Yup, people have strong opinions about religion and faith. (And Sancho has a knack for stating the obvious.)
I’ve been reading Twilight Territory, which is set in the 1940s in Vietnam. I’m taking...
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Yup, people have strong opinions about religion and faith. (And Sancho has a knack for stating the obvious.)
I’ve been reading Twilight Territory, which is set in the 1940s in Vietnam. I’m taking...
So I downloaded The Bone Collector on my kindle. I’m looking forward to starting it. Twilight Territory has been fascinating, mainly from a historical standpoint. Also it’s good to see this slice of...
Good pic’s. I could almost smell the stink.
Have you read Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle? It’s set in the early 1900s in the stockyards and meat packing plants of south-side Chicago. Sinclair...
...meanwhile, in a neighborhood just west of the Bowery, several of the boys who'd recently immigrated from Sicily, were hatching out a scheme for a new stream of revenue.
This stuff just writes...
Haha, go figure... and then Carrie went home and began to sharpen her axe...
Do you reckon those guys use egg-beaters? Those are the only pedals I can keep mud free on my mountain bike.
Nice set of posts, Poppin. I can speak with some authority on “spaniel-like dependence.” Over the years the Señora and I have burned through a dozen or so Springer Spaniels. We have three now. These...
All in all I thought Maggie was a pretty flat character. As you said It’s a short book. So there’s not too much room to delve into her psyche, but I found myself wondering if Crane was capable of...
Call BR-549, ask for Junior.
I’ll check out Deaver. I haven’t read anything by him.
That was worth it.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems like the big difference between cyclo-cross and mountain biking is cyclo-crossers run more. Those guys are adept at dismounting, hoisting the...
Also she'd run out of options. "Ruined" then dumped by Pete (schmuck). Her drunken mom playing the victim and throwing her out. The girl had no where to go. But more importantly I think she felt the...
I used to love to listen to Phil Rizzuto call a game. He didn’t have a super strong accent, but just enough around the edges so that you know you’re listening to a Yankees game. And whereas Phil...
Man! It’s time to dust off the bike and true up the wheels. (I’m a fair-weather rider)
Cyclo-cross is a tough sport, eh? Think we should break the news to those guys in Marin County, bombing down...
So, bounty, I’m hoping you got something to say about Paris-Nice.
I wish I could find an article I read a few years back in The New Yorker (I think). It was all about American accents and regionalisms. There was an old man who’d been collecting samples of people’s...
Oh man, I like twangy ole country music. It reminds me of the music my granny used to play on her radio. She had an AM radio and tuned it to one of those 3-letter flame-thrower stations, 50,000 Watts...
Hah. Minna-soht’ns have a pretty distinct accent too. They pronounce their “R”s with such a harsh edge, it probably makes up for your “Ah”s.
I don’t want to paint anybody with too broad a brush,...
Street urchins, guttersnipes, slumdogs, les enfants terribles.
Good way to start a book — a battle royale, une bataille des enfants, on the gravel pile, in lower Manhattan, early 20th century...
Sounds hep to me. The only book I’ve read by Stephen Crane is Red Badge of Courage. I know nothing about Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, so it sounds like fun. When you mentioned it, the first thing...
I think there are a number of reasons people don’t like the epilogue.
The first one that comes to mind is what I’ll call the Walter Sobchak theory. That is, we’ve just gone through 500 some odd...
I'm on a roll.
Ya know, I've never been able to listen to audio books. I tried them a few times in the car, but it just doesn't work for me. I'd rather listen to the radio. Seattle still has a...
A lot of people think the book should’ve ended there. But I thought the epilogue put a cherry on top. I liked it. Also I notice the people who thought the epilogue was superfluous, had already read...
I’m reading Twilight Territory, by Andrew X. Pham. It’s a novel set in 1942 during the occupation of French Indochina (Vietnam) by the Japanese.
So far, so good.
Here’s the initial description of Marmeladov:
I’m pretty much a teetotaler as well. I’ve got too many Irish uncles, you see. They were a lot of fun growing up, but after awhile I came to see...
Good point, Danik. I didn’t realize Dostoevsky was rescued by Anna Grigorievna. I guess we can’t separate the writer from what’s written, particularly with this writer. His religiosity, his time in...