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In the end, as The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance put it, print the legend.
Common misconception, that was actually Tony Wilson.
Someone shot Tony Wilson?
Yeah but he didn't shoot the deputy.
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89) Killing John Wayne: The Making of the Conqueror - Ryan Uytdewilligen. Audiobook. 2021. The making of the film where Wayne played Genghis Khan, filmed on the sands recently irradiated by the testing of nuclear bombs. An excellent narrative, though the writer refers to "Dracula himself - Boris Karloff" which raises some questions about his research and fact checking elsewhere. The Howard Hughes involvement allows the writer to go into that guy's interesting life and decline.

90) A Head Full of Ghosts - Paul Tremblay. 2015. Audiobook. Stephen King said this book scared the living shit out of him. I know I went slowly through the book, not wanting to spend much time at once in an environment so filled with dread. It closed out well, with my relief at completing it. A young woman appears to be possessed and a reality TV show turns up to film her disintegrating family through the exorcism. Told from the perspective of the eight year old younger sister, the various voices are captured perfectly.

91) Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home - Vonda N. McIntyre. 1986. Audiobook read by George Takei. Takei was, brilliantly, encouraged to mimic his cast members voices and utterly failed, at Scott's accent in particular. He was about on par with Koenig's Russian. Great story, which lost nothing in its abridgement.

92) Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life - Robert Dallek. Audiobook. 2018. This book believes the hype around Roosevelt and of his singular ability to weather the storms of Depression and war. And maybe he was right. FDR had the guts to see what radical solutions were (to his mind, temporarily, in pursuit of capital's survival) needed, the political skill to get people to go along with him and circumstances which meant that a desperate nation and its state were ready for something new. He probably went as far as the country could allow. War made a hero of him by his fighting the fascists but led to his internment of innocent American citizens. He should never have run for a fourth term, deep into his decline but it was a historic victory. A mixed legacy
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91) Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home - Vonda N. McIntyre. 1986. Audiobook read by George Takei. Takei was, brilliantly, encouraged to mimic his cast members voices and utterly failed, at Scott's accent in particular. He was about on par with Koenig's Russian. Great story, which lost nothing in its abridgement.
It's been a while but I'm sure I've read all the Star Trek movie novelisations (and most of the TOS tv novelisations). Besides the (correctly) notoriously regarded novelization of TMP done by the Great Bird himself, my recollection is the other books are all pretty good too and add a few decent narrative arcs that aren't found in the films (around David and Saavik, particularly). Not that I don't have a gigantic stack of unread or partially read books to go through as-is, but it would be fun to revisit these someday.
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90) A Head Full of Ghosts - Paul Tremblay. 2015. Audiobook. Stephen King said this book scared the living shit out of him. I know I went slowly through the book, not wanting to spend much time at once in an environment so filled with dread. It closed out well, with my relief at completing it. A young woman appears to be possessed and a reality TV show turns up to film her disintegrating family through the exorcism. Told from the perspective of the eight year old younger sister, the various voices are captured perfectly.
I listened to this one way back when: https://clashcity.com/boards/viewtopic. ... 9&#p439289
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91) Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home - Vonda N. McIntyre. 1986. Audiobook read by George Takei. Takei was, brilliantly, encouraged to mimic his cast members voices and utterly failed, at Scott's accent in particular. He was about on par with Koenig's Russian. Great story, which lost nothing in its abridgement.
It's been a while but I'm sure I've read all the Star Trek movie novelisations (and most of the TOS tv novelisations). Besides the (correctly) notoriously regarded novelization of TMP done by the Great Bird himself, my recollection is the other books are all pretty good too and add a few decent narrative arcs that aren't found in the films (around David and Saavik, particularly). Not that I don't have a gigantic stack of unread or partially read books to go through as-is, but it would be fun to revisit these someday.
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90) A Head Full of Ghosts - Paul Tremblay. 2015. Audiobook. Stephen King said this book scared the living shit out of him. I know I went slowly through the book, not wanting to spend much time at once in an environment so filled with dread. It closed out well, with my relief at completing it. A young woman appears to be possessed and a reality TV show turns up to film her disintegrating family through the exorcism. Told from the perspective of the eight year old younger sister, the various voices are captured perfectly.
I listened to this one way back when: https://clashcity.com/boards/viewtopic. ... 9&#p439289
I think he was successful in making the meta stuff work. A young person of that generation would plausibly be up on their pop culture to that extent, though, yeah, the essays do simultaneously feel like the author talking through the book to you
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93) Romeo & Juliet - William Shakespeare. Play, early 1590s. Audio performance and text read. And Baz Luhrman film watched. I think the writer was less starry eyed about the lovers than his beautiful poetry from their mouths might suggest. You have mature voices of reason, the Friar and the Nurse, who support the title characters but don't see any reason for rushing to suicide. But the skill of this playwright is how effectively we can see things from all the points of view onstage and how deeply felt the emotions of Romeo and Juliet are. Whatever clapped out half witted send ups pop culture have breezily pooped out, this remains more interesting and vital than anything that have birth to so many clichés has any right to be. It shines as brightly as it ever has.
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93) Romeo & Juliet - William Shakespeare. Play, early 1590s. Audio performance and text read. And Baz Luhrman film watched. I think the writer was less starry eyed about the lovers than his beautiful poetry from their mouths might suggest. You have mature voices of reason, the Friar and the Nurse, who support the title characters but don't see any reason for rushing to suicide. But the skill of this playwright is how effectively we can see things from all the points of view onstage and how deeply felt the emotions of Romeo and Juliet are. Whatever clapped out half witted send ups pop culture have breezily pooped out, this remains more interesting and vital than anything that have birth to so many clichés has any right to be. It shines as brightly as it ever has.
Yeah, it's striking how effective the actual text is even if it's spawned a pop cultural monster of misremembrance of the actual contents of the play. There's a reason it can work so well in almost any cultural mashup.
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Silent Majority wrote:
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93) Romeo & Juliet - William Shakespeare. Play, early 1590s. Audio performance and text read. And Baz Luhrman film watched. I think the writer was less starry eyed about the lovers than his beautiful poetry from their mouths might suggest. You have mature voices of reason, the Friar and the Nurse, who support the title characters but don't see any reason for rushing to suicide. But the skill of this playwright is how effectively we can see things from all the points of view onstage and how deeply felt the emotions of Romeo and Juliet are. Whatever clapped out half witted send ups pop culture have breezily pooped out, this remains more interesting and vital than anything that have birth to so many clichés has any right to be. It shines as brightly as it ever has.
Yeah, it's striking how effective the actual text is even if it's spawned a pop cultural monster of misremembrance of the actual contents of the play. There's a reason it can work so well in almost any cultural mashup.
For real. This journey through the guy's work has been predictably rewarding so far.

