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what's it about anyway?Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑11 Jun 2019, 3:55pmWikipedia says November this year. I'm intrigued how Kubrick reveals the truth behind 9/11 in this one.tepista wrote: ↑11 Jun 2019, 3:32pmi'm pretty sure there's a movie on the wayDr. Medulla wrote: ↑11 Jun 2019, 12:19pmA former friend of mine who is a massive King fan—he actually got me into reading King—rates The Shining as his favourite book of all time. Reads it once a year. And I'm sure that's why he outright despised Dr. Sleep. That it sullies the original by association with its mediocrity. I've never taken to The Shining like him or others. It's solid but it never spoke to me like it does others.Silent Majority wrote: ↑11 Jun 2019, 12:10pmI think it's fair to say that some of my lukewarm approval springs from my affection for the original.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑11 Jun 2019, 12:00pmI won't say I outright hated Dr. Sleep, but it was so blah that I couldn't imagine why he felt the need to return to that character. It was the kind of dumb sequel that you'd think Hollywood would make of his stuff.
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Danny grows up fucked up from the experience at the Overlook but eventually finds some peace at a hospice, using his abilities to help people die peacefully. Then he comes across a cult of vampires who feed off kids with psychic powers and tries to help them. There's a bunch of stuff about being a recovered alcoholic and making peace with Jack Nicholson, too. It's pretty dull.tepista wrote: ↑14 Jun 2019, 4:14pmwhat's it about anyway?Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑11 Jun 2019, 3:55pmWikipedia says November this year. I'm intrigued how Kubrick reveals the truth behind 9/11 in this one.tepista wrote: ↑11 Jun 2019, 3:32pmi'm pretty sure there's a movie on the wayDr. Medulla wrote: ↑11 Jun 2019, 12:19pmA former friend of mine who is a massive King fan—he actually got me into reading King—rates The Shining as his favourite book of all time. Reads it once a year. And I'm sure that's why he outright despised Dr. Sleep. That it sullies the original by association with its mediocrity. I've never taken to The Shining like him or others. It's solid but it never spoke to me like it does others.Silent Majority wrote: ↑11 Jun 2019, 12:10pm
I think it's fair to say that some of my lukewarm approval springs from my affection for the original.
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Redrum? More like Red-DUMB! Actually, I like almost anything with vampires unless it's aimed at teeneybooper hormones.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑14 Jun 2019, 4:25pmDanny grows up fucked up from the experience at the Overlook but eventually finds some peace at a hospice, using his abilities to help people die peacefully. Then he comes across a cult of vampires who feed off kids with psychic powers and tries to help them. There's a bunch of stuff about being a recovered alcoholic and making peace with Jack Nicholson, too. It's pretty dull.tepista wrote: ↑14 Jun 2019, 4:14pmwhat's it about anyway?Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑11 Jun 2019, 3:55pmWikipedia says November this year. I'm intrigued how Kubrick reveals the truth behind 9/11 in this one.tepista wrote: ↑11 Jun 2019, 3:32pmi'm pretty sure there's a movie on the wayDr. Medulla wrote: ↑11 Jun 2019, 12:19pm
A former friend of mine who is a massive King fan—he actually got me into reading King—rates The Shining as his favourite book of all time. Reads it once a year. And I'm sure that's why he outright despised Dr. Sleep. That it sullies the original by association with its mediocrity. I've never taken to The Shining like him or others. It's solid but it never spoke to me like it does others.
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This is my feeling about witches.tepista wrote: ↑14 Jun 2019, 4:28pmRedrum? More like Red-DUMB! Actually, I like almost anything with vampires unless it's aimed at teeneybooper hormones.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑14 Jun 2019, 4:25pmDanny grows up fucked up from the experience at the Overlook but eventually finds some peace at a hospice, using his abilities to help people die peacefully. Then he comes across a cult of vampires who feed off kids with psychic powers and tries to help them. There's a bunch of stuff about being a recovered alcoholic and making peace with Jack Nicholson, too. It's pretty dull.
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Finished Duggan's Rand book today (it's quite short and direct). It's fine, but either Jennifer Burns' or Anne Heller' deeper examinations are better. Duggan seeks to tie Rand to the neoliberal spirit of cruelty (her term), and makes an effort to do so in the last chapter, but I would have liked to see more of it throughout. For a book about Rand as cultural icon, it mostly contains itself to Rand the lunatic pseudo-philosopher and sociopath. But as an intro, it's good.
