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[NOIRTRASH]

Lawrence Block suggests noobs immerse in best sellers by favorite authors. He recommended 6, I picked out 10.

WAR AND PEACE by Tolstoy
PSYCHO by Robert Bloch
SCARECROW by Michael Connelly
HONORABLE SCHOOLBOY by LeCarre
THE LITTLE SISTER by Raymond Chandler
CROSS OF IRON by Willi Heinrich
L.A.CONFIDENTIAL by James Ellroy
THE YEARLING by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
GODS POCKET by Pete Dexter
PLACE CALLED ESTHERVILLE by Erskine Caldwell

 

[NOIRTRASH]

WAR AND PEACE by Tolstoy is 1476 pages. I researched the book and learned about all the official and unofficial editions, plus learned of all the translation problems. Russians speak differently from English speakers. And translators must make the text English friendly or verbatim odd. My edition translates the French to English.

WAR AND PEACE is and remains the standard for literary fiction. Because Tolstoy researched the events and characters exhaustively. And the timeline is a long one. Natasha is a child at the start, ruined in a scandal as a young adult, marries and is widowed at the end. Piere is a young fool at the start, marries the beautiful and destitute Helene who cucks him openly, and he marries Natasha at the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k30OO5_nEWY
The Bondurchuk 1967 film. In this scene Prince Andrei dances with Natasha while Pierre looks on. Pierre is Bondurchuk, the director.

The film fills 4 DVDs. About 12 hours.

 

[NicoleZ]

Lawrence Block suggests noobs immerse in best sellers by favorite authors. He recommended 6, I picked out 10.

Have you finished reading them yet?

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Have you finished reading them yet?

I've read all of them in the past.

Block says read all of them several times.

What he aims at is what we call THE EMPRINT METHOD of competence acquisition.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

https://www.buffalolib.org/vufind/Record/397433/Reviews
THE EMPRINT METHOD

 

[NOIRTRASH]

I dropped PSYCHO and added SONS AND LOVERS by D.H.Lawrence.

I also bought a better translation of WAR AND PEACE after I read up about translation issues. Do you get the words right or the meaning right.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

I made my book list for payday.

DEATHS SWEET SONG by Clifford Adams
THE WOMAN CHASER by Charles Willeford
BOOKS OF BLOOD 3 by Clive Barker

I'm not a Clive Barker fan but he wrote a short story I like called HUMAN REMAINS. All his horror tales are gay. I don't care that the characters are gay but I don't like gay centric fare. HUMAN REMAINS isn't gay centric, the characters happen to be gay lovers but the story is about racial animosity. The villains are black. The victim is a white gay prostitute. The hero is a Roman gladiator ghost.

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

Whenever I'm in a bookstore I find myself going straight for true crime. I sill prefer reading those types of stories over anything else. I think I like getting into the mind of a killer.
When I was young I devoured Helter Skelter. I read it so many times. I still know all the main characters.

Anyway I get sidetracked and ramble.

I don't really have any favorite authors, I honestly have a lot of trouble reading the past ten years. I'll read a chapter, set the book down, come back a month later when I have time, forget what happened in chapter 1, read it again, repeat this scenario over and over.

Maybe I'll try to find a new true crime book and see if I can get through it.

 

[ElectricBlue]

When I was young I devoured Helter Skelter. I read it so many times. I still know all the main characters.

Yes, that ^^^^^ Seriously twisted, old Charly, and the girls even more so.

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

Yes, that ^^^^^ Seriously twisted, old Charly, and the girls even more so.

I was so sad when Vincent Bugliosi died last year. I found him to be so interesting and intelligent.

Yep Manson's girls are all getting older, Sadie Mae died of cancer.

I find the whole cult mentality fascinating! Even now all these years later Manson still has a following.
Oh Jim Jones of the People's Temple, in Guyana, that was another thing I just couldn't get enough of when I was young.
And I was born in 1967, so I was pretty young when all this was going on, but I found it fascinating. I still do. How some people have that pure charisma that so many people will blindly follow is so interesting to me!

 

[NOIRTRASH]

I was so sad when Vincent Bugliosi died last year. I found him to be so interesting and intelligent.

Yep Manson's girls are all getting older, Sadie Mae died of cancer.

I find the whole cult mentality fascinating! Even now all these years later Manson still has a following.
Oh Jim Jones of the People's Temple, in Guyana, that was another thing I just couldn't get enough of when I was young.
And I was born in 1967, so I was pretty young when all this was going on, but I found it fascinating. I still do. How some people have that pure charisma that so many people will blindly follow is so interesting to me!

Youll like the true crime books of Harold Schechter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Schechter

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

Youll like the true crime books of Harold Schechter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Schechter

Oh wow he wrote about Eddie Gein!
Ok going to have to check my libraryand see if they have any of his books before I head to Barnes & Noble.

Thanks! I can't wait to get lost in a book again, it's been a long time.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Oh wow he wrote about Eddie Gein!
Ok going to have to check my libraryand see if they have any of his books before I head to Barnes & Noble.

Thanks! I can't wait to get lost in a book again, it's been a long time.

If you cant find any at the library I own several you can have free once you trust me4 with a mailing address. I cant read books anymore, and replaced most of my library with Kindle books. I think I have 5 or 6 of his books.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

I guess she doesn't want them.

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

If you cant find any at the library I own several you can have free once you trust me4 with a mailing address. I cant read books anymore, and replaced most of my library with Kindle books. I think I have 5 or 6 of his books.

That would be amazing.
I'm old school and prefer books over an electronic device. My daughter has a kindle though and she loves it.

Anyway yes that is really sweet of you. I will pm you my address sometime today, I have been fighting an annoying cold the past few days so have been off and online sporadically and am a bit behind on returning some messages.
Thanks for such a sweet offer!

 

[NOIRTRASH]

That would be amazing.
I'm old school and prefer books over an electronic device. My daughter has a kindle though and she loves it.

Anyway yes that is really sweet of you. I will pm you my address sometime today, I have been fighting an annoying cold the past few days so have been off and online sporadically and am a bit behind on returning some messages.
Thanks for such a sweet offer!

I'll box them for mailing.

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

I'll box them for mailing.

Thanks messaging you now.