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[VicVaselino]

Hop on Pop.

 

[troutrus]

I like the writing style; the content not so much.

 

[laKavosiey-st lion]

Updated (ok, set in the 70s) retelling of the classic story. I think it's well done and am enjoying it

LOVE this writer

 

[LionJim]

I like the writing style; the content not so much. View attachment 710304

ATPH provokes differing reactions from McCarthy readers. Those who started on Child of God or Outer Dark tend to dislike ATPH. Then you have those, like me, who started on ATPH and have never looked back.

 

[bbrown]

I like the writing style; the content not so much. View attachment 710304

I'm the opposite. I don't like the writing style but like the content.

 

[LionJim]

One of my biggest regrets is that I didn’t read Suttree until after I left Knoxville. It’s my most satisfying McCarthy read.

 

[PSUQbKeeper]

 

[RochLion]

I'm the opposite. I don't like the writing style but like the content.

Think I'm in the same boat. Believe it was Suttree that I had started about a year ago and found it difficult to know who was talking/narrating. Had to put it down. Maybe one of his other books would be better for me.

 

[Alphalion75]

I'm reading a sequel. "The Cat in the Hat Comes Back".

 

[LionJim]

I'm reading a sequel. "The Cat in the Hat Comes Back".

Eh, not as good as the original. That was some legit madcap.

 

[Bosco2]

"In Cold Blood" for the 3rd time.

 

[LionJim]

"In Cold Blood" for the 3rd time.

I can recite from memory numerous passages of Solzhenitsyn’s “The First Circle.” I must have read it seven or nine times.

 

[troutrus]

And here we are a hundred years later with legislators and churches still attempting to control freedom of thought.

 

[LionJim]

My favorite poem not written by Yeats: “Fern Hill” by Dylan Thomas. “In the sun born over and over / I ran my heedless ways…”

 

[manatree]

@LionJim

I stumbled across this book review. Being a Mathematical Atheist, I have no plans to read it, but I thought you might get a laugh out of it.

The mathematics of Christmas: A review of the Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus
December 12, 2017 6:15pm EST
Anthony Bonato
theconversation.com

 

[troutrus]

Beautiful story written in a dialect dat makes ya feel likes ya be down in da lo country of Souf Calina. Root doctors and all.
note: Story takes place in 1930’s Florida.


".....you got tuh go there tuh know there. Yo' papa and yo mama and nobody else can't tell yuh and show yuh." - Z.N.H.

 

[slwlion01]

Just finished:

I read it again after twenty years and was extremely impressed by how it holds up. Weiner is a great voice for scientists; he did a fantastic job with the earlier The Beak of the Finch.

Now reading, another re-read. I'm really digging this.

Just finished Hillbilly Elegy. Fascinating read.

 

[LionJim]

Just finished Hillbilly Elegy. Fascinating read.

You should watch “Winter’s Bone.”