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I gave up on the Gotti wars about 8 hours in. Gleeson sucking his own dick about flipping Gravano, and then defending Gravano as a great witness was a bridge too far.

The Earth is Weeping is pretty good, but it’s basically a doctorate thesis. 

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On 2/27/2025 at 10:07 AM, jdhorn92 said:

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The audiobook is fantastic because he's the narrator (for those that don't know he narrated Ken Burns' Civil War and Baseball).

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16 hours ago, SimonBolivar said:

The audiobook is fantastic because he's the narrator (for those that don't know he narrated Ken Burns' Civil War and Baseball).

Did not know they, Good to know.  I enjoyed those series.  

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Came across this one randomly.  It's a book about through line between Cynthia Ann Parker's kidnap and rescue to Quanah Parker's life, to the making of The Searchers and the film's legacy.

Alan Lemay write the novel The Searchers that was based on the kidnapping and search that eventually made its way to John Ford. 

Ethan(John Wayne) was based on one of Cynthia Ann's uncles.   

It's a really interesting read.  A little dense here and there but very enjoyable.

I didn't know this but the author stated that Buddy Holly saw the film with a friend and wrote That'll Be The Day right after.  John Wayne utters that phrase 4x during the movie.  

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Just finished this novella

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The depression of the 1930s led people to desperate measures to survive. The marathon dance craze, which flourished at that time, seemed a simple way for people to earn extra money dancing the hours away for cash, for weeks at a time. But the underside of that craze was filled with a competition and violence unknown to most ballrooms.

Not great but pretty good. Ends smartly and abruptly. 

Sidney Pollack made a movie out of it in the 60s. 

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I thought this was a great book. An amazing story of escaping slavery using the South's own rules of chivalry against it. Then parts of the nation conspired to send them back to slavery in order to "keep the peace". 

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Ignoring @safe sex's James recommendation a little longer.

 

Reread Fahrenheit 451 in an afternoon because it had been about a decade. It really hits hard in the current political environment especaily if you replace TV with social media. Everyone knows that it wasn't really about book burning, but rather about the mindlessness of tv but I think the point of society choosing to be dystopian takes it to another level in 2025. The book itself was written so well in the first half, but you can Bradbury was better at short stories as it slowly loses steam as the plot thickens. I recommend going back to it if you haven't in decades.

 

Last night I started 
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and I got about halfway through it in a couple hours. I can already tell that I'm going to be reading a ton of his novels if they're as fun as his first book.

 

Also continued my quest in rating all of the original 62 Goosebumps books. Last up was Say Cheese and Die! which always looked like a dumb premise to me, but it was decent.

After 4 books we're at...

1.) Welcome to Dead House

2.) Say Cheese and Die!

3.) Stay Out of the Basement

4.) Monster Blood

 

 

I have two more weeks of grad school left so hopefully this spring/summer will be a summer of reading for fun.

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Wife recommended I read this after my last book as a good follow-up and she was correct. About half way through and this is great. A really good take on the original source material that's told in a very unique manner. 

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Finished this a few days ago
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And got to watch Sofia Coppola's film based on it Sunday afternoon. First time reading (okay, listening) to the book and first time watching the movie since it came out. I wouldn't want to like...live in that time, but to go back in time and experience one of Marie Antoinette's best days would be a hell of a trip. I certainly know more about the court of Louis XVI than I ever have before.

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