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Richard Harland Smith Esq	Re: Lawrence Block	#21	[-]
Oct 4 05 12:51 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* Anzio 1944: The Beleagured Beachhead by Steven Zaloga What, are you spending the week at Gothmog's place? "Hallo, hier spricht ... Richard Harland Smith"
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Imhoteps Ashes	Re: Lawrence Block	#22	[-]
Oct 4 05 7:07 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Just finished Oscar Wilde's THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY. "I'll show you what horror means!" - Fredric March, DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE (1932)
Omega Man	Gothmog??? Gadzooks!	#23	[-]
Oct 4 05 9:21 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* What, are you spending the week at Gothmog's place? God forbid! ;) I am that uncommon rarity... a flaming liberal with a lifelong passion for military history. In fact, my extensive amateur exploration of the subject is one of the main reasons I hold the views that I do. And yep, I'm one of those geeks who can instantly spot "chronologically inappropriate" footage when it's used in History Channel documentaries...* *What? This show is about Stalingrad! How bogus! That's a Panther model Ausf G... That tank wasn't deployed for at least another year! "Great show. Held over for a third straight year." www.eccentric-cinema.com
John P Charles	Cracked Spine	#24	[-]
Oct 4 05 11:20 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Jimmy McDonough's "Big Bosoms and Square Jaws: The Biography of Russ Meyer, King of the Sex Film." John Charles
mmoaks	Re: Cracked Spine	#25	[-]
Oct 4 05 5:09 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Recently finished Christopher Frayling's excellent biography of Sergio Leone SOMETHING TO DO WITH DEATH and am currently rereading Flann O'Brien's hilarious THE THIRD POLICEMAN as a Chicago Tribune article 2 weeks ago mentioned that the book will be a plot point in one of the upcoming LOST episodes. Mike O'Connor * * * * * The Cubs made me a criminal, sent me down a wayward path, they stole my youth from me -Steve Goodman
ryanbrennan	Re: Lawrence Block	#26	[-]
Oct 4 05 6:57 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- At work I'm reading "Tyrannosaur Canyon" by Douglas Preston. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Put that book down and get some section work done! ;) MWD Hey, I only read it when I'm not talking to customers about books and authors or discussing deep philosophical ideas or daydreaming or reading other books.
chris schillig	Re: Lawrence Block	#27	[-]
Oct 5 05 7:07 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF URBAN LEGENDS by Jan Harold Brunvand -- scholarly and fun!
Doc Savage	Re: Lawrence Block	#28	[-]
Oct 6 05 3:02 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Last week read "Boone's Lick," "The Obituary of Major Reno," and "Uncle Fred in the Springtime." This week I'm reading "Nevermore," "Waking Raphael," and "The Italian Secretary." I recommend them all.
Carl Eyesnheart	Re: Lawrence Block	#29	[-]
Oct 6 05 3:24 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	About to start reading DEUS-X by Joseph A. Citro again. Have started dipping back into Lovecraft thanks to my growing excitement over the new movie by the HP Society. Have a Thomas Ligotti short that I want to read for the upcoming spook day.
chris schillig	Re: Lawrence Block	#30	[-]
Oct 8 05 8:02 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	In the midst of Stephen King's THE COLORADO KID. So far, it's okay, but nothing too special.
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Barbenfouillis	G. Leroux ... not	#31	[-]
Oct 24 05 12:23 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I've tried to wade thru 2 books by this author in the last year and have yet to finish either. The first is "The Machine to Kill" and the second is an English translated version of Balaoo. I've been finding his prose tough going. Characters are introduced (imho anyway) in haphazzard fashion. I almost feel like I have to start up a "scorecard" to keep track of them after about 10 pages. I'll probably try to wade thru them again once (if) I again become lucid. Does anyone else have problems with this author? (i've never read Phantom). Steve
Doc Savage	Re: G. Leroux ... not	#32	[-]
Oct 24 05 12:38 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Just finished Leaving Cheyenne and Judas Kiss. Starting Davies' World of Wonders. (If anyone out here hasn't read books by Robertson Davies --- I strongly recommend them.)
Tim Lucas VW	Re: G. Leroux ... not	#33	[-]
Oct 24 05 1:22 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* am currently rereading Flann O'Brien's hilarious THE THIRD POLICEMAN as a Chicago Tribune article 2 weeks ago mentioned that the book will be a plot point in one of the upcoming LOST episode. Now there's a good man for you. What, is someone on the island going to get brained by someone wielding a spade? Next thing you know, SMALLVILLE will be referencing Robbe-Grillet. I'm currently reading THE REAL LIFE OF ANTHONY BURGESS, a new biography by Andrew Biskind. I seem to have left the last four novels I started reading unfinished. I recently bought a couple of novels by one of my contemporaries (no names please) who is getting a lot of attention, and I couldn't get more than 50 pages into his most popular book. He likes to inhabit his glum characters second by second as they move through plainish but willfully mysterious prose that probably reveals its goal fully by page 300 and who has the time for that? Not me, at least not now.
