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Trump Speech/Music Thread/Book Club Thread
So people were having fun talking about music in an unrelated threat earlier. You can use this one to start that up again if you like. The topic we were on were Worst/Most Overrated Bands of the 80s, but obviously you can talk about whatever you want.
I read Jazz Shaw's post today about teenagers no longer reading, and the idea (which I can attest to personally) that when you stop reading, your skill at it diminishes. (As do all skills.) I should say that while I crapped out on Hound of the Baskervilles last time, I just went through it in a couple or three nights. So... I guess by reading I've refurbished my diminished skill in reading a bit? With that in mind, any idea for a Book Club read? Here's my thought: I'd like to pick a short book, because, well, we all know, I have been pretty unreliable on this score. I don't want to do a Bart Simpson Book Report on a book I didn't actually finish. I had a couple of ideas, Treasure Island or Jekyll and Hyde, but I don't know if Treasure Island would hold up, and I've tried to get through Jekyll before and found it pretty lame. Any other ideas? Short, maybe nostalgic, maybe classic, maybe kind of fun?Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Winston at August 21, 2018 08:10 PM (mgpkf)
Posted by: Winston at August 21, 2018 08:11 PM (mgpkf)
Posted by: Judy Bloom at August 21, 2018 08:13 PM (m6d+0)
Dracula is pretty breezy.
Anything by Larry Corriea is gonna knock your fucking socks off.
Monster Hunter International or Hard Magic.
Brandon Sanderson is fun, too. He writes spunky chix. I like spunky chix.
Posted by: Robert at August 21, 2018 08:14 PM (Zogyx)
Posted by: joeclark at August 21, 2018 08:14 PM (JZf1/)
Posted by: Robert at August 21, 2018 08:14 PM (Zogyx)
Posted by: ace at August 21, 2018 08:14 PM (PA9oZ)
Posted by: Robert at August 21, 2018 08:15 PM (Zogyx)
Sandra Fluke Sock Status : Classic
Posted by: garrett at August 21, 2018 08:16 PM (m6d+0)
Modern books don't have that advantage. If someone doesn't like it, then they've just spent $15 for nothing.
Posted by: ace at August 21, 2018 08:16 PM (PA9oZ)
Posted by: Ha at August 21, 2018 08:16 PM (MAstk)
Posted by: Nuclearjim at August 21, 2018 08:16 PM (gVRcP)
Posted by: garrett at August 21, 2018 08:16 PM (m6d+0)
Posted by: CN at August 21, 2018 08:16 PM (BQPBQ)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 21, 2018 08:16 PM (YEriz)
Posted by: Caliban at August 21, 2018 08:17 PM (QE8X6)
Posted by: CN
yeah I think so. Nonfiction starts splitting the field up too much.
Posted by: ace at August 21, 2018 08:17 PM (PA9oZ)
It's a light novel series!anout 200 pages a book.
It's about a traveling merchant trying to bang an ancient fox god turned fox girl.
It's great!
Posted by: Robert at August 21, 2018 08:17 PM (Zogyx)
Yes, I'm looking at YOU Michael Connelly, you stupid fat fuckstick.
Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at August 21, 2018 08:18 PM (+dsLj)
What about Animal Farm? Or The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe? Or Huckleberry Finn?
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at August 21, 2018 08:18 PM (SRarZ)
Posted by: bluebell at August 21, 2018 08:18 PM (JJZzu)
Posted by: Jolly Roger at August 21, 2018 08:18 PM (UfkIY)
Oh. Just saw this. A classic that often reminds me of you is Tristram Shandy. I promise you, you will not be bored.
Posted by: Caliban at August 21, 2018 08:18 PM (QE8X6)
Posted by: CN at August 21, 2018 08:18 PM (BQPBQ)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 21, 2018 08:19 PM (YEriz)
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at August 21, 2018 08:19 PM (SRarZ)
Posted by: CN at August 21, 2018 08:20 PM (BQPBQ)
Road to serfdom - Hayek
Virtue of the anointed - Sowell
Race and Culture - Sowell
Bell curve - Murray
Collected works of Raymond Chandler (2 volume set)
Tom Jones - Fielding
Memoirs of Benevenuto Cellini
Boyd, the Fighter Pilot who Changed the World
Posted by: Slash Buzz at August 21, 2018 08:20 PM (mVSBa)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 21, 2018 08:20 PM (uPlWr)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at August 21, 2018 08:20 PM (EPnrI)
Posted by: Tuna at August 21, 2018 08:20 PM (jm1YL)
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at August 21, 2018 08:21 PM (dKiJG)
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at August 21, 2018 08:21 PM (SRarZ)
Posted by: Smokin' Uncle Joe Biden at August 21, 2018 08:21 PM (Tyii7)
some crypto-mathematecal work in it that supposedly became the background on the US dechipering the German navy in WWI. Wish I still had the book.
Posted by: DBCooper at August 21, 2018 08:21 PM (pUzbW)
Gateway. Frederick Pohl. Maybe the best Sci-Fi ever.
The sequels are pretty good too.
Posted by: eleven at August 21, 2018 08:21 PM (NLLmE)
When I read "Road to Serfdom" a few years back it seemed HARD. After a few chapters it wasn't. The book hadn't changed. I relearned reading skills - I hadn't read a lot of books for awhile. He wrote that in the early 40s and people read more then.
Quite a few years earlier, something like that happened when I went on a C.J. Cherryh binge and read 25 or 30 of her novels in a row. I felt "different" after that.
Posted by: ArthurK at August 21, 2018 08:21 PM (dg/6R)
Posted by: Surfperch at August 21, 2018 08:21 PM (DzFIB)
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18137/18137-h/18137-h.htm
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 21, 2018 08:21 PM (YEriz)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 21, 2018 08:21 PM (PUmDY)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 21, 2018 08:19 PM (YEriz)
I can type or I can fart but I have a hard time doing both at once.
Posted by: Robert at August 21, 2018 08:21 PM (Zogyx)
Posted by: Tuna at August
everything from the 90s.
Posted by: ? at August 21, 2018 08:21 PM (MTjB1)
Posted by: Winston at August 21, 2018 08:21 PM (mgpkf)
Posted by: CN at August 21, 2018 08:21 PM (BQPBQ)
Posted by: Bookguy at August 21, 2018 08:22 PM (Ffwmb)
Posted by: Winston at August 21, 2018 08:22 PM (mgpkf)
Posted by: Ace of Spades
The Prince
Posted by: ? at August 21, 2018 08:22 PM (MTjB1)
Posted by: Winston at August 21, 2018 08:21 PM (mgpkf)
++++++++
Hazlitt is worth reading. His analysis of Keynes is quite readable.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2018 08:23 PM (I2dne)
Posted by: In Vino Veritits at August 21, 2018 08:23 PM (qul7b)
Posted by: CN at August 21, 2018 08:18 PM (BQPBQ)
Hmmm...that's an interesting pairing. Evelyn and Ernest. Muscle and, well...oh, never mind.
Posted by: Caliban at August 21, 2018 08:23 PM (QE8X6)
> 47 Any other ideas? Short, maybe nostalgic, maybe classic, maybe kind of fun?
Posted by: Ace of Spades
The Prince
Posted by: ?
Posted by: ArthurK at August 21, 2018 08:23 PM (dg/6R)
Posted by: Winston at August 21, 2018 08:23 PM (mgpkf)
Posted by: bluebell at August 21, 2018 08:23 PM (JJZzu)
Posted by: BunkerInTheBurbs, still needs a new Nic! at August 21, 2018 08:23 PM (x7rWu)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 21, 2018 08:23 PM (YEriz)
Maybe a Hemingway. Unless that's too butch for the wamen. (Might be too butch for me, too. I re-read the Son Also Rises. It's about fucking, drinking, fishing and bullfighting.)
Posted by: ace at August 21, 2018 08:23 PM (PA9oZ)
I had to read that in 8th grade. Couldn't make it all the way through.
Posted by: ALH at August 21, 2018 08:23 PM (6Zmow)
Posted by: ? at August 21, 2018 08:22 PM (MTjB1)
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En francais.
Posted by: bluebell at August 21, 2018 08:23 PM (JJZzu)
Le Prince?
Posted by: Surfperch at August 21, 2018 08:24 PM (DzFIB)
Posted by: ? at August 21, 2018 08:24 PM (MTjB1)
Posted by: Javems at August 21, 2018 08:24 PM (cSfOv)
Posted by: ? at August 21, 2018 08:22 PM (MTjB1)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ezywTzz7hY0
Posted by: Robert at August 21, 2018 08:24 PM (Zogyx)
Posted by: rickl at August 21, 2018 08:24 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: ace at August 21, 2018 08:24 PM (PA9oZ)
Posted by: tu3031 at August 21, 2018 08:24 PM (jDF8P)
Posted by: BunkerInTheBurbs, still needs a new Nic! at August 21, 2018 08:23 PM (x7rWu)
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I like AoS but I have trouble engaging in a community that is part (if not the heart) of the Global Shelvist Conspiracy.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2018 08:24 PM (I2dne)
Itz haird too rede wiff non-standrd spulleng.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at August 21, 2018 08:24 PM (Iccum)
Oh, I've been going through "free classic books on kindle" to get exposure to all kinds of people I keep hearing about but have never read.
A lot of it doesn't hold up.
Anyway, it won't be free but I recommend the long two part short story, or short novella if you prefer, "The Big Two-Hearted River" by Ernest Hemingway.
It's short and compact and it's brilliant. It will take longer to talk about than to read. It's the best piece of short fiction in the American language.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 21, 2018 08:24 PM (fuK7c)
Atlas Shrugged was another book that, being about human nature, is astonishingly prescient. You can read todays NYT headlines in a book written over 60 years ago...
Posted by: Slash Buzz at August 21, 2018 08:24 PM (mVSBa)
https://youtu.be/85WgYkMbHBA
Worth a watch, because intersectionality, furries, and vidya gaming.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, GECSPLAN, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at August 21, 2018 08:24 PM (fA1SL)
Music: Hey, I may be old, but I had all the good music.
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 08:25 PM (lwiT4)
Posted by: ? at August 21, 2018 08:22 PM (MTjB1)
Actually, it's called The Little Prince.
Posted by: ALH at August 21, 2018 08:25 PM (6Zmow)
Oddly fascinating writing sensibility.
Posted by: eleven at August 21, 2018 08:25 PM (NLLmE)
But if they persist, I say "According to Dostoevsky, all of Russian literature came out of Gogol's Overcoat.... " And that settles their hash.
Posted by: Regular joe at August 21, 2018 08:25 PM (7PllL)
Posted by: In Vino Veritits at August 21, 2018 08:25 PM (qul7b)
Posted by: A Dead Horse at August 21, 2018 08:25 PM (Tyii7)
The books are mostly around 500 pages each, IIRC, but they're quick reads. Highly recommended!
Posted by: Samuel L. Jackson, edited for TV at August 21, 2018 08:25 PM (wSC8T)
Posted by: Surfperch at August 21, 2018 08:24 PM (DzFIB)
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Le Petit Prince, actually. Maybe he meant a different book.
Posted by: bluebell at August 21, 2018 08:25 PM (JJZzu)
Robinson Crusoe?
Mainly so the Horde can explain all the survival things that they do wrong.
Posted by: alexthechick - Superelite Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at August 21, 2018 08:25 PM (dEQP3)
Anyway, it won't be free but I recommend the long two part short story, or short novella if you prefer, "The Big Two-Hearted River" by Ernest Hemingway.
It's short and compact and it's brilliant. It will take longer to talk about than to read. It's the best piece of short fiction in the American language.
...
duly noted. I'll look it up as a possibility.
Posted by: ace at August 21, 2018 08:25 PM (PA9oZ)
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 08:25 PM (lwiT4)
Posted by: CN at August 21, 2018 08:25 PM (BQPBQ)
I had to read that in 8th grade. Couldn't make it all the way through.
Posted by: ALH at August
I read david copprfield in one night on a bet with my english teacher.
Posted by: ? at August 21, 2018 08:25 PM (MTjB1)
I was too late to catch that or Iron Sights but will get Jaw Breakers and Space Force
Posted by: perfectly harmless candiru at August 21, 2018 08:25 PM (YR7aL)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 21, 2018 08:23 PM (YEriz)
+++++++++++
I like Gateway, and some of its sequels are quite good. For SciFi though, my preference is Heinlein and Philip K. Dick. Although PKD is more "completely bonkers" than "SciFi" per se. Interesting read regardless, though.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2018 08:25 PM (I2dne)
Posted by: In Vino Veritits at August 21, 2018 08:23 PM (qul7b)
So overrated that I'm listening to the White Album right now. Waiting for your knock, dear!
Posted by: Caliban at August 21, 2018 08:26 PM (QE8X6)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 21, 2018 08:26 PM (gC2IV)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 21, 2018 08:26 PM (mxvSl)
Hmmm
Posted by: Ha at August 21, 2018 08:16 PM (MAstk)
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She is insane about most things, but even so she has been saying Dems need to move on from impeachmeng for a while now.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 21, 2018 08:26 PM (I16G8)
I read david copprfield in one night on a bet with my english teacher.
Posted by: ? at August 21, 2018 08:25 PM (MTjB1)
Showoff.
Posted by: ALH at August 21, 2018 08:26 PM (6Zmow)
Posted by: Tonypete at August 21, 2018 08:26 PM (9rIkM)
Posted by: CN at August
what is so special about his way?
counterclockwise swirl?
Posted by: ? at August 21, 2018 08:26 PM (MTjB1)
Posted by: bananaDream at August 21, 2018 08:26 PM (YR7aL)
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 21, 2018 08:27 PM (xPl2J)
Oddly fascinating writing sensibility.
Posted by: eleven at August 21, 2018 08:25 PM
Dude had issues.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 21, 2018 08:27 PM (mxvSl)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler, Super-Elite at August 21, 2018 08:27 PM (wSC8T)
Oddly fascinating writing sensibility.
Posted by: eleven at August 21, 2018 08:25 PM (NLLmE)
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There's a large public park/space named after him in Wales. Something of a national literary hero, by my understanding.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2018 08:27 PM (I2dne)
Posted by: En_Garde! at August 21, 2018 08:27 PM (F9FuN)
Posted by: In Vino Veritits at August 21, 2018 08:23 PM (qul7b)
I do believe we're going to have a problem here.
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 08:27 PM (lwiT4)
Posted by: ? at August 21, 2018 08:22 PM (MTjB1)
or, The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince for Ace)
very small book
delightful
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 21, 2018 08:27 PM (uPlWr)
Posted by: ALH
not the one Machiavelli wrote and not the one that I sleep with on my nightstand
Posted by: ? at August 21, 2018 08:27 PM (MTjB1)
Posted by: CN at August 21, 2018 08:27 PM (BQPBQ)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 21, 2018 08:28 PM (YEriz)
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Thank God it's not ace doing that.
Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at August 21, 2018 08:28 PM (+dsLj)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 21, 2018 08:28 PM (EoRCO)
Posted by: Winston at August 21, 2018 08:28 PM (mgpkf)
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at August 21, 2018 08:28 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Javems at August 21, 2018 08:28 PM (cSfOv)
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at August 21, 2018 08:28 PM (SRarZ)
Posted by: Slow Uncle Joe Biden at August 21, 2018 08:28 PM (Tyii7)
Posted by: ALH at August 21, 2018 08:29 PM (6Zmow)
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 08:29 PM (lwiT4)
Posted by: Winston at August 21, 2018 08:29 PM (mgpkf)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, GECSPLAN, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at August 21, 2018 08:29 PM (fA1SL)
Posted by: ? at August 21, 2018 08:27 PM (MTjB1)
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yep, I had the wrong one.
Posted by: bluebell at August 21, 2018 08:29 PM (JJZzu)
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at August 21, 2018 08:29 PM (2DOZq)
I read david copprfield in one night on a bet with my english teacher.
Posted by: ?
David Copperfield made my book disappear.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 21, 2018 08:29 PM (IqV8l)
I had to read that in 8th grade. Couldn't make it all the way through.
Posted by: ALH at August 21, 2018 08:23 PM
It easn't all that I'd hoped for.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 21, 2018 08:29 PM (mxvSl)
Posted by: Caliban at August 21, 2018 08:29 PM (QE8X6)
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at August 21, 2018 08:29 PM (SRarZ)
Posted by: CN
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Agreed! For me, one of the best books ever about flying.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 21, 2018 08:29 PM (9rIkM)
Posted by: Slow Uncle Joe Biden
Glad that Audible subscription is paying off.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at August 21, 2018 08:29 PM (Iccum)
Posted by: ? at August 21, 2018 08:30 PM (MTjB1)
Posted by: Mike at August 21, 2018 08:30 PM (c056A)
Posted by: rickl at August 21, 2018 08:30 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: runner at August 21, 2018 08:30 PM (bUjCl)
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 08:30 PM (lwiT4)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, GECSPLAN, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at August 21, 2018 08:30 PM (fA1SL)
Posted by: redridinghood at August 21, 2018 08:30 PM (hECVl)
Posted by: Winston at August 21, 2018 08:30 PM (mgpkf)
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 21, 2018 08:30 PM (xPl2J)
Posted by: NCKate at August 21, 2018 08:30 PM (ej/4k)
Posted by: Velveteen Mongoose at August 21, 2018 08:30 PM (4YHTV)
Posted by: Slash Buzz at August 21, 2018 08:20 PM
went to amazon
read the blurb
bought the kindle edition, price no object
this looks like something I have to read
just hope I'm not disappointed.
Posted by: Brad Chadlee Jr. at August 21, 2018 08:30 PM (I9Sw7)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 21, 2018 08:30 PM (PUmDY)
Posted by: ALH at August 21, 2018 08:31 PM (6Zmow)
Posted by: Corona at August 21, 2018 08:31 PM (MceDl)
Posted by: Earl Schlobodwicz at August 21, 2018 08:31 PM (jkztu)
Posted by: davidt at August 21, 2018 08:31 PM (PFd3d)
Posted by: ScoggDog at August 21, 2018 08:31 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 21, 2018 08:31 PM (IDhUW)
Posted by: Winston at August 21, 2018 08:31 PM (mgpkf)
Posted by: CN at August 21, 2018 08:31 PM (BQPBQ)
Posted by: Winston at August 21, 2018 08:32 PM (mgpkf)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 21, 2018 08:32 PM (gC2IV)
Posted by: ALH at August 21, 2018 08:32 PM (6Zmow)
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at August 21, 2018 08:32 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 21, 2018 08:30 PM
Read Pig. Like I said...dude had issues. And a dark sense of humor.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 21, 2018 08:32 PM (mxvSl)
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 08:32 PM (lwiT4)
Posted by: Winston at August 21, 2018 08:32 PM (mgpkf)
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He said essentially that people have a right to speak freely without being deplatformed and that as much as he despised fakenews you have to have them around, people's voices cant be censored just because you dont like what they say.
Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at August 21, 2018 08:32 PM (+dsLj)
https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/lockheed-f-5b-lightning/
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 21, 2018 08:32 PM (YEriz)
Sodomy Jones and the Temple of Poon by Lance Hardthrust is a classic manga read. Watch out for the popup tentacles though.
