What are you reading Thread?

JConnors

JConnors

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I finished this about a month ago, it was really good. Gives different insight on their trip and lots of different stories, not as good as the Long Way Round book, but still a good read.

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I'm just about finished of Les Strouds survival book - really good.

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Two books on Orson Welles, one after the other:

"What ever Happened to Orson Welles ? Portrait of an Independent Career" Joseph McBride. He worked w/Welles on "Other Side of the Wind" & close associate in later years.

"Despite the System: Orson Welles and Hollywood" Clinton Heylin.

Both debunk the myth that Welles was a debauched slob who couldn't finish anything-- his problems were people-related, others' financial motives. His desperation to in fact finish things led Welles to deal with some shady people, tying up the rights to "Other Wind" with the Shah of Iran (!). He was writing a script the night he died.

The first is especially useful for McBride's descriptions of Welles' guerrilla techniques. He was "indie" before indie was cool. There was no other way....

Check 'em out. Cheers, :beer: Jeff
 
"Writing the TV Drama Series" by Pamela Douglas. Before that finished two books on set production, really liked, "If it's Purple, Somebody's Gonna Die" book, that was cool in explaining the use of colors on productions.
 
Star Wars: Legecy of the Force. It's a nine book series and takes place 40 years after A New Hope. Great stuff.
 
The Dirt - by Motley Crue
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How is that? I've heard there are some pretty crazy things in it.


I finished this a few months back. Great read if your into baseball.

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Both of these are being made into movies.

And also this.

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JConnors said:
I finished this about a month ago, it was really good. Gives different insight on their trip and lots of different stories, not as good as the Long Way Round book, but still a good read.

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I'm just about finished of Les Strouds survival book - really good.

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I wish I could read. I have the attention span of a coked up ferret. But, I do listen to audio books on tape. It's my only hope. I recently got through "In A Sunburned Country" by Bill Bryson. Do you ever read any of his stuff? If not, based on your selection, its up your alley. Its a travelogue about exploring Austrailia. A very entertaining, humorous and most of all informative read (or listen).
 
Anything and everything by my idol, John Irving. Definitely one of the most imaginative novelists of the past 100 years.

Even his "less successful" works are utterly amazingly crafted. Published his first novel at the age of twenty-six. He has received awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation; he has won an O. Henry Award, a National Book Award, and an Oscar. How many "real" writers have such a great body of work and have won an Oscar?

Dan
 
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