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What book are you currently reading?

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Re: What book are you currently reading?
« Reply #300 on: December 06, 2021, 06:33:16 PM »
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What do these books have in common?


i own and have read them all.
i will guess that they were all banned.

Yeah. They’re the most banned books in the US
i didn't know some of those were banned.  trying to figure what's offensive about some of them.

I'd guess TKAM was banned because of the 'white saviour' angle.
i believe that one is because of it's use of the n word.  same as huckleberry finn. the white saviour complaint is pretty new i believe after hollywood came after the films The Help and Green Book.
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
« Reply #301 on: December 06, 2021, 06:34:49 PM »
Quote from: Shank Asu on December 06, 2021, 06:33:16 PM
Quote from: John Galt on December 06, 2021, 06:24:59 PM
Quote from: Shank Asu on December 06, 2021, 04:27:53 PM
Quote from: MPare1966 on December 06, 2021, 04:24:54 PM
Quote from: Shank Asu on December 06, 2021, 04:17:05 PM
Quote from: Shank Asu on December 06, 2021, 04:16:16 PM
Quote from: MPare1966 on December 05, 2021, 08:59:03 PM
What do these books have in common?


i own and have read them all.
i will guess that they were all banned.

Yeah. They’re the most banned books in the US
i didn't know some of those were banned.  trying to figure what's offensive about some of them.

I'd guess TKAM was banned because of the 'white saviour' angle.
i believe that one is because of it's use of the n word.  same as huckleberry finn. the white saviour complaint is pretty new i believe after hollywood came after the films The Help and Green Book.

I don't normally watch new films but Green Book is pretty good.

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Re: What book are you currently reading?
« Reply #302 on: December 06, 2021, 07:06:57 PM »
Quote from: John Galt on December 06, 2021, 06:34:49 PM
Quote from: Shank Asu on December 06, 2021, 06:33:16 PM
Quote from: John Galt on December 06, 2021, 06:24:59 PM
Quote from: Shank Asu on December 06, 2021, 04:27:53 PM
Quote from: MPare1966 on December 06, 2021, 04:24:54 PM
Quote from: Shank Asu on December 06, 2021, 04:17:05 PM
Quote from: Shank Asu on December 06, 2021, 04:16:16 PM
Quote from: MPare1966 on December 05, 2021, 08:59:03 PM
What do these books have in common?


i own and have read them all.
i will guess that they were all banned.

Yeah. They’re the most banned books in the US
i didn't know some of those were banned.  trying to figure what's offensive about some of them.

I'd guess TKAM was banned because of the 'white saviour' angle.
i believe that one is because of it's use of the n word.  same as huckleberry finn. the white saviour complaint is pretty new i believe after hollywood came after the films The Help and Green Book.

I don't normally watch new films but Green Book is pretty good.
i liked it.
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
« Reply #303 on: December 30, 2021, 04:07:21 PM »
I'm just reading Stephen Hendry's autobiography Me And The Table.  At the end of each chapter he has a top five list of various things, one of which is My 5 Favourite Albums and his favourite album is Achtung Baby.

1. Achtung Baby - U2
2. The Wall -Pink Floyd
3. One Nil - Neil Finn
4. Vauxhall and I - Morrissey
5. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel

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Re: What book are you currently reading?
« Reply #304 on: December 30, 2021, 09:15:58 PM »
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
« Reply #305 on: October 14, 2022, 08:35:27 AM »
Heat 2 by Michael Mann. 

Story covering the world of the movie Heat [1995] from before and after the film 1988-2000.  Too much focus on the character of Chris Shiherlis for my liking, especially post the events of the movie.

 
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
« Reply #306 on: October 14, 2022, 08:50:19 AM »
Read some goods ones lately:

The White Nile by Alan Moorehead
Congo by Michael Crichton
The Collected Short Stories of Philip K. Dick
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
« Reply #307 on: October 14, 2022, 12:25:10 PM »
This Way To The Universe by Michael Dine. Non-fiction, but very speculative. Very intriguing ideas.
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
« Reply #308 on: October 16, 2022, 12:59:14 PM »
Currently reading The Blue Nile by Alan Moorehead
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
« Reply #309 on: October 17, 2022, 02:09:07 PM »
Found four Georges Simenon books on Amazon recently that i'd never seen in print before, so i've got my reading material for the next month sorted.  Starting off with The People Opposite.
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
« Reply #310 on: January 12, 2023, 08:33:19 AM »
Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War between the Windsors by Tom Bower, probably my favourite biographer.

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Re: What book are you currently reading?
« Reply #311 on: January 12, 2023, 07:53:44 PM »
Breakfast of champions, by Kurt Vonnegut


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Re: What book are you currently reading?
« Reply #312 on: January 12, 2023, 09:01:57 PM »
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
« Reply #313 on: January 17, 2023, 02:22:45 PM »
Just finished Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote.  Rather boring and the main character is obviously gay even though the film turned this into a romance story between the two leads.  This is very similar to the book that Cabaret was based on, Goodbye to Berlin.  Both aren't particularly good but yet were turned into films that most people love.
I did like in the BAT book that Tiffany has vanished and it's when a carved statue is found in an African village that looks identical to her, the other characters get together and reminisce and wonder what happened to her.  Very ominous.
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
« Reply #314 on: January 18, 2023, 02:12:10 PM »
Re-reading animal farm

Brilliant in its simplicity


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