Posted by: In Vino Veritits at August 21, 2018 08:32 PM (qul7b)
Oddly fascinating writing sensibility.
Posted by: eleven at August 21, 2018 08:25 PM
Charlie and the Front Hole?
Posted by: StrategicCorporalUSMC at August 21, 2018 08:33 PM (hPCXF)
Posted by: Yawrate at August 21, 2018 08:33 PM (U2SYP)
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 08:33 PM (lwiT4)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at August 21, 2018 08:33 PM (txw6d)
Posted by: Tuna at August 21, 2018 08:34 PM (jm1YL)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 21, 2018 08:32 PM (gC2IV)
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Yeah, he took 300 pages to let out a fart. It was kinda the writing style of the time, though.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 21, 2018 08:34 PM (I16G8)
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at August 21, 2018 08:34 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: CN at August 21, 2018 08:34 PM (BQPBQ)
Posted by: CN at August 21, 2018 08:18 PM (BQPBQ)
Waugh. Hemingway is pure torture.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 21, 2018 08:34 PM (SiINZ)
Or anything by Sowell
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 21, 2018 08:34 PM (IDhUW)
Posted by: Velveteen Mongoose at August 21, 2018 08:35 PM (4YHTV)
Strong +1
Posted by: In Vino Veritits at August 21, 2018 08:35 PM (qul7b)
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 08:35 PM (lwiT4)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 21, 2018 08:35 PM (4ErVI)
Posted by: In Vino Veritits at August 21, 2018 08:32 PM (qul7b)
The pop up tentacles tend to get stuck to the pages the more you read the book.
Also, don't buy a used copy.
Posted by: Surfperch at August 21, 2018 08:35 PM (DzFIB)
Posted by: bananaDream at August 21, 2018 08:35 PM (YR7aL)
Posted by: davidt at August 21, 2018 08:35 PM (PFd3d)
Posted by: Slow Uncle Joe Biden at August 21, 2018 08:35 PM (Tyii7)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 21, 2018 08:36 PM (PUmDY)
Posted by: ALH at August 21, 2018 08:36 PM (6Zmow)
Animal Farm.Nineteen Eighty-Four.
All very manageable lengths, classics for a reason...
Posted by: Lyford at August 21, 2018 08:36 PM (CcBsx)
Posted by: In Vino Veritits at August 21, 2018 08:36 PM (qul7b)
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 08:36 PM (lwiT4)
I would suggest Dracula - I do it almost every year around early autumn in prep for Halloween.
Thanks for the thread on Ye Olde Books (and 80's music). =)
If anyone likes murder mysteries and the 1930's I love Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe books.
Posted by: atomicplaygirl, now with more Kaboom! at August 21, 2018 08:36 PM (Gim9y)
Skimmed it; skipped a lot to get to the punchline at the end.
Posted by: Brad Chadlee Jr. at August 21, 2018 08:36 PM (I9Sw7)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 21, 2018 08:36 PM (wBMGD)
The new Obama/Biden Mystery one.
It would be worth it for the hilarious snark, alone.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 21, 2018 08:37 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at August 21, 2018 08:34 PM (2DOZq)
I remember that one.
Beverly Cleary is still alive at 102.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Cleary
Posted by: rickl at August 21, 2018 08:37 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: MIchelle Fields at August 21, 2018 08:37 PM (bUjCl)
Short, fun, unusual, and a delicious read like all of Chesterton.
Posted by: koulbassa at August 21, 2018 08:37 PM (VHlrv)
Van Halen.
What should we do next?
Posted by: garrett at August 21, 2018 08:16 PM (m6d+0)
Are you out of your mind? I don't know how anyone could say that after watching some of their live performances in the '80s with both Roth and Hagar on vocals:
https://tinyurl.com/y79pnmyo
https://tinyurl.com/ya546jcj
Posted by: Slappy at August 21, 2018 08:37 PM (rtfSu)
Posted by: In Vino Veritits at August 21, 2018 08:36 PM (qul7b)
You got your Sandy Koufax. And your Ryan Braun. And ....
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 08:37 PM (lwiT4)
I read it for the first time five or six years ago and I remember liking it. The tech stuff seemed a bit dated but the Fast Forward stuff with the earth changing was interesting.
Though, Trigger Warning, a lot of the Future Shock he gets from going back to earth concerns homosexuality becoming first tolerated, then hip, and ultimately mandated.
Living in a PC age, I was surprised at how that became the dominant signifier of change. I don't remember a lot of other stuff changing.
Posted by: ace at August 21, 2018 08:37 PM (PA9oZ)
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 08:35 PM (lwiT4)
I piss in the waters of your ancestors!
Posted by: Hemingway at August 21, 2018 08:37 PM (QE8X6)
Beverly Cleary is still alive at 102.
Beezus and Ramona.
Ramona named her doll Chevrolet because it was the most beautiful name she had ever heard.
Posted by: ALH at August 21, 2018 08:38 PM (6Zmow)
Posted by: Slappy at August 21, 2018 08:38 PM (rtfSu)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at August 21, 2018 08:38 PM (pw+jk)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at August 21, 2018 08:38 PM (Iccum)
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Thanks. Hoping that something gets done because Conservatives are being discriminated against.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 21, 2018 08:38 PM (hECVl)
Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front.
The author's outlook begins as if WW1 were just another 19th century Boer wars thing. A gun shot wound or a minor sickness, then a spot of tea. Just another upper middle class English lark-about. Then the reality of the thing dawns on her.
Posted by: 13times at August 21, 2018 08:38 PM (K3B2k)
Posted by: Axeman at August 21, 2018 08:38 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: ace at August 21, 2018 08:38 PM (PA9oZ)
Posted by: In Vino Veritits at August 21, 2018 08:36 PM (qul7b)
You got your Sandy Koufax. And your Ryan Braun. And ....
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 08:37 PM (lwiT4)
Surely, you can't be serious
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 21, 2018 08:39 PM (SiINZ)
I wonder if it could be remade and be worthwhile?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 21, 2018 08:39 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 08:32 PM (lwiT4)
The title itself is False Advertising. Dead People don't read.
Posted by: ScoggDog at August 21, 2018 08:39 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: Ace of Spades
Big Trouble by Dave Barry.
Its a quick read.
I've read it at least 20 times.
its fun.
You will laugh so hard your shelves will fall down.
Posted by: JT at August 21, 2018 08:39 PM (ZqWjz)
Idiots Guide to the Care and Feeding of Useful Idiots by L. Enin is kind of a companion to Alinsky.
Posted by: In Vino Veritits at August 21, 2018 08:39 PM (qul7b)
Posted by: Weasel at August 21, 2018 08:39 PM (MVjcR)
Great choice for fall. We could follow up with a discussion of the various Dracula movies.
Posted by: Tuna at August 21, 2018 08:39 PM (jm1YL)
Me too! LOVE the scene where Mercedes reappears. Shakespeare-level characters in a barn-burner.
Posted by: Caliban at August 21, 2018 08:39 PM (QE8X6)
Posted by: parsimony at August 21, 2018 08:40 PM (xEt5a)
https://tinyurl.com/yd9hk385
If you're looking for one of those books that aren't about mandolin chords, I don't know how much I can help with that. Maybe someone else has some ideas.
Posted by: hogmartin at August 21, 2018 08:40 PM (y87Qq)
Posted by: ScoggDog at August 21, 2018 08:39 PM (fiGNd)
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buzzion does.
Posted by: bluebell at August 21, 2018 08:40 PM (JJZzu)
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at August 21, 2018 08:40 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 21, 2018 08:39 PM (SiINZ)
Do I look like a Shirley to you?
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 08:40 PM (lwiT4)
Posted by: ace at August 21, 2018 08:41 PM (PA9oZ)
Posted by: parsimony at August 21, 2018 08:41 PM (xEt5a)
Posted by: notsothoreau at August 21, 2018 08:41 PM (JKNZq)
Posted by: Perchjerker at August 21, 2018 08:41 PM (+J9U0)
Posted by: runner at August 21, 2018 08:41 PM (bUjCl)
Posted by: Slow Uncle Joe Biden at August 21, 2018 08:42 PM (Tyii7)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 21, 2018 08:42 PM (YEriz)
/sarc
Old Sci-fi is fun - maybe "A Princess of Mars"?
Posted by: Lizzy at August 21, 2018 08:42 PM (W+vEI)
The new Obama/Biden Mystery one.
It would be worth it for the hilarious snark, alone.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 21, 2018 08:37 PM (ptqGC)
That would be fun
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 21, 2018 08:42 PM (SiINZ)
He's good.
Posted by: JT at August 21, 2018 08:42 PM (ZqWjz)
Art of the Deal is also a quick read (though not as quick). The actual Art is Chapter 2, and the rest of the book's chapter's are individual case studies. So -- biographical, but not really, if that makes sense. It's actually about the deals.
Posted by: Meiczyslaw at August 21, 2018 08:42 PM (gCRM2)
Posted by: Weasel at August 21, 2018 08:42 PM (MVjcR)
Posted by: runner at August 21, 2018 08:41 PM (bUjCl)
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Overrated means things a lot of other people liked, but you want to dump on.
Like Das Boot, for me.
Posted by: Axeman at August 21, 2018 08:42 PM (vDqXW)
Jonathan Livingston Seagull and My Side Of The Mountain were wonderful and inspiring when I was young.
Also, H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine."
For fun, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
And then there's always the 1000-page "Atlas Shrugged." ;-)
Posted by: ShainS at August 21, 2018 08:43 PM (WqPYg)
Posted by: alexthechick - Superelite Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at August 21, 2018 08:43 PM (dEQP3)
Posted by: Brad Chadlee Jr. at August 21, 2018 08:43 PM (I9Sw7)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 21, 2018 08:43 PM (IDhUW)
Posted by: Tuna at August 21, 2018 08:43 PM (jm1YL)
Posted by: DaveD at August 21, 2018 08:43 PM (9HR8n)
But it's long.
Posted by: ace at August 21, 2018 08:43 PM (PA9oZ)
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 08:43 PM (lwiT4)
Posted by: Axeman at August 21, 2018 08:44 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: DaveD at August 21, 2018 08:43 PM (9HR8n)
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Oh my gosh, that movie was the most depressing thing ever.
Posted by: bluebell at August 21, 2018 08:44 PM (JJZzu)
Posted by: parsimony at August 21, 2018 08:44 PM (xEt5a)
One problem is if you pick just a novel, then no one has any incentive until the day before we plan to discuss it. This way you got weekly reminders. mo' gains.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at August 21, 2018 08:44 PM (LWu6U)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at August 21, 2018 08:44 PM (Iccum)
Posted by: JT at August 21, 2018 08:39 PM (ZqWjz)
Too soon!
Posted by: eleven at August 21, 2018 08:45 PM (NLLmE)
Posted by: Axeman at August 21, 2018 08:45 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 21, 2018 08:45 PM (I16G8)
Posted by: alexthechick - Superelite Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at August 21, 2018 08:43 PM (dEQP3)
He's very good. It's not necessary to read his books in order, but it does provide backstory info if you do. Not crucial though.
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 08:45 PM (lwiT4)
Posted by: Infidel at August 21, 2018 08:45 PM (pcnVL)
Posted by: Slow Uncle Joe Biden at August 21, 2018 08:45 PM (Tyii7)
Posted by: Rosasharn at August 21, 2018 08:45 PM (PzBTm)
Posted by: grammie winger
Bob Ueker wrote the catcher in the wry......
Posted by: JT at August 21, 2018 08:45 PM (ZqWjz)
Posted by: Axeman at August 21, 2018 08:45 PM (vDqXW)
I'd rather kill myself.
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 08:45 PM (lwiT4)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 21, 2018 08:43 PM (IDhUW)
Love, love, love, but if you haven't done so, start with Crime and Punishment. Stick with it. Incredible psychological drama.
Posted by: Caliban at August 21, 2018 08:45 PM (QE8X6)
Posted by: Axeman at August 21, 2018 08:46 PM (vDqXW)
yeah maybe but while this is easy for Kindle-owners, it's not so easy for non-Kindle-owners.
I've been reading a lot of short stories lately (or short-ish stories) and I'm all in favor of this, but... it's hard to get just one short story without having to buy a whole book. Unless you have a kindle.
Posted by: ace at August 21, 2018 08:46 PM (PA9oZ)
Posted by: Kate Winslet's boobs at August 21, 2018 08:46 PM (fp1LP)
Posted by: IrishEi at August 21, 2018 08:46 PM (Ri0Ku)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at August 21, 2018 08:46 PM (Iccum)
Posted by: 13times at August 21, 2018 08:46 PM (K3B2k)
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I like the end where he talks about how he wanted to give back to the country after all the country gave him. 30 years later....
Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at August 21, 2018 08:46 PM (+dsLj)
Posted by: Jewells45 at August 21, 2018 08:47 PM (dUJdY)
Not the later, pervy stuff.
Posted by: parsimony at August 21, 2018 08:47 PM (xEt5a)
Posted by: notsothoreau at August 21, 2018 08:47 PM (JKNZq)
Posted by: Axeman at August 21, 2018 08:45 PM (vDqXW)
I'd rather kill myself.''
I read that between high school and college because you know everyone was reading it. Blah!
Posted by: Tuna at August 21, 2018 08:47 PM (jm1YL)
Yes, that and The Invisible Man. Two surprisingly great reads.
I had only ever seen the movies and had no idea how good the books were.
Posted by: eleven at August 21, 2018 08:47 PM (NLLmE)
Posted by: Rosasharn at August 21, 2018 08:47 PM (PzBTm)
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Good ones - I also like Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel and Ferdinand the Bull. Reading those to granddaughter #2 tonight. I need a break from being an adult.
Who am I kidding? I'm a Moron - no adulting here.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 21, 2018 08:47 PM (9rIkM)
how long is it, though?
Posted by: ace at August 21, 2018 08:47 PM (PA9oZ)
https://tinyurl.com/yboxwbo5
Sadly, right beneath it at Amazon, is a book with the same title, about people who have survived late stage cancer.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 21, 2018 08:48 PM (ptqGC)
You can read an unbelievable true story and say you sort of read Moby Dick.
And you know you want to say you read Moby Dick.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 21, 2018 08:48 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: ace at August 21, 2018 08:48 PM (PA9oZ)
Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front.
The author's outlook begins as if WW1 were just another 19th century Boer wars thing. A gun shot wound or a minor sickness, then a spot of tea. Just another upper middle class English lark-about. Then the reality of the thing dawns on her.
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This sounds interesting
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 21, 2018 08:48 PM (IDhUW)
by Gottlob Frege.
Posted by: Axeman at August 21, 2018 08:48 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: ace at August 21, 2018 08:38 PM (PA9oZ)
He deals with that bit in The Forever War. After one of one of the main character's time dilated trips out he comes back and finds that homosexuality has taken over and is the norm rather than an aberration. The main character becomes one of the few heterosexuals on the ship he takes on his next campaign. That might be how Haldeman himself felt in '68 or '69.
Posted by: joncelli of the Tribe of the Drunken Moose at August 21, 2018 08:48 PM (1FhAQ)
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Good ones - I also like Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel and Ferdinand the Bull. Reading those to granddaughter #2 tonight. I need a break from being an adult.
Who am I kidding? I'm a Moron - no adulting here.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 21, 2018 08:47 PM (9rIkM)
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I was always partial to Harry the Dirty Dog.
Posted by: bluebell at August 21, 2018 08:48 PM (JJZzu)
how long is it, though?
Posted by: ace at August 21, 2018 08:47 PM (PA9oZ)
Pretty long I think.
I read a Penguin Classics version that had added stuff though.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 21, 2018 08:48 PM (4ErVI)
Posted by: Denny Crane! at August 21, 2018 08:48 PM (wbRN9)
Posted by: ace at August 21, 2018 08:46 PM (PA9oZ)
You can read Kindle content in your browser, you don't need a physical reader. It's not terribly comfortable for longer stuff, but it works for short stories.
Posted by: hogmartin at August 21, 2018 08:49 PM (y87Qq)
Posted by: IrishEi at August 21, 2018 08:49 PM (Ri0Ku)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 21, 2018 08:49 PM (mxvSl)
Could always get lost in the history behind what Bram Stoker wrote by picking up a copy of Christopher Frayling's Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula.
https://preview.tinyurl.com/ycm9r9bh
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 21, 2018 08:49 PM (YEriz)
It's kind of like a murder mystery. If you know very well that Mr. Black murdered the Duchess, you pick out the red herrings and ignore the What-Ifs because you already know the one path to the answer of Whodunnit. And if you know this as a given, without even having touched the story, you don't even get the benefit of a second reading to see what misconceptions you had before versus what you now know.
Posted by: Another Anon at August 21, 2018 08:49 PM (MTejJ)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 21, 2018 08:43 PM (IDhUW)
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Dreams from my Father? Or Audacity of Hope?
Posted by: Axeman at August 21, 2018 08:49 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: runner at August 21, 2018 08:41 PM (bUjCl)
I was never a big fan of U2's sound, though I do like a few of their songs (e.g., "New Year's Day"). I think they were just overhyped in the '80s, especially among various music critics. I prefer my music fun, not a dissertation on various social and historical issues. Did anyone take themselves more seriously back then than Bono?
Posted by: Slappy at August 21, 2018 08:49 PM (rtfSu)
Read Tolstoy's war and peace but took me two years and read thirty books during it. Ehh.
I like Heinlein mucho mucho and he was prescient. Many of the sci-fi old school like Nevin, dick, and others but not classics but good reads.
Just reread Animal Farm and Brave New world about 4 years ago. Looking to reread 1984 soon.
Took awhile to chew through Basic Economics By Sowell and recommend it to any leftist but they laugh at that suggestion.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at August 21, 2018 08:50 PM (pw+jk)
Posted by: notsothoreau at August 21, 2018 08:50 PM (JKNZq)
Posted by: ace at August 21, 2018 08:47 PM (PA9oZ)
That's a rather personal question. Oh the book. My paperback version is just under 400 pages
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 21, 2018 08:50 PM (SiINZ)
Once she emigrated to the West, she had trouble getting it published. One publisher told her that she really didn't understand Communism.
Posted by: rickl at August 21, 2018 08:50 PM (sdi6R)
Yeah, he's good.
How about a Dick Francis mystery?
British, always related to hose stuff (steeplechase, etc.) and it expands your vocabulary.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 21, 2018 08:50 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: Earl Schlobodwicz
All of the travis Mcgee books are good, as are John d. Mcdonald's.
Posted by: JT at August 21, 2018 08:50 PM (ZqWjz)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 21, 2018 08:50 PM (Tyii7)
Posted by: runner at August 21, 2018 08:51 PM (bUjCl)
British, always related to hose stuff (steeplechase, etc.) and it expands your vocabulary.''
''Whip Hand"
Posted by: Tuna at August 21, 2018 08:51 PM (jm1YL)
King Rat
Shogun
Posted by: Brad Chadlee Jr. at August 21, 2018 08:43 PM (I9Sw7)
Good, immersive books, but all looooong.
