smoker Posted September 29, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 29, 2009 I just finished The Glass Key by Dashall Hammet - very old school, but very good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WannaGo Posted September 30, 2009 Report Share Posted September 30, 2009 Never read any Hammett, but a few months ago, I decided to see what all the fuss was about with "The Postman Always Rings Twice" by James Cain. Excellent book. The thing that struck me is how we always how differently (and better) people behaved in past eras, but the story Cain told 70-some years ago could just as easily have been a story in a newspaper today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smoker Posted October 1, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2009 That's a great book. The themes of adultery, betrayal and murder are universal through the ages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lvdkeyes Posted October 1, 2009 Report Share Posted October 1, 2009 It is timeless; I suppose that's why it has been made into a movie twice. Once with Lana Turner starring and the other with Jessica Lange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smoker Posted October 1, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2009 Both films are ridiculously sexy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer Chang Posted October 1, 2009 Report Share Posted October 1, 2009 That kitchen table scene was steamy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smoker Posted October 1, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2009 She had the fuck of a lifetime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WannaGo Posted October 3, 2009 Report Share Posted October 3, 2009 "A hooker cut to look like Lana Turner is still a hooker." "That is Lana Turner." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lvdkeyes Posted October 3, 2009 Report Share Posted October 3, 2009 Two other Lana Turner movies I like are Imitation of Life and Madam X. Both great movies in my book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smoker Posted October 3, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2009 "A hooker cut to look like Lana Turner is still a hooker." "That is Lana Turner." Best quote of both the book and the movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prigas Posted October 5, 2009 Report Share Posted October 5, 2009 I enjoy reading (technology-related, health and nutrition, and fiction), listening to heavy metal (Up the Irons!), exercising (jogging daily), and watching movies. I spend most of my time at work and browse around various shopping malls in BKK during the weekends. If anyone enjoys jogging or knows of a jogging club in BKK, please let me know. I just hate jogging alone. Also I don't mind joining with friends to a nice pub with cool rock music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WannaGo Posted October 6, 2009 Report Share Posted October 6, 2009 So, I wasn't able to check out American Tabloid at the library. Apparently, I still have a DVD of "The Client" around here somewhere that the library wants back. Until I find it, I'm eighty-sixed. Can't blame them, though. Whining commences now: But jeez, to be banned over a movie of a book by the second-crappiest popular writer in America (after Dan Brown) just kinda sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lvdkeyes Posted October 6, 2009 Report Share Posted October 6, 2009 Just tell them you lost it and pay for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smoker Posted October 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2009 Got Blood's A Rover in the mail yesterday. It starts out: "You carry the seed of belief in you already. You recall the time this narrative captures and sense of conspiracy. I am here to tell you that it is all true and not at all what you think. You will read with some reluctance and capitulate in the end. The following pages will force you to succumb. I am going to tell you everything." Man, I'm going to love this thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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