Leonard Cohen - 'Beautiful Losers'
Read it about fifty years ago. Then it was a difficult read, so I though I would give it another 'go'.
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Leonard Cohen - 'Beautiful Losers'
Read it about fifty years ago. Then it was a difficult read, so I though I would give it another 'go'.
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The above is very heavy going, despite short chapters.
So I'm alternating it with something much, much lighter:
Richard Adams - 'Watership Down'
Yes, it might be regarded as solely as a book for children, but the themes are not childish at all. Read it when it first came out (1972); but managed to find a nice hardback folio edition with a slipcase today, which will look nice on the bookshelves.
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never read either.Originally Posted by Barry
The above is very heavy going, despite short chapters.
So I'm alternating it with something much, much lighter:
Richard Adams - 'Watership Down'
Yes, it might be regarded as solely as a book for children, but the themes are not childish at all. Read it when it first came out (1972); but managed to find a nice hardback folio edition with a slipcase today, which will look nice on the bookshelves.
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Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?
“Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".
“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”
"You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”
“There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”
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Wrote a lot of good screenplays as wellJust started reading 'Passage of Arms', a thriller by Eric Ambler. I'm only a few chapters in, but it's shaping up well.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work.... ..... ...... ...... ................... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....
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Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?
“Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".
“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”
"You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”
“There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”
***SMILE, BE HAPPY***
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Regards,
Grant
I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work.... ..... ...... ...... ................... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....
FIIO K7 BT, M11 PLUS, BTR7, KA5 - OPPO BDP-103D - PANASONIC UB450 - PANASONIC 4K ULTRA HD TV - PIXEL 6 - AVANTREE LR BLUETOOTH - 2* X600 SOUNDCORE - HEADPHONES INCLUDE, FIIO, NURAPHONES', FOCAL, OPPO, BOSE, CAMBRIDGE, BOWER & WILKINS, DEVIALET, MARSHALL, SONY, MITCHELL & JOHNSTON - 2*ZBOOK'S- MERCURY BD ROM, ROON, QOBUZ, TIDAL, PLEX, CYBERLINK, JRIVER - MULTI HDD'S -
Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?
“Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".
“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”
"You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”
“There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”
***SMILE, BE HAPPY***
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And I'm reading 'Echoes in The Darkness' by Joseph Wambaugh. A twisty and tricky almost documentary style tale based on a true murder.
Wambaugh is a great writer!
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Just finished another Kurt Vonnegut book. 'Deadeye Dick' this time and I really enjoyed it. A bit strange as usual, but very engaging!
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I'm a big fan of McCall Smith's "The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency" series. Not so much detective novels, more a gentle psychological and incisive look at the nature of the human condition. And being set in Botswana, they provides an interesting and humorous slant.
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More pulp. I'm halfway through 'Clandestine' by James Ellroy. Not read him before that I recall, seems to fall somewhere between Chandler and Leonard in style and it's very good (must get more of his).
Ellroy wrote the outstanding 'L. A. Confidential' by the way.
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