Posted by: joncelli of the Tribe of the Drunken Moose at August 21, 2018 08:51 PM (1FhAQ)
Posted by: parsimony at August 21, 2018 08:52 PM (xEt5a)
We're hosed.....
Oh and Sessions was there. He said nothing....
Posted by: Tami at August 21, 2018 08:52 PM (Enq6K)
Posted by: runner at August 21, 2018 08:52 PM (bUjCl)
Posted by: Tami at August 21, 2018 08:52 PM (Enq6K)
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What do you expect a plant to say?
Posted by: Axeman at August 21, 2018 08:53 PM (vDqXW)
I found this site a few days ago. They have a lot of stories in their archive. I was looking for Elmore Leonard's "3:10 To Yuma" and found it here through Google.
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 21, 2018 08:53 PM (xPl2J)
touted by instapundit
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/305373/
led me to
"House to House" by SSG David Bellavia
looks to be brutal
Posted by: Brad Chadlee Jr. at August 21, 2018 08:53 PM (I9Sw7)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 21, 2018 08:53 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Tuna at August 21, 2018 08:53 PM (jm1YL)
Even better: rent the movie starring...Gwyneth Paltrow. You are rooting for suicide.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 21, 2018 08:53 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 21, 2018 08:53 PM (Tyii7)
Posted by: ace at August 21, 2018 08:47 PM
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I'll go check......
Dracula's over 400 pages; but Frankenstein is only about 225. That was pretty good too, but not as scary as Dracula.
Posted by: IrishEi at August 21, 2018 08:53 PM (Ri0Ku)
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Sting ? maybe not.
Posted by: runner at August 21, 2018 08:51 PM (bUjCl)
To his credit, Bono overinflated the whole band and stayed loyal to his mates. Sting has always been all about Sting.
But both have completely ceased to rock.
Posted by: parsimony at August 21, 2018 08:53 PM (xEt5a)
RE: Count of Monte Cristo - I was SO into the book I actually looked forward to the treadmill! I propped my Nook up with an easel, got on the treadmill and read it every day until I was done. There were so many ups and downs and my God, it was an experience. Then I started The Three Musketeers, all excited, and it felt frivolous and silly, and that ended my Dumas streak. LOL
Most overrated band for me is The Beatles, by far. Good lord. Way before my time, but I still knew people obsessed with them, and they only had a few good songs, plus Lennon was an absolute asshole.
As far as 80's bands go, I'd say Van Halen is a good one, and if you read my childhood diary, you'd see the most UNDERRATED band of the 80's - because they weren't on American Top 40 long enough, or on Solid Gold - was The Police. Also I loved old INXS then like Shabooh Shoobah and The Swing, but not their 'newer' stuff.
To overrated - Bon Jovi and Guns and Roses.
Posted by: atomicplaygirl, now with more Kaboom! at August 21, 2018 08:54 PM (Gim9y)
Posted by: In Vino Veritits at August 21, 2018 08:23 PM (qul7b
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Look behind you, see thal line in the dirt? You done crossed it.
Posted by: Vlad the Impaler, whittling away like mad at August 21, 2018 08:54 PM (0dbnJ)
Even better: rent the movie starring...Gwyneth Paltrow. You are rooting for suicide.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 21, 2018 08:53 PM (W+vEI)
Her best work was Head in a Box.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 21, 2018 08:54 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: ? at August 21, 2018 08:54 PM (MTjB1)
Posted by: runner at August 21, 2018 08:54 PM (bUjCl)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 21, 2018 08:54 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 21, 2018 08:54 PM (2bWtt)
Posted by: Axeman at August 21, 2018 08:55 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: In Vino Veritits at August 21, 2018 08:23 PM (qul7b
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Look behind you, see thal line in the dirt? You done crossed it.
Posted by: Vlad the Impaler, whittling away like mad at August 21, 2018 08:54 PM (0dbnJ)
I love you Vlad.
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 08:55 PM (lwiT4)
Posted by: hogmartin at August 21, 2018 08:55 PM (y87Qq)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 21, 2018 08:54 PM (ptqGC)''
LOLOLOL.....
Posted by: Tuna at August 21, 2018 08:55 PM (jm1YL)
Camp of the Saints was very prescient and didn't take long, but had a depressing ending.
Posted by: Kate Winslet's boobs at August 21, 2018 08:56 PM (fp1LP)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 21, 2018 08:56 PM (mxvSl)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 21, 2018 08:56 PM (Tyii7)
Lamb to the Slaughter
Bet CSI still couldn't figure that one out even today.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 21, 2018 08:56 PM (YEriz)
Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade at August 21, 2018 08:56 PM (bML9A)
Posted by: Muad'dib at August 21, 2018 08:56 PM (NpK5V)
Posted by: REDACTED at August 21, 2018 08:56 PM (7rpiB)
Posted by: alexthechick - Superelite Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at August 21, 2018 08:56 PM (dEQP3)
I'm reading a book by Carlo Morelli, The Order of Time.
It's a short book, but caused reflection, no math, but the concepts don't need it...
It's not a light fun read, it gets to the heart of existence, what is going on in that time that can't be measured that you experience your surroundings...
He has thought deep about time. I get a sense of sadness and futility in the book, perhaps that's my reading. I've been thinking about existence a lot. My parents are getting old, I'm getting older, we all perish, and what happens then...
And time, where does it go when we are gone?
Anyway, well written book, I recommend it, but not if you're looking for an uplifting motivational book.
Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Raniere at August 21, 2018 08:57 PM (pXbVS)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 21, 2018 08:56 PM (Tyii7)
I hate short stories. Won't read them. What's the point?
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 08:57 PM (lwiT4)
Once she emigrated to the West, she had trouble getting it published. One publisher told her that she really didn't understand Communism.
Posted by: rickl at August 21, 2018 08:50 PM (sdi6R)
Excellent book. Shows how the communists kept creeping their nonsense into every aspect of her life until she had to try and get out.
Her description of the commie buttkissers and hacks would fit right in with those in DC today.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 21, 2018 08:57 PM (EoRCO)
Posted by: runner at August 21, 2018 08:57 PM (bUjCl)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2018 08:57 PM (hyuyC)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 21, 2018 08:57 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Velveteen Mongoose at August 21, 2018 08:57 PM (4YHTV)
If we're doing mysteries, how about Whose Body by Dorothy Sayers?
Posted by: alexthechick - Superelite Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at August 21, 2018 08:56 PM (dEQP3)
Dorothy Sayers is a jewel.
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 08:58 PM (lwiT4)
Posted by: Kate Winslet's boobs at August 21, 2018 08:58 PM (fp1LP)
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 08:57 PM (lwiT4)
You can read them again the same day.
Posted by: hogmartin at August 21, 2018 08:58 PM (y87Qq)
Posted by: Mary Harmon at August 21, 2018 08:58 PM (gq8vW)
i loved that when i was little.
all he wanted to do was sit under the tree and smell the flowers.
Posted by: concrete girl at August 21, 2018 08:58 PM (Tm+wy)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 21, 2018 08:43 PM (IDhUW)
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Dreams from my Father? Or Audacity of Hope?
Posted by: Axeman at August 21, 2018 08:49 PM
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Posted by: IrishEi at August 21, 2018 08:58 PM (Ri0Ku)
Always wanted to read "fear and loathing in Las Vegas" but never did. Don't know why I wanted to or why I never did.
You can always go with a short conservative classic like Fahrenheit 451.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 21, 2018 08:58 PM (r+sAi)
1) Chicks Dig Bull Fighters
2) Sharks - fuckin' sharks
3) The exact moment you become really happy, your wife might blow your brains out.
4) Gangrene is bad.
5) You can use your horse as one big sandbag in a firefight
6) 'A Three Day Blow' isn't what you think it is.
Posted by: BumperStickerist at August 21, 2018 08:58 PM (sE69+)
It's diary entries, so the formatting and breaks account for some of the length. It never feels like 400 pages to me.
Also... support Barnes and Noble if you have a choice! Their Nook has an Amazon reading app (the reverse isn't true), it's a nice tablet as well, and not run by Bezos the bozo, who has said he wants to take BN out.
(As an aside, I adapted the general 'idea' of Dracula and made it into an erotica book, although not solely diary style entries. Twas fun.)
Would also do Lovecraft, who I adore. "The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward" is creepy AF, also pretty short.
Posted by: atomicplaygirl, now with more Kaboom! at August 21, 2018 08:59 PM (Gim9y)
But probably a lot of people have read that. I've seen it listed as the most perfect novel in the English language.
Posted by: Axeman at August 21, 2018 08:59 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2018 08:59 PM (Xpw10)
Having said that boy some of those unabridged novels are daunting. War and Peace. Les Miserables. The Count of Monte Cristo. But man oh man they're so worth it.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 21, 2018 08:59 PM (4ErVI)
Posted by: alexthechick - Superelite Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at August 21, 2018 08:56 PM (dEQP3)
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Ooh, I love Dorothy Sayers' mystery books. They are so well-written and complex that they take me longer to digest than other mystery writers though.
She has some good short stories too. Have you read the one about the multiple Peter Wimseys?
Posted by: bluebell at August 21, 2018 08:59 PM (JJZzu)
Trump's near 50% and he's got unprecedented black support.
There's no blue wave and 1% of people care about Russia.
Time to fuck this shit and go after Mueller for professional dishonesty (which is a federal crime, you know) and the clintons because fuck them.
Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at August 21, 2018 08:59 PM (GoLZO)
Posted by: JTB at August 21, 2018 08:59 PM (V+03K)
That's actually a hard question. Even bands I don't like who were enormously popular can't really be called overrated, since they were enormously popular.
Posted by: rickl at August 21, 2018 08:59 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: concrete girl at August 21, 2018 08:59 PM (Tm+wy)
Posted by: Muad'dib at August 21, 2018 08:59 PM (NpK5V)
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at August 21, 2018 09:00 PM (2DOZq)
Agreed. When I hit the recliner with a page turner, I'm lost to the rest of the world, hours on end.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 21, 2018 09:00 PM (Tyii7)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 21, 2018 09:00 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: SteveOReno, I self-identify as a Moron at August 21, 2018 09:00 PM (T+Eka)
Think of Conrad as an early Naipaul or Rushdie and you would not be far off.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at August 21, 2018 09:01 PM (N1ZXu)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 21, 2018 09:01 PM (4ErVI)
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 08:57 PM (lwiT4)
Try some good ones.
Posted by: Zombie Edgar Allen Poe at August 21, 2018 09:01 PM (PFd3d)
Posted by: Nurse ratched at August 21, 2018 09:01 PM (AfYqV)
j/k garrett. don't hunt me down.
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 09:01 PM (lwiT4)
Posted by: kallisto at August 21, 2018 09:01 PM (XMhQP)
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at August 21, 2018 09:01 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Infidel at August 21, 2018 08:45 PM (pcnVL)
Hell ... the ability to tax Barter Whiskey ain't in there - but shit is what it is.
That document got shat on from about Day One.
Posted by: ScoggDog at August 21, 2018 09:01 PM (fiGNd)
Didn't think much of them at the time.
But I was within five or six years of believing that Piers Anthony stories were good.
~ twitch ~
So I may reread the former - but never the latter.
_
Posted by: BumperStickerist at August 21, 2018 09:01 PM (sE69+)
Posted by: alexthechick - Superelite Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at August 21, 2018 08:56 PM
All Dorothy Sayers. The Wimsey short stories are most cromulent. The Nine Tailors, The Unpleasntness at the Bellona Club....
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 21, 2018 09:02 PM (mxvSl)
The movie sucked.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 21, 2018 09:02 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 21, 2018 09:02 PM (PUmDY)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc, etc. at August 21, 2018 09:02 PM (xSo9G)
Hemingway's shorts are better than his novels.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 21, 2018 09:02 PM (fuK7c)
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 21, 2018 09:02 PM (SgjGX)
Posted by: concrete girl at August 21, 2018 08:59 PM (Tm+wy)
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Yes, I thought the seaweed was a good look for him.
Posted by: bluebell at August 21, 2018 09:02 PM (JJZzu)
I loved Yes, Gentle Giant, others like those.
I was weird that way, I guess.
Unusual time signatures. You know, things other than four four.
Posted by: backbeatbaby at August 21, 2018 09:03 PM (w7KSn)
Posted by: bluebell at August 21, 2018 08:59 PM (JJZzu)
Yup. I really love her works.
Posted by: alexthechick - Superelite Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at August 21, 2018 09:03 PM (dEQP3)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at August 21, 2018 09:03 PM (KP5rU)
Short stories are also good for one-and-done sessions like if you are curled up in bed with something to read. That was how I did Clark Ashton Smith.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at August 21, 2018 09:03 PM (N1ZXu)
Posted by: JudyNM at August 21, 2018 09:03 PM (S64y2)
Posted by: SteveOReno, I self-identify as a Moron at August 21, 2018 09:03 PM (T+Eka)
Posted by: kallisto at August 21, 2018 09:03 PM (XMhQP)
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at August 21, 2018 09:03 PM (N1ZXu)
Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at August 21, 2018 09:03 PM (GoLZO)
By O.Henry
Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade at August 21, 2018 09:04 PM (bML9A)
Posted by: Eromero at August 21, 2018 09:04 PM (zLDYs)
Posted by: bluebell at August 21, 2018 08:59 PM
The Bibulous Business of the Matter of Taste? One of my personal favorites.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 21, 2018 09:04 PM (mxvSl)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 21, 2018 09:04 PM (PUmDY)
Posted by: Patrick C Carroll at August 21, 2018 09:04 PM (kFQIb)
Peaches sent me that, and i read it in one day.
pretty trippy.
Posted by: concrete girl at August 21, 2018 09:04 PM (Tm+wy)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at August 21, 2018 09:03 PM (KP5rU)
I know.
I was just trying to irritate garrett. Irritating people is one of my best qualities. Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 09:04 PM (lwiT4)
Posted by: Jane D'oh
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Hmm. How about 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc, etc. at August 21, 2018 09:05 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at August 21, 2018 09:05 PM (2DOZq)
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Depends - mood maybe. If I get sucked into the book, I am transported away, to another reality, and read it start to finish. (Take me away Calgon!)
Sometimes I hit a point in the book where I have to call timeout to decompress. Returning to reality is jarring - perceptions changed, outlook, goals, all different.
Posted by: Brad Chadlee Jr. at August 21, 2018 09:05 PM (I9Sw7)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 21, 2018 09:05 PM (IDhUW)
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at August 21, 2018 09:01 PM (2DOZq)
Holy crap, yes. Got about ten pages in and adios. Read like a shitty 70's sitcom.
Posted by: eleven at August 21, 2018 09:05 PM (NLLmE)
Fist-bump on the Blackford Oakes stories. I got a favorite name for a character from one of them; Immer Smith.
Much better than Anthony's Xanth stories or whatever he was punning about.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2018 09:05 PM (hyuyC)
Posted by: Tuna at August 21, 2018 09:06 PM (jm1YL)
AS I PASS through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.
We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn
That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:
But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind,
So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.
We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace,
Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market Place,
But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come
That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome.
With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch,
They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch;
They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings;
So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.
When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."
On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is Death."
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."
Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
Posted by: ScoggDog at August 21, 2018 09:06 PM (fiGNd)
I loved Yes, Gentle Giant, others like those.
I was weird that way, I guess.
Unusual time signatures. You know, things other than four four.
Posted by: backbeatbaby at August 21, 2018 09:03 PM (w7KSn)
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Yeah, prog has been my favorite as well. Weird when I read your post, I had In a Glass House running as an earworm.
Posted by: Axeman at August 21, 2018 09:06 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: Patrick C Carroll at August 21, 2018 09:04 PM (kFQIb)
Oooh good ideer.
Posted by: eleven at August 21, 2018 09:06 PM (NLLmE)
Posted by: Burnt Toast at August 21, 2018 09:06 PM (1g7ch)
But probably a lot of people have read that. I've seen it listed as the most perfect novel in the English language.
Posted by: Axeman at August 21, 2018 08:59 PM (vDqXW)
Hated that book. Conrad is boring, dark and guilt ridden. The one about the sea captain whatever ever put me to sleep so many times I can't even remember the name of the novel.
I hope "Heart of Darkness II: Farm House Boogaloo" about the current farm confiscations in South Africa is better.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 21, 2018 09:06 PM (EoRCO)
Far Tortuga by Peter Matthiessen and The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor by Gabriel Garcia Marquez were good.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 21, 2018 09:06 PM (ptqGC)
By Mark Twain
Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade at August 21, 2018 09:06 PM (bML9A)
Posted by: kallisto at August 21, 2018 09:07 PM (XMhQP)
Also, don't recall who hates short stories but Bradbury's "The Sun Dome" is amazing, and so is, "The Man" I think, which made me cry. Wow. (About a space explorer who ends up becoming friendly with the inhabitants on another world, and the man who he is going to listen to is... but I won't reveal. Powerful story.)
And "The Veldt"!!!
Posted by: atomicplaygirl, now with more Kaboom! at August 21, 2018 09:07 PM (Gim9y)
I loved Yes, Gentle Giant, others like those.
I was weird that way, I guess.
Unusual time signatures. You know, things other than four four.
Posted by: backbeatbaby at August 21, 2018 09:03 PM (w7KSn)
I'm a big prog fan but wasn't able to get into Gentle Giant. What do you recommend from them that you consider their best work?
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 21, 2018 09:07 PM (4ErVI)
A couple of days ago, I ran across the strangest band I've seen in a while, Bela's Bartok. IIRC, they bill themselves as circus punk. The songs I've heard sound like power polka (and if there wasn't such a thing as that before, there is now.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypq2j7clREk
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 21, 2018 09:07 PM (HaL55)
https://vanemden.com/books/neals/jipi.html
Posted by: hogmartin at August 21, 2018 09:07 PM (y87Qq)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 21, 2018 09:04 PM (mxvSl)
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Man, you're good. I never would have remembered that.
I've read everything that our library has by her, but it's been a while.
Posted by: bluebell at August 21, 2018 09:07 PM (JJZzu)
Good stories that you can finish in one sitting?
I can get obsessive if it's a good book, and stay up all night to read through to the end, so a short story doesn't have that risk.
Some good short stories: "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" and "I Am Legend."
Posted by: Lizzy at August 21, 2018 09:07 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 21, 2018 09:07 PM (PUmDY)
Posted by: bluebell
The Man in the Yellow Hat wants to have a word with you.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....outlaw in America at August 21, 2018 09:07 PM (S6Pax)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at August 21, 2018 09:07 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Willowed JAS at August 21, 2018 09:07 PM (3HNOQ)
Somebody was reading it.
Me. It's awful.
It's got to be so awful that I'm reading it for the lulz.
I do not recommend. (Riders of the Purple Sage).
Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 21, 2018 09:07 PM (fuK7c)
Posted by: Eromero at August 21, 2018 09:08 PM (zLDYs)
Posted by: Burnt Toast at August 21, 2018 09:08 PM (1g7ch)
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at August 21, 2018 09:01 PM (2DOZq)
Holy crap, yes. Got about ten pages in and adios. Read like a shitty 70's sitcom.
