BuckeyeTillIDie
The North Remembers
Just finished House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielweski and, holy crap, is this book a complete mind fuck of craziness.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
I take sports books to read on vacation, the last couple weeks I read these two books:
Surprise...surprise...Mick Foley's book was really good. It was over 750 pages and he actually wrote the entire thing himself. If you are a professional wrestling fan you'll love this book. He tells a lot of the "inside stuff' about the business and all the wrestlers, etc.
I'm a NY Giant fan and still thought Coughlin's book was just so-so.
Surprise...surprise...Mick Foley's book was really good. It was over 750 pages and he actually wrote the entire thing himself. If you are a professional wrestling fan you'll love this book. He tells a lot of the "inside stuff' about the business and all the wrestlers, etc.
I'm a NY Giant fan and still thought Coughlin's book was just so-so.
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BayBuck
Buckeyes are best
"Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn
My wife is reading this for a book club (along with a million other ladies' book clubs), and I happened to pick it up one day (sorry CML this is now a "bathroom book"). Not great literature, but an effective mystery/thriller at times: every chapter alternates between the husband's and wife's perspectives, and Gillian Flynn does a good job keeping you hooked at each turnover. IMDB has it coming out in theatres this October, directed by David Fincher and starring Ben Affleck.
Possible **SPOILER*** : There's a big twist right in the middle, wasn't really unexpected but it definitely changes the whole story with half the book still to go. Starts out as a fairly straight-forward murder mystery, turns into American Psycho for Married Folks.
My wife is reading this for a book club (along with a million other ladies' book clubs), and I happened to pick it up one day (sorry CML this is now a "bathroom book"). Not great literature, but an effective mystery/thriller at times: every chapter alternates between the husband's and wife's perspectives, and Gillian Flynn does a good job keeping you hooked at each turnover. IMDB has it coming out in theatres this October, directed by David Fincher and starring Ben Affleck.
Possible **SPOILER*** : There's a big twist right in the middle, wasn't really unexpected but it definitely changes the whole story with half the book still to go. Starts out as a fairly straight-forward murder mystery, turns into American Psycho for Married Folks.
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buckeyeintn
Legend
Just finished Elmore Leonard's "Pronto". This is the book where he introduced Raylan Givens. Currently on the waiting list to borrow "Riding the Rap".
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BayBuck
Buckeyes are best
Recent Caribbean travel reading:
John Le Carre - "Tailor of Panama"
A really fun LeCarre read, one that I hadn't read before because I saw the movie first and it was so good (same with "The Russia House"). Definitely couldn't get Geoffrey Rush and Pierce Brosnan out of my head for the main characters (also Brendan Gleeson for Abraxas), even though Andy Osnard was supposed to be fatter and not as dashing as Pierce. Spoiler alert: Typical LeCarre ending, very typical (and that's a good thing).
Paul Bowles - "The Sheltering Sky"
One of those Top 100 novels I always meant to read but felt I needed to be in a foreign country to do so, and now I've done it. And it was as weird and disorienting as I'd hoped it would be: full of unlikeable characters and creepy North African locales. Speaking of spoilers, Bowles gave away the biggest plot event in this edition's 2-page introduction, so that took some of the surprise out of it. The third act is all pretty unexpected.
Peter Matthiesen - "Far Tortuga"
This book is a great atmospheric experience to have on a beach with a mixed drink or several. A lot of the time it's just a tone-poem of phrases describing the sea and islands, with all the dialogue unattributed and in a strong Caribbean dialect, and it's halfway through before you realize the plot that has been developing. It actually turns out to be a quick read, and well worth a bit of effort to get started.
John Le Carre - "Tailor of Panama"
A really fun LeCarre read, one that I hadn't read before because I saw the movie first and it was so good (same with "The Russia House"). Definitely couldn't get Geoffrey Rush and Pierce Brosnan out of my head for the main characters (also Brendan Gleeson for Abraxas), even though Andy Osnard was supposed to be fatter and not as dashing as Pierce. Spoiler alert: Typical LeCarre ending, very typical (and that's a good thing).
Paul Bowles - "The Sheltering Sky"
One of those Top 100 novels I always meant to read but felt I needed to be in a foreign country to do so, and now I've done it. And it was as weird and disorienting as I'd hoped it would be: full of unlikeable characters and creepy North African locales. Speaking of spoilers, Bowles gave away the biggest plot event in this edition's 2-page introduction, so that took some of the surprise out of it. The third act is all pretty unexpected.
Peter Matthiesen - "Far Tortuga"
This book is a great atmospheric experience to have on a beach with a mixed drink or several. A lot of the time it's just a tone-poem of phrases describing the sea and islands, with all the dialogue unattributed and in a strong Caribbean dialect, and it's halfway through before you realize the plot that has been developing. It actually turns out to be a quick read, and well worth a bit of effort to get started.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
I just read these three while on vacation. I can't say any one of them were outstanding. Probably Marv Levy's was the better of the three. The Jesse Owens book does say a lot of good things about Larry Snider (and Ohio State). The book is a composite summary of the events based on newspaper reports at that time and some later interviews with his family, etc. Apparently Jesse Owens was not necessarily snubbed by Hitler, originally Owens did claim that Hitler waived/smiled (i.e. acknowledged his winning) at him after winning the gold metals. However, later in his life during his speaking engagements he just told the audience what they wanted to hear.
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Getting intense... can't imagine getting my ass beat with baseball bats constantly
Knives jammed under your fingernails.. then having your fingernails ripped off
Baseball bats to the kneecaps
Fractured ankle with bones sticking out.. then laid out so Japanese soldiers take turns kicking your foot
Then having to watch them saw your entire leg off (not just the ankle)..and laughing when they forced the leg to break when they tore it off
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scarletmike
Researching the Magic!
If you're at all interested in the '64-65 World's Fair, this is an absolute must-read. For me, the Fair had always kind of existed in its own little utopian slice of time, separate from the craziness that was happening in America at that same time period, all events and things that I knew a fair bit about. This book brought it all together and really changed a lot about how I view the fair in terms of its place in society/culture. It covers all the pertinent topics; the racial issues, Dylan and the Beatles, LSD, etc.
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