Posted on 09/13/2022 11:48:42 AM PDT by MplsSteve
It's been a number of years since I last posted this and recently decided to start doing this again.
As you know, I regard most Freepers to be very well-read individuals. I like to know what people are currently reading. it can be anything - a NY Times bestseller, a technical journal, a magazine you picked up at the grocery store, etc.
Please do not ruin this thread by posting "I'm reading This Thread". It's not that funny. Seriously.
I'll start...
I'm reading "Gettysburg: the Second Day" by harry W Pfanz. It's a deep book covering in extensive detail - yes you guessed it, the second day of the battle of Gettysburg. I just finished "Gettysburg: The First Day". I would not recommend either book for anyone looking for a good initial read on this battle but others may like it.
Well, what are you reading now?
The CBS television anthology Playhouse 90 aired a loose 90-minute adaptation in 1958, Heart of Darkness (Playhouse 90). This version, written by Stewart Stern, uses the encounter between Marlow (Roddy McDowall) and Kurtz (Boris Karloff) as its final act, and adds a backstory in which Marlow had been Kurtz’s adopted son
I loved All the Light You Cannot See a few years ago and so far, this new one is not disappointing at all. Loving the characters. 👍
Two frutings; one in spring, a small one, then a big one in the fall. Know where to look?
Burns proved there was a market for expensive, long series historical documentaries. After his Civil War series, various channels tried to copy his success.
Burns also invented the concept of dramatizing historical documentaries, by casting actors to read for the parts of historical figures (reading from their letters, diaries, etc.)
Until Burns, documentaries were either talking heads (which Burns also used), or the "verite" style where a filmmaker followed his subject without commenting on events.
Soldier Girl was a very good verite documentary that came out in the early 1980s. Siskel & Ebert loved it. I saw it on PBS. The documentary followed women training in an Army boot camp, which was still a new thing when the film was made.
Now that looks good.
Absolutely riveting. Borrowed it from a friend who learned about it at a Sons of Confederate Veterans meeting.
Have you read “Never Cry Wolf” by Farley Mowat? If not, I bet you’d find it interesting.
Reading that was a great way to start the day.;-)
Have you read Defend the Valley by Margaretta Barton Colt?
I'm guessing the stories ignore the war because readers wanted to get their minds off it. The stories are frivolous, as if the characters are still living in the prewar period.
When the earlier stories were published in book form a decade later, some of the period references were updated to the 1920s, lending the tales a Jazz Age feel.
I’ll give that one a try. Have you read “The South was Right!” by Ronald & Donald Kennedy?
I love all of Forester’s Hornblower novels. Just mind candy :-)
Last Full Measure is powerful. I read it years ago.
ALL of Matt’s books are great. He’s a FReeper, too; goes by Travis McGee. I’ve corresponded with him in writing, and he’s every bit the gentleman and scholar you’d expect.
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Me too! Loved the Hornblower series. I just get taken up by the adventure. Can hardly put it down.
I like anything by Michael or Jeff Shaara.
You are much welcome.
No I haven’t but will check it out.
As a result of being kicked off Amazon after someone stole $562 from my account (inside job), I lost control of my Kindle.
I’m reading one good book still accessible that is the works of Charles Dickens. I’m reading it all. Some is quite tedious. There are many, many quotes still in use today. Curious also was the word refrigerator in a book written circa 1850
It is a Dickens trait to never be succinct when there can be 200 words entered. I think he wrote in serials for magazines and had to puff up the story with superfluous wordiness.
But who am I to judge? I’m reading Dickens until I make the effort to go through the hassle of changing my Kindle account
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