Posted on 07/24/2015 7:12:49 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
1. Friday - by Robert Heinlein
2. Adventures Of The Stainless Steel Rat - By Harry Harrison
3. Methuselah’s Children - By Robert Heinlein
Movies:
1. Lucy (Bought DVD) Sci-Fi Outstanding.................
2. Jaws 3 (It was Shark Week)...................Had never seen it before, it was okay..................
Do they ever? What was your intellectual opinion? Plot, style, etc................
Rereading for the gazillionth time:
Arthur Conan Doyle’s complete Sherlock Holmes stories;
H. G. Wells’ ‘The First Men in the Moon’;
Herman Wouk’s ‘War and Remembrance.’
Movies:
American Sniper - great.
Searching for Bobby Fischer - loved it.
Also following closely AMC’s ‘Humans,’ which I’m finding quite enjoyable.
Movies? Inside Out (with the whole famdamily) and Paul Blart II (not great, not horrible, cost me $1.61 at redbox).
I think it was well done. It's obvious that the major characters are all based on her childhood because they're all there - Dill, Jem, Cal, some of her other friends - but grown up from "To Kill A Mockingbird". So the parallels are there. The style is very similar. Some of the passages in "Go Set A Watchman" are the same, word for word, in "To Kill A Mockingbird". But I think the one thing that placed "To Kill A Mockingbird" way above "Go Set A Watchman" was the fact that her editor at Lippencott, Tay Hohoff, was far better than whoever edited this. From biographies of Harper Lee that I've read, Hohoff and she worked together like sisters and became lifelong friends. The work they did together made "To Kill A Mockingbird" the exceptional story it was. Had Harper and Hohoff had a chance to then smooth out "Go Set A Watchman" fifty years ago I think it would have been a much better book.
Books:
1. World’s Oldest Health Plan: Health, Nutrition and Healing from the Bible by Kathleen O’Bannon Baldinger
2. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
3. Collected Works of Willa Cather
Movies:
1. American Sniper
2. Sarah, Plain and Tall
3. Noah
The movie Noah was so awful, the less said about it, the better, although I did enjoy the scenes showing the inside of the ark.
Sarah, Plain and Tall and the stories of Willa Cather are about strong pioneer women in the 19th century. Yes, people did survive by the sweat of the brow, without cars or walmart or central air and heat. I loved these works for entertainment value, but also as survival resources. How people did things “back then” may come in handy in a possible grid-down future.
A Canticle for Leibowitz is just the greatest unabashedly Catholic post-nuclear dystopian novel ever, IMO.
The new Brad Thor, the new JL Bourne, Surge.
Ant Man, imitation Game, Taken 3.
Sounds like, overall, it was a good book. What is the major / plot theme?...........
Oh the eternal "you can't go home again" kind of stuff. Scout's living in New York and is making a visit home. There's a lot of flashbacks to childhood, and I imagine that's where Harper Lee got to foundations for "To Kill A Mockingbird" Her childhood friend, Atticus law partner, and sometime-suitor, Hank Clinton, tries to renew the spark and for a while it looks like they're going to but then he says some disparaging things about blacks. Later she finds some KKK-like material in Atticus's papers and trails him to a meeting where she finds out that not only is Atticus running the show of the local white supremacist outfit but Hank is on the board as well. This crushes her emotionally, she can't look at her father the same, and so forth and so on. I found the flashbacks a bit annoying, at least "To Kill A Mockingbird" didn't have any, and Scout's reaction more than a little bit contrived. I found the part about Jem to be the biggest shock; I'll email you that if you want but I don't want to do any spoiler alerts. I'm not sorry bought it but "To Kill A Mockingbird" is by far the better read.
Sounds good, I’ll have to buy it...........................
Books:
Currently reading:
The Freedom Amendments - Mark Levin
Recently finished:
1984 - George Orwell
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Castigo Cay - Matt Bracken
Foreign Enemies and Traitors - Matt Bracken
Domestic Enemies - Matt Bracken
Enemies Foreign and Domestic - Matt Bracken
Over past 3 months:
True books:
-Enemies foreign and domestic and
-Principles of Process validation: A handbook for professionals in Medical Device,Pharmaceutical,and Biomedical Industries. (sigh - looking for something to help at work, didn’t help)
Comics: Hex #s 1-5 (DC 1985)
Movies@theater:
- Minions
- Avengers, Age of Ultron
Movies@home:
- Road to Bali (Hope/Crosby)
- The Big Sleep (Bogart)
TV shows:
- Firefly season 1
- Star Trek Season 2 (original series)
- McGyver Season 1
Animation:
- Looney Tunes Platinum Collection
- One Piece (Anime - family bonding time 1 ep/wk)
- Fairy Tail (see above)
“I am ALWAYS amazed at the depth of the people here on Free Republic.”
I may be the exception. :)
Books:
1)Between a Heart, and a Rock Place - Pat Benetar.
Interesting look at the challenges of Rock Super Stardom in contrast to Motherhood.
2) Proof of Heaven - Dr. Eben Alexander
Speaks for itself, and I know some on here call it blasphemy, but I found the account intriguing.
3) The Stand - Stephen King (2nd re-read)
I would love to see a new 3-4 part movie (Hunger Games) made from this book. I think this is one of the finest pieces of fiction literature, and it has never been given a fair shake as a major motion picture.
Movies:
1) Lone Survivor
2) American Sniper
3) Interstellar
First two are on my list with Saving Private Ryan, and Schindler’s List as some of the best film making in history.
Interstellar was a well done solidly scientific (exception being the inside of the black hole) movie.
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