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  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Creasy47 wrote: »
    Finally checking out my first book of the year (better late than never), reading Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas for the first time, after seeing the film 100 or more times. Love it.

    Really funny film. That scene where they suddenly get spaced out and can hardly walk is hilarious. Haven t read the book, but several of his articles.
  • Agent_99Agent_99 enjoys a spirited ride as much as the next girl
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    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    Really funny film. That scene where they suddenly get spaced out and can hardly walk is hilarious. Haven t read the book, but several of his articles.

    I've read Hell's Angels (inevitably) and enjoyed it very much.
  • MSL49MSL49 Finland
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    James Bond Vargr.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    Finally checking out my first book of the year (better late than never), reading Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas for the first time, after seeing the film 100 or more times. Love it.

    Really funny film. That scene where they suddenly get spaced out and can hardly walk is hilarious. Haven t read the book, but several of his articles.

    Love that scene, watching them struggle to get into the casino. That whole film is classic to me, it's in my Top 10 all time. Lots of funny moments.
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    Two titles I read recently: George Lucas: A Life by Brian Jay Jones and Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Both enjoyable, Holmes especially by Doyle is a bit easier to read in short story form. George Lucas proves how self centered he is. He can say he truly worked for his success though.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY (Alice A. Bailey, 1947)
  • CraterGunsCraterGuns
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  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST (Alice Bailey, 1948)
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    The Sign of Four. Arthur Conan Doyle, of course. My Halloween reads are done, I am switching to crime fiction for Noirvember.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    THEOSOPHIE (Einfuhrung in ubersinnliche Welterkenntnis und Menschenbestimmung) by Dr. Rudolf Steiner, 1922.
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    My mom finished Forrest Gump and Gump & Co. by Winston Groom. She liked the former, not the latter. I recommend that as well.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    THE SOUL AND ITS MECHANISM
    The Problem of Psychology
    BY
    ALICE A. BAILEY

    COPYRIGHT © 1930 BY LUCIS TRUST

  • LudovicoLudovico
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    I, The Jury, by Mickey Spillane.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    TELEPATHY AND THE ETHERIC VEHICLE (Alice A. Bailey, 1950)
  • Agent_99Agent_99 enjoys a spirited ride as much as the next girl
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    The new David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue, chronicling a fictional 1960s band. It's right up my street and I'm loving it.

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  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    Always looking up by Michael J Fox.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE
    BY ALICE A. BAILEY
    1925

  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    I know what I’ll be reading soon, I can’t wait!

    https://deadline.com/2020/11/quentin-tarantino-two-book-deal-harpercollins-novel-once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-cinema-speculation-70s-movie-deep-dive-1234616927/
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    The Stanley Kubrick Archives edited by Alison Castle.
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    The Saint's Getaway by Leslie Charteris. Plodding through it. The writing is very dated.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Ludovico wrote: »
    The Saint's Getaway by Leslie Charteris. Plodding through it. The writing is very dated.

    It's not a PC plod then?

    I'm here all week. ;)
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    Dragonpol wrote: »
    Ludovico wrote: »
    The Saint's Getaway by Leslie Charteris. Plodding through it. The writing is very dated.

    It's not a PC plod then?

    I'm here all week. ;)

    It might as well be. No wonder Bond pretty much eclipsed him. Maybe that's for the controversial thread (one of them anyway), but I think if it was not of Roger Moore, Simon Templar would be almost forgotten, except by a handful of diehard fans. The Saint is like a water downed Arsene Lupin, Charteris prose is verbose and convoluted, Prince Rudolf is a moustache twirling villain that is all arrogance and no real menace. Years ago I read a Saint story which I thought was really good, this one, not so much.
  • Agent_99Agent_99 enjoys a spirited ride as much as the next girl
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    The Saint's Getaway is a very early one IIRC (originally 'Getaway' before they all had Saint in the titles) and Charteris does settle down a bit as he gets to know and love the character. I like the prewar ones best, when he's running around with his gang and has a regular girlfriend.

    Personally I love the prose and put it on a par with Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey novels for humour and style. But differing opinions are part of the fun of this forum!
  • TorgeirtrapTorgeirtrap
    edited December 2020 Posts: 17,753
    Moonflower Murders (2020) by Anthony Horowitz. The follow-up to Magpie Murders (2016), it's the second novel featuring publisher Susan Ryeland. Just like Magpie Murders, Moonflower Murders follows the story within a story format.
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    Agent_99 wrote: »
    The Saint's Getaway is a very early one IIRC (originally 'Getaway' before they all had Saint in the titles) and Charteris does settle down a bit as he gets to know and love the character. I like the prewar ones best, when he's running around with his gang and has a regular girlfriend.

    Personally I love the prose and put it on a par with Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey novels for humour and style. But differing opinions are part of the fun of this forum!

    Generally I don't mind at all writers from that time. And I love the time period and the setting. It's just something about the descriptions, the kind of verbosity. I find it too rich.
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    Finished Sadie When She Died by Ed McBain and started reading Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Both are Christmas reads, in different ways.
  • RevelatorRevelator
    edited December 2020 Posts: 2,917
    The Fire of Joy: Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart and Say Aloud, edited by Clive James.

    A superb anthology of 80+ poems in English, stretching from the 1500s to 2008. A scintillating mix of classics and hidden treasures. Published in late September, this was Clive James's last book--the brilliant man-of-letters died a little over a year ago. He wore many hats during his career--literary critic, essayist, TV critic, lyricist, TV host, novelist, memoirist--but his first and last roles were as a poet. In this book his commentaries demonstrate his good humor, taste and commitment.
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    ESOTERIC PSYCHOLOGY vol 1 by Alice Bailey
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  • SomethingThatAteHimSomethingThatAteHim
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    Currently reading Moby Dick for the first time. I was flying through the early portions of the book, but I’ve slowed down once it hit the chapter on categorizing Cetology.
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