Posted by: eleven at August 21, 2018 09:05 PM (NLLmE)
I got a little farther because I was convinced it was going to get better since all I heard was how good it was. I only got half way .
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at August 21, 2018 09:08 PM (2DOZq)
I'll say. It nearly did me in.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 21, 2018 09:08 PM (Tyii7)
It opens with the protagonist in solitary confinement out there in 23-something.
Oh, and some kind of near-total-annihilation event is known to have occurred in the second half of our 21st.
Posted by: Les Kinetic at August 21, 2018 09:08 PM (BvNr4)
I really liked the cello player before all her plastic surgery.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2018 09:08 PM (hyuyC)
Royal Academy of Arts alum.
All were multi instrumentalists.
Could play acoustic or amped up.
Fun stuff.
I'm sure they must have gone broke eventually.
Posted by: backbeatbaby at August 21, 2018 09:08 PM (w7KSn)
Most Overrated Band of all Time? Beatles.
Posted by: In Vino Veritits at August 21, 2018 08:23 PM (qul7b)
The Beatles' importance to music and pop culture cannot be overstated. If you look at productivity and success, The Rolling Stones are definitely way more overrated than The Beatles, though I like both bands. The only advantage the Stones have is longevity but they really haven't released anything of value in 35+ years.
Posted by: Slappy at August 21, 2018 09:09 PM (rtfSu)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 21, 2018 09:05 PM (IDhUW)
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Yep. Also Margery Allingham.
Posted by: bluebell at August 21, 2018 09:09 PM (JJZzu)
Chaucer? un idiota plagiatore.
Posted by: giovanni boccaccio at August 21, 2018 09:09 PM (N1ZXu)
Posted by: Salieri at August 21, 2018 09:09 PM (bUjCl)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2018 09:09 PM (Xpw10)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 21, 2018 09:07 PM (4ErVI)
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In a Glass House is considered their best. Some people consider Octopus their best--but not me.
Posted by: Axeman at August 21, 2018 09:09 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 09:09 PM (lwiT4)
Posted by: Eromero at August 21, 2018 09:08 PM (zLDYs)
Don't disagree about the imagery.
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at August 21, 2018 09:09 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 21, 2018 09:10 PM (89T5c)
Posted by: Les Kinetic at August 21, 2018 09:10 PM (BvNr4)
Posted by: SteveOReno, I self-identify as a Moron at August 21, 2018 09:10 PM (T+Eka)
The #1 Ladies Detective League by Andrew McCall Smith.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2018 09:09 PM (Xpw10)
Thanks for reminding me! Our travel agent just suggested the series. Because Africa.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 21, 2018 09:10 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Tuna at August 21, 2018 09:10 PM (jm1YL)
Grammie rates this: Wholly True.
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 09:11 PM (lwiT4)
Posted by: kallisto at August 21, 2018 09:03 PM (XMhQP)
Might be, but luckily they aren't.
What killed their reputation was the overplaying of "The Reflex", which was just a meh song compared to their works to that point. But here's a band who, as early as their debut album, extolled the awesome themes of
Zombies
Porn Stars
Libertarianism
And managed to make it look cool and sleep with supermodels and jet around the world and make a ton of money, all with a nod to T. Rex and the great glam rockers. Really remarkable.
Posted by: parsimony at August 21, 2018 09:11 PM (xEt5a)
Oh, I would like to read that.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 21, 2018 09:11 PM (fuK7c)
Gwyneth did it better.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 21, 2018 08:57 PM (/tuJf)
Spoiler alert!!! I just wish most of Paltrow's movies ended with that happening to her character. After all, has any character she's played really ever added anything of value to a movie?
Posted by: Slappy at August 21, 2018 09:11 PM (rtfSu)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 21, 2018 09:11 PM (89T5c)
"One Very Hot Day" by David Halberstam - set in Vietnam, it's story about a patrol from a first person point of view.
"Red Ball in the Sky" - Charles Blair
Man flew a P51 from Norway to Alaska via the North Pole. This was 'back in the day'.
"Von Ryan's Express" - NOT THE MOVIE.
I'd be interested in a book-weenie's take on this because - to me - it was damn near perfect as a WWII prison escape story. (The movie blew chunks)
Posted by: BumperStickerist at August 21, 2018 09:11 PM (sE69+)
By Victor Lasky
Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade at August 21, 2018 09:11 PM (bML9A)
Posted by: davidt at August 21, 2018 09:11 PM (PFd3d)
Posted by: backbeatbaby at August 21, 2018 09:08 PM (w7KSn)
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Derek Shulman became a music producer, and produced some major New Wave and Punk bands.
Posted by: Axeman at August 21, 2018 09:11 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 21, 2018 09:12 PM (IqV8l)
The BeeGees really suck donkey balls. Horrible music.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 21, 2018 09:11 PM (89T5c)
I'll just sit here and wait for grammie's response.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 21, 2018 09:12 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Willowed JAS at August 21, 2018 09:12 PM (3HNOQ)
Posted by: Axeman at August 21, 2018 09:09 PM (vDqXW)
Thanks. I'll check it out.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 21, 2018 09:12 PM (4ErVI)
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 09:12 PM (lwiT4)
YES! I think I made it through about 20 pages.
Ugh.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 21, 2018 09:12 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: cornbred at August 21, 2018 09:12 PM (RtmFd)
Get buzzion to make a notation in the archives.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 21, 2018 09:12 PM (QDnY+)
Posted by: runner at August 21, 2018 09:12 PM (bUjCl)
Posted by: JTB at August 21, 2018 09:12 PM (V+03K)
Somebody was reading it.
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Me. It's awful.
It's got to be so awful that I'm reading it for the lulz.
I do not recommend. (Riders of the Purple Sage).
Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 21, 2018 09:07 PM
I'm going to guess it is a generational thing, like music.
Posted by: Brad Chadlee Jr. at August 21, 2018 09:13 PM (I9Sw7)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 21, 2018 09:12 PM (ptqGC)
LOL You know me too well
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 09:13 PM (lwiT4)
I never figured out how they sang so high...
Maybe I don't even want to know.
Posted by: backbeatbaby at August 21, 2018 09:13 PM (w7KSn)
I defy you to defy me.
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 09:09 PM (lwiT4)
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No, you are correct. They did define music style for about a 5 year period. That's pretty significant.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 21, 2018 09:13 PM (I16G8)
Posted by: SteveOReno, I self-identify as a Moron at August 21, 2018 09:13 PM (T+Eka)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2018 09:13 PM (Xpw10)
Posted by: rickl at August 21, 2018 09:13 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at August 21, 2018 09:14 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 21, 2018 09:14 PM (89T5c)
Posted by: kallisto at August 21, 2018 09:14 PM (XMhQP)
Posted by: atomicplaygirl, now with more Kaboom! at August 21, 2018 09:14 PM (Gim9y)
Posted by: Minuteman at August 21, 2018 09:14 PM (rmyUw)
Posted by: iwuzhere at August 21, 2018 09:14 PM (jiGGU)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at August 21, 2018 09:14 PM (Iccum)
Strange short read.
Did you know that guillotines were NOT placed on a high platform?
Posted by: Willowed JAS at August 21, 2018 09:15 PM (3HNOQ)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 21, 2018 09:14 PM (89T5c)
oh no you dint
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 09:15 PM (lwiT4)
Had to read that in high school. Not going to do that one again.
Posted by: Tuna at August 21, 2018 09:15 PM (jm1YL)
I've read everything that our library has by her, but it's been a while.
Posted by: bluebell at August 21, 2018 09:07 PM
*buffs fingernails*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 21, 2018 09:15 PM (mxvSl)
so enjoy them. I think there are 5 or 6. Also you really need to see
Duma. If you can't find it I will send you my copy.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2018 09:13 PM (Xpw10)
I have the books on a list of Things to Do before we leave. I don't know how much time I'll have to read on the trip (other than the loooong flight over and back), so I may buy them all.
Thanks!
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 21, 2018 09:15 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 21, 2018 09:16 PM (PUmDY)
written by a master of the English language. It is written by a Slav
who came to England and wrote about what colonialism did to the English.
Think of Conrad as an early Naipaul or Rushdie and you would not be far off.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at August 21, 2018 09:01 PM (N1ZXu)
Surely you meant the horrors of a BELGIAN crown colony of the Congo.
British colonies had their own issues, but they tended to fall short of genocide and a colony wide death camp.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 21, 2018 09:16 PM (2K6fY)
Chieftans is bullshit, that guy with the beard and the melodic voice. It's fucking fifties.
Pogues. Full stop.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 21, 2018 09:16 PM (fuK7c)
I loved Yes, Gentle Giant, others like those.
I was weird that way, I guess.
Unusual time signatures. You know, things other than four four.
Posted by: backbeatbaby at August 21, 2018 09:03 PM (w7KSn)
I'm a big prog fan but wasn't able to get into Gentle Giant. What do you recommend from them that you consider their best work?
Ditto. Even saw GG live with Yes in '75. I've always liked Power Glory, although In A Glass House usually gets the nods for originality/progginess. Free Hand is also approachable. I wouldn't put them in the big 8, but a lot would.
Posted by: clutch cargo at August 21, 2018 09:16 PM (RHEDC)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 21, 2018 09:16 PM (l9m7l)
And they all are doing just fine, successful in other pursuits and intermittently getting together to make another album. None of them OD'd, went fabulously broke, etc.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 21, 2018 09:16 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: everyone gonna drink my wine at August 21, 2018 09:16 PM (DXorg)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 21, 2018 09:14 PM (89T5c)
oh no you dint
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 09:15 PM (lwiT4)
And it's on!
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 21, 2018 09:16 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Concerned People's Front at August 21, 2018 09:16 PM (v1udk)
Posted by: Tuna at August 21, 2018 09:16 PM (jm1YL)
Posted by: rickl
Annie Haslam has a gorgeous voice.
She sang a version of "Turn of the Century" (A Yes song) that is on YouTube, and it is about the most sadly beautiful things I've ever heard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQdgvowFH5g
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....outlaw in America at August 21, 2018 09:16 PM (S6Pax)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 21, 2018 09:12 PM (4ErVI)
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I like everything from there and ending with the often-underrated The Interview (76). But I like their complete catalog as well.
Posted by: Axeman at August 21, 2018 09:17 PM (vDqXW)
Re-read "Brave New World" a few years ago, still depressing.
Posted by: atomicplaygirl, now with more Kaboom! at August 21, 2018 09:17 PM (Gim9y)
Posted by: lin-duh at August 21, 2018 09:17 PM (kufk0)
Even their early stuff? I can see if you are not into the disco but their 60's stuff was good.
Posted by: Jewells45 at August 21, 2018 09:17 PM (dUJdY)
the character of Roderick Spode.
On of my favorite lines, altought in a different book of his, concerning a man hit with a bucket of water: "He immediately became, without any previous training or experience, the wettest man in Worchester".
Well, I liked it.
Posted by: Vlad the Impaler, whittling away like mad at August 21, 2018 09:17 PM (0dbnJ)
Posted by: iwuzhere at August 21, 2018 09:18 PM (jiGGU)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at August 21, 2018 09:14 PM (KP5rU)
The Bee Gees really embodied the disco era. Whenever I hear their tunes from the "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack, there is definitely a feeling of nostalgia. I was young when that hit but I remember how big of a cultural phenomenon the soundtrack was and the Bee Gees were back then. Of course, that led to younger brother Andy Gibb releasing that piece of crap song "Shadow Dancing" in the late '70s so maybe the Bee Gees deserve to be attacked for contributing to that.
Posted by: Slappy at August 21, 2018 09:18 PM (rtfSu)
Posted by: Tuna at August 21, 2018 09:16 PM (jm1YL)
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I just put it on hold at my library.
Posted by: bluebell at August 21, 2018 09:18 PM (JJZzu)
Posted by: alexthechick - Superelite Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at August 21, 2018 09:18 PM (dEQP3)
Posted by: bluebell
The Man in the Yellow Hat wants to have a word with you.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative.
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Pfft. 'The Poky Little Puppy'
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc, etc. at August 21, 2018 09:18 PM (xSo9G)
Posted by: everyone gonna drink my wine at August 21, 2018 09:16 PM (DXorg)
I like both. I love the pre-disco songs where they featured Maurice and Robin's voices more prominently - like in "I've Just Got to Get A Message to You". But I also like their Barry Gibbs-Disco stuff. What's not to love! It's all fun. And dance-y too.
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 09:19 PM (lwiT4)
So... "Dracula", head Ewok? ;-)
Posted by: atomicplaygirl, now with more Kaboom! at August 21, 2018 09:19 PM (Gim9y)
Posted by: Concerned People's Front at August 21, 2018 09:16 PM (v1udk)
*glares*
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 21, 2018 09:19 PM (ptqGC)
You realize, of course, that Huff Post and CNN.com have millions more hits every day, but can you talk about whatever you want on either of those sites?
Just one more reason that you are HERE.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 21, 2018 09:19 PM (UsCnO)
Posted by: clutch cargo at August 21, 2018 09:19 PM (RHEDC)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 21, 2018 09:19 PM (Tyii7)
Posted by: clutch cargo at August 21, 2018 09:16 PM (RHEDC)
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What's your "big 8".
Definitely Yes. Definitely Crimson. Definitely Floyd. Genesis? Van der Graaf Generator?
Yeah, I put GG in that group.
Posted by: Axeman at August 21, 2018 09:19 PM (vDqXW)
HERETIC!
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 09:12 PM (lwiT4)
I've got your back grammie.
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at August 21, 2018 09:19 PM (2DOZq)
the character of Roderick Spode.
On of my favorite lines, altought in a different book of his, concerning a man hit with a bucket of water: "He immediately became, without any previous training or experience, the wettest man in Worchester".
Well, I liked it.
Posted by: Vlad the Impaler, whittling away like mad at August 21, 2018 09:17 PM (0dbnJ)
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I agree with all of the above.
Posted by: bluebell at August 21, 2018 09:19 PM (JJZzu)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjbVNNXjOzk
Posted by: rickl at August 21, 2018 09:19 PM (sdi6R)
By J.R.Rice
Available on Kindle
Not a werewolf story, very different. Really a horror story that takes off in the first chapter.
Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade at August 21, 2018 09:19 PM (bML9A)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 21, 2018 09:20 PM (2K6fY)
Thread winner!
Posted by: backbeatbaby at August 21, 2018 09:20 PM (w7KSn)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 21, 2018 09:21 PM (4ErVI)
The author of First Blood, David Morrell, wrote a trilogy that is surprisingly good.
The Brotherhood of the Rose
The Fraternity of the Stone
The League of Night and Fog
Not a book club suggestion. Just a suggestion.
And Twisted Sister. WTF was that shit?
Posted by: Denny Crane! at August 21, 2018 09:21 PM (wbRN9)
The song Shadow Dancing sucked but I liked the rest of the album. I don't know why that was selected to be the hit. single .
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at August 21, 2018 09:21 PM (2DOZq)
Hell, yes!
And "Walking on Sunshine."
Posted by: Lizzy at August 21, 2018 09:21 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: eleven at August 21, 2018 09:21 PM (NLLmE)
the character of Roderick Spode.
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Eulalie
Posted by: Jeeves at August 21, 2018 09:21 PM (CDGwz)
Best years of my life.. the late 70's. I had a blast. Hubby and I went out every Saturday night and drank and danced the night away.
Posted by: Jewells45 at August 21, 2018 09:21 PM (dUJdY)
I'm kind of in to the second iteration of King Crimson. As I get older my tastes are changing. Used to be a classical/opera babe almost exclusively. Love medieval music. Now I'm loving music I should have loved when I was in my twenties. Weird.
Posted by: Tuna at August 21, 2018 09:22 PM (jm1YL)
Posted by: Milleveleigh at August 21, 2018 09:22 PM (ChQD/)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2018 09:22 PM (Xpw10)
Posted by: Denny Crane! at August 21, 2018 09:21 PM (wbRN9)
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Stuff earlier than their big break is not bad. Anything after they got popular. Gag.
Posted by: Axeman at August 21, 2018 09:22 PM (vDqXW)
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HERETIC!
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 09:12 PM (lwiT4)
How Deep Is Your Love is timeless.
Posted by: ScoggDog at August 21, 2018 09:22 PM (fiGNd)
Kind of goofy, but harmless. Personally I have a huge soft spot for "Tarzan Boy" by Baltimora and "Rock me Amadeus (German ver)" by Falco.
Posted by: atomicplaygirl, now with more Kaboom! at August 21, 2018 09:22 PM (Gim9y)
Posted by: Jewells45
Were white polyester leisure suits involved?
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at August 21, 2018 09:22 PM (Iccum)
Ya'll behave. Grammie, try not to hurt anyone.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 21, 2018 09:23 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at August 21, 2018 09:23 PM (KP5rU)
Hell would be having to listen to all that crap music from 60s/70s/80s for the rest of eternity.
Posted by: Willowed JAS at August 21, 2018 09:23 PM (3HNOQ)
Hell, yes!
And "Walking on Sunshine."
Posted by: Lizzy at August 21, 2018 09:21 PM (W+vEI)
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Blargh!
Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 21, 2018 09:23 PM (I16G8)
Posted by: Concerned People's Front at August 21, 2018 09:23 PM (v1udk)
I stumbled across this the other night. The Bee Gees performing "Blowing in the Wind" in 1963:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjbVNNXjOzk
Posted by: rickl at August 21, 2018 09:19 PM (sdi6R)
Oh my gosh - look how little they are!
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 09:23 PM (lwiT4)
the character of Roderick Spode. ''
Anything Wodehouse would be fun, fun, fun.
Posted by: Tuna at August 21, 2018 09:24 PM (jm1YL)
the character of Roderick Spode.
On of my favorite lines, altought in a different book of his, concerning a man hit with a bucket of water: "He immediately became, without any previous training or experience, the wettest man in Worchester".
Well, I liked it.
Posted by: Vlad the Impaler, whittling away like mad at August 21, 2018 09:17 PM (0dbnJ)
You might enjoy Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome. There are scenes in that book where I had tears rolling down my cheeks I was laughing so hard. He wrote a sequel that isn't as good but still has its moments (like when they go to Germany and he's describing how much Germans love rules).
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 21, 2018 09:24 PM (4ErVI)
Posted by: Capt. Ahab, aka Rachel Maddow at August 21, 2018 09:24 PM (9X60i)
Set to the characters of Sartre's "No Exit"? =)
Posted by: atomicplaygirl, now with more Kaboom! at August 21, 2018 09:24 PM (Gim9y)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 21, 2018 09:23 PM (ptqGC)
Well shoot, Jane.
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 09:24 PM (lwiT4)
icepicks in my ears. that, or slitting my wrists. whatever is faster.
they must be a group that only females get.
Hard to believe they started out as a bad Moody Blues knock-off, semi prog outfit. They even had a few semi-hits back in the late 60's early 70's. Anybody remember "How Can You Mend A Broken Heart?" The poor bastards were at it for a decade before they discovered the falsetto and disco. The rest is as they say...
