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Whalebone Theater by Joanna Quinn. Not even an era that I'm interested in but good stuff so far.
 
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Less by Andrew Sean Greer, which won a Pulitzer in the late 2010s. Literary with a italicized, flashing neon, capital L. It's about a guy named "Less" (get it?), who's kind of an aging, washed up author who goes on a trip around the world after his ex boyfriend gets married to another dude and makes him rethink his life. I'm only a chapter or two in, but I think that's were it's going. It's one of those books where every clause of every sentence has joke, a trick, or subtext hiding between the words. Seems like it will good, but like I said, literary as fuck.
 
Iain Aschendale said:
I found the third one disappointing. It was just "the further side-quests of [I forget the character name]." I was expecting something to advance the overall world situation. That said, it's mostly been overwritten in my memory so I could be wrong.
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I think it had
the humans converge, then living alongside the crakers. It honed the contrast between them, and hinted that the humans would be influencing the crakers. I found that part interesting,
but yeah overall I don't remember much of that book either.
 
Iain Aschendale said:
American Psycho.
Saw a reference to it in the paper today and figured it was time. I saw the film in the theater but didn't really get it at the time. Too young I guess.
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I just randomly stumbled across a Christian Bale interview. I always forget that he's British and am surprised every time I hear his accent. Maybe it's because he was a child actor and Batman, but I feel like he should be as American as apple pie.
 
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I just randomly stumbled across a Christian Bale interview. I always forget that he's British and am surprised every time I hear his accent. Maybe it's because he was a child actor and Batman, but I feel like he should be as American as apple pie.
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Try on Hugh Laurie (Greg House) and his "British" accent. I knew nothing about him other than the medical drama and that one threw me hard. I understand that for fans of A Bit of Fry and Laurie it was exactly reversed.
 
Iain Aschendale said:
Try on Hugh Laurie (Greg House) and his "British" accent. I knew nothing about him other than the medical drama and that one threw me hard. I understand that for fans of A Bit of Fry and Laurie it was exactly reversed.
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I knew that one already. I think the Bale thing threw me because I'd been watching him for like 25 years before I found out.

Like Mark Knophler, who I just learned was British a year or two ago. That was an all time loopty-loo.
 
Always find fight club interesting because it had a certain 'spark' in its heyday. So it's not really about the plot beats per se, more how it fit into the landscape of fiction at the time. Nice and punchy. It changed the way you looked at soap forever.
 
The Intouchables. 2012 a movie based on real story. @Madman Starryteller recommendation.
Colony. Philip K. Dick. 1953. audio short story.
Some movie about Van Gogh portrayed by Willem Dafoe. Because I like the actor. But did not finish, because I know he (artist, not actor) ended bad in his life.
 
Iain Aschendale said:
Try on Hugh Laurie (Greg House) and his "British" accent. I knew nothing about him other than the medical drama and that one threw me hard. I understand that for fans of A Bit of Fry and Laurie it was exactly reversed.
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Not sure why the double-quote marks around Hugh Laurie's accent, but Hugh is as British as anyone born in Oxford and educated in Eton and Cambridge. ;)

I haven't watched House, but I remember Hugh from three seasons of Blackadder and three seasons of Jeeves and Wooster, where he plays a rather neurotic Wooster to Stephen Fry's unflappable Jeeves. Much recommended.
 
Laurence M. Klauber's Rattlesnakes is on the reading menu for today. Ten years ago, I treated myself to a used copy of the two volume set. Some folks read poetry for relaxation. I read about snakes.
 
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