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Hey, What Ya Reading??? A book???
Shakesthecoffecan:
I am reading The Last Studebaker by Robin Hemley
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: retropian on September 22, 2009, 11:11:29 am ---I am about 2/3rd the way through "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies". It's friggin brilliant! I hope it gets the "Masterpiece Theater" treatment. Maybe Colin Firth can reprise his role as Darcy, or if he's to old, maybe he can be Mr. Bennet. I'm looking forward to reading "Sense and Sensibility and Seamonsters". What's next "The Wolfman of Mansfield Park"?
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I should read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. I'm sure that if Lizzie Bennet can hold her own against Mr. Darcy, she can handle zombies. ;D
delalluvia:
Just finished and enjoyed tremendously
Under the Tuscan Sun, Bella Tuscany and Bringing Home Tuscany by Frances Mayes - closest I'm going to get to Italy for a while :P
and
A Year in Provence and Toujours Provence by Peter Mayle
When Hollywood makes a movie (Under the Tuscan Sun and A Good Year) based on these kind of books, they always make the hero a single, beautiful person with some issues and a lot of money who buys this magical place, falls in love with the country, the people, themselves and finally their soulmate.
Guess books about staid middle-aged married couples who have a lot of money to buy multiple properties abroad who are nearing retirement don't make good movie fodder...
delalluvia:
Just finished reading
Tattoo Machine - Tall tales, true stories and My life in Ink by Jeff Johnson
Very well written book. And as usual when the side roads of society are revealed, you find heartbreaking stories of marginalized people on the edge of life and sanity, the 'crazies', the junkies, those so alone they gradually abandon all hope as well as truly scary stories of abuse, crime and sociopathy that are out there. And you also find surprising compassion from those who try to help those who cannot help themselves.
Also makes you want to think twice whenever you go into a tattoo parlor. ;)
Insightful, moving (I'm still deeply disturbed by one description of abuse the author related about himself), coarse, blunt and humorous. Worth the read.
brokeplex:
"Mila 18" by Leon Uris
Over the past 4 years, in the process of being made and released as a feature film by Harvey Weinstein
http://troysbucket.blogspot.com/2007/09/mila-18.html
I have been waiting for years for Hollywood to get their act together and make the film adaptation of the book Mila 18 by Leon Uris. I love reading books especially fiction but there have been only two books, in my 30 years, that I have read more than once and Mila 18 was one of them. This is a story about the invasion of Warsaw in Poland by the Nazis. The imagery of the Polish army, or Ulany army, charging into battle on horseback against the German Panzer tanks. I've had this vision in my head for years, the old world vs. the technological might of the Nazis. It would probably cost a fortune to film but damn what an amazing thing to see. The story also moves past the devastating loss of the Ulany brigade and the beginning of the Warsaw ghetto where a handful of Jews stand up to the Nazi army using the underground black market to revolt against their captors in an attempt to escape. It is a little different from our normal casting calls but it's one that I think could be a tour de force film and really show a different side to the Jews in occupied Poland during World War II.
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