't put it down!

Moogmodule · « **Reply #526 on:** December 23, 2019, 11:40:32 PM »

Quote from: Normandie on December 22, 2019, 10:34:57 PM

Just finished Under the Dome by Stephen King. It was fantastic; I couldn't put it down!

I liked that one too. King has a way of writing those relentlessly, evil probably isn’t the word, more like pig headedly self-interested characters.

One critic did point out that the whole town went to crap extremely quickly. A bit like the South Park episode where the town resorted to cannibalism after one day of power failures or something. But that quibble aside, King does do those powers conflict stories really well.

Moogmodule · « **Reply #527 on:** December 24, 2019, 12:20:48 AM »

Quote from: Normandie on November 14, 2019, 06:55:33 PM

I know your post wasn't intended for me, Beatlemaniac64, but you might want to try the edited version of The Stand. In my personal opinion, it was superior to the uncut version.

Just my (unasked-for) 2 cents.

Yep I didn’t get much more out of the uncut. It was already a long book. Having some more exposition didn’t add anything for me.

Normandie · « **Reply #528 on:** December 26, 2019, 11:10:22 AM »

Quote from: Moogmodule on December 23, 2019, 11:40:32 PM

One critic did point out that the whole town went to crap extremely quickly.

It sure did. I kept forgetting that the time frame of the book was so short, until it was pointed out a few times in the narrative.

I found a battered copy of Dreamcatcher in my daughters' room and set that aside to read.

Normandie · « **Reply #529 on:** April 05, 2020, 04:41:59 PM »

Just finished Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident. It was so fascinating, a combination of solid research and a day-by-day 1959 narrative. I couldn't put it down. The ending blew me away.

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #530 on:** February 06, 2021, 03:01:33 AM »

Quote from: nimrod on September 20, 2018, 01:57:26 AM

Just re-read 1984, for about the 10th time in my life
I will now re-watch the movie.
The book is so absorbing, and so is the story of Orwell and the circumstances surrounding its writing.

Its a terrific read for anyone who hasnt, to say life in Orwells 'Oceania' was bleak is an understatement.

I started reading 1984 again right after the inauguration. Here are some passages that I find most intriguing...

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right.

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

Klang · « **Reply #531 on:** February 06, 2021, 11:15:22 AM »

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right.

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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So timely and true.

Normandie · « **Reply #532 on:** February 06, 2021, 04:37:58 PM »

Quote from: Hello Goodbye on February 06, 2021, 03:01:33 AM

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

Quote from: Klang on February 06, 2021, 11:15:22 AM

So timely and true.

It sure is.

I should probably dig up my old copy.

Unfortunately, none of my three kids had to read this in high school. One of the books my son had to read as part of AP English last (senior) year was, believe it or not, Into the Wild. I was aghast. Sure, it's a good book, but it's hardly literaure. He and his classmates would have been far better off if 1984 had been one of the selections.

nimrod · « **Reply #533 on:** February 08, 2021, 03:39:35 AM »

I'm reading Good morning Midnight.

Recently made into a movie called The Midnight Sky.

Lily Brooks-Dalton's powerful, haunting, contemplative debut novel, Good Morning, Midnight , is a meditation on loneliness, regret, ambition.

Enthralling so far. Much better than the film.

Imagine your first novel becomes a movie

Klang · « **Reply #534 on:** February 08, 2021, 07:31:13 PM »

Been reading musician autobiographies. Currently Jorma Kaukonen. Next up, John Fogerty.

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #535 on:** February 08, 2021, 11:59:29 PM »

Quote from: Klang on February 08, 2021, 07:31:13 PM

Been reading musician autobiographies. Currently Jorma Kaukonen. Next up, John Fogerty.

Then you're reading how Jorma Kaukonen learned fingerpicking Mississippi Delta Blues from Ian Buchanan at Antioch College...

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZOI2he4p5k" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZOI2he4p5k</a>

Ten years later, I was a student of Ian Buchanan. Here's Ian Buchanan teaching me Hesitation Blues in 1972...

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw5u6xQQ0Lc" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw5u6xQQ0Lc</a>

...from my lesson tapes

And here's Hot Tuna performing Hesitation Blues...

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjfhsLuOEWI" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjfhsLuOEWI</a>

Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady 1970

Klang · « **Reply #536 on:** February 09, 2021, 10:04:29 AM »

Yep. A good guy and a great player. I guess 'Hesitation Blues' is HT's trademark tune.

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #537 on:** February 10, 2021, 07:48:51 PM »

Hesitation Blues was on Hot Tuna's first album...

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMR_1nSPWng" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMR_1nSPWng</a>

Jorma Kaukonen credited Ian Buchanan for his instruction on the remastered CD.

Ian Buchanan took lessons from The Reverend Gary Davis in the late 1950s...

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_QuW6g7rCY" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_QuW6g7rCY</a>

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uRaewKbwug" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uRaewKbwug</a>

I guess that makes me a "third generation Blind Gary Davis student.

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #538 on:** February 10, 2021, 07:56:10 PM »

Ian Buchanan loved club dates and guitar instruction. He would begin his club gigs with Bach's Bourrée in E minor...

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TKzNYayMHQ" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TKzNYayMHQ</a>

His signature song was Windin' Boy...

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR3A1Bt7E7g" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR3A1Bt7E7g</a>

...from my lesson tapes

Ian taught Windin' Boy to Jorma Kaukonen too...

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUwNmBulUno" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUwNmBulUno</a>

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #539 on:** February 10, 2021, 08:09:41 PM »

Ian taught me many blues pieces during the three years I took lessons but the most powerful piece he taught me was Death Don't Have No Mercy...

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmFSpOcSLNE" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmFSpOcSLNE</a>

...from my lesson tapes

The Reverend Gary Davis taught Ian that piece...

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W9PuLcoZMM" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W9PuLcoZMM</a>

And Ian taught it to Jorma Kaukonen

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LHRTgngzfo" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LHRTgngzfo</a>

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