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Matt Reed
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The deeper I get into GOING CLEAR: SCIENTOLOGY, HOLLYWOOD AND THE PRISON OF BELIEF the more crazy it gets. Just when I think Hubbard and his followers have reached the apex of bat-shit crazy, it gets worse. Amazing to read how people allow their entire lives to be taken over, manipulated and in many cases destroyed. Highly recommended.
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Robert Cosgrove
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Just finished Brigham & Women's Hospital Surgeon Atul Gawande's new book, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters At the End, a book about how the medical profession deals--and often fails to competently deal-- with fatal illness and death. Not a barrel of laughs, but insightful and absorbing.
I can also recommend any of Gawande's other books.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 14 December 2014 at 9:24pm | IP Logged | 3
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This evening started THE WORLD OF HENRY ORIENT (1958) by Nora Johnson. Inspiration for one of my favorite movies, so hoping I won't "lose" the film because of the book. Already noting that the first person narrative is likely to eliminate about half the scenes in the movie!*I seem to be drifting thru a period of reading and rereading books that inspired movies. PEYTON PLACE, TOPPER, M*A*S*H, 7 1/2 CENTS, now this one. ----------------- * Ms Johnson co-authored the screenplay, but that does not ease my concern. Too many times I've seen authors use the movie version to tell very different stories!
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John Byrne
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I know you've all been on tenterhooks, awaiting my final analysis of HENRY ORIENT, so here it is: didn't like it. Glad the movie made the changes it did.The book is basically the movie for the first 4/5s or so, minus the Henry Orient character as fleshed out by Peter Sellers -- but in the final chapters it takes a sudden hard turn away from whimsy into psychoanalysis, and end up with a decidedly unhappy ending. At least, based on everything set up in the preceding chapters. Definitely cannot recommend this one.
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Wallace Sellars
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Joe Sacco's PALESTINE
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Josh Goldberg
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| Posted: 20 December 2014 at 9:13am | IP Logged | 6
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Collecting the very first Phantom Zone stories from the early Sixties.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 20 December 2014 at 9:26am | IP Logged | 7
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I'll bite: why does everybody have legs except the chick?
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Conrad Teves
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That's a mermaid tail, isn't it?
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Josh Goldberg
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True. That's Lori Lemaris. In a 1962 story, a temporarily evil Lana Lang transports all her rivals for Superman's affections to the Phantom Zone. It all works out alright in the end. Remember when comics used to be fun?
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Josh Goldberg
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Original cover:
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John Byrne
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That's a mermaid tail, isn't it? ••• So it is!
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Steve Ogden
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"Do Not Sell At Any Price" The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World's Rarest 78 rpm Records by Amanda Petrusich. Well researched and an excellent read. All about the joy of the hunt, albeit "obsessive" just like part of the title says and the discovery. I am sure that most of us here know that feeling.
This books is also a good history lesson of this art form. Truly rare, some of these 78's.
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