Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2015 4:01 pm
Discover the Power Within You by Eric Butterworth.
I checked online at the library and see that he has many titles.blackcoffee wrote:I think his novel Dead I May Well Be is one of his best. Something of a literate crime thriller about an Irish Man living in NY to escape the troubles who falls for his crime boss's girl.
impossible. i could never read in public. i have to be 100% aware of what's going on around me. i am always amazed at people that can read and never look up. i do think that quality makes me a good driver.perkana wrote:I swear you would read more if you spent a couple of hours on the subway every day (I only read during one of my rides, I usually sleep on my way back home).
I would agree with you on that (I'm not a bad driver, but I don't love driving), You get used to it. I guess it's the only time I have for myself, besides going to shows and the movies.creep wrote:impossible. i could never read in public. i have to be 100% aware of what's going on around me. i am always amazed at people that can read and never look up. i do think that quality makes me a good driver.perkana wrote:I swear you would read more if you spent a couple of hours on the subway every day (I only read during one of my rides, I usually sleep on my way back home).
chaos wrote:
I saw Three Tall Women in the mid 90s too! Maybe we saw the same production?? I saw the play in Toronto with Marian Seldes, Michael Learned(Mrs Walton) and Chrsitina Rouner. The structure of that play was brilliant, loved it.SR wrote:Three Tall Women was absolute genius; I got a chance to see it in the mid 90's......
I saw this play in 1992 in Woodstock, NY. Marian Seldes was cast as Woman B then. (In later productions she was cast as Woman A.)Artemis wrote:
I saw Three Tall Women in the mid 90s too! Maybe we saw the same production?? I saw the play in Toronto with Marian Seldes, Michael Learned(Mrs Walton) and Chrsitina Rouner. The structure of that play was brilliant, loved it.
Oh shit....I have absolutely no recollection of the actors.Artemis wrote:I saw Three Tall Women in the mid 90s too! Maybe we saw the same production?? I saw the play in Toronto with Marian Seldes, Michael Learned(Mrs Walton) and Chrsitina Rouner. The structure of that play was brilliant, loved it.SR wrote:Three Tall Women was absolute genius; I got a chance to see it in the mid 90's......
Not surprising,it was 20 years ago. The only reason I remember is because I was working in a hotel at the time, selling theatre packages. I knew all the details about the plays and musicals we were selling. The best perk of that job was getting complimentary tickets to everything.SR wrote:Oh shit....I have absolutely no recollection of the actors.Artemis wrote:I saw Three Tall Women in the mid 90s too! Maybe we saw the same production?? I saw the play in Toronto with Marian Seldes, Michael Learned(Mrs Walton) and Chrsitina Rouner. The structure of that play was brilliant, loved it.SR wrote:Three Tall Women was absolute genius; I got a chance to see it in the mid 90's......
I saw the movie back in 2000. I liked it, though I haven't watched it again. I read the book last year. I didn't skip anything, but the rat part made me want tofarrellgirl99 wrote:i read American Psycho a few weeks ago. I've never seen the film. It was the most disturbing book I ever read. It was actually the first book I've ever read that I needed to skip a few paragraphs because they were too much for me (this could be because of my fear of rats, because the passage I couldn't read involved a woman being tortured and a rat).
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Richard Adams, author of Watership Down, dies at 96
After huge success of adventure tale about rabbits, British civil servant became full-time writer
British author Richard Adams, who spent the first 50 years of his life in relative anonymity before penning the iconic children's adventure novel Watership Down, has died at 96.
The news was first reported by the BBC, citing Adams's daughter. The website for Watership Down Enterprises, the entity that manages the rights to Adams's works, also issued a statement announcing his death.
"Richard's much-loved family announce with sadness that their dear father, grandfather and great-grandfather passed away peacefully at 10 p.m. on Christmas Eve," the statement said.
Adams was born in Newbury, England, about 40 kilometres south of Oxford, in 1920. He served in the British army during the Second World War and was posted to Europe, the Mideast and East Asia.
After the war, Adams worked as a civil servant in the British government.
Watership Down, the story of a small group of rabbits in search of a new home after their warren is destroyed, had its genesis in a tale Adams told his daughters on a road trip. He eventually wrote it down and sought a publisher, but had difficulty finding one until Rex Collings Ltd. took it on, with an initial print run of 2,500 copies.
The book won the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, seen as the top honours for children's books in Britain, and became an international best-seller.
It was later adapted into an animated film and TV series, and has seen several stage versions.
Riding on the success of Watership Down, Adams turned to writing full-time. His later works include the 1974 fantasy novel Shardik and 1977's The Plague Dogs, about two canine heroes who escape mistreatment at a government research facility.