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Kim Gordon - Girl in a Band
This was given to me. It's a better read than I thought it would be.
Perceptive descriptions of relations, but in an easy, direct language.
A typical life story, it starts with the divorce (I didn't even know she'd been married to Thurston Moore for 27 years, basically during the whole existence of Sonic Youth) and then flashes back to her childhood... that's as far as I got so far, but her style makes me want to read more.
It takes place during the French Revolution.
The reader said that they wanted something from that era, with swords & romance, but disliked the usual "swashbuckling" (and misogyny) a lá Three Musketeers.
This novel was written in the early 20th century as I'm only now finding out.
I guess that explains why the language and expression is so easy to comprehend, but a big praise goes out to the reader. He is very good at it. He makes it entertaining, heartfelt.
The depiction of the time of the 1st French Revolution is subtle, nuanced, enlightening, personal.
Hey, ondoho!
I read every word that Raphael Sabatini ever wrote when I was a young 'un.
The "Captain Blood" books got me through puberty - what a blast!
I was rereading an old book written by Thedodore Roszak in the early 70's and came across this extraordinarily prophetic paragraph:
Quote:
Originally Posted by Roszak, Where the Wasteland Ends
They abound among us, the dispossessed and bewildered millions who obey and co-operate, but uncertainly, sullenly. The John Birch chauvinists, the decency legionnaires, the hard hats, the embattled squares and cranks and quacks who vindictively brood over moralities and bigotries that the swinging society subjects to ever crueller ridicule... Their desperation, should it ever congeal into a mass movement, might yet drive our suave technocracy along a road it would rather not travel.
I'm currently re-reading Real World Bug Hunting by Peter Yaworski. I'm brushing up after a few years out of the hacking net/sec game. I want to try to do some bug bounties pretty soon now that I have a working laptop.
Not too prophetic (except for the obviously "prophetic" last sentence), but it shows that things've been going south for a looong time now in "our technocracy", that the warnings now are largely the same as they were 50 or 100 or 200 years ago.
It is slightly surreal, slightly philosophical, and somewhat humorous. So far it has had plenty of "plot development", although the first three or four pages were routine. Published in 1908, it refers to anarchists who we would now call terrorists. About a quarter of the way through I can guess how it is going to end, but I hope the author is deceiving me. I used to work in central London, so I am familiar with the locations - like the alleys off Fleet Street - which have not changed much since then.
Update: Finished it. It had a lot of action, and thankfully was not just about people talking as almost all classic novels are, and as I had expected this to be. The odd/sinister thing about it was that every character was male, except for very brief token mentions of women at the start and finish. I would like to read the only other novel he wrote, The Napoleon of Notting Hill.
Last edited by grumpyskeptic; 10-18-2021 at 02:33 AM.
It takes place during the French Revolution.
The reader said that they wanted something from that era, with swords & romance, but disliked the usual "swashbuckling" (and misogyny) a lá Three Musketeers.
This novel was written in the early 20th century as I'm only now finding out.
I guess that explains why the language and expression is so easy to comprehend, but a big praise goes out to the reader. He is very good at it. He makes it entertaining, heartfelt.
The depiction of the time of the 1st French Revolution is subtle, nuanced, enlightening, personal.
Good, but I cannot see how to download or listen to the podcast. Does it involve signing up or even paying up?
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