BillF Posted September 2, 2017 Report Share Posted September 2, 2017 9 hours ago, kinuta said: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted September 2, 2017 Report Share Posted September 2, 2017 Josephine Tey: The Daughter Of Time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejp626 Posted September 4, 2017 Report Share Posted September 4, 2017 I'm finding I have no particular interest in any of the characters in Lucky Jim and don't care what happens to them. (Furthermore, David Lodge writes much more pointed satire of academia.) I'll finish it, as it is fairly short, but I am already looking ahead to The Good Soldier, which I liked very much in my 20s, so I hope I still feel the same now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted September 7, 2017 Report Share Posted September 7, 2017 A definite Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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crisp Posted September 11, 2017 Report Share Posted September 11, 2017 On 09/09/2017 at 0:07 PM, Brad said: I read this a few weeks ago. An interesting book. Reminded me of The Killer Inside Me in its psychopathic narrator. I haven't seen the Nicholas Ray film. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinuta Posted September 14, 2017 Report Share Posted September 14, 2017 Deliciously well written and enjoyable. It really does feel like a long lost , previously unpublished part of the cold war series. He brilliantly recaptures the prose, mood and atmosphere of his great work. So good I'm keeping in check my natural impulse to binge read the whole thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted September 14, 2017 Report Share Posted September 14, 2017 6 hours ago, kinuta said: Deliciously well written and enjoyable. It really does feel like a long lost , previously unpublished part of the cold war series. He brilliantly recaptures the prose, mood and atmosphere of his great work. So good I'm keeping in check my natural impulse to binge read the whole thing. Copy reserved at public library. Am about number 50 on the list! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejp626 Posted September 14, 2017 Report Share Posted September 14, 2017 On 9/4/2017 at 10:33 PM, ejp626 said:  I'll finish it, as it is fairly short, but I am already looking ahead to The Good Soldier, which I liked very much in my 20s, so I hope I still feel the same now. I definitely felt The Good Soldier was a bit too drawn out this time around and a bit too needlessly convoluted. We get the gist of what happened by p 50 or even sooner, and then the rest is sort of a baroque filling in of a lot of details and much more back story. Which would be fine if some of it didn't seem just so repetitive. The last few pages do redeem it a fair bit where we finally get a sense that the narrator isn't quite the angel he often portrays himself as. It's still a solid book, but I wasn't blown away by it as I was in my 20s. Carr's A Month in the Country next, and I am also trying to wrap up Fontane's Irretrievable (NYRB). I compared Irretrievable and No Way Back (Penguin) and finally plumped for the (older) translation published by NYRB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted September 16, 2017 Report Share Posted September 16, 2017 On 9/11/2017 at 11:40 AM, crisp said: I read this a few weeks ago. An interesting book. Reminded me of The Killer Inside Me in its psychopathic narrator. I haven't seen the Nicholas Ray film. A great study of the criminal mind that builds in intensity. On 9/14/2017 at 8:44 PM, kinuta said: Deliciously well written and enjoyable. It really does feel like a long lost , previously unpublished part of the cold war series. He brilliantly recaptures the prose, mood and atmosphere of his great work. So good I'm keeping in check my natural impulse to binge read the whole thing. I'm a big fan of the Karla Trilogy having read it several times and countlessly watched the Alec Guinness portrayals of Smiley.  Can't wait to get it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted September 16, 2017 Report Share Posted September 16, 2017 A powerful book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted September 16, 2017 Report Share Posted September 16, 2017 Craig Johnson: The Western Star Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted September 16, 2017 Report Share Posted September 16, 2017 Very interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted September 17, 2017 Report Share Posted September 17, 2017 Returned to this one after 10 years and very rewarding, too. Must re-read the rest of the trilogy soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Gould Posted September 17, 2017 Report Share Posted September 17, 2017 Only benefit of the hurricane was ample time for reading. Finished these two in the past week: Fascinating piece of reporting, in his own way the 'good' Bulger was as dirty as the 'bad' one. And this was a mind-blower: Imagine growing up with a love/hate relationship with your father, becoming a homicide detective, re-connecting with your father before his death, then discovering photos of the Black Dahlia murder victim in his personal album, undertaking your own homicide investigation, and figuring out that your father killed the Black Dahlia and probably many, many others - while you were a boy living in his house.  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted September 19, 2017 Report Share Posted September 19, 2017 On 9/16/2017 at 11:10 AM, Brad said: A powerful book. This is simply an amazing book. The author, a psychiatrist, survived four concentration camps, and a good part of the book (the book is 160 pages in length) details those experiences and how he survived. The remainder revolves around his theories that we can find meaning from suffering.  He quotes Nietzsche that he who has a "why" to live for can bear with almost any "how." This a good article about the book, http://benjaminmcevoy.com/7-lessons-learned-mans-search-meaning-viktor-e-frankl-book-review/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BillF Posted September 20, 2017 Report Share Posted September 20, 2017 14 hours ago, John Tapscott said: I think that was the Herman biog I read some years ago. Full of fascinating insights. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Tapscott Posted September 20, 2017 Report Share Posted September 20, 2017 (edited) 6 hours ago, BillF said: I think that was the Herman biog I read some years ago. Full of fascinating insights. I have two other Herman bios on my shelves - a shorter one called "Woody Herman" by British writer Steve Voce, and "The Leader of the Band" by Gene Lees (which typically is 1/3 Lees and 2/3rds Herman, but has good insights, too). I'm enjoying Clancy's book which is very good on Herman's early years (pre First Herd). Edited September 20, 2017 by John Tapscott Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted September 20, 2017 Report Share Posted September 20, 2017 Nicole Krauss: Forest Dark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.D. Posted September 20, 2017 Report Share Posted September 20, 2017 Preparing for the new novel, which will take a while to get from the library. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted September 20, 2017 Report Share Posted September 20, 2017 4 hours ago, T.D. said: Preparing for the new novel, which will take a while to get from the library. I know what you mean. My reservation is now number 23 in a list of 74. There are 7 copies circulating. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinuta Posted September 22, 2017 Report Share Posted September 22, 2017 (edited) Skippable. I did like the parts that dealt with interstellar travel and navigation and filled in details of the galactic exploration. The story itself was boring. On 20/09/2017 at 2:15 AM, BillF said: I know what you mean. My reservation is now number 23 in a list of 74. There are 7 copies circulating. Â IÂ haven't read The Pigeon Tunnel Is it worth getting or just a rehash of themes explored in The Perfect Spy ? The new one is very good. Edited September 22, 2017 by kinuta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted September 23, 2017 Report Share Posted September 23, 2017 9 hours ago, kinuta said: Skippable. I did like the parts that dealt with interstellar travel and navigation and filled in details of the galactic exploration. The story itself was boring. IÂ haven't read The Pigeon Tunnel Is it worth getting or just a rehash of themes explored in The Perfect Spy ? The new one is very good. Pigeon Tunnel is very scrappy. Series of anecdotes thrown together. Definitely missable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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