"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
I finished reading the J.A. Konrath mystery/thriller BLOODY MARY today at lunchtime.
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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.
Don't worry, I didn't take it as you being rough and my response didn't hold resentment, maybe it reads dry because it's hard to show sympathy in text haha
I'ven't been able to read as much as I would want to, but I do like the writing style and that irreverence that reminds me of previous writers I've read such as Bukowski and Henry Miller. I can understand people being turn off by the bad practices of the protagonists, especially knowing they're representations of the novelists and descriptions of events that really transpired (Céline and Henry put this clearer than Bukowski by naming their main characters after them, but Bukowski was pretty straightforward by naming his main character Chinaski anyway). Thus far, I'm having a great time, though I'm still not hooked
"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
New books: Undaunted Courage (1996) by Stephen A. Ambrose.
On my Kindle, it's The Flying U Ranch (1914), the third book in the Flying U series by B.M. Bower.
A bat! That's it! It's an omen.. I'll shall become a bat!
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: Q-In-Law by Peter David
Watching television is not an activity.
The Collector - John Fowles.
Haven't really been reading much because my eyesight has deteriorated during lockdown (I was getting my test just before...), so I can't enjoy it so much. However, I have recently started East of Eden, which has been on my TBR for far too long!
“We have a saying, my people. Don’t kill if you can wound, don’t wound if you can subdue, don’t subdue if you can pacify, and don’t raise your hand at all until you’ve first extended it.”
Now reading on my Kindle The Outlet (1905) by Andy Adams.
A bat! That's it! It's an omen.. I'll shall become a bat!
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I finally read the last Sherlock Holmes story by Conan Doyle. I tried to read them in the order that the collections were published, but if I go back and read them all again I would like to read them in the order that they happen in the lives of Holmes and Watson. I think that would be a lot of fun.
"The Blue Carbuncle" is probably my favourite and it was well adapted by the Jeremy Brett series. Another is "The Red-Headed League" which was the first Holmes story I ever read--it was in our class reader, when I was about ten--and the Brett series does a hilarious adaptation. Less so for the actual story and more for the Brett adaptation, I love "The Copper Beeches" because it starred a young Natasha Richardson. And finally "The Man with the Twisted Lip," which is a cracking good yarn.