94) The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy - David Nasaw. 2012. Audiobook. Kennedys main contribution to the world was to be a good enough father to his sons to allow them to find their own way politically and not be beholden to his foul anti-Semitism. With Teddy's vigorous involvement, it's hard not to expect some kind of whitewashing, but the story, varnished or un-, is still quite incredible and his end remains like that of a Greek tragedy
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for Hooks, who likes to read in the tub

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Fake. Where's the glass of rosé?
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Just about finished up with this one, it's been fascinating so far. I'm always really interested in the stories of the people that weren't in bands (to begin with anyway). I always thought a movie about the Bromley Contingent would be really enlightening. Who were these individualists who coalesced to make punk what it was? What were their motivations? What are they doing now? I admit I'm a bit of a victim of Golden Age Thinking for that era.
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Just about finished up with this one, it's been fascinating so far. I'm always really interested in the stories of the people that weren't in bands (to begin with anyway). I always thought a movie about the Bromley Contingent would be really enlightening. Who were these individualists who coalesced to make punk what it was? What were their motivations? What are they doing now? I admit I'm a bit of a victim of Golden Age Thinking for that era.
I really want to read this, I've heard Marky and others recommend it. I ordered a copy of this a few months back and the week it was supposed to arrive I was notified the order was cancelled because the book was unavailable. Just found out it's coming out in October in paperback, so I pre-ordered a copy, keeping my fingers crossed.
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Just about finished up with this one, it's been fascinating so far. I'm always really interested in the stories of the people that weren't in bands (to begin with anyway). I always thought a movie about the Bromley Contingent would be really enlightening. Who were these individualists who coalesced to make punk what it was? What were their motivations? What are they doing now? I admit I'm a bit of a victim of Golden Age Thinking for that era.
I really want to read this, I've heard Marky and others recommend it. I ordered a copy of this a few months back and the week it was supposed to arrive I was notified the order was cancelled because the book was unavailable. Just found out it's coming out in October in paperback, so I pre-ordered a copy, keeping my fingers crossed.
I decided to plunk down for the signed slipcover version, I found a cheap one on AbeBooks so it was an easy choice. Definitely a book I won't be selling to my local used shop anyway.
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The Fall, the 2nd of the Strain trilogy. Not as much a page turner as the first, but still good. I'll start the 3rd after a break.
Omg I'm reading the 3rd right now! I don't think it's much of a page turner either but then the whole series was slightly spoilt for me b/c I watched the TV show first. Still pretty enjoyable to read though!
I finally finished the 3rd Strain book, I don't think it ever took me so long to read a book. Not that I didn't like it, I got fatigued on the story, reading 3 in a row was basically a 1500+ page book. I'm gonna rewatch the series now!
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