what are you reading now?
william_kent
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that Neal Stephenson one is the second volume of the Baroque Cycle - you'll probably have to read "Quicksilver" first for it to make any sense...
ver$hy ver$h
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Have you read any other Enard? Intrigued by him and thought about giving Zone a go.
jenks
thread death
He’s one of my favourites- I think he’ll be another Fitzcarraldo Nobels. Zone is a remarkable piece of fiction. I don’t think there is anyone else around with his strength and breadth- and then throws in Banquet last year which is sui generis
Read everything Fitz have translated by him. Think he’s possibly even better than Togaczurk certainly worth the effort.
IdleRich
IdleRich
Turns out Andrew Child is Lee Child's younger brother, not his son. Or dud his son write some too?
Anyway, I'll doubt I'll be reading any more Reachers to be honest, it was OK but... who am I kidding, it was shit.
There is a tv adaptation with this some giant guy smashing seven bells out of everyone, maybe it's OK to watch but in print it's kinda boring reading about people getting beaten up.
william_kent
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my mum told me it was his son, who am I to blame if she is confused, she is past a "certain age"
I like the first Jack Reacher film, starring Tom Cruise as Reacher * just because the Mr Big villain who is terrorising the town happens to be: WERNER HERZOG - I laughed out loud
* Lee Child said that in his books Reacher's "height is just a metaphor" ( of course this is after taking the Cruise cash )
IdleRich
IdleRich
I assumed it was his son too but there is a joint interview with them in the back of Sentinel. I didn't read it.
I did read that interview where Child said that with Cruise you only get forty percent of the height but you get 110 percent of the performance... then a bit later when they made the series with someone who looked a bit like how he was described in the books he was all "Tom Cruise was a shit Reacher".
And he was, why would you cast someone notoriously short as a character whose defining characteristic is being 6 foot 5?
I saw the one with Herzog, it was also shit.
I did read that interview where Child said that with Cruise you only get forty percent of the height but you get 110 percent of the performance... then a bit later when they made the series with someone who looked a bit like how he was described in the books he was all "Tom Cruise was a shit Reacher".
And he was, why would you cast someone notoriously short as a character whose defining characteristic is being 6 foot 5?
I saw the one with Herzog, it was also shit.
JubeWalrus
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7th Function of Language by Laurent Binet. Pretty scathing takedown of those french philosophers you guys like. Couple laughable moments, but maybe a little too smart for it's own good.
Still think HHhH is the better book overall. Didn't gel with his Inca invasion of Europe novel
Still think HHhH is the better book overall. Didn't gel with his Inca invasion of Europe novel
JubeWalrus
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kid charlemagne
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idle rich posting old ladies got me dying
kid charlemagne
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i read old man and the sea in a day.... had a nice discussion about it at a club.... one of the guys there was going on about how he thinks young hemingway is a bad writer but old hemingway is a great writer.....
i liked the book and respect the quality, and have a better understanding of the idea of reading an author because you "should" and because theyre worth reading so i am glad i did read this, but admittedley i will likely read 3-5 more delillo books before i touch another hemingway
i liked the book and respect the quality, and have a better understanding of the idea of reading an author because you "should" and because theyre worth reading so i am glad i did read this, but admittedley i will likely read 3-5 more delillo books before i touch another hemingway