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Long-time fan of Starr, but this is one I don't think I've re-read. Two childhood baseball rivals; one made it to the major leagues and one is working a dead end job. Events bring them together, with violent results.
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Long-time fan of Starr, but this is one I don't think I've re-read. Two childhood baseball rivals; one made it to the major leagues and one is working a dead end job. Events bring them together, with violent results.
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Gave up on Rik Mayall's 'Bigger Than Hitler, Better Tahn Christ.' I love the characters he plays but reading a sort of autobiography written in the same style renders it pretty unreadable and the novelty wears off fast. Picked up The Kenneth William's diaries again, gives an amazing insight into a very complicated and troubled man. Read them a few years back and forgot how downright interesting they were.
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New book by my MA supervisor. It's about the development of the American cigarette industry from the late 19th c to WWII, both in the US and in China, but the greater interest is in treating corporate history as cultural history. That is, not a variation of great man theory or of economic history, but as something involving so many more people adopting particular values and behaviours, all shaping the business and its interests.
New book by my MA supervisor. It's about the development of the American cigarette industry from the late 19th c to WWII, both in the US and in China, but the greater interest is in treating corporate history as cultural history. That is, not a variation of great man theory or of economic history, but as something involving so many more people adopting particular values and behaviours, all shaping the business and its interests.
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35) Ted Heath: A Singular Life - Michael Mcmanus. Kindle. A cut and paste bio - the book is mostly long, long quotes from interviews connected by the barest of desultory explanation - about the Tory Prime Minister from the early 70s who wins some points for loathing Thatcher and loses them all for being a paedo. This is a book written by Heath's personal assistant from his declining years and while he clearly doesn't like his former charge, he's respectful throughout and dismisses Ted's liking boys as "didn't seem like it was going on." Heath was most proud of getting the UK into the EU and that worked out perfectly.
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One of Canada's most respected prime ministers, William Lyon Mackenzie King, who was PM during the Depression and WWII and therefore an early architect of the welfare state, was a weird fucker. He never married and was devoted to his mother, so much so that after she died he consulted psychics to hold seances with her. He was also known to go on strolls in Ottawa seeking prostitutes, some suggesting that the sex not mattering. And he was especially devoted to his dog. Perfectly fine, tho, in an earlier time when Canada and Ottawa was a sleepy backwater and the eccentricities of elites was unreported and unconcerning.Silent Majority wrote: ↑22 Jun 2019, 6:35pm35) Ted Heath: A Singular Life - Michael Mcmanus. Kindle. A cut and paste bio - the book is mostly long, long quotes from interviews connected by the barest of desultory explanation - about the Tory Prime Minister from the early 70s who wins some points for loathing Thatcher and loses them all for being a paedo. This is a book written by Heath's personal assistant from his declining years and while he clearly doesn't like his former charge, he's respectful throughout and dismisses Ted's liking boys as "didn't seem like it was going on." Heath was most proud of getting the UK into the EU and that worked out perfectly.
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Each episode gets a synopsis, but I'm curious whether there's much critical analysis. If so, I'll stick with this; if it's just fan rehash, I'll find something else.
Each episode gets a synopsis, but I'm curious whether there's much critical analysis. If so, I'll stick with this; if it's just fan rehash, I'll find something else.
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I've told you about the Tom and Lorenzo Mad Men style recaps, right? They are super interesting.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑22 Jun 2019, 8:12pmBedtime reading:
Each episode gets a synopsis, but I'm curious whether there's much critical analysis. If so, I'll stick with this; if it's just fan rehash, I'll find something else.
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Yup—I read a few of them back in the day.JennyB wrote: ↑24 Jun 2019, 9:28amI've told you about the Tom and Lorenzo Mad Men style recaps, right? They are super interesting.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑22 Jun 2019, 8:12pmBedtime reading:
Each episode gets a synopsis, but I'm curious whether there's much critical analysis. If so, I'll stick with this; if it's just fan rehash, I'll find something else.
I'm thru the first season in this book. It's certainly thick critical analysis but almost exclusively literary analysis, rather than tying it to the history of the era (save for superficially). That's not a fatal defect by any means given the sharp-eyed observations of recurrent symbolism and multi-tiered dialogue. And, as it turns out, there isn't too much recap involved. If you haven't seen the episode in question, a lot of the value of the discussion might be lost.
"I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey-strong bowels were girded with strength, like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo dung." - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft