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Brian Miller
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I'm about halfway thru THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER.
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Matthew Chartrand
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Finished WRONG SIDE OF GOODBYE by Connelly. Really good. Connelly is one of the few authors who's books I buy in hard cover upon release. The Bosch series on Amazon Prime is pretty good, too. Starting SAINT ODD by Dean Koontz. A fun, quirky series.
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James Best
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Now starting:
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David Miller
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My holiday vacation reading is Orson Welles: One-Man Band, part 3 of Simon Callow's epic biography of the legendary polymath. I just finished the chapter about Welles' disastrous 1956 turn to the New York stage with King Lear, and am about to begin the chapter about Welles' disastrous return to studio film-making with Touch of Evil.
It's heart wrenching to read Welles step on one rake after another, while at the same time frustrating to recognize the great man's own hand in his frequent career immolation. I'm looking forward to reading more, as the back half of the book covers the making of Touch of Evil, The Trial and Chimes at Midnight, his three best post-Citizen Kane films.
Part of the fun of this volume has been looking up the miscellaneous short films and tv shows Welles made over this period, many of which are available online, including Orson Welles' Sketchbook which ran on BBC, Return to Glennascaul, an Oscar-nominated 1953 short in collaboration with Hilton Edwards and Micheál Mac Liammóir (Iago in Welles' Othello), and a tv presentation of King Lear directed by Peter Brook, who is a stage legend in his own right, if not so large as Welles.
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Charles Nelson
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The Last Supper by Charles McCarry
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Eric Smearman
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THE COMEDIANS: THIEVES, DRUNKS, SCOUNDRELS AND TGE
HISTORY OF AMERICAN COMEDY by Kliph Nesteroff.
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Robert Cosgrove
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The Nefertiti-Tut Express, by Ray Bradbury, illustrated by Gary Gianni. An illustrated draft of what Bradbury called a screenplay, running about 45 pages, liberally illustrated by Gianni.
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Robert Cosgrove
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David Miller, thanks for the Welles on-line tips. I read Barbara Leaming's biography of Welles years ago; maybe it's time to revisit the subject . . .
--Bob
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Mike Purdy
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Just finished Joseph Boyden's "Wenjack" and "The Secret Path" by Gord Downie and Jeff Lemire. Also downloaded the companion album for Secret Path. Such a sad, and disgraceful story
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Robert Cosgrove
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Usually don't use this thread to mention comics-related books, which are well-covered elsewhere, but here's an exception: Steve Ditko Unleashed. Excellent retrospective from his first professional work through his current efforts; lots of good art.
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Matthew Chartrand
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A NIGHT WITHOUT STARS by Peter F. Hamilton. A little hard sci-fi for the new year.
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Thom Price
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Re-reading the RED RISING trilogy, which were my favorite books I read in 2016.
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