Posted by: clutch cargo at August 21, 2018 09:24 PM (RHEDC)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 21, 2018 09:25 PM (Tyii7)
Favorite band from early 70s is Blood, Sweat and Tears. Favorite from the late 70s is Heart. Favorite solo performer is Barry Manilow 's Paradise Cafe, Swing Street, Swinging With The Big Bands, a nd the Broadway album. Not just his performances but he really shines with those arrangements.
Posted by: JTB at August 21, 2018 09:25 PM (V+03K)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2018 09:25 PM (Xpw10)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at August 21, 2018 09:22 PM (Iccum)
LOL! Thankfully no! I would not have let him out of the house! I did have some pretty nice dresses though. Pretty swirly skirts perfect for all those dance moves.
Posted by: Jewells45 at August 21, 2018 09:25 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: clutch cargo at August 21, 2018 09:24 PM (RHEDC)
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I remember "Nights on Broadway" which I don't hate.
Posted by: Axeman at August 21, 2018 09:25 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 21, 2018 09:25 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 21, 2018 09:26 PM (PUmDY)
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at August 21, 2018 09:26 PM (2DOZq)
Phew! The comma saved Jane!!
Posted by: Lizzy at August 21, 2018 09:25 PM (W+vEI)
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Wish it would have saved grandma.
Posted by: Axeman at August 21, 2018 09:26 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 21, 2018 09:26 PM (IqV8l)
Al Green better. Fact.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgAFcvIw8J4
Posted by: JackStraw at August 21, 2018 09:26 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Willowed JAS
"Hell is Andy Gibb singing Shadow Dancing for eons and eons. And you have to wear orange-plaid bellbottoms and sit next to the Bay City Rollers. 'Hi fellas. This is gonna suck!'"
Denis Leary
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at August 21, 2018 09:27 PM (Iccum)
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No love for "You're a fag and your sh*t's all retarded"?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 21, 2018 09:27 PM (EZebt)
Posted by: Kate Winslet's boobs at August 21, 2018 09:27 PM (fp1LP)
Posted by: Tuna
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I could reread a Wodehouse. Something funny would be a nice change. Problem with the Wooster books is that it's really necessary to read them in order, kinda.
Posted by: Jeeves at August 21, 2018 09:27 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: Eromero at August 21, 2018 09:28 PM (zLDYs)
Posted by: your neighbor with a telescope at August 21, 2018 09:28 PM (sFofr)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 21, 2018 09:28 PM (JJ9bx)
Posted by: Minuteman at August 21, 2018 09:28 PM (rmyUw)
That scene in "P.C.U" where the administrators and snobby donors are locked in a room with "Afternoon Delight" cranked up to '11' on repeat...
Posted by: Lizzy at August 21, 2018 09:28 PM (W+vEI)
I think that one's already been enshrined.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 21, 2018 09:28 PM (Tyii7)
Posted by: In Vino Veritits at August 21, 2018 08:23 PM (qul7b)
I do believe we're going to have a problem here.
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 08:27 PM (lwiT4)
grammie, I have your back on this one. While I, like you, were very young, we were there. We saw our older brothers and sisters go nuts for many years with the Beatles albums time after time. We saw the confused responses on the faces of our parents.
It was crazy. Unlike any other musician, except maybe Elvis. A comparison would be the excitement at a Trump rally vs. a Maxine Waters rally.
And Beatles songs have been covered by more artists than any other musicians. Ever.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 21, 2018 09:29 PM (UsCnO)
Posted by: Lancelot Link
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Uh, oh...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc, etc. at August 21, 2018 09:29 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: Jewells45 at August 21, 2018 09:29 PM (dUJdY)
"Hell is Andy Gibb singing Shadow Dancing for eons and eons. And you have to wear orange-plaid bellbottoms and sit next to the Bay City Rollers. 'Hi fellas. This is gonna suck!'"
Denis Leary
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at August 21, 2018 09:27 PM (Iccum)
OK, the Bay City Rollers could be a candidate for most overrated band. I'm old enough to remember when they were supposed to be the second coming of the Beatles.
Posted by: rickl at August 21, 2018 09:29 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Eromero at August 21, 2018 09:28 PM (zLDYs)
That group won the Eurovision years later. Sometime in the 1990s I think. Can't remember how I learned that because other than Walking on Sunshine I never heard of them again.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 21, 2018 09:29 PM (4ErVI)
This Bee Gee hate shit is started to look like the classic Virtue Signal to me.
Posted by: ScoggDog at August 21, 2018 09:30 PM (fiGNd)
Once she emigrated to the West, she had trouble getting it published. One publisher told her that she really didn't understand Communism.
Posted by: rickl at August 21, 2018 08:50 PM
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^^^^
THIS
I read that book when I was 15. I went to Yugoslavia 4 months later. These two things planted the seeds that made this atheist commie teen a conservative. Much like the movie The Lives of Others, it brings a totalitarian state right down to the most personal level. You can feel what it's like to live in that world.
Posted by: Been Awhile at August 21, 2018 09:30 PM (4fmLd)
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 09:30 PM (lwiT4)
the character of Roderick Spode.
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Eulalie
Posted by: Jeeves at August 21, 2018 09:21 PM
Heil, Spode!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 21, 2018 09:30 PM (mxvSl)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 21, 2018 09:30 PM (Tyii7)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger
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Yeah, I know (or knew) a couple of people in that one.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc, etc. at August 21, 2018 09:30 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: Steve at August 21, 2018 09:31 PM (ET4ds)
Yep.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 21, 2018 09:30 PM (Tyii7)
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Yep. Definitely overrated.
Posted by: Axeman at August 21, 2018 09:31 PM (vDqXW)
Mind you this is easy to confuse with "well known songs" but it's an interesting discussion. The first one off the top of my head was:
My Girl
Posted by: Mega at August 21, 2018 09:31 PM (uEbPt)
My house is wonderful. It's been fixed by more repairmen than any house I've ever lived in.
Posted by: Kate Winslet's boobs at August 21, 2018 09:31 PM (fp1LP)
Some funny stuff, some way too serious stuff. It's not a bad collection and while he gets more preach-y as he goes on, some of the scenes are very real.
A Few Acres of Snow, by Robert Leckie
How the French lost Canada. I have it in hardback so 387 pages.
Posted by: Winston at August 21, 2018 09:31 PM (wgCUV)
It was crazy. Unlike any other musician, except maybe Elvis. A comparison would be the excitement at a Trump rally vs. a Maxine Waters rally.
And Beatles songs have been covered by more artists than any other musicians. Ever. ''
You had to be there to understand The Beatles.. I'm a boomer and I was there. My gawd, they kind of changed everything. What we heard from them was just so, so different. It's hard to explain.
Posted by: Tuna at August 21, 2018 09:31 PM (jm1YL)
The fact that men who sing like women are even rated means they're over rated.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 21, 2018 09:32 PM (ZYcR0)
Posted by: Jewells45 at August 21, 2018 09:32 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: Jewells45 at August 21, 2018 09:29 PM (dUJdY)
Oh yeah. They have their own channel on Sirius XM. We went and saw them last summer at the Wisconsin State Fair. Only Mike Love was an original there.
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 09:32 PM (lwiT4)
Posted by: lin-duh at August 21, 2018 09:17 PM (kufk0)
Highly readable.
Short.
A true classic in every sense.
We have a winner!
Posted by: parsimony at August 21, 2018 09:32 PM (xEt5a)
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at August 21, 2018 09:32 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: JTB at August 21, 2018 09:25 PM (V+03K)
My wife and I are actually going to see Blood, Sweat and Tears in concert in a couple of weeks. We go to see a lot of musical artists that are way past their heyday and only have 1-2 original members. It's going to be pretty sad for us in the next 10 years when pretty much all the artists from the 1960s, '70s, and '80s have retired or died since that's pretty much the only music we listen to nowadays.
Posted by: Slappy at August 21, 2018 09:32 PM (rtfSu)
"The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" by Milan Kundera (or any of his novels except "Immortality").
Posted by: Lizzy at August 21, 2018 09:32 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: Concerned People's Front at August 21, 2018 09:32 PM (v1udk)
Posted by: Axeman at August 21, 2018 09:31 PM (vDqXW)
You just shut your pie hole!!
Posted by: Jewells45 at August 21, 2018 09:33 PM (dUJdY)
The fact that men who sing like women are even rated means they're over rated.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 21, 2018 09:32 PM (ZYcR0)
Why so crotchety?
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at August 21, 2018 09:33 PM (2DOZq)
boomer and I was there. My gawd, they kind of changed everything.
What we heard from them was just so, so different. It's hard to
explain.
Posted by: Tuna at August 21, 2018 09:31 PM (jm1YL)
Exactly. There was a Before. And then there was After. Hard to explain indeed.
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 09:33 PM (lwiT4)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 21, 2018 09:33 PM (Tyii7)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 21, 2018 09:33 PM (89T5c)
This Bee Gee hate shit is started to look like the classic Virtue Signal to me.
Posted by: ScoggDog at August 21, 2018 09:30 PM (fiGNd)
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Hells yeah I did! There exists a picture of me in full Saturday night attire. Black Rayon paisley shirt, white courdoroys, black lifter shoes, gold chain with a medal, feathered hair and aviator glasses.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 21, 2018 09:33 PM (I16G8)
Posted by: Eromero at August 21, 2018 09:33 PM (zLDYs)
Can't believe I'm the dude defending the Bee Gees here.
Posted by: ScoggDog at August 21, 2018 09:34 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 09:30 PM (
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While the subject matter can be a bit depressing, the writing isn't because McCourt has an uncanny ability to recall and write from his age perspective.
It's a horrible tale but told from a kids mind, which is much more innocent.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 21, 2018 09:34 PM (JJ9bx)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc, etc. at August 21, 2018 09:34 PM (xSo9G)
Posted by: Vlad the Impaler, whittling away like mad at August 21, 2018 09:34 PM (0dbnJ)
Posted by: Usntakim profoundly deplorable at August 21, 2018 09:34 PM (0OmEj)
Oh and one more... The Eagles.
Posted by: Jewells45 at August 21, 2018 09:34 PM (dUJdY)
It isn't the slog of a read that Atlas Shrugged can be, where you're pulled out of the story for political soliloquys. It's good.
Posted by: Been Awhile at August 21, 2018 09:34 PM (4fmLd)
Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake. If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.
Posted by: SMOD at August 21, 2018 09:34 PM (e8kgV)
A walking rock-n-roll encyclopedia once told me that.
Posted by: Axeman at August 21, 2018 09:34 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: ScoggDog at August 21, 2018 09:34 PM (fiGNd)
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I think I'm going to enshrine this for posterity. Maybe I'll needlepoint a pillow with it or something.
Posted by: bluebell at August 21, 2018 09:35 PM (JJZzu)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 21, 2018 09:35 PM (/tuJf)
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My book buying budget is blown all to hell and gone.
Posted by: Brad Chadlee Jr. at August 21, 2018 09:35 PM (I9Sw7)
the character of Roderick Spode.
John Turner, who played him in Jeeves and Wooster series always cracked me up
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 21, 2018 09:35 PM (SiINZ)
Posted by: Born Free at August 21, 2018 09:35 PM (tWOmK)
In high school I forced .myself through the whole Dune series. I was a looser geek.
Posted by: Usntakim profoundly deplorable
Come on and tighten up!
Posted by: Archie Bell at August 21, 2018 09:35 PM (IqV8l)
426 321 >>Her best work was Head in a Box.
Gwyneth did it better.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 21, 2018 08:57 PM (/tuJf)
Spoiler alert!!! I just wish most of Paltrow's movies ended with that happening to her character. After all, has any character she's played really ever added anything of value to a movie?
Posted by: Slappy at August 21, 2018 09:11 PM (rtfSu)
The plague movie where she was the cheating wife of Matt Damon! and dies horribly of a super strain of influenza always cheers me up if I happen to come across it (I don't look for it, that's for certain).
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 21, 2018 09:36 PM (pNxlR)
Posted by: ScoggDog at August 21, 2018 09:34 PM (fiGNd)
It is an odd ...... juxtaposition.
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 09:36 PM (lwiT4)
Posted by: SMOD at August 21, 2018 09:34 PM (e8kgV)
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Also, Russell's bad analogy.
Posted by: Axeman at August 21, 2018 09:36 PM (vDqXW)
Only before Randy Meisner quit. They never let him sing enough.
Posted by: Tuna at August 21, 2018 09:36 PM (jm1YL)
Posted by: redridinghood at August 21, 2018 09:36 PM (hECVl)
Posted by: notsothoreau at August 21, 2018 09:37 PM (JKNZq)
Posted by: exdem13 at August 21, 2018 09:37 PM (W+kMI)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 21, 2018 09:37 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2018 09:37 PM (Xpw10)
Can't believe I'm the dude defending the Bee Gees here.
Posted by: ScoggDog at August 21, 2018 09:34 PM (fiGNd)
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You aren't alone.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 21, 2018 09:38 PM (I16G8)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 21, 2018 09:38 PM (Tyii7)
A walking rock-n-roll encyclopedia once told me that.
Posted by: Axeman at August 21, 2018 09:34 PM (vDqXW)
Not a beatle fan though I don't hate them but I don't believe that claim. Their catalogue is too big to think they had to rip off somebody else. And unless there are Brian Wilson songs I haven't heard , I haven't heard any similarities.
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at August 21, 2018 09:38 PM (2DOZq)
I can't come up with the perfect thing, so I will instead nominate two of my favorites.
Drawing of the Dark. Tim Powers, one of my favorite authors. The "Dark" in the title is dark beer. The book is set in the 1400s or 1500s, built around the Muslim siege of Vienna. There is a supernatural element. The protagonist, Brian Duffy, an Irish mercenary, could easily be a moron.
Before Midnight Rex Stout, one of my other favorite authors. It's a Nero Wolfe book. Great interplay between Wolfe and Archie, a crazy 40's version of an SJW chick, and the center of the whole thing is a maneuver by Wolfe that is hinted at by the title, and only explained at the end.
Posted by: Splunge at August 21, 2018 09:38 PM (Vb4BV)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 21, 2018 09:37 PM (W+vEI)
That is the single most terrifying book I've ever read.
Posted by: alexthechick - Superelite Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at August 21, 2018 09:38 PM (dEQP3)
Can't believe I'm the dude defending the Bee Gees here.
Posted by: ScoggDog at August 21, 2018 09:34 PM (fiGNd)
This comment would be the best epitaph to inscribe on a tombstone. I have to come up with something like that for mine. Might as well make people chuckle when they visit the cemetery.
Posted by: Slappy at August 21, 2018 09:39 PM (rtfSu)
Angela's Ashes
Fun? Are you on drugs?
Now, I loved Angela's Ashes. Folks are from the Old Sod and such. But fun?
That was so bleak. I remember that my kids were young. I was trying to be the good dad and make them eat healthy food, but when I was reading Angela's Ashes and they wanted chocolate covered cookie cereal with icing and sugar I said yes, anything you want lads.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 21, 2018 09:39 PM (fuK7c)
Posted by: Roman Polanski at August 21, 2018 09:39 PM (/qEW2)
Posted by: Blake - used bridge salesman at August 21, 2018 09:39 PM (WEBkv)
Posted by: ScoggDog at August 21, 2018 09:34 PM (fiGNd)
It is an odd ...... juxtaposition.
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The BeeGees had many hits before they rode the disco wave to riches, and Barry was still making money a decade later from writing and duets. It's alright to be a guy who likes them.
Posted by: exdem13 at August 21, 2018 09:39 PM (W+kMI)
In other news, I got the A/C working in my '08 Suburban for the first time since I've owned it, so I am good to go to AZ next month.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2018 09:39 PM (LI7AQ)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc, etc. at August 21, 2018 09:39 PM (xSo9G)
From whence modern detective fiction came.
Posted by: Blake - used bridge salesman at August 21, 2018 09:39 PM (WEBkv)
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It's a novella.
Posted by: Axeman at August 21, 2018 09:40 PM (vDqXW)
Wonder if Cohen is watching...hahaha.
Posted by: Tami at August 21, 2018 09:40 PM (Enq6K)
Rented that a few years back. I believe I heard Rush mention it so we thought why not? Good grief.. depressing as hell, but yeah a must see. Especially now.
Posted by: Jewells45 at August 21, 2018 09:40 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: Makatta at August 21, 2018 09:41 PM (a4Ra5)
Posted by: Concerned People's Front at August 21, 2018 09:16 PM (v1udk)
Obviously you are a communist and we have a helicopter waiting on the pad just for you.
Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at August 21, 2018 09:41 PM (J70i0)
Posted by: JTB at August 21, 2018 09:41 PM (V+03K)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Prediction: Early Autumn, abnormally low temperatures.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc, etc. at August 21, 2018 09:41 PM (xSo9G)
Oh yeah. I read after working in Reston, VA - killed me wondering where the monkey business took place.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 21, 2018 09:41 PM (W+vEI)
Fuck it. Too Hell with you all. Here's my man card. Take the damn thing. I don't want the piece of shit anyway.
They had good songs - the disco shit was better than most - and they had really good ballads.
I'm going to kick the dogs now.
Posted by: ScoggDog at August 21, 2018 09:41 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at August 21, 2018 09:38 PM (2DOZq)
Not a direct rip-off, but Paul listened to "God Only Knows", loved it, and wanted to write a love song just as wistful as that. "Here, There and Everywhere" was the result.
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 09:41 PM (lwiT4)
Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at August 21, 2018 09:41 PM (J70i0)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 21, 2018 09:41 PM (pNxlR)
Posted by: Eromero at August 21, 2018 09:41 PM (zLDYs)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 21, 2018 09:41 PM (W+vEI)
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*cough*
Posted by: bluebell at August 21, 2018 09:41 PM (JJZzu)
Rented that a few years back. I believe I heard Rush mention it so we thought why not? Good grief.. depressing as hell, but yeah a must see. Especially now.
Posted by: Jewells45 at August 21, 2018 09:40 PM (dUJdY)
As I keep telling the Left, The Lives of Others is not an instructional film.
Posted by: alexthechick - Superelite Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at August 21, 2018 09:41 PM (dEQP3)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2018 09:42 PM (Xpw10)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc, etc. at August 21, 2018 09:41 PM (xSo9G)
Just send the checks to Peon Industries, LLC.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2018 09:42 PM (LI7AQ)
"The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" by Milan Kundera (or any of his novels except "Immortality").
Oh yes. Laughable Loves was my first, then Lightness of Being.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 21, 2018 09:42 PM (fuK7c)
Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at August 21, 2018 09:41 PM (J70i0)
We did that, no?
Posted by: Splunge at August 21, 2018 09:42 PM (Vb4BV)
Posted by: TheFoundersParty at August 21, 2018 09:42 PM (QAVtQ)
Wonder if Cohen is watching...hahaha.
