I am finishing up Pudd'nhead Wilson by Twain. Later today I will most likely start Wizard and Glass. However, Gunpowder by Joe Hill might be a nice little book to read before I start DT4 again.
For audio, I'm currently on Black House.
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jude, I liked The Road. I love your disclaimer.
Thanks. Now I have to clean Diet Coke off my monitor.Originally Posted by obscurejude
"People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard
"You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain
I just read Middlesex a few days ago... anyone else read it? I loved it. I actually forgot I wasn't reading about a real person for a while.
Go for it, it's a great book. And it's got that old school King feel to it.I'm thinking about starting Blaze....
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
Ryan = President of Cormac McCarthy fan club
He has a shirt, a hat, a laminated ID card and a certificate suitable for framing. Certificate has no punctuation.
I was really just trying to help a friend out (you), but somehow I felt like Luther at the Diet of Worms attempting to save his life because he wanted to debate 95 theses with his school mates at Wittenberg.
Anything for you Dags.Thanks. Now I have to clean Diet Coke off my monitor.
Yes but I don't recall Luther and his accusers discussing the punctuation of the theses.
Luther: "You can see that by not putting quotation marks in the Bible, God has made it explicit that the Emperor is not without sin."
"People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard
"You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain
What is this, a GRE analogy test?Yes but I don't recall Luther and his accusers discussing the punctuation of the theses.
Luther: "You can see that by not putting quotation marks in the Bible, God has made it explicit that the Emperor is not without sin."
My point was that he just wanted to have a conversation among colleagues that placed him in an awkward apologetic situation, i.e. he never meant to be become a protestant and much less THE protestant.
Your obsessive compulsive disorder would be the printing press if you'd care to take the analogy further.
Nope, just my inability to resist making a joke out of just about anything. I can take the clown out of my av/sig combo but not... you see where I'm going with this.What is this, a GRE analogy test?
I suppose he'd have gotten in more trouble saying he was "just playing Devil's advocate?"
Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week.
Everything. And I mean EVERYTHING is in Finnegan's Wake. That being said, I can only read it in bits and pieces.
McCarthy on the other hand, I've come to love. Blood Meridian. Still gives me chills.
The wrath of the witch-burners is in direct proportion to the comeliness of the witch.
Clark Ashton Smith
I want to read Blood Meridian before the movie is released.
Just read Of Mice and Men. I know people will hate me for this, but... I don't really like Steinbeck. It's like slogging through constant metaphor. I just can't relax and enjoy myself with him.
You have time. It still hasn't been made. But Ridley Scott is signed on to direct.
The wrath of the witch-burners is in direct proportion to the comeliness of the witch.
Clark Ashton Smith
Well if Ridley Scott is going to direct, then definitely read it first because that friggin' hack will destroy it in adaptation.You have time. It still hasn't been made. But Ridley Scott is signed on to direct.
I go back and forth on Ridley. "King of Heaven" hurt me personally. I've been a long time coming back from it. Can't be any worse than what Billy Bob Thornton did to "All the Pretty Horses".Well if Ridley Scott is going to direct, then definitely read it first because that friggin' hack will destroy it in adaptation.You have time. It still hasn't been made. But Ridley Scott is signed on to direct.
The wrath of the witch-burners is in direct proportion to the comeliness of the witch.
Clark Ashton Smith
One of the few thing saving Ridley Scott from being my least favorite director is the existence of his brother Tony. What he did to Tarantino's intended ending for True Romance is unforgivable.
Neither is it to bears, with the only exception of haiku.
And, Brice! Bears are going to read A Clockwork Orange, they have already downloaded it! My wife has a laptop now, so I can read electronic books; ACO is on the list right after I'm through with Barker and Lovecraft; I keep reading a few paper books parallel to those, too, so it's not very soon, but sooner than it would have been without laptop.
Awesome! I am loving your reading list this year, Jean...Barker, Lovecraft, Machen, and sometime soon Burgess.
So...should I read McCarthy, Ryan?
Well, maybe not EVERYTHING, but alot. It's a sort of maddening poetic genius. I think the best thing anyone can do with Joyce is start at Dubliners and read all his works in order. It makes it a bit more readable.
I'm a total newcomer to this thread but this year for some reason I decided to keep a journal of the books I read. On January 1 I began to read The Count of Monte Cristo, the new translation. Great stuff!
Oh I wish you would read it in French some day! Bears love Dumas père.
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well I did study French in high school. I recall very little of it. However, the translation is said to be very close to the original, reinstating the many omissions and distortions that have been made in earlier English versions.
Are they going to use punctuation in the script, or are the actors just going to speak in run-on sentences?
Sorry, couldn't resist.
"People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard
"You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain
The latter - and at the end of the movie, after the credits, there will be a piece of text saying ....
Spoiler:
Are they going to use punctuation in the script, or are the actors just going to speak in run-on sentences?
Sorry, couldn't resist.
He uses punctuation and is from the school of minimalism, meaning the sentences are actually quite short and expressive in their simplicity. True, no quotation marks, but there remains other forms of punctuation, like periods.
Oh, now it would be even funnier if the actors walked around using "air quotes".
"People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard
"You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain
I think Dags, Jayson, and Brice have been drinking too much -
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