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Currently plowing through the 4th volume of George R.R.Martin's ongoing saga, GAME OF THRONES, called "A Feast for Crows." Wanted to read the books before I watched the series. (Fat chance. There are still 2 more announced books to be released, each of them no doubt at least 1000 pages long, like all the previous ones. But writer Martin has been more caught up in writing TV episodes, and enjoying celebrity; so, though I have hopes he will eventually release the final 2 books, it's entirely realistic that he may either continue to be sidetracked, or could even pass away first. (There is precedent. Another writer with 2 "R's" in his name also died before completing his final work for publication, so that it took his son to put it together for him posthumously.)
The more I read it, the whole GAME OF THRONES reminds me of the same kind of sex and violence so prevalent in what are called "Jacobean Tragedies," Shakespearean-type plays written in the decades following Shakespeare's death. These plays abounded in tales of vengeance and slaughter, with kinky sex thrown in. The most famous of them, 'TIS PITY SHE'S A WHORE, by John Ford, concerns a young man who has an incestuous relationship with his sister, then, having made her pregnant, kills her, and appears at a feast hosted by her husband, where he places her heart, skewered on his dagger, on the plate of his brother-in-law. That is, before he, and several others, including the brother-in-law, end up dead by play's end.
Sound familiar?
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The Secret Team, by former coordinator of conventional military support for covert operations Colonel Fletcher Prouty.
i WISH MORE PEOPLE WOULD READ THIS!!!!
Helps you understand the way things really work
brm
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I've been returning to an old favorite - Bill Pronzini's Nameless Detective novels. At least the ones from the 1970s to the late 1990s. The series has rather "jumped the shark" during the past 15 years. But the earlier books are THE best private eye mysteries since the golden age.
I will also be re-reading Jean Shepherd's short story collections in October. Although I've been aware of Shepherd for a long time, I only started reading his fiction a year ago. Very pleasurable, nostalgic, sardonic stuff.
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recently read:
conversations with CLINT - Paul Nelson
MUSTS, MAYBES...- David Picker great book on United Artists!
ZEALOT - The Life and Times of Jesus
(if Mel Gibson had read this before making PASSION, he might still have a creer in Hollywood)
BOB DYLAN IN AMERICA - Wilentz
FIVE CAME BACK - Harris
must read for WWII and Hollywood buffs!
bruce
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The Martian by Andy Weir. About a quarter to go, should finish it off this afternoon. It's about a man who's left on Mars (left for dead) when the crew has to make a quick exit, & how he survives. I haven't given anything away, this is all covered in the first couple of pages. It's a great read, I believe the author published it himself last year (electronic publishing), it was then taken up by a mainstream publisher & has become a best seller. Later this month Fox starts shooting the movie, Ridley Scott directing, it should be great if he doesn't muck it up.
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