Posted by: Tami at August 21, 2018 09:40 PM (Enq6K)
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I would him to come in and clean up the DOJ.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 21, 2018 09:42 PM (hECVl)
Posted by: tankdemon at August 21, 2018 09:42 PM (1Fa/H)
Posted by: Javems at August 21, 2018 09:42 PM (cSfOv)
Posted by: Born Free at August 21, 2018 09:35 PM (tWOmK)
Seconded. That's a good one. A novella, maybe 150 pages or so.
Posted by: rickl at August 21, 2018 09:43 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2018 09:42 PM (Xpw10)
Oh. Encyclopedia Brown? Harry Potter?
Posted by: Splunge at August 21, 2018 09:43 PM (Vb4BV)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 21, 2018 09:43 PM (ZYcR0)
Posted by: Eromero at August 21, 2018 09:41 PM (zLDYs)
It's a non-fiction work. That's what makes it so terrifying.
Posted by: alexthechick - Superelite Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at August 21, 2018 09:43 PM (dEQP3)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 21, 2018 09:43 PM (W+vEI)
A Jewish friend of mine died and told his wife to give them to me even though I hadn't seen him in years, so she gave them to me at his funeral.
They were a blast! Simple mystery books, but with a real injection of Jewish religious philosophy and culture interspersed throughout. They weren't taxing on the brain, but were strangely addictive.
Sometimes I like books that I don't have to make myself read, but actually like reading.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 21, 2018 09:43 PM (JJ9bx)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 21, 2018 09:43 PM (p+zZ8)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2018 09:42 PM (Xpw10)
Perhaps Ace is younger than 29.
Posted by: Surfperch at August 21, 2018 09:43 PM (DzFIB)
Posted by: davidt at August 21, 2018 09:44 PM (PFd3d)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 21, 2018 09:44 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: exdem13 at August 21, 2018 09:44 PM (W+kMI)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 21, 2018 09:37 PM (W+vEI)
Classic.
Posted by: your neighbor with a telescope at August 21, 2018 09:44 PM (sFofr)
Posted by: notsothoreau at August 21, 2018 09:44 PM (JKNZq)
Name one good thing about that song. The lyrics?The vocals? You can't even dance to that crap. Other than it's not Come on Eileen, I can't think of anything redeemable about that song.
Posted by: Concerned People's Front at August 21, 2018 09:44 PM (v1udk)
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I had read everything Zane Grey wrote before puberty.
What's your point?
Posted by: Brad Chadlee Jr. at August 21, 2018 09:44 PM (I9Sw7)
A young Daniel Day Lewis in "The Lightness of Being"'. Yikes, he was good looking.
Posted by: Tuna at August 21, 2018 09:44 PM (jm1YL)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 21, 2018 09:44 PM (HaL55)
Wonder if Cohen is watching...hahaha.
Posted by: Tami at August 21, 2018 09:40 PM (Enq6K)
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I would him to come in and clean up the DOJ.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 21, 2018 09:42 PM (hECVl)
Oh if only!
He was bashing Lanny Davis, "You had your client plead guilty...and there was NO crime. Idiot."
Posted by: Tami at August 21, 2018 09:45 PM (Enq6K)
Posted by: tankdemon at August 21, 2018 09:45 PM (1Fa/H)
I'm a big fan of the Beatles. But the most depressing story that I have
heard is that McCartney and Lennon overheard some of Brian Wilson's
recordings and basically ripped off the "psychedelic movement".
A walking rock-n-roll encyclopedia once told me that.
Posted by: Axeman at August 21, 2018 09:34 PM (vDqXW)
I think it was Donovan who got the Beatles into the flower child stuff.
Posted by: davidt at August 21, 2018 09:45 PM (PFd3d)
Posted by: Splunge at August 21, 2018 09:42 PM (Vb4BV)
I don't remember. Of course one hits 29 and the memory starts to go.
Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at August 21, 2018 09:45 PM (J70i0)
Issac Newton Square, Reston. They tore down the old building and put in a day care. Later it became a gym.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2018 09:45 PM (hyuyC)
I had to admit the concept seemed interesting. In reality it quickly devolved into some New Agey piece of crap that got literally worse as each page passed. I pushed ahead thinking hey maybe there's a great payoff here!
Nope. I should've beaten to death the person who sold me on it.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 21, 2018 09:45 PM (4ErVI)
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 09:45 PM (lwiT4)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 21, 2018 09:43 PM (W+vEI)
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No way. I live here.
True story: the building now houses a daycare. Yep.
Posted by: bluebell at August 21, 2018 09:45 PM (JJZzu)
Posted by: Captain Obvious at August 21, 2018 09:46 PM (Rg9Ab)
Posted by: davidt at August 21, 2018 09:44 PM (PFd3d)
Ugly. Saw them live, from a very good seat, during their "A spaceship opens, and there we are" tour, and...boring. Jeff Lynne may be some sort of musical genius, but he has no onstage charisma whatsoever.
Posted by: Splunge at August 21, 2018 09:46 PM (Vb4BV)
Prediction: Early Autumn, abnormally low temperatures.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc, etc.
It's supposed to be 90 again a week from today.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 21, 2018 09:46 PM (IqV8l)
Yes. Very, very
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 21, 2018 09:46 PM (2lndx)
Posted by: fluffy; child of a lesser fascism at August 21, 2018 09:46 PM (cHbmY)
Anyhow, Fiero.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc, etc. at August 21, 2018 09:47 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: Concerned People's Front at August 21, 2018 09:44 PM (v1udk)
The lyrics, the vocals, the music itself. All great.
Would you prefer the left or right door seat? :-)
Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at August 21, 2018 09:47 PM (J70i0)
Jeez, over 600 comments and nobody mentions ELO, whether good, bad, or ugly.
I like them a lot. And Jeff Lynne's done a lot for music.
Great band.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 21, 2018 09:47 PM (HaL55)
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"Time" is the best concept album, better than anything Pink Floyd did. Gauntlet flung down.
First song of theirs I heard and really liked was "Don't Bring Me Down" which got played 1,000 times when it was out. But I pretty much like any of ELO's stuff, including their most trippy-dippy stuff. Posted by: exdem13 at August 21, 2018 09:47 PM (W+kMI)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2018 09:47 PM (hyuyC)
Posted by: Eromero at August 21, 2018 09:47 PM (zLDYs)
ELO first hit in the 70's. All over the radio.
Posted by: Tuna at August 21, 2018 09:47 PM (jm1YL)
Posted by: davidt at August 21, 2018 09:44 PM (PFd3d)
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They've been mentioned. Do a page search.
Posted by: Axeman at August 21, 2018 09:47 PM (vDqXW)
I had read everything Zane Grey wrote before puberty.
What's your point?
Posted by: Brad Chadlee Jr. at August 21, 2018 09:44 PM (I9Sw7)
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How much of Grey's pre-pubescent writing actually got published?
Posted by: tankdemon at August 21, 2018 09:47 PM (1Fa/H)
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 09:45 PM (lwiT4)
How did a group like that, with their genre, kick out something like Long Black Road ?
That shit, new, would make radio today. I love that song.
Posted by: ScoggDog at August 21, 2018 09:47 PM (fiGNd)
It's literally about a dude planning and executing sweet revenge on his friend who made him a cuckold and took away the woman who he was to have children with.
Posted by: your neighbor with a telescope at August 21, 2018 09:47 PM (sFofr)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 21, 2018 09:47 PM (CW4Xz)
Posted by: parsimony at August 21, 2018 09:48 PM (xEt5a)
Also, I recommend another Randall Garrett book which is in the public domain. You can get this free from several web sites: _Unwise Child_
I have read and re-read that book at least a dozen times.
Posted by: mr_jack at August 21, 2018 09:48 PM (EWtCc)
Posted by: grammie winger at August 21, 2018 09:48 PM (lwiT4)
Posted by: Tuna at August 21, 2018 09:47 PM (jm1YL)
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And somebody had to clean that up.
Posted by: Axeman at August 21, 2018 09:48 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2018 09:48 PM (Xpw10)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 21, 2018 09:49 PM (CW4Xz)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 21, 2018 09:49 PM (JJ9bx)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at August 21, 2018 09:49 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Brad Chadlee Jr. at August 21, 2018 09:49 PM (I9Sw7)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc, etc. at August 21, 2018 09:49 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 21, 2018 09:49 PM (PUmDY)
"Man, these guys really suck!"
Posted by: Minuteman at August 21, 2018 09:49 PM (rmyUw)
Posted by: Axeman at August 21, 2018 09:50 PM (vDqXW)
"House to House" by SSG David Bellavia
looks to be brutal
It's a good book!
Great book. What those men went through was amazing.
Posted by: Timon at August 21, 2018 09:50 PM (cBE0b)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2018 09:50 PM (hyuyC)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 21, 2018 09:49 PM (CW4Xz)
Just stop right there Chief. You hit it in four notes.
Posted by: ScoggDog at August 21, 2018 09:50 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: davidt at August 21, 2018 09:50 PM (PFd3d)
Posted by: parsimony
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Have A Copy [X]
Don't Have A Copy [ ]
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc, etc. at August 21, 2018 09:51 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: The Rolling Stones at August 21, 2018 09:51 PM (fuK7c)
"Man, these guys really suck!"
Posted by: Minuteman at August 21, 2018 09:49 PM (rmyUw)
It's an old joke, and not a bad one, but having gone through more than my share of those dead sober, I can't see much truth there.
Posted by: Splunge at August 21, 2018 09:51 PM (Vb4BV)
Posted by: Axeman at August 21, 2018 09:34 PM (vDqXW)
I'm not buying that. The Beatles had more to do with creating the "psychedelic movement" than the Beach Boys. But they didn't do it by themselves either.
Although there was quite a rivalry between them. McCartney was very impressed by "Pet Sounds", which sort of inspired the studio effects on "Sgt. Pepper".
Personally, my favorite Beatles albums are "Rubber Soul" and "Revolver", along with the 1966 single "Paperback Writer"/"Rain". They rocked a hell of a lot more than "Sgt. Pepper".
Posted by: rickl at August 21, 2018 09:51 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Concerned People's Front at August 21, 2018 09:51 PM (v1udk)
https://tinyurl.com/y7eljlpx
And the DRB is not exactly gone, just moved to Sunrise Valley. Luckily we are not subject to it.
Posted by: bluebell at August 21, 2018 09:51 PM (JJZzu)
Posted by: Decaf at August 21, 2018 09:51 PM (KN1xl)
Posted by: redridinghood at August 21, 2018 09:52 PM (hECVl)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 21, 2018 09:52 PM (PUmDY)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 21, 2018 09:52 PM (HaL55)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 21, 2018 09:49 PM (CW4Xz)
Just stop right there Chief. You hit it in four notes.
Posted by: ScoggDog at August 21, 2018 09:50 PM (fiGNd)
well the list is long and glorious. LOL
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 21, 2018 09:52 PM (CW4Xz)
WOUNDED DEER, Massachusetts -- Emily Dickinson College sophomore Fawn Liebowitz died suddenly last week in a kiln explosion on campus. Liebowitz, 20, a sociology major from Fort Wayne, Indiana, was tragically killed while firing a pot in the new kiln in Sylvia Plath Hall. "Messy" was how Wounded Deer Fire Chief Michael Redman described the scene of the accident. "It was hard to tell the pot shards from the body parts," said the pyrodefense professional. "She just blew like a frog sucking on a cherry bomb," Redman added. The cleanup of Plath Hall has been further complicated by a thin coat of glaze that has affixed many of the body parts to the light fixtures and hand railings. In the wake of this tragedy, there has been talk among Emily Dickinson students of renaming Plath Hall to Fawn Hall. Until she was blown to bits, friends would say that Fawn's best feature was her smile. Her roommate, Shelly Dubinsky (sophomore, primitive cultures), described Fawn as "a special friend who liked to share her thoughts and experiences, and who had a curiosity about life and relationships." Her long-time boyfriend (they were "engaged to be engaged"), Eric "Otter" Stratton of nearby Faber College, was in shock when he first learned of Fawn's passing. "I just talked to her last week. She was going to make a pot for me," Stratton said while attempting to hold back tears. Services have already been held. In lieu of flowers or donations, the family requests that friends express their grief by posting comments on line at: www.myspace.com/crazycueball. CCNN thanks The Blue Republic (www.thebluerepublic.com) for contributing to this iReport.
(Via CNN iReport)
The Perfessor
https://cuppacafe.com/fawn-liebowitz-dies/20160
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 21, 2018 09:52 PM (pNxlR)
For people who are wealthy, and have connections and influence, losing nobly is an option...
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 21, 2018 09:52 PM (2lndx)
Oh, thanks!
Posted by: Lizzy at August 21, 2018 09:52 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at August 21, 2018 09:52 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 21, 2018 09:53 PM (JJ9bx)
Great band.''
There's a great video on YouTube of them performing "It's Magic". All dressed in matching satin pants and shirts. The violin player's is a little tight if you know what I mean.
Posted by: Tuna at August 21, 2018 09:53 PM (jm1YL)
Also had just started getting into Heinlein in a serious way, had read "Salem's Lot" by Stephen King (scared the pants off me) and had found a collection of stories by this dude H.P. Lovecraft.... Posted by: exdem13 at August 21, 2018 09:53 PM (W+kMI)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc, etc. at August 21, 2018 09:53 PM (CDGwz)
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for me, that is a bit of Heinlein, and every Hardy Boys book published.
yeah, I was kinda weird.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 21, 2018 09:53 PM (UsCnO)
Posted by: giovanni boccaccio at August 21, 2018 09:53 PM (N1ZXu)
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at August 21, 2018 09:54 PM (N1ZXu)
Posted by: Puddleglum at August 21, 2018 09:54 PM (LUyqH)
Posted by: Decaf at August 21, 2018 09:51 PM (KN1xl)
They have considerable talent. I don't like most of their music (two songs excepted, one of which most people hate), but I can see that it's damn good, as with Springsteen. Are you sure you're not reacting to Bono's narcissism? That's what sets world records, not the overrating of the band.
Posted by: Splunge at August 21, 2018 09:54 PM (Vb4BV)
Posted by: concrete girl at August 21, 2018 09:54 PM (Tm+wy)
Posted by: Concerned People's Front at August 21, 2018 09:51 PM (v1udk)
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Is he making excuses for the darling illegal dreamer?
Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 21, 2018 09:54 PM (I16G8)
Posted by: Bob Dylan at August 21, 2018 09:55 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at August 21, 2018 09:55 PM (KP5rU)
I have a 7 and 3 record with the DRB. The last loss was one of the reasons to leave Reston.
Thanks for the link. We both had correct, in part, comment. It was always a day care, and the original building was torn down. The gym was catacorner to the day care.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2018 09:55 PM (hyuyC)
Posted by: Javems at August 21, 2018 09:55 PM (cSfOv)
Stones.
Posted by: davidt at August 21, 2018 09:50 PM (PFd3d)
Ah ... Steel Wheels. '89. Cardinal Stadium. My Senior Year.
A couple dumb ass goody-two-shoes girls going "What's That Smell". Nothin' you need to worry about.
And ... classic ... one of 'em waiting on me in the parking lot on Monday Morning - making sure I kept my mouth shut.
Of course. I got a reputation too, honey ...
Posted by: ScoggDog at August 21, 2018 09:55 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at August 21, 2018 09:55 PM (N1ZXu)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 21, 2018 09:55 PM (HaL55)
Posted by: Jewells45 at August 21, 2018 09:56 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc, etc. at August 21, 2018 09:53 PM (CDGwz)
Um, yeah, sure.
Posted by: Gary Condit at August 21, 2018 09:56 PM (Vb4BV)
Only before Randy Meisner quit. They never let him sing enough.Posted by: Tuna at August 21, 2018 09:36 PM (jm1YL
QFT...
That, and getting rid of Bernie Leadon.
Posted by: browndog at August 21, 2018 09:56 PM (bGMOs)
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In my experience it is the girls that are not reading books, boys are reading adventure books, adolescent sci-fi and fantasy.
Historically girls would ready romances but those have become so despised that they now read nothing and all their text is on Instagram, Unintended consequences of so called feminism.
Posted by: Decaf at August 21, 2018 09:56 PM (KN1xl)
I tend to see modern books along the same lines as other modern forms of entertainment, like movies or television.
For instance give a modern book to equal The Road To Serfdom or Reflections on The Revolution in France or Red Badge of Courge?
These days I'm reading either art books or Piano books.
Posted by: Kreplach at August 21, 2018 09:56 PM (kT3/m)
Posted by: parsimony
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Have A Copy [X]
Don't Have A Copy [ ]
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"Johnny Tremain" better explained the American Revolution then all of my American History textbooks added up. It is also better than "My Brother Sam is Dead", that piece of crypto-Marxist relativist-pacifist crap disguised as YA fiction.
Posted by: exdem13 at August 21, 2018 09:56 PM (W+kMI)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 21, 2018 09:57 PM (PUmDY)
Posted by: Splunge at August 21, 2018 09:57 PM (Vb4BV)
Anyhow, Fiero.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc, etc. at August 21, 2018 09:47 PM (CDGwz)
Opel GT was metal, except for the rust.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2018 09:57 PM (LI7AQ)
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at August 21, 2018 09:57 PM (N1ZXu)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 21, 2018 09:57 PM (HaL55)
For pure longevity and sales ? ZZ Top and AC/DC never missed a beat.
Posted by: ScoggDog at August 21, 2018 09:57 PM (fiGNd)
Life long love of music and it grows as my stereo kit improved with more money and experience getting gear to perform. My point is that the beatles etc sound okay on the radio but so much is not heard. A great kit makes you weep for joy at just how wonderful music can be.
Posted by: d9 at August 21, 2018 09:58 PM (WX+x0)
For pure longevity and sales ? ZZ Top and AC/DC never missed a beat.
Posted by: ScoggDog at August 21, 2018 09:57 PM (fiGNd)
This. As in many fields, the real winners are the ones who made it look effortless.
Posted by: Splunge at August 21, 2018 09:58 PM (Vb4BV)
Posted by: Anna Mac at August 21, 2018 09:58 PM (rj4Yf)
Posted by: ScoggDog at August 21, 2018 09:57 PM
....
Pink Floyd?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 21, 2018 09:58 PM (JJ9bx)
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at August 21, 2018 09:58 PM (2DOZq)
Elvis Costello
Peter Gabriel
Linda Ronstadt
The Cure
Most overrated: Depeche Mode
Posted by: James OBrien at August 21, 2018 09:59 PM (viJE+)
Posted by: Decaf at August 21, 2018 09:51 PM (KN1xl)
Good hangin' music. Would make the condemned grateful for the drop.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2018 09:59 PM (LI7AQ)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 21, 2018 10:00 PM (PUmDY)
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at August 21, 2018 10:00 PM (N1ZXu)
Posted by: concrete girl at August 21, 2018 10:00 PM (Tm+wy)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 21, 2018 09:57 PM (PUmDY)
They opened at Louisville too ... and were really damn good. Should I Stay Or Should I Go was very, very good.
The Stones played for a solid two plus hours. I couldn't believe I paid $25 to go ... that was a bunch of money for bleacher seats back then. It was worth it.
Posted by: ScoggDog at August 21, 2018 10:00 PM (fiGNd)
Great band.''
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ELON still rocks my socks off.
