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Been reading 'Again, Dangerous Visions' this week. It's the anthology assembled by Harlan Ellison. Big book. Lots of stories. Rather small print to fit them all between the covers. | ||||
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Featuring a poem by Bradbury, I seem to recall. - Phil Deputy Moderator | Visit my Bradbury website: www.bradburymedia.co.uk | Listen to my Bradbury 100 podcast: https://tinyurl.com/bradbury100pod | ||||
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Yes, said poem is CHRIST, OLD STUDENT IN A NEW SCHOOL. I've been reading ZORBA THE GREEK by Nikos Kazantzakis. | ||||
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Blast! I missed Talk Like A Pirate Day on the 19th! | ||||
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"Garden Of Beasts", Jeffery Deaver. Just read Mr. B's "The Miracles Of Jamie". Again, the only adult writer who truly remembers childhood. | ||||
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Oh, I don't know. Harper Lee and Mark Twain didn't do a bad job, to name but two. - Phil Deputy Moderator | Visit my Bradbury website: www.bradburymedia.co.uk | Listen to my Bradbury 100 podcast: https://tinyurl.com/bradbury100pod | ||||
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Good thinking! Might add Jean Shepherd & Dylan Thomas too, now I give it some thought. | ||||
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I adore Jean Shepherd in particular. "Live Forever!" | ||||
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The Russian Revolution by Leon Trotsky Reflection is useless, the world is senseless. Evil is its only permanence. God is not alive. Love cannot be trusted. Surface, surface, surface was all that anyone found meaning in...this was civilization as I saw it, colossal and jagged. | ||||
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Sorry, I just read this post and of course The Time Machine is by H.G. Wells! I am now reading SHE by H. Rider Haggard. It is a bit different than the movie but still a real advinture read. I own the Ray Harryhausen color version and the original B&W. Great stuff. | ||||
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Nearly at the end of Francois Truffaut: Correspondence. He was a very prolific letter-writer, although the book contains none of his correspondence with Bradbury. Truffaut was an extraordinary character. Quite rebellious as a youth, and not good at school, but he was enormously literate and devoured books from an early age. Reading his correspondence, it is quite apparent why he found Fahrenheit 451 an attractive film to make. Interesting factoid: Truffaut's American literary agent was... Don Congdon! It isn't explicitly stated, but I suspect it was Bradbury who suggested Congdon. Truffaut first needed an agent when he was writing his Hitchcock interview book. - Phil Deputy Moderator | Visit my Bradbury website: www.bradburymedia.co.uk | Listen to my Bradbury 100 podcast: https://tinyurl.com/bradbury100pod | ||||
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Once again, re-reading old favorites for comfort and inspiration: "The Moon Pool", by A. Merritt "Kipling's Best" edited by Somerset Maugham "The Pulps" edited by Tony Goodman "The Gnostic Gospels" by Elaine Pagels Hmmm...I parade my oddness before my peers, and make a squawking noise...:-) | ||||
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I've had a three day cold that has lasted for a week so I've had plenty of "me" time with she-who-must-be-obeyed avoiding me. So I've read two coffee-table books, Comic-Con and Universal Studios Monsters by Michael Mallory. Both books are a relative bargain at $40 retail...your Amazon price will be less. The book I read was Modern Critical View's Ray Bradbury, Harold Bloom editor, with pieces by various contributors with William Toupance among them. A very interesting scholarly read. Today I picked up something a little lighter, Douglas Adam's And Another Thing by Eoin Colfer. This is book six of the trilogy. My towel is with me at all times... John King Tarpinian You know what you are, Mr. Bradbury? ... You are a poet! -- Aldous Huxley | ||||
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Just started Leaving A Doll's House by Claire Bloom. Rereading Star Trek The Motion Picture by Gene Roddenberry. I know that movie gets alot of thumbs-down, but I love it anyhow. | ||||
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Actually, Roddenberry's book is better than the film. Some of the stranger (and duller) happenings in the film are actually explained (and made interesting) in the book. - Phil Deputy Moderator | Visit my Bradbury website: www.bradburymedia.co.uk | Listen to my Bradbury 100 podcast: https://tinyurl.com/bradbury100pod | ||||
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