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Lonesome Dove for the 3rd time, it just keeps getting better. Gus is my hero!! :D
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I just finished Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell. The novella is the basis of the movies The Thing From Another World (directed by Howard Hawks, 1951), and John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982), which is my favorite sci-fi/horror movie of all time. Interestingly enough, John Carpenter’s version is closer to the book than Howard Hawks’ version.
The concepts in the book were ahead of its time. But the characters’ archaic manner of speech really dates it.
Jim
The concepts in the book were ahead of its time. But the characters’ archaic manner of speech really dates it.
Jim
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Strange, I always thought The Thing was a loose adaptation of Lovecraft's Mountains of MadnessJames Y wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 9:50 amI just finished Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell. The novella is the basis of the movies The Thing From Another World (directed by Howard Hawks, 1951), and John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982), which is my favorite sci-fi/horror movie of all time. Interestingly enough, John Carpenter’s version is closer to the book than Howard Hawks’ version.
The concepts in the book were ahead of its time. But the characters’ archaic manner of speech really dates it.
Jim
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ThomC, it was definitely adapted from Who Goes There?. John Carpenter was a big fan of the 1951 movie, but wanted his own version to be more faithful to Campbell’s 1938 novella.ThomC wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 9:57 amStrange, I always thought The Thing was a loose adaptation of Lovecraft's Mountains of MadnessJames Y wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 9:50 amI just finished Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell. The novella is the basis of the movies The Thing From Another World (directed by Howard Hawks, 1951), and John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982), which is my favorite sci-fi/horror movie of all time. Interestingly enough, John Carpenter’s version is closer to the book than Howard Hawks’ version.
The concepts in the book were ahead of its time. But the characters’ archaic manner of speech really dates it.
Jim
I believe the movie you’re referring to is John Carpenter’s In The Mouth of Madness.
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I had a friend send me a copy of Graham Hancock's Fingerprints of the Gods. He knew I'm really interested in history. It's a very interesting book, and researching every topic in the book on my own as I read I see a lot of holes in the history of civilization as it was taught to me in school.
Reminds me of when I first saw the Antikythera Mechanism. We're absolutely trying to put together the puzzle of human history without all the pieces.
Reminds me of when I first saw the Antikythera Mechanism. We're absolutely trying to put together the puzzle of human history without all the pieces.
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I read that one several years ago when my mother started having memory problems. Lots of good advice in there for preserving function as you age.
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This is what you read - above book is a brand new 2020 book.
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Still looking at Larrins book.
Have also gotten into the Lee Child, Jack Reacher books. They're pretty fun to read!
Have also gotten into the Lee Child, Jack Reacher books. They're pretty fun to read!
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Save your money. I was really looking forward to this but I am so disappointed that I cannot recommend this book. It is a collection of the breathless connecting of disparate dots, transcripts of wild podcasts, reprints of frustrated blogs and desperate decoding of encrypted "drops" on 4chan, 8chan and 8kun.
It is not about QAnon. It is QAnon. As they say in the book, "do your own research".
Just do it somewhere else.
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Just finished Romeo and Juliet. Will be starting on A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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Jack Reacher book : Night School
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Wendigo Lore: Monsters, Myths, and Madness, by Chad Lewis & Kevin Lee Nelson.
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Ya know, I didn't even know the books existed until someone on the fourm here mentioned it.
I just started reading Lee Child this year.
Pretty bad eh? I think the 1st book written was in '96?
I like them though!
And, your right! Thats what he does.
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Life Is Too Short For Bad Kung Fu, by Adam Hsu.
I’ve enjoyed and learned a lot from Adam Hsu’s writings since the early 1980s, but with this latest book (from 2019), I find myself both agreeing and disagreeing with some of his observations about the martial arts. However, Adam Hsu still remains the best author/researcher writing about the subject of traditional Chinese martial arts overall. My late second teacher I had in Taiwan was a younger, junior classmate of Hsu, and I did meet Hsu once in Taiwan. At the time, Hsu was based in the San Francisco Bay Area and visiting Taiwan, but he later moved back home to Taiwan permanently.
I kind of understand Hsu’s desperation to preserve traditional kung fu in a world where it is less and less relevant, but at several points in this latest book, he comes across as elitist. I don’t know if that was his intention or not, or if it’s a matter of having reached an age where he just says whatever he feels (he’s almost 80).
Jim
I’ve enjoyed and learned a lot from Adam Hsu’s writings since the early 1980s, but with this latest book (from 2019), I find myself both agreeing and disagreeing with some of his observations about the martial arts. However, Adam Hsu still remains the best author/researcher writing about the subject of traditional Chinese martial arts overall. My late second teacher I had in Taiwan was a younger, junior classmate of Hsu, and I did meet Hsu once in Taiwan. At the time, Hsu was based in the San Francisco Bay Area and visiting Taiwan, but he later moved back home to Taiwan permanently.
I kind of understand Hsu’s desperation to preserve traditional kung fu in a world where it is less and less relevant, but at several points in this latest book, he comes across as elitist. I don’t know if that was his intention or not, or if it’s a matter of having reached an age where he just says whatever he feels (he’s almost 80).
Jim
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First Family (Sean King & Michelle Maxwell #4), David Baldacci 2009.
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Just watched a movie: "The Plot Against The President"
https://www.bitchute.com/video/IL3kb2i7jBdG/
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