In Lieu of No New Movies
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One of my favorite books of all time is TuneIn The Beatles biography by Mark lewisohn. I think the guy is seriously dragging his feet on volume to put in his own words... Not particularly great news but here it is.
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Now listening to A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean. There is a reason this is my favorite all time scene in a movie. Like Norman as an old man I love
being alone in the wilderness, though just like in this scene many who love me are concerned that I still do so at my age. But to me it's still a spiritual journey every
time I go. And as I have told my wife each time she worriers as I go, I will be fine whether I ever come back or not because..............................a river runs through it.
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just a couple days ago I finished up Harlan coben's latest the boy from the woods. I'm a huge Harlan Coben fan and I didn't love this one UNTIL I did. Cool thing about this guy is you have to back up and listen to the ending a couple times meeting at least the last hour or so. I hate Mysteries that just pull some ridiculous ending out of their ass that he never does.
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Also began and finished the Hunter by Richard Stark. Interesting piece of early 60s hard boiled crime fiction. the the audio version only ran 5 hours unabridged. Looks like it's an ongoing series featuring a mug named Parker who gets double-crossed and sets out to get vengeance. The book was made into a film starring Mel Gibson called Payback. I looked back over there movie notes and don't exactly remember it but I was struck that they changed some names for what seems to be absolutely no reason. Don't remember the movie plot.
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Well I'm reading some sources within the Bible recommended to my by a friend of over 50 years who is a Bible scholar. He's going to have to have
open heart surgery and for the first time facing head-on his own mortality. I've been sharing with him about that as a true friend who spent nearly
a year facing that same thing very early in life and in return he's been sharing with me his expertise on the Bible. It started with my question to him
based on prior discussions here about whether a person could lose their soul if they did not guard it from evil even though they had been saved. Since
he is an ordained minister with a degree from the Dallas Theological Seminary I'm finding it very enlightening/instructive and since I have an advanced
degree in facing personal mortality (?), he's finding that very enlightening/instructive. Nothing like a lifelong friendship for sure. No holds barred straightforward
talk with love and understanding the basis for all discussions on many levels going two ways.
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So like I said before my fucked up eyesight makes it hard for me to read a printed page so I do a lot of audiobooks. I think I've mentioned the Parker series by Richard Stark before. I'm on the 9th one already out of like 24. If you do audio books at all these came free with my audible.com subscription and I rolled the dice on the first one and just got hooked. The guy is an excellent fluid writer and so far the narration of each one has been top-notch. Parker is a criminal and not a particularly nice guy at all. Each of these books centers on a particular crime he's involved with , every one it's fascinating so far they are hard to put down. The series began in the early sixties so there's not nearly as much graphic violence or sex as we might find it today oh, it's just hinted at. None of them have gone over four and a half hours so far so you can mow through the series pretty quickly.
https://www.donaldwestlake.com/parker
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