I am a huge John Irving fan as well. I can still ‘hear’ Owen Meaney TALKING SO LOUD ALL THE TIME! Garp is an amazing book and well done movie. Cider House is a great book…rough subject matter. I will re read Hotel New Hampshire now that you mention it.
My Dark Vanessa is beautifully written for sure. I wish the author had more books out. We shall wait.
I am a reader as well. I used to get notes back from the librarian when I was a kid, asking me not to eat while I read…crumb leaver. I still have that habit…but get my library books via Libby and Overdrive, so no crumbs or food smudges!
I don’t know if Virginie Despentes is well known outside my french borders… she writes in the vein of Bukowski, Fante, Selby, this kind of in your face literature you know. Anyway I’m in the middle of her Vernon Subutex trilogy right now, and it’s as great as usual
Wow….a little over halfway through Infinite Jest at this point.
Last time it was read I was just starting my tango with substances. The darkness of addiction wasn’t really on my radar (just a very toxic seed waiting to be watered inside me). The sections of this book that detail addiction and recovery and AA were great to me, but from like…a nice literary standpoint. Reading it again close to five years sober and I am bowled over by Foster Wallace’s nuanced, internal and personal depiction of addiction, depression and obsession. I really cannot get over how much I am loving this book.
Completed Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower - really good. But so scary in terms of prescient feelings for recent political/social landScape. Gulp! Next up is Parable of the Talents. Hope I can handle it knowing the author passed before completing trilogy
I’m not too far in, but from some of the interviews Icke has given recently, I think this one will be of a more esoteric nature than some of his other books.
It got bumped up on my reading list because he recorded an audio version, and I can listen while doing other things.
Gmorning DM, I Loved Ready Player One the movie and wanted to ask your thoughts- Is Book One and Two a combination that made for the movie or did they leave out a lot and in reading both would make for a new experience? I know good books made into movies always create an epic stand-alone experience, but wondering how much made it into the movie if you saw it?
