What are you reading?

[HammerDown]

I really don't give a shit if you think it's lame.

It's how I feel about it. and my wife is a reader too, so we'd need 2? Like everybody has a cell phone...

In the future, would you and your wife please run your opinions past ill first? Thank you.

 

[Hank Kingsley]

Shame the Devil - George Pelecanos

Love it. Pelecanos wrote for Treme, The Wire and The Deuce.

 

[packerzrule]

 

[rsw626]

 

[Hank Kingsley]

More George Pelecanos. The Turnaround.

More or less DC based.

Next up, Sacred by Dennis Lehane.

 

[ill]

finishing Jim Butcher's Codex Alera series now


listening to The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

 

[MTVike]

For Whom the Bell Tolls by some guy named Hemmingway.

I gotta say, I'm not that into his writing yet.

 

[ill]

For Whom the Bell Tolls by some guy named Hemmingway.

I gotta say, I'm not that into his writing yet.

I've never read Hemmingway...not sure I could

 

[MTVike]

I've never read Hemmingway...not sure I could

I mean, I've always been intrigued by him and watched the Ken Burns special on him. I also intended to read the classics I had missed along the way when I retired.

So far, I'm just not getting it.

 

[Kburjr]

I mean, I've always been intrigued by him and watched the Ken Burns special on him. I also intended to read the classics I had missed along the way when I retired.

So far, I'm just not getting it.

I'm not sure if this holds true but it seems there was a genre of men's fiction in the 40s and 50s that touched on being a "man". I collect old outdoor fiction and you can see the style of writing shine through. Hemingway's writing drips with testosterone

I see The Old Man and the Sea as the perfect novel.

 

[MTVike]

I'm not sure if this holds true but it seems there was a genre of men's fiction in the 40s and 50s that touched on being a "man". I collect old outdoor fiction and you can see the style of writing shine through. Hemingway's writing drips with testosterone

I see The Old Man and the Sea as the perfect novel.

There is that, which i don't necessarily have a problem with. But this "thee" and "thou" rhetoric...am I reading Shakespeare?

 

[Kburjr]

There is that, which i don't necessarily have a problem with. But this "thee" and "thou" rhetoric...am I reading Shakespeare?

The book is nearly 100 years old. Language changes. It's a challenge for sure.

 

[MTVike]

The book is nearly 100 years old. Language changes. It's a challenge for sure.

80 years old.

I think it parallels hemmingways experience as an ambulance driver in WWII...falling in love with a local in the midst of war. Still, its pretty clunky.

 

[Kburjr]

80 years old.

I think it parallels hemmingways experience as an ambulance driver in WWII...falling in love with a local in the midst of war. Still, its pretty clunky.

For Whom the Bell Tolls I believe was set in the Spanish Civil War. So yeah, not quite 100 years old.

 

[ojb81]

For Whom the Bell Tolls by some guy named Hemmingway.

I gotta say, I'm not that into his writing yet.

The guy must be a Metallica fan

 

[ill]

The book is nearly 100 years old. Language changes. It's a challenge for sure.

I don't think people spoke like that 80 yrs ago.

 

[Kburjr]

I don't think people spoke like that 80 yrs ago.

I wasn't there.

I haven't read the book in years so I don't know in what context the "thees" and " thous" were used.

 

[Kburjr]

I wasn't there.

I haven't read the book in years so I don't know in what context the "thees" and " thous" were used.

So, after reading the Wiki article on the book, the thees and thous makes more sense. Supposed to convey a direct translation from Spanish in which there are important differences in the formal and familiar translations.

 

[Hank Kingsley]

Dennis Lehane - The Given Day

Excellent.

John Sandford - Ocean Prey

A good read.

 

[ill]

finished Shadow & Bone...it was just too soft of a fantasy novel. I don't know if I want to finish the series.

started How Much of These Hills is Gold last night and put a hold on the first book from the Longmire series.