Posted by: Decaf at August 21, 2018 10:00 PM (KN1xl)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 21, 2018 10:00 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: exdem13 at August 21, 2018 10:00 PM (W+kMI)
The busty blond in the 'Top 5 dating sites!' clickbait ad on the main page is rocking that low cut dress.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 21, 2018 10:01 PM (6U3DW)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 21, 2018 10:01 PM (PUmDY)
Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at August 21, 2018 10:02 PM (CE6iV)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at August 21, 2018 10:02 PM (KP5rU)
For pure longevity and sales ? ZZ Top and AC/DC never missed a beat.
Posted by: ScoggDog
RUSH too. They did finally call it quits a couple of years a ago. Guess they had enough. I have read they all have various ailments so that probably had something to do with it.
Posted by: Puddleglum at August 21, 2018 10:02 PM (LUyqH)
A great kit makes you weep for joy at just how wonderful music can be.
I wish I had room here at stately Casa Backwardio to set up my little entry-level audiophile setup. Damn that system sounded great.
These days, it's this laptop. I can plug in my Scarlett Solo and strap on the studio monitor headphones and have a lot of fun listening to FLAC files.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 21, 2018 10:03 PM (HaL55)
Posted by: tankdemon at August 21, 2018 10:03 PM (1Fa/H)
Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at August 21, 2018 10:02 PM (CE6iV)
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Not that I saw.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 21, 2018 10:03 PM (I16G8)
Posted by: Concerned People's Front at August 21, 2018 09:51 PM (v1udk)
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Is he making excuses for the darling illegal dreamer?
Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 21, 2018 09:54 PM (I16G
Basicly, but he at least didn't say "but" after the obligatory "we feel so bad for the girl's family".
What he did do is the line of "illegals are no worse", but Sean cut him off and said "he shouldn't have ever been here, that's the point".
And that last sentence is EXACTLY the issue, and the Left ignoring it in response.
One bad apple ruins the whole barrel of good apples. And the bad apple legally should not have been there.
Until that is addressed, nothing changes.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 21, 2018 10:03 PM (UsCnO)
Too old to lug around that drum kit anymore.
Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at August 21, 2018 10:03 PM (2DOZq)
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S'okay, you were not the only one. That tome did NOT do well in repeated readings, and I haven't been able to even look at one of her books since her daughter's story came out...
Posted by: exdem13 at August 21, 2018 10:03 PM (W+kMI)
Yes they are. Last novella coming out in Oct. I understand there is to be a full length novel in 2019. Hooray!
Posted by: Tuna at August 21, 2018 10:03 PM (jm1YL)
Posted by: Channeling a Dem Voter at August 21, 2018 10:03 PM (PFd3d)
Elvis Costello
Peter Gabriel
Linda Ronstadt
The Cure
Most overrated: Depeche Mode
Posted by: James OBrien at August 21, 2018 09:59 PM (viJE+)
Point of order: The Cure and Depeche Mode were from the 1980s, weren't they? At least I don't remember them before the 80s.
Posted by: rickl at August 21, 2018 10:04 PM (sdi6R)
Always liked Starship Trooper.
Posted by: d9 at August 21, 2018 10:04 PM (WX+x0)
ZZ Top, peace be upon them. Well, piece be upon them.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 21, 2018 10:04 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at August 21, 2018 10:04 PM (6qErC)
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Oh, for Pete's sake. It's Electric Light Orchestra, not Elon Musk otherwise. Autocucumber is the pits.
Posted by: Decaf at August 21, 2018 10:04 PM (KN1xl)
my 95 needs it.
Posted by: concrete girl at August 21, 2018 09:54 PM (Tm+wy)
Thirty-seven dollars (!) for the belt, and something like nine dollars for the can of ozone-depleting refrigerant I had to put into it. But it blows nice and cold now!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2018 10:04 PM (LI7AQ)
Short Story: All You Zombies.
Novel:
Double Star
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Citizen of the Galaxy
Space Cadet
Starship Troopers
Have Spacesuit; Will Travel.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2018 10:04 PM (hyuyC)
Loved The Pogues.
Posted by: Puddleglum at August 21, 2018 10:04 PM (LUyqH)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 21, 2018 10:05 PM (PUmDY)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 21, 2018 10:05 PM (2lndx)
Posted by: Channeling a Dem Voter at August 21, 2018 10:03 PM (PFd3d)
OK, thirded. Never read it, always known I should.
Fallback choice I've also never read and should: Watership Down.
Posted by: Splunge at August 21, 2018 10:05 PM (Vb4BV)
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at August 21, 2018 10:05 PM (SRarZ)
Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 21, 2018 10:03 PM (I16G
Hah! He's like me when shoe-shopping.
So many choices...still can't find the perfect fit.
Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at August 21, 2018 10:05 PM (CE6iV)
Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at August 21, 2018 10:02 PM (CE6iV)
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I think it was Monster Manual.
Posted by: Axeman at August 21, 2018 10:05 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 21, 2018 09:58 PM (JJ9bx)
The Final Cut and Momentary Lapse of Reason was all they released in the 80s.
I don't care much for Final Cut.
But ... Momentary Lapse of Reason is one of those albums, at least for me, that you can just put on and let go. No reason to skip anything.
It's subjective.
Posted by: ScoggDog at August 21, 2018 10:06 PM (fiGNd)
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The movie version with Travolta was just as good too!
Posted by: Said no one, ever at August 21, 2018 10:06 PM (+dsLj)
Posted by: Said no one, ever at August 21, 2018 10:06 PM (+dsLj)
Travolta was rocking those dreads!
Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at August 21, 2018 10:07 PM (CE6iV)
Posted by: Max Power at August 21, 2018 10:07 PM (q177U)
Posted by: tankdemon at August 21, 2018 10:07 PM (1Fa/H)
Posted by: Decaf at August 21, 2018 10:00 PM (KN1xl)
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I'll rocket your socks off. SpaceX socks.
Posted by: Elon Musk at August 21, 2018 10:07 PM (/qEW2)
Posted by: Sharkman at August 21, 2018 10:07 PM (BfOXk)
Yes. Animal Farm is amazing. It continually amazes me that Orwell saw the heart of socialism so clearly, and still thought it would work if people just listened to him.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 21, 2018 10:07 PM (2lndx)
Posted by: concrete girl at August 21, 2018 10:07 PM (Tm+wy)
Double Star
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Citizen of the Galaxy
Space Cadet
Starship Troopers
Have Spacesuit; Will Travel.
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THHIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSS
Posted by: parsimony at August 21, 2018 10:08 PM (xEt5a)
My latest discovery was big in the early 60's, and is a folk singer who never got all that famous. I've been listening to his songs, one after the other, and not found one I do not like. I even think his playing might have been a bit of influence on that guy I saw in concert 200+ times.
Posted by: Splunge at August 21, 2018 10:08 PM (Vb4BV)
They did Gaucho in 1980. Then broke up. And Don and Walt did their solo stuff, and then reformed in 2000, for Two Against Nature.
Posted by: Axeman at August 21, 2018 10:09 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2018 10:09 PM (hyuyC)
I think it is an emotional thing, but the heart of man is evil.
Posted by: Brad Chadlee Jr. at August 21, 2018 10:09 PM (I9Sw7)
It was quite fun.
I recommend it.
Starship Troopers by Heinlein is also a great choice.
Posted by: Incognitos at August 21, 2018 10:10 PM (e8jfn)
Holmes nemesis and his henchman, Colonel Sebastion "Basher" Moran. I liked it so well I bought Anno Dracula expecting another dark comedy but it's more a full fledged horror novel. One of the things I liked in both is that there are a number of Easter eggs that the fine eye for detail with a good knowledge of the late 19th century will find:
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at August 21, 2018 10:10 PM (+y/Ru)
Then there are two shelves of LPs and another trunk of 45s dating back to 1973.
Posted by: Decaf at August 21, 2018 10:10 PM (KN1xl)
Posted by: Tuna at August 21, 2018 10:10 PM (jm1YL)
Posted by: Farmer at August 21, 2018 10:10 PM (yJ1e6)
Posted by: tankdemon at August 21, 2018 10:07 PM (1Fa/H)
I remember being in a record store, back when there were record stores, and seeing an album cover with two gay-looking douchebag faces on it. It was called "Wham! Make it Big."
My thought was: these guys will never amount to anything. Nice try, douchebags.
Which is why I try not to make predictions, anymore.
Posted by: Splunge at August 21, 2018 10:10 PM (Vb4BV)
Posted by: Puddleglum at August 21, 2018 10:02 PM (LUyqH)
Played guitar in college with a few dudes that idolized Lifeson.
Just wasn't my thing. Although I really liked Moving Pictures. Just seemed - to me - that none of their other albums sounded nearly close to the same.
Posted by: ScoggDog at August 21, 2018 10:10 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: Belated ONT at August 21, 2018 10:11 PM (JJ9bx)
Even after Bon Scott died, they changed lead singers and just kept selling out stadiums all over the world for 30 years, until they essentially went deaf and insane.
Yet they were never rock n roll "royalty" like the British Beatles or Stones, or the American super groups of the late '70's-'80's, Eagles, Springsteen, Doobies.
AC/DC was always on their own plane, and it was crazy and fun, and never ending. The fans were different, too, just giving a different vibe than other bands.
And they always sold out.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 21, 2018 10:11 PM (UsCnO)
Posted by: Brad Chadlee Jr. at August 21, 2018 10:09 PM (I9Sw7)
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Actually, Orwell didn't *know* whether it would work or not. He was just against authoritarian government. He thought that if there could be a communal-based socialism, that's what he backed, and he thought it was worth trying out.
Posted by: Axeman at August 21, 2018 10:12 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: Brad Chadlee Jr. at August 21, 2018 10:12 PM (I9Sw7)
I have a suggestion for the AoS Style Guide.
Attorney, is to be reserved for those we know and trust, ie Insomniac and the delightful AtC.
Lawyers, as a pejorative, is for the pond scum like Cohen, the DoJ and every other anti American member of the bar.
Posted by: Winston at August 21, 2018 10:12 PM (wgCUV)
Prove me wrong.
Posted by: tankdemon at August 21, 2018 10:03 PM (1Fa/H)
Who?
Posted by: tbodie at August 21, 2018 10:12 PM (lwpdV)
Posted by: Decaf at August 21, 2018 09:51 PM (KN1xl)
This. Add the shitheel Bruce Springsteen to the list too. Fucking awful.
For the book my vote is Lord of the Flies.
Posted by: Timon at August 21, 2018 10:12 PM (cBE0b)
1000 page turner it is and has scale of time and action. You like what you like. It was always fun to read.
Has anyone of the horde read it?
Posted by: d9 at August 21, 2018 10:12 PM (WX+x0)
Posted by: rickl at August 21, 2018 10:04 PM
Depeche Mode were an 80's band... The Cure however were a 70's band.
Posted by: otho at August 21, 2018 10:12 PM (LkFnL)
Posted by: Brad Chadlee Jr. at August 21, 2018 10:09 PM (I9Sw7)
Yeah ... that's deep. I'll have to cogitate on that for a while.
Wow.
Posted by: ScoggDog at August 21, 2018 10:12 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: davidt at August 21, 2018 10:13 PM (PFd3d)
Posted by: Timon at August 21, 2018 10:12 PM (cBE0b)
Oh please no
Posted by: Splunge at August 21, 2018 10:13 PM (Vb4BV)
Posted by: JTB at August 21, 2018 10:14 PM (V+03K)
Posted by: Mattski at August 21, 2018 10:15 PM (9pmiQ)
Posted by: Decaf at August 21, 2018 10:15 PM (KN1xl)
Posted by: JTB at August 21, 2018 10:14 PM (V+03K)
I wondered if someone would bite.
It's Dave van Ronk.
Posted by: Splunge at August 21, 2018 10:15 PM (Vb4BV)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 21, 2018 10:15 PM (JJ9bx)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at August 21, 2018 10:16 PM (KP5rU)
Fun: The Godfather, Mario Puzo
Classic: Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
Nostalgia: My Dog Skip, Willie Morris
Posted by: bigjack at August 21, 2018 10:16 PM (eD3Jy)
Posted by: Anna Mac at August 21, 2018 09:58 PM (rj4Yf)
Did she ever put a fork in her Richard Jury series? I read about 12 of those before the formula bored me to tears.
Posted by: Gem at August 21, 2018 10:16 PM (XoAz8)
Posted by: Concerned People's Front at August 21, 2018 10:16 PM (v1udk)
Posted by: otho at August 21, 2018 10:12 PM (LkFnL)
The Cure were most definitely an '80's band, who actually carried over with a successful album in the early '90's. Truly great popsters. The Head on the Door is a wonderful album start to finish.
Posted by: parsimony at August 21, 2018 10:16 PM (xEt5a)
Wasn't it fun to flip through the rows of albums? We had a great record store across High Street from the OSU campus. Loved to go in there between classes. They'd even play an album for you before you decided to buy it.
Posted by: Tuna at August 21, 2018 10:17 PM (jm1YL)
Posted by: Brad Chadlee Jr. at August 21, 2018 10:09 PM (I9Sw7)
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Actually, Orwell didn't *know* whether it would work or not. He was just against authoritarian government. He thought that if there could be a communal-based socialism, that's what he backed, and he thought it was worth trying out.
Posted by: Axeman at August 21, 2018 10:12 PM (vDqXW)
Remember, he was only 46 when he died. I've often wondered how his political philosophy would have developed had he lived longer.
Posted by: Captain Obvious at August 21, 2018 10:17 PM (Rg9Ab)
Short Story: All You Zombies.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2018 10:04 PM (hyuyC)
Jeez, that's not a good choice for someone to start with! A far better one of his with basically the same topic without the pervyness is "By His Bootstraps". There even is a PDF on google.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 21, 2018 10:17 PM (FTPn0)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 21, 2018 10:18 PM (PUmDY)
Posted by: Timon at August 21, 2018 10:12 PM (cBE0b)
Oh please no
Posted by: Splunge at August 21, 2018 10:13 PM (Vb4BV)"
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No, no and no. Had to do that one in high school and never want to read it again.
Posted by: Decaf at August 21, 2018 10:18 PM (KN1xl)
The moon is a harsh mistress.
I don't remember much of it and would read it again.
Probably hasn't aged well.
Posted by: Brad Chadlee Jr. at August 21, 2018 10:19 PM (I9Sw7)
Posted by: davidt at August 21, 2018 10:19 PM (PFd3d)
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The Cure formed in the late 70's, their first alum released in 79. Robert Smith also spent about a year as lead guitarist for Suouxsie and he Banshees while still in The Cure.
Posted by: tankdemon at August 21, 2018 10:19 PM (1Fa/H)
Posted by: Honu at August 21, 2018 10:19 PM (bDvNV)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 21, 2018 10:18 PM (PUmDY)
Yikes. And yes, I admit I thought you would be the one to bite on that lure.
Posted by: Splunge at August 21, 2018 10:19 PM (Vb4BV)
Outstanding album.
Freeway Jam? Doing this from memory. Awesome.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 21, 2018 10:19 PM (UsCnO)
Posted by: JTB at August 21, 2018 10:14 PM (V+03K)
I wondered if someone would bite.
It's Dave van Ronk.
Posted by: Splunge at August 21, 2018 10:15 PM (Vb4BV)
Who was the guy you saw in concert 200+ times?
Posted by: rickl at August 21, 2018 10:20 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Timon at August 21, 2018 10:12 PM (cBE0b)
Oh please no
Posted by: Splunge at August 21, 2018 10:13 PM (Vb4BV)"
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No, no and no. Had to do that one in high school and never want to read it again.
Sorry but I really liked that book. I'm going to buy it on kindle and read it on the plane tomorrow.
Posted by: Timon at August 21, 2018 10:20 PM (cBE0b)
Posted by: Timon at August 21, 2018 10:12 PM (cBE0b)
Oh please no
Posted by: Splunge at August 21, 2018 10:13 PM (Vb4BV)"
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No, no and no. Had to do that one in high school and never want to read it again.
Posted by: Decaf at August 21, 2018 10:18 PM (KN1xl)
Just go to a college campus and you can see it live every day.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 21, 2018 10:20 PM (FTPn0)
Wasn't it fun to flip through the rows of albums? We had a great record store across High Street from the OSU campus. Loved to go in there between classes. They'd even play an album for you before you decided to buy it.
Peaches Records.
That is all.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 21, 2018 10:20 PM (HaL55)
I have a suggestion for the AoS Style Guide.
Attorney, is to be reserved for those we know and trust, ie Insomniac and the delightful AtC.
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I believe the noble Cicero is also attorney?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc, etc. at August 21, 2018 10:20 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: Decaf at August 21, 2018 10:15 PM (KN1xl)
A damn classic. So many good tunes on that.
My personal favorite is The Chain.
Posted by: ScoggDog at August 21, 2018 10:21 PM (fiGNd)
Now that was a big deal. Even I remember that. Everybody had that album sitting around their apartment.
Posted by: Tuna at August 21, 2018 10:21 PM (jm1YL)
Wow.
Posted by: ScoggDog at August 21, 2018 10:12 PM (fiGNd)
Really?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 21, 2018 10:21 PM (wYseH)
Posted by: rickl at August 21, 2018 10:20 PM (sdi6R)
Um. Ask Charlie.
Posted by: Splunge at August 21, 2018 10:21 PM (Vb4BV)
Posted by: parsimony at August 21, 2018 10:16 PM
Well, they hit their commercial stride in the 80's and were kind of pioneers, but they were definitely a 1970's band that were part of the punk/postpunk/newwave thing and rode into the 80's.
Posted by: otho at August 21, 2018 10:21 PM (LkFnL)
Just go to a college campus and you can see it live every day.
Posted by: Oldcat
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Pretty sure the mob at UNC was chanting 'Kill the Pig! Kill the Pig' last night as they pulled down Silent Sam.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc, etc. at August 21, 2018 10:22 PM (CDGwz)
But what I do know, is that I read some books way faster than others. Not really because of the plot, or the chapter-end draws.
Bottom line, it's how the writer tells the story. My favorite writers are Larry McMurtry, JRR Tolkien, Harper Lee, Steven Pressfield and, oddly (perhaps) George Roo-Roo Martin. I read their books very quickly (for me. I am a slow, but determined reader).
I enjoy reading immensely, and yet I cannot read faster than I hear someone talking. My wife, and my sons can scan a page and retain it. I am just one step above moving my lips when I read.
Maybe two steps.
Posted by: Pug Mahon,Turkey Volume Guessing Man! at August 21, 2018 10:22 PM (EhZNT)
"The Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane is one that comes to mind.
Posted by: Deacon Bleau at August 21, 2018 10:23 PM (yScAF)
Posted by: Puddleglum at August 21, 2018 10:02 PM (LUyqH)
Played guitar in college with a few dudes that idolized Lifeson.
Just wasn't my thing. Although I really liked Moving Pictures. Just seemed - to me - that none of their other albums sounded nearly close to the same.
Posted by: ScoggDog
There sound changed decade to decade. Part of there charm. I probably got my 'questions' mixed up. I was thinking of a band that formed in the 70s and were successful right through the 80s and beyond.