Tim Lucas VW	Re: G. Leroux ... not	#34	[-]
Oct 24 05 1:39 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	About Gaston Leroux: notorious for the poor quality of the available English translations of his work. Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier recently published a brand new translation of PHANTOM OF THE OPERA which is supposedly the first English edition to actually capture the flavor and full dimensions of the original French text. I have several Leroux editions dating from the 1920s and they are all tough sledding. Not the fault of poor, misrepresented Gaston.
Bill Warren	Re: G. Leroux ... not	#35	[-]
Oct 24 05 2:30 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Still working my way through an omnibus volume of Raymond Chandler's short stories and novels; currently partway through THE LADY IN THE LAKE. I finished James Curtis' truly outstanding W.C. FIELDS and have started on John Baxter's WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS.
specterman	Re: G. Leroux ... not	#36	[-]
Oct 24 05 4:34 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* In the midst of Stephen King's THE COLORADO KID. So far, it's okay, but nothing too special. Just bought it at Walgreens yesterday, haven't started it but I love the pulp noir artwork on the cover.
mmoaks	Re: G. Leroux ... not	#37	[-]
Oct 25 05 4:41 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* Now there's a good man for you. What, is someone on the island going to get brained by someone wielding a spade? Next thing you know, SMALLVILLE will be referencing Robbe-Grillet. The LOST/Third Policeman plot point really ended up being a plot prop, we see a copy of it among Desmond's possessions, but it is not remarked upon (at least not yet). In the same episode, Henry James THE TURN OF THE SCREW is also seen, so a viewer might be tempted to infer some theories because both books feature what some may term as untrustworthy or delusional narrators. I am now reading and really enjoying Andrew Taylor's AN UNPARDONABLE CRIME, a mystery-thriller set in England in the early 19th century. Among its cast of characters is a school boy visiting England from the States whose name is Edgar Allan (Poe). Mike O'Connor * * * * * The Cubs made me a criminal, sent me down a wayward path, they stole my youth from me -Steve Goodman
rvoyttbots	Re: G. Leroux ... not	#38	[-]
Nov 5 05 1:09 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Currently reading the latest issue (#141) of THE DESTROYER series. I`ve been reading this series of books for 35 years now. I don`t care for the newest author of the books but he isn`t the worst of them.
Tim Lucas VW	Re: G. Leroux ... not	#39	[-]
Nov 5 05 1:39 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I've been reading Winsor McCay via a series of trade paperback reprints of his earliest works (Rarebit Fiend, Little Sammy Sneeze) and also this fabulous new hardcover of all the Little Nemo Sunday strips. The book is as big as a circus poster, and twice as big when you open it, and it delivers the experience far more vividly than another collection I have that dates from the late 1960s. The sheer spectacle of McCay's imagination is astounding, far beyond what the movies were capable of then (or now, really), and when I reflect that the graphic arts today are more influenced by movies than vice versa, I can't help feeling that the dominance of cinema has caused us to lose something important that was formerly within the reach of anyone with paper and pencil. Of course, McCay was not just "anyone," and his adeptness at recreating identical backdrops over a series of frames in his pre-GERTIE comic strips shows how and why the concept of animation occurred to him.
lsohgirl	Re:..and other stuff..	#40	[-]
Nov 5 05 4:33 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Just finished LET ME TELL YOU A STORY: A LIFETIME IN THE GAME by "Red" Auerbach and John Feinstein. I've always thought that Auerbach might be the finest basketball coach ever. Like John Wooden, he was basically color-blind when it came to choosing his players. He was the first coach to start an all black lineup; appointed the first black coach. In that period when the all-black Texas Western faced the all white Adolph Rupp team at Kentucky, it was a time when only men of real stature, certainty in who they were, would stand up to the institutional racism that was a huge part of our country. Am now reading NOW PLAYING AT THE VALENCIA, Stephen Hunter's essays and movie reviews. Hunter is bar-none (to me) the finest person reviewing movies today. AND he is, deep down, a real "monster kid", prefering to spend his time in the old second run theaters watching favorite 50s fare than playing sports or trying to chase girls. Very good book.
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