What are you reading now?
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Interesting read. The biography essentially covers both her life and the adult portion of David French's life. David asked to marry her 3 weeks after meeting her. Reading of Nancy's childhood, one is amazed of her achievements. AND having read that portion of the book, one gains little insight into what were the influences and indviduals responsible for her developing her writing skills. I'm just getting up to the portion of the book having to do with the 2016 election. What's fun to read about is Nancy's referencing that if someone showed up at her relatives seeking dirt, Nancy shared that it was very possible those indviduals might end up dead. They were mountain people.
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The protagonist from "Bad Monkey", Andrew Yancy, is caught up in a scam involving a woman who fakes rear-end car crashes while shaving her nether regions. A new builder wants to put up a mansion next to Yancy's beach house. More restaurant inspections and more cockroaches.
Yeah, typical Hiaasen stuff with the craziest characters ever.
Fun, but I can only take so much in a while.
ETA: Oh, yeah - there's a subplot with a "Duck Dynasty" takeoff, "Bayou Brothers."
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@George-K “You’re a good watcher, anyway, I’ll tell you that for nothing, old boy. Us singles always are, no one to rely on, what? No one else spotted me. Gave me a real turn up there, parked on the horizon. Thought you were a juju man. Best watcher in the unit, Bill Roach is, I’ll bet. Long as he’s got his specs on. What?”
I always loved Jim Prideaux’s conversations with Bill Roach.
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I'm about 2/3 of the way through TTSP - and I'd forgotten how LAYERED it is. So many side stories, etc. Really enjoying it this time.
As an aside, I'm watching the 2011 movie at the same time, but only watching up to where I am in the book. Movie is very faithful.
It's funny how, in the book, it takes forever to know why Ann left George, or should I say, why the marriage got into trouble. In the film, there are hints, but you don't really know that she was unfaithful until the SECOND shot of the Christmas party.
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I'm about a quarter of the way through "The Honorable Schoolboy."
What a slog. I keep waiting for something to happen, and it doesn't. So far, the most exciting thing is that "The Schoolboy" has gone to the East, and Smiley sees his wife through a window.
Yeesh. Don't know if i"ll bother to finish it.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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I had mild expectations - but it's quite good. I'm just at the point where he was in prison. His brother suggested he read Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People" before going before the parole board. Knowing better, Malcom unloaded vitriol upon the board with the not expected result that he was denied parole. Subsequently, Malcom read the Carnegie book and took it to heart - won over prisoners, prison staff - and ultimately the parole board. The book changed his life.
I'm surprised at how much I'm liking the book.
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I'm about a quarter of the way through "The Honorable Schoolboy."
What a slog. I keep waiting for something to happen, and it doesn't. So far, the most exciting thing is that "The Schoolboy" has gone to the East, and Smiley sees his wife through a window.
Yeesh. Don't know if i"ll bother to finish it.
@George-K oh come now. U don’t read Le Carre for action. You read him just to enjoy the writing. and the far east buts are kinda interesting. The whole jungle opium Laos scenes.
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@George-K oh come now. U don’t read Le Carre for action. You read him just to enjoy the writing. and the far east buts are kinda interesting. The whole jungle opium Laos scenes.
@bachophile oh, I get it. The writing is glorious. So many "train-of-thought" detours in one paragraph.
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I'm surprised at how much I'm liking this book - particularly the audio version as there are live recordings. He does a real number on corruption in Miami. It's definitely worth a read.
@kluurs said in What are you reading now?:
I'm surprised at how much I'm liking this book - particularly the audio version as there are live recordings. He does a real number on corruption in Miami. It's definitely worth a read.
Finished the book. He does segments on the Covid and opioid crisis along with some discussion of education, college admissions and diversity. It was a bit like his podcast. Overall, a decent and worthwhile book though I thought there would be more there.
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Started reading William Shirer's Ghandi, A Memoir. Shirer was in India back in 1931 - aged around 27. Ghandi was 61. Shirer was the only American journalist there at the time covering Ghandi. So far, a good read. He got to spend some personal time with Ghandi. He said that Ghandi walked about 4 miles a day - at a pace that was challenging to Shirer.
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