Posted by: Puddleglum at August 21, 2018 10:23 PM (LUyqH)
That is all.''
They came to Columbus in the 70's. Frequented the store on Morse Rd. often. Unlike many record stores, they had huge classical and opera collections.
Posted by: Tuna at August 21, 2018 10:23 PM (jm1YL)
Posted by: Surfperch at August 21, 2018 10:24 PM (DzFIB)
Really?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 21, 2018 10:21 PM (wYseH)
Hey ... I'm cogitating. Don't screw this up for me.
Posted by: ScoggDog at August 21, 2018 10:24 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: Winston at August 21, 2018 10:24 PM (wgCUV)
I told this story recently in a thread in which nobody cared, so I shall now retell it with better hopes.
"The House of the Rising Sun" was a traditional song, but van Ronk gave it a new arrangement and chord progression and it became popular in the Village folk scene.
Dylan asked van Ronk if he minded if he, Dylan, recorded it on his debut album. Van Ronk said cool, Dylan said good because the album's already been pressed.
So all of a sudden van Ronk had to stop playing his song because everyone kept asking him why he was doing a Dylan tune. Then the Animals had a hit with van Ronk's chord progression and Dylan had to stop playing it because everyone asked him why he was playing an Animals song/
Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 21, 2018 10:24 PM (fuK7c)
I'd agree, but the first three songs on The Joshua Tree equals 1987 and 1987 was one of the two best years of my life.
Posted by: Chuck C at August 21, 2018 10:24 PM (YTxkQ)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 21, 2018 10:24 PM (PUmDY)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc, etc. at August 21, 2018 10:26 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: Deacon Bleau at August 21, 2018 10:27 PM (yScAF)
Hard to choose a favourite between that one, Daddy, and Dreams. And Go Your Own Way. And Gold Dust Woman - fuck it, almost the whole album was perfect.
(Except for Don't Stop. Trust the Clintons to choose the one turd in the lineup.)
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at August 21, 2018 10:27 PM (N1ZXu)
That is all.''
They came to Columbus in the 70's. Frequented the store on Morse Rd. often. Unlike many record stores, they had huge classical and opera collections.
Posted by: Tuna at August 21, 2018 10:23 PM (jm1YL)
Weren't they on campus?
Posted by: Ladyl at August 21, 2018 10:28 PM (v4pQ0)
Such as..?
Posted by: Tuna at August 21, 2018 10:28 PM (jm1YL)
Posted by: Concerned People's Front at August 21, 2018 10:28 PM (v1udk)
Posted by: joeclark
More like 17.5 sequels or so -- a half one unfinished released by the estate. You'll still wolf them down. Extremely well written.
I loved those books. I might read though them again.
Posted by: Dirks Strewn at August 21, 2018 10:28 PM (IeDO8)
Oh will you excuse me
I'm just trying to find the ONT!
Has anybody seen the ONT?
Please!
(Have you seen the ONT?)
I ain't seen the ONT!
(Where's that confounded ONT?)
Posted by: Robert Plant at August 21, 2018 10:28 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: Brad Chadlee Jr. at August 21, 2018 10:09 PM (I9Sw7)
1000% agree with this.
Posted by: your neighbor with a telescope at August 21, 2018 10:28 PM (sFofr)
Posted by: Tuna
Are you talking about "Magnolia Thunderpussy"?
Yeah, that was a record store near the OSU campus.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....outlaw in America at August 21, 2018 10:29 PM (S6Pax)
Posted by: boulder t'hobo, morrissey and marr fan at August 21, 2018 10:29 PM (N1ZXu)
Geddy's singing aside.
Posted by: Pug Mahon,Turkey Volume Guessing Man! at August 21, 2018 10:29 PM (EhZNT)
Such as..?
Posted by: Tuna at August 21, 2018 10:28 PM
The Sugarhill Gang
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 21, 2018 10:29 PM (JJ9bx)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 21, 2018 10:30 PM (PUmDY)
Posted by: Dirks Strewn at August 21, 2018 10:30 PM (IeDO8)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 21, 2018 10:29 PM (JJ9bx)
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Roger and Zapp
Posted by: SMH at August 21, 2018 10:30 PM (VLEp3)
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at August 21, 2018 10:27 PM (N1ZXu)
And Landslide. You're right ... that damn album's just about perfect.
Me and a cat at the shop I contract to alot talk about this all the time. Just how many albums can you put in - or on, back in the day - and just let friggin' play ?
Not many. But RUMORS was one you could.
And I don't think it's a coincidence that those kind of albums remain "timeless". They just catch "something".
Posted by: ScoggDog at August 21, 2018 10:31 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: C.S. Forester at August 21, 2018 10:31 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: Pug Mahon,Turkey Volume Guessing Man! at August 21, 2018 10:31 PM (EhZNT)
Posted by: davidt at August 21, 2018 10:31 PM (PFd3d)
Posted by: Dirks Strewn at August 21, 2018 10:31 PM (IeDO8)
Posted by: otho at August 21, 2018 10:21 PM (LkFnL)
I'll walk my overconfident comment back.
That end of the '70's thing - for me - is one with the early '80s. See Cosmic Charlie's comment at 852, kind of where I'm at.
For example, for years I thought "Cars" by Gary Numan was an '80s song because of the sound. But it's from 1979, so ... '70s.
My favorite "80's" band that really got their start in the '70s was XTC.
Posted by: parsimony at August 21, 2018 10:32 PM (xEt5a)
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at August 21, 2018 10:32 PM (N1ZXu)
Posted by: rickl at August 21, 2018 10:32 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Tuna
Are you talking about "Magnolia Thunderpussy"?
Yeah, that was a record store near the OSU campus.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....outlaw in America at August 21, 2018 10:29 PM (S6Pax)
Do you remember the little record store at the Lane Ave Shopping Center? That was my boyfriend's parent's store.
Posted by: Ladyl at August 21, 2018 10:32 PM (v4pQ0)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 21, 2018 10:29 PM (JJ9bx)
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Roger and Zapp
Posted by: SMH at August 21, 2018 10:30 PM (VLEp3)
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I'll see you Roger and Zapp and raise you a Billy Ocean
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 21, 2018 10:33 PM (JJ9bx)
Posted by: Dirks Strewn at August 21, 2018 10:30 PM (IeDO
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Maybe we could get actual Russians to
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 21, 2018 10:33 PM (uSlc8)
I have not read Uncle Tom's Cabin; in the same vein (but nonfiction, so not eligible for the book club) was Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of.... His comparison between life in the south with life in the north is Important.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 21, 2018 10:33 PM (2lndx)
Posted by: Brad Chadlee Jr.
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We've all tasted of the apple.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc, etc. at August 21, 2018 10:33 PM (xSo9G)
I loved those books. I might read though them again.
Posted by: Dirks Strewn at August 21, 2018 10:28 PM (IeDO
Actually 20. Plus a half. But I think 18 or so is a good place to stop.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 21, 2018 10:33 PM (FTPn0)
Posted by: Max Power at August 21, 2018 10:33 PM (q177U)
I guess I need to shower, sorry.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 21, 2018 10:33 PM (pUDQf)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 21, 2018 10:33 PM (JJ9bx)
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Gap Band
Posted by: SMH at August 21, 2018 10:33 PM (VLEp3)
Not when I was there. We had that small record store ( I think it was called University Records or something like that) couple a block or so north of Long's Bookstore. Of course, I graduated in 71 so Peaches may have moved in after. I confess my memory is a little sketchy. On the upside I remember a lot of the bars though. Strange that.
Posted by: Tuna at August 21, 2018 10:33 PM (jm1YL)
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at August 21, 2018 10:32 PM (N1ZXu)
Gah ... you're right.
Then fuck it ... the album sucked. Rumors officially sucks.
Eat a Dick ... Real Life Holly Hobby !!!
Posted by: ScoggDog at August 21, 2018 10:33 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 21, 2018 10:33 PM (uSlc8)
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The "70s" lasted until January 20, 1981.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 21, 2018 10:34 PM (EZebt)
Posted by: Honu at August 21, 2018 10:19 PM
I am reluctant to spend the ten bucks. I've already broke the bank. Need encouragement. Tell me it's worth it.
Posted by: Brad Chadlee Jr. at August 21, 2018 10:34 PM (I9Sw7)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair
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Well, I'll hype it again, Sowell expounds on that in 'Black Rednecks, and White Liberals'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc, etc. at August 21, 2018 10:34 PM (xSo9G)
Posted by: Winston at August 21, 2018 10:35 PM (wgCUV)
Posted by: Dirks Strewn at August 21, 2018 10:35 PM (IeDO8)
*********
It does for me. I try to read "The Forever War" and "Starship Trooper" back-to-back every year.
Posted by: Thanatopsis at August 21, 2018 10:35 PM (+nK9G)
Posted by: Tuna at August 21, 2018 10:35 PM (jm1YL)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 21, 2018 10:35 PM (PUmDY)
Posted by: Ladyl
I was probably in there a few times, but I don't remember the name of the store. I lived out in Grandview Heights in the early 80's.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....outlaw in America at August 21, 2018 10:35 PM (S6Pax)
Posted by: rickl at August 21, 2018 10:32 PM (sdi6R)
yeah, those lips looked like they were designed for something exciting.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 21, 2018 10:35 PM (wYseH)
Posted by: C.S. Forester at August 21, 2018 10:31 PM (CDGwz)
Not as big a fan. The inner angst got very old after about book four. It didn't help that it became a thing for middling military SF people to clone HH to sell books in the 90s and not in a good way.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 21, 2018 10:35 PM (FTPn0)
Posted by: Dirks Strewn at August 21, 2018 10:31 PM (IeDO
Got Twain's entire catalog in two massive volumes. That will be part of the "Books I protect at all Costs, along with the Bible, Lord of the Rings, Lonesome Dove and pretty much everything CS Lewis wrote."
Posted by: Pug Mahon,Turkey Volume Guessing Man! at August 21, 2018 10:36 PM (EhZNT)
Not when I was there. We had that small record store ( I think it was called University Records or something like that) couple a block or so north of Long's Bookstore. Of course, I graduated in 71 so Peaches may have moved in after. I confess my memory is a little sketchy. On the upside I remember a lot of the bars though. Strange that.
Posted by: Tuna at August 21, 2018 10:33 PM (jm1YL)
I should know everything there is to know about campus during that time, but I must have spent too much time in the Agora, Castle and Sugar Shack to remember properly.
Posted by: Ladyl at August 21, 2018 10:36 PM (v4pQ0)
"The House of the Rising Sun" was a traditional song, but van Ronk gave it a new arrangement and chord progression and it became popular in the Village folk scene.
Dylan asked van Ronk if he minded if he, Dylan, recorded it on his debut album. Van Ronk said cool, Dylan said good because the album's already been pressed.
So all of a sudden van Ronk had to stop playing his song because everyone kept asking him why he was doing a Dylan tune. Then the Animals had a hit with van Ronk's chord progression and Dylan had to stop playing it because everyone asked him why he was playing an Animals song/
Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 21, 2018 10:24 PM (fuK7c)
Great story. Thank you.
Posted by: Splunge at August 21, 2018 10:36 PM (Vb4BV)
The old Lane Ave. shopping center! Those were the days.
Posted by: Tuna at August 21, 2018 10:37 PM (jm1YL)
Posted by: vivi at August 21, 2018 10:38 PM (11H2y)
I am reluctant to spend the ten bucks. I've already broke the bank. Need encouragement. Tell me it's worth it.
Posted by: Brad Chadlee Jr.
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Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc, etc. at August 21, 2018 10:39 PM (CDGwz)
Oh gosh..My friends and I spent a lot of time at the Oar House.
Posted by: Tuna at August 21, 2018 10:39 PM (jm1YL)
Posted by: Concerned People's Front at August 21, 2018 10:28 PM (v1udk)
Ha I was waiting for some Smiths hate! Not sure they could be overrated having never had a #1 single. Morrissey's singing is not for everybody (some would say not for ANYbody) but his wit was terrific. Johnny Marr's guitar parts were so melodic they stand on their own.
FWIW Morrissey's also emerged as willing to take a stand against runaway U.K. immigration (and bad architecture).
Posted by: parsimony at August 21, 2018 10:39 PM (xEt5a)
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
What a stupid waste of trees.
Posted by: Lily, formerly of Hot Air now of AoSHQ, Assassin in the Night at August 21, 2018 10:40 PM (gJF8U)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 21, 2018 10:24 PM (fuK7c)"
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Bander, I love this story even if once again few people will see it.
Posted by: Decaf at August 21, 2018 10:41 PM (KN1xl)
Posted by: parsimony at August 21, 2018 10:42 PM (xEt5a)
144 Earnest Hemingway was an overly verbose blowhard.
Huh? Hemingway was the opposite of verbose. His trademark was writing short, clear and to the point. Not easy to do.
My go to reads are Hemingway & Fitzgerlad. Two opposites who loved and hated each other.
Posted by: JoeNYC at August 21, 2018 10:44 PM (//3VH)
Posted by: ArthurK at August 21, 2018 10:44 PM (dg/6R)
And yes lawn...get off it.
Posted by: #neverskankles at August 21, 2018 10:48 PM (k668o)
Posted by: Isolden at August 21, 2018 10:48 PM (z0De4)
Wasn't that something the Scientologists put together in an attempt to prove that ElRon was still alive?
Posted by: Fox2! at August 21, 2018 10:49 PM (brIR5)
Thanks, was looking at used books.
Local library has a copy. I'm going to try that first.
I'm reluctant to spend real money on speculation that attempts to explain something we can't possibly know anything about.
Entertainment is one thing, speculatin' is something else.
Posted by: Brad Chadlee Jr. at August 21, 2018 10:50 PM (I9Sw7)
Posted by: Neil from the Block at August 21, 2018 10:50 PM (brIR5)
Posted by: Axeman at August 21, 2018 10:52 PM (vDqXW)
"Lonely sky, lonely sky, lonely looking sky..."
Posted by: Neil from the Block at August 21, 2018 10:50 PM (brIR5)
Here's a song that may help you to deal with those feelings.
"Come with me...Lesbian Seagull..."
Posted by: Splunge at August 21, 2018 10:53 PM (Vb4BV)
Posted by: Honu at August 21, 2018 10:19 PM
I am reluctant to spend the ten bucks. I've already broke the bank. Need encouragement. Tell me it's worth it.
Posted by: Brad Chadlee Jr.
It was a joke.
In more ways than one.
Posted by: Honu at August 21, 2018 10:55 PM (bDvNV)
Fiction is so damn political. How far back does one have to go to minimize the philosophical sting of being otherly?
Posted by: Fritz at August 21, 2018 10:57 PM (CdLX2)
Posted by: Brad Chadlee Jr. at August 21, 2018 11:01 PM (I9Sw7)
Posted by: Brad Chadlee Jr. at August 21, 2018 11:02 PM (I9Sw7)
Posted by: Fritz at August 21, 2018 11:03 PM (CdLX2)
Or, if you're in a mood for comics, hunt up an Uncle Scrooge story by Don Rosa. For nostalgia, Carl Barks.
Posted by: Weak Geek at August 21, 2018 11:08 PM (eArhL)
Posted by: enzo at August 21, 2018 11:11 PM (AY0BI)
Any Dortmunder novel by Donald Westlake.
Any Parker thriller by Richard Stark (a/k/a Westlake).
Posted by: Weak Geek at August 21, 2018 11:15 PM (eArhL)
Posted by: RGallegos at August 21, 2018 11:19 PM (59GQk)
Posted by: Katja at August 21, 2018 11:27 PM (5ltQc)
I'll toss in 'The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans' by Plutarch. Not as easy read for me anymore but worthwhile.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 21, 2018 11:33 PM (xJa6I)
I haven't read a ton of his stuff but Sprague de Camp is fun in what I have read. The Reluctant King trilogyThe Fallible FiendLest Darkness Fall
/delurk
Posted by: Jasonius at August 21, 2018 11:35 PM (p+9dx)
Posted by: Jasonius at August 21, 2018 11:36 PM (p+9dx)
Posted by: Shanks for the memory at August 21, 2018 11:38 PM (TdCQk)
Posted by: RareCommenter at August 21, 2018 11:39 PM (PDfyY)
Posted by: bigjack at August 21, 2018 11:49 PM (eD3Jy)
(by Jack Schaefer) Short, classic western (about 170 pages large print). From dust jacket: "This classic Western is a profoundly moving story of the influence of a singular character on one boy's life." Just picked it up and it looks like a good read and would fit your criteria fairly well.
Posted by: PrairieGirl at August 22, 2018 12:14 AM (2R05O)
And YAY! Another Nero Wolfe fan!! 8-) Favourites, Jasonius? (Mine are probably "Too Many Cooks" and "In the Best Families".)
Posted by: atomicplaygirl, now with more Kaboom! at August 22, 2018 12:18 AM (Gim9y)
That is "next up" in my reading list. I just finished his book Young Men and Fire and it was very good. A sad story - but excellent writing and research. Definitely made me want to search out his other book. I'll look forward to seeing what you select. Thanks for this site by the way!
Posted by: PrairieGirl at August 22, 2018 12:23 AM (2R05O)
Posted by: Runner218 at August 22, 2018 12:51 AM (TXVAt)
I'll toss in 'The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans' by Plutarch. Not as easy read for me anymore but worthwhile.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 21, 2018 11:33 PM (xJa6I)
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Plutarch knew his shit.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 22, 2018 12:53 AM (uSlc8)
Posted by: Kaner at August 22, 2018 01:03 AM (rR7m4)
Posted by: vivi at August 21, 2018 10:38 PM (11H2y)
C.S. Lewis.
Posted by: Gem at August 22, 2018 01:04 AM (XoAz8)
1. Not political.
2. Not men vs. women OR women suck.
3. Not too heavy or deep, bcz life is too much that right now. No one has time for that either. Well, most don't.
4. Not depressing.
Surely someone made book recommendations that fit those criteria. Of course, JMO. I could be a total outlier. Or that is not the idea you had at all. In that case, ignore this whole post!
Posted by: platypus, gg channel at August 22, 2018 03:32 AM (Nt/TS)
Posted by: H Hawke at August 22, 2018 08:07 AM (rLAS6)
Posted by: Tina at August 22, 2018 08:50 AM (C2ntj)
Posted by: Ian Jansing at August 22, 2018 09:27 AM (5M8QO)
Posted by: micheal9 at August 22, 2018 10:24 AM (XyYrZ)
Or, as @micheal9 said, 'The High Crusade' by Poul Anderson.
Or 'Hoka!' by Poul Anderson & Gordon Dickson.
Or any of the Fafhrd & the Gray Mouser collections from Fritz Leiber.
Posted by: aelfheld at August 22, 2018 12:30 PM (IxDhF)
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Posted by: BJ54 at August 22, 2018 02:39 PM (zCasZ)
Posted by: ALH
Depends on whether you're talking Machiavelli or de Saint-Exupéry.
Posted by: aelfheld at August 22, 2018 03:06 PM (IxDhF)
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