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What are you reading?
#51
RE: What are you reading?
A very peculiar book series.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#52
RE: What are you reading?
Just finished Matthew. Now reading Tales of the Al Azif; an anthology of recent additions to the Cthulhu Mythos that follow the journey of a very peculiar book.
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#53
RE: What are you reading?
After watching Paramount's absurd hatchet job of an adaptation of "The Stand" by Stephen King, I needed some brain bleach and am currently reading the vastly superior book. I do wish I had paid attention when copying the audio book to my tablet and grabbed the revised edition instead of the original. How sad is it, that the original hack job mini-series adaptation was, as bad as it was, still an overall better one than this?!?

They did make some brilliant casting choices. Getting Ezra Miller to play The Trashcan Man was fucking inspired despite Trashy being relegated to a bit character. Whoopie as Mother Abigail was dead nuts, and Owen Teague as Harold Lauder was a perfect fit for the character, even if they got the character wrong. Brad William Henke as Tom Cullen was probably the the best casting choice of all and was certainly the most faithful characterization in the whole damned thing

But, those few casting choices are the only highlights. If you've read the book and haven't yet inflicted this travesty upon yourself, don't. If you've never read the book, you may find it enjoyable. I can't tell. I spent too much of the show rolling my eyes at the mis-characterization of damn near every character and the cheapening of nearly every scene, especially the closing scenes in New Vegas, particularly the final scene. I think I strained the muscles in my eyes rolling them so hard!

I did finish "In the Shadow of Lightning" before starting my re-read of "The Stand." Very compelling start to a the fantasy series and I am very much looking forward to continuing it soon.
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#54
RE: What are you reading?
(May 31, 2023 at 12:26 am)Ravenshire Wrote: After watching Paramount's absurd hatchet job of an adaptation of "The Stand" by Stephen King, I needed some brain bleach and am currently reading the vastly superior book. I do wish I had paid attention when copying the audio book to my tablet and grabbed the revised edition instead of the original. How sad is it, that the original hack job mini-series adaptation was, as bad as it was, still an overall better one than this?!?

They did make some brilliant casting choices. Getting Ezra Miller to play The Trashcan Man was fucking inspired despite Trashy being relegated to a bit character. Whoopie as Mother Abigail was dead nuts, and Owen Teague as Harold Lauder was a perfect fit for the character, even if they got the character wrong. Brad William Henke as Tom Cullen was probably the the best casting choice of all and was certainly the most faithful characterization in the whole damned thing

But, those few casting choices are the only highlights. If you've read the book and haven't yet inflicted this travesty upon yourself, don't. If you've never read the book, you may find it enjoyable. I can't tell. I spent too much of the show rolling my eyes at the mis-characterization of damn near every character and the cheapening of nearly every scene, especially the closing scenes in New Vegas, particularly the final scene. I think I strained the muscles in my eyes rolling them so hard!

I did finish "In the Shadow of Lightning" before starting my re-read of "The Stand." Very compelling start to a the fantasy series and I am very much looking forward to continuing it soon.
The mini series was terrible, I agree. I'd tried reading the book a few years before it came out, and I couldn't/didn't finish it. It was too long winded and boring. I put it down at the point when the old woman in the cornfield had died.
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#55
RE: What are you reading?
I've recently read a fun SF novel

Quote:Replay by Ken Grimwood

The novel tells of a 43-year-old man who dies in 1988 and wakes up back in 1963 when he was in college. He relives his life with all his memories of the previous 25 years intact. This happens repeatedly, with the man playing out his life differently in each cycle. 
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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#56
RE: What are you reading?
‘Shatterday’. Harlan Ellison may well have been the best short story writer of his generation.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#57
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I liked the Stand, I think I read it in HS or soon after. Just finished Luke, starting Tales of Yog-Sothoth. I love me some yogsothery!
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
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#58
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Buying about 30 audiobooks. Most of it is stuff on mindfulness, Taoism, and the eleven-volume set of Will and Ariel Durant's The Story of Civilization. I threw in a few odd things, including a book on Buddhism by Thich Nhat Hanh and two books on the black experience (His Name Is George Floyd and The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison). And I picked up several books of Eastern wisdom translated by Eknath Easwaren; I've enjoyed his translations.

I'll probably spend about half my time on the mindfulness and Taoism and the other half reading/listening to history. History seems my favorite genre for audiobooks.
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#59
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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#60
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Finished listening to a book about the history of poisoning from intentional to the accidental due to poisons being administered as medication before the effects were known and poisons that were in cosmetics and clothing dyes that slowly killed people.  Think mercury and the Mad Hatter.

Moved on to a book about Quakery which covers some of the same things but also devices that have been, or are, used.  Both books have lightened the mood a bit with some humor thrown in though the second book is actually pretty funny despite the topic.
  
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