Anyone read any good books recently ?
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Iam a huge fan of Werner Herzog , amazing filmmaker , did you see Aguirre also set in south America . Klaus kinski is very good in it and very intense , a total madman in real life .
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I have not seen Aguirre yet, but that’s a great suggestion, thank you. Herzog also made a movie about Kinski which I have not seen, My Best Fiend, and Kinski wrote a memoir that Herzog claims is completely fabricated, All I Need is Love. Both were kids in Germany at the end of the war. Kinski was soldier briefly in the German army, and Herzog did not see a screen or film until he was a teenager.
Anyone read any good books recently ?
The graphic novel Tonoharu: Part One by Lars Martinson about an assistant English teacher in rural Japan is quite good. I am happy to have parts two and three in hardcover still to go. The meticulously penned artwork took 13 years to make:
https://youtu.be/6BzCDVR-tr8
I also started Gandhi’s autobiography The Story of My Experiments with Truth which is available as a free eBook in English at https://www.mkgandhi.org/ebks/gandhiebooks.htm. It was written in weekly installments for a journal in the late 1920s. I will probably follow this with Gandhi Before India by Ramachandra Guha.
Gandhi was a law student in London around 1890. That could be an interesting Sherlock Holmes case, maybe involving vegetarianism?
Anyone read any good books recently ?
I bought this for the USA flights
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida - Won the booker prize this year.
… & ’ cos the movie choice is pretty poor on Delta
I’m half way through it’s pretty good IMHO.
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Anyone read any good books recently ?
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Just saw this. Are those yours? Very nice looking sets! Early or original print editions are such a joy to read when you can find them.
I am starting The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy, and will continue on with Stella Maris. The writing is amazing, almost Shakespearan, and watches pop up occasionally.
Anyone read any good books recently ?
Thanks for the link. I will take a look.
This is one of my favorites, a play rather than a novel, but in book form. I do not know much about this particular edition or value, but it is a remnant of a lost era. The story is surprisingly rich, intense and violent. It is one of my favorite movies, too.
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Some people are crazy - The John Martyn Story
This is a fine biography by John Neal Munro. I love John Martyn's music, saw him live many times. I always avoided meeting him, as I was told he was very tricky! After reading the book, I made a wise decision. Such a waste... but with talent at that level it was probably inevitable that his life would be short and messy. The chapter on his friends Nick Drake and Paul Kossoff is particularly poignant. If your a fan? Its a must read.