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What Are You Reading ? - CRAZY-HORSE - 22-11-2015
Shawshank Redemption was originally a short story by King,
From memory it was only a 100 or so pages long...
Whoever re wrote the story to make a movie of it needed to win an Oscar,
Was a far better adaption than the story King wrote...
If you want to watch another brilliant movie from the pen of King try "misery" Jerome.
Stars James Caan and Cathy Bates...superb thriiler.
Its about a writer who has a car accident in a blizzard and is found by a nurse.
Because the blizzard makes the roads impossible to pass she heals him in her home...
She is also a huge fan of the writer's misery novels...
She is one crazy lady who forces him to write another misery novel because he killed off the charactor
misery in his previous novel...
Both actors should have won Oscars for their roles in this one IMO.
What Are You Reading ? - Music Head - 01-12-2015
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard - Killing Jesus - 2013
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surprised with this good read
covers the life of the man and I think we all know the ending
a lot of history of the good old days
glad I was born too late to bear witness
Grade - B
next up - His Family by Ernest Poole
What Are You Reading ? - Jerome - 01-12-2015
Currently re-reading 'The White Spider' - a harrowing but gripping tale of the first assault on the Eiger. I have read many good books on mountaineering (a crazy pastime but one that fascinates me) and this book is the best I have read so far. These people were just plain nuts and extremely brave as well.
What Are You Reading ? - CRAZY-HORSE - 02-12-2015
speaking of Eiger....
the movie "the eiger sanction" starring Clint Eastwood wasn't a bad movie, not great, but not bad.
What Are You Reading ? - CRAZY-HORSE - 02-12-2015
Jerome Wrote:I have read many good books on mountaineering (a crazy pastime but one that fascinates me) and this book is the best I have read so far.
do you or have you mountaineered Jerome???
What Are You Reading ? - Jerome - 02-12-2015
CRAZY-HORSE Wrote:do you or have you mountaineered Jerome???
No, I have not. One, coming from a warm climate, I do not handle the cold very well. Two, and more importantly, I just don't have the nerve/balls to do it. Always wondered if it was something I should have tried. Done plenty of hiking in the mountains in various countries, but that's hardly the same thing as scaling a peak over a period of days/weeks. Mountains have always fascinated me but the thought of being stuck up one of them for days in sub-zero temperatures leaves me cold (pun most definitely intended). I have great respect for those that do it. It takes a special person to achieve what those guys do and I am just not cut from the same cloth. Must be one hell of an experience though. Part of me admires what these people achieve and part of me questions their sanity. If you ever get the chance read a book by Joe Simpson called 'The Beckoning Silence'. A very accurate and honest summary of when an experienced mountaineer starts questioning his own logic while stuck on the face of the Eiger and the weather is turning really bad. It also documents his struggle for survival on a different expedition where he had no option to go anywhere but further down into the crevasse he was trying to get out of. Balls of steel, to put it mildly. A fascinating read.
What Are You Reading ? - CRAZY-HORSE - 03-12-2015
I hear you J-Man...
ive often said to Dani...." I wish I had the balls to climb a mountain like Everest, it would be an awesome sight to know youre literally on top of the world"
but I don't like heights nor do I like extreme cold,
needless to say, that is not on my bucket list!
What Are You Reading ? - CRAZY-HORSE - 08-12-2015
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STEPHEN KING "bazaar of bad dreams"
King's latest effort...
a collection of twenty short stories all previously available as one-off's in various magazines and publications...
three or four good stories in this one,
but most go nowhere with no conclusion...
either that or he is basically waffling crap...
they read like 'ideas' for novels that never eventuated to me(apart from the three or four good ones)....
and this 'no conclusion/waffling' rubbish is what really turned me off his books a couple of decades ago,
I only went back because 'the bill hodges' trilogy novels looked good(and they were IMO)
also, he made a couple of books in the 1980s, "different seasons" was one off the top of my head that were a collection of four short stories,
they were good, as was "stand by me" and "shawshank redemption", but alas, nothing of that calibre here!
GRADE: D-
What Are You Reading ? - Music Head - 21-12-2015
Ernest Poole - His Family - 1917
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The very first Pulitzer Prize for a novel winner. They say he was actually being honored for his previous novel, The Harbor. Haven't read that one. This one is about the life of a New York widower and his three daughters in the 1910s. Opens when the dude is in his declining years after the death of his wife. The remainder of his time is spent seeing for the future of his daughters, ensuring they have a happy productive life. Boring subject unless you are part of the family, but it was a good read with much perspective of the era.
Grade - B
next up - Killing Patton by Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard
What Are You Reading ? - siveron - 02-01-2016
Harry Potter, chapter one!