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adam said
Attempting to read Jack Kerouac’s On the Road and Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, attempting being the key word…
I just finished reading On The Road not too long ago. It was good, but I must admit that I liked The Dharma Bums more.
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At the moment I’m working on The Fire Eternal from The Last Dragon Chronicles series thingy by Chris D’Lacey. T’is the second time I’ve read through the series (there are seven-ish books in total). It’s my favourite book series, actually.
I’m also slowly-but-surely working through Tune In (it’s incredible the amount of new info I’ve learned from it already).
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Recently, I’ve read The Outsider again since I was unable to finish it the first time (I was probably too immature to identify with teenage boys). It was good and I have high standards. However, the following are much better:
I’ve also read The Crucible, which is a play about the Salem Witch Trials. It was written during a Communism spy fiasco in the U.S. where people were being held suspects who shouldn’t have been. It’s a fascinating read on the human social order.
Lastly, I am almost done with Gone With the Wind. It. Is. Phenomenal. I originally picked it up for “pretend reading,” (we’ve all done it) but the librarian was rude so I had to actually read it.
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KaleidoscopeMusic said
I’ve also read The Crucible, which is a play about the Salem Witch Trials. It was written during a Communism spy fiasco in the U.S. where people were being held suspects who shouldn’t have been. It’s a fascinating read on the human social order.
That was Arthur Miller’s play right? I watched it and it was quite interesting. He was a blacklisted writer during that time.
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I never knew actor Gene Hackman wrote novels. I thought I’d try his novel in the Western genre, Payback at Morning Peak. I’m a fifth of the way through; it’s quite good — a standard revenge tale (a young lad sees his mother, father, and little sister murdered by brigands (and worse) and he vows to track them down).
His use of words is good too. In one scene, the main character finds a wayward horse that has lost its docility, so he takes patient time to talk to the horse and he “gentled” her. I never knew that “gentle” was also a verb meaning “to tame a wild animal”.
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natureaker said
natureaker said 27 Februray 2016 (wow, it’s really been that long!?)
It’s definitely a great book. I recommend it 🙂
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Once I started reading that book I never put it down, then I got a full day of in school suspension and I finished it in there.
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Starr Shine? said
KaleidoscopeMusic said
I’ve also read The Crucible, which is a play about the Salem Witch Trials. It was written during a Communism spy fiasco in the U.S. where people were being held suspects who shouldn’t have been. It’s a fascinating read on the human social order.That was Arthur Miller’s play right? I watched it and it was quite interesting. He was a blacklisted writer during that time.
Yep. A lot of people were upset because he wrote the play based on innocent Americans accused of being Communists.
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Zig said
In a word, yes.
In two words, yes yes.
In three words, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Finished Roald Dahl’s short stories so started to read ‘A Song From Dead Lips’ by William
As I was bag-less today I took Michael Brauns ‘Love Me Do !: Beatles Progress’ with me (small thin paperback compared to large thick hardback) and that is far better so will probably keep going with that. Haven’t read it in so so so many years.
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