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Im also in a bit of a reading slump. Maybe something about the holiday season, I never seemed to have much time to sit down and enjoy my book. I was reading Anna Karenin, but lack of time bogged me down. I enjoyed what I read, but the book requires some investment and the spotty time I had to devote to it didn't really help. I've done what others in this thread have said and moved on to something I know, so I'm rereading the Hobbit. I may move on to LOTR afterward, or return to Anna Karenin, I'm undecided. Probably Anna, but I'll probably start from the beginning.
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I love the Murderbot series also. The last installment felt like the weakest so far IMHO, which was a shame. I'd been looking forward to it for so long.
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Yes, I thought the same, but even so it was still enjoyable. Pity if the author is running out of ideas, though.
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I'm reading Marlowe by John Banville (a.k.a. The Black-Eyed Blonde by Benjamin Black), a Philip Marlowe novel. I had planned on reading all of Chandler, and perhaps the two Marlowe novels by Robert B. Parker, before tackling it, and even started rereading The Big Sleep, but although it had been so long since I read it the first time, everything seemed so familiar that after a couple of chapters my attention flagged and I fell prey to the siren song of something else and was lured away. But now that the movie version of Marlowe with Liam Neeson is available for streaming, I thought that before it disappeared from the streaming platform again I'd hurry and read the book and then watch the movie. (That way it will be easier to confuse the two down the road. ![]() So far, I like it, but I can't say how Chandleresque it is, not having read much Chandler and none of it recently (the aborted go at The Big Sleep was a while back). I can't even say if he tried to mimic Chandler. Normally I wouldn't be interested in continuations of an author's series by someone else -- the Spenser novels by anybody by Parker don't tempt me in the least, and the same goes for the Nero Wolfe books by anybody but Rex Stout -- but I've liked the John Banville (Benjamin Black) crime novels I've read, and I've read all of the Spenser books more than once, so I thought I'd give their takes on Philip Marlowe a try. Quote:
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I was gifted a The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf over the holidays by a like-minded reader. A non-reader person that I serve as a professional mentor for asked me about it because I was reading it when she arrived at our coffee meeting yesterday.
This got me to thinking about the particular joy I had a few years ago when I discovered the "genre" of reading the letters of great writers and others. It started when I stumbled on The Selected Letters of Willa Cather, who is one of my favorite American authors, at my local indie. I picked it up on a whim and spent the better part of 2 months reading it. I absolutely fell in love with the form. Since then, I've read books of letters from Mary Wollstonecraft, Truman Capote, and Rilke. I have on my shelves waiting for me the letters of Virginia Woolf, Hannah Arendt, and a book called The Love That Dares: Letters of LGBTQ+ Love & Friendship Through History. What new genres have you discovered later on in your reading life? |
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None, actually. I've read mostly the same genres all my life (fantasy, SF, mystery, historical novels; occasionally some romance (straight, gay or bi - no preference there) or nonfiction). There are genres I've sampled or even read somewhat in my youth I'm no longer interested in (classics, biographies, literary fiction, poetry, horror, erotica), but none I've discovered later. I've tried them all at one time or the other, and by now I stick mostly to my lifelong favorite genres. I read new authors in those genres constantly, though.
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The real appeal for me of Chandler is Chandler. After The Long Goodbye I have Playback. Then I'll have read all the mainstream Chandler available, including the collections The Simple Art of Murder and Trouble Is My Business. But I think once I finish Playback, I'll take a crack at the newer collections of Chandler short stories from the pulps. The stories he cannibalized to create his novels. Quote:
But you can just move on to the rest of his novels. Yeah, they all have Marlowe, but events from past books have no impact on future books. Marlowe has no life outside of whatever case he is working on. Quote:
If you do watch it, notice that all the music in the film is the same song, just arranged differently for different situations. He listens to The Long Goodbye on his car stereo, then walks in to the store and the same song is now muzak, at another point hippies chant it. I love Robert Altman and his style of directing and The Long Goodbye is one of my favorites. Last edited by ZodWallop; 01-11-2024 at 10:31 AM. |
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Even though it's been so long since I saw it -- and I went to it two or three times when it was in theaters -- a few scenes have stuck with me, such as when he was in the interrogation room at the police station. Maybe I'll have to see if I can get it on disc. |
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+1 On Chandler.
I hardly ever have a TBR list, unless you're counting my Wish List on Overdrive for things that are never available. I like mixing it up. I don't like reading more than two novels in a row. I'll go to any non fiction. My "grab-n-go" would be century-old tech on Project Gutenberg, steam, electric, telephone. Current read, "The Knife Man", Wendy Moore. It's a biography of 18th century surgeon/naturlist John Hunter and is more interesting than the bogus title. I'm enjoying it a lot. There's name-dropping, Joshua Banks, Smollett, Johnson, Boswell, Garrick... |
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The audiobook is actually good--it's the Maude translation with Wanda McCaddon as the narrator. The language seems sufficiently modern, and I don't have to deal with the strange-to-me names that defy pronunciation, which has been a stumbling block in my previous halfhearted attempts to read Anna. I'm enjoying it, not just feeling virtuous about finally reading the darn thing after blowing it off in high school back in the Dark Ages. But I still don't want to read more than a few chapters at a time. |
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![]() That's frankly inconceivable to me. No matter how bad it is, I have to get my reading dose in; I'm addicted to reading, and have been since early childhood. I can easily go for months, even years without watching any TV, though, and often do. That said, I do know several people who only read books intermittently, and several who never read them at all. And yep, they all watch TV daily. |
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