"The Batman is Gotham City. I will watch him. Study him. And when I know him and why he does not kill, I will know this city. And then Gotham will be MINE!"-BANE
"We're monsters, buddy. Plain and simple. I don't dress it up with fancy names like mutant or post-human; men were born crueler than Apes and we were born crueler than men. It's just the natural order of things"-ULTIMATE SABRETOOTH
Oh, I got into Hemingway in the same manner. I read his work AFTER I graduated from school and was a little bit older and more mature. I think that is the best time to read his novels actually. Funny, that you visited Hemingway's home in Florida thirty years ago. If I ever get there, it would be like my Graceland!
I'm not sure if it was because I was "older" when I read him in college (since that would have only been maybe +/-four years later) or just the small daily chunks they dissect it into for high school English classes are not conducive to really appreciate the books. I found very few books I read (or faked reading) in high school English to be enjoyable, yet some of those same books would become much more worthwhile reads later in life when I read them on my own.
Visited Graceland, too, back in the late 90's when a friend and I took a road trip from NJ (where she lives) to Tennessee and visited both Nashville and Memphis.
I finished reading the Tom Threadgill thriller Collision of Lies.
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"I can't complain. I got to be Jim Morrison for the first half of my life, and Ward Cleaver for the second half." - Warren Zevon.
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Yeah, I'm just like you. I didn't enjoy reading books forced upon me in high school. And I faked reading books especially if they had movie adaptations. Or just relied on CliffNotes. I find that if you WANT to watch documentaries and/or read books, you will enjoy them more. As opposed to being compelled to do so. I'd like to see Graceland one day. Sounds like such a fun place especially if you enjoy rock and roll. But I'd like to visit Nashville because I love country music!
New Kindle reads: the short story The Vampire (1871) by Jan Neruda and the novel Give the Boys a Great Big Hand (1960) - the latter being the eleventh 87th Precinct book by Ed McBain.
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The Beast of Nightfall Lodge by S.A. Sidor. I quite liked the first in Sidor's pulp horror adventure series. This sequel is shaping up to be just as good if not better.
On the Kindle front, it's the short story The Demon Spell (1894) by Hume Nisbet and then The Saint and Mr. Teal (1933) - the latter being the ninth Simon Templar novel by Leslie Charteris.
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Recently revisited Lovecraft territory and reread The Colour Out of Space, The Whisperer in the Darkness, The Dunwich Horror, and At the Mountains of Madness.
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"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." - Sinclair Lewis
“It’s your party and you can cry if you want to.” - Captain Europe
You can find his written work at the link. Enjoy.
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"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." - Sinclair Lewis
“It’s your party and you can cry if you want to.” - Captain Europe
Now reading Reversible Error (1992), the fourth novel from the Butch Karp-Marlene Ciampi series by Robert K. Tanenbaum.
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Standing in Another Man´s Grave by Ian Rankin