Couldn't find an active link, but I'm starting a new tub book today, so I'll make it that.Silent Majority wrote: ↑07 Jul 2021, 9:46amFine! It's no sap steer, Charley!Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑07 Jul 2021, 8:25amAlright, smart guy, I'm gonna do just that!Silent Majority wrote: ↑07 Jul 2021, 8:07amI recommend the Tucci reading. He does a fine job.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑07 Jul 2021, 7:37amQuelle coincidence! The 1946 adaptation was on TCM last night, and it made me realize I'd never read or listened to the original novel.Silent Majority wrote: ↑07 Jul 2021, 6:46am32) The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M Cain. 1934. Audiobook, read by Stanley Tucci. A queasy, amoral story of murder and romance. A great novel which is mercifully short because you wouldn't want to spend too much time with these people. Tough guy prose which is still elegant and believable, the world view and characterisation are as real feeling as the dialogue, which is some of the best I've ever read and somehow hardly dated nearly ninety years later. Honestly, it reads so genuinely, you can belive Cain sat around with tape recorders to capture the rhythms of these hard cases. It shares a melancholic mood with something like Ask the Dust by John Fante.
Also finished Ryan Grim's We've Got People on my walk this morning. Preaching to the choir journo-history stuff. I wasn't especially moved one way or another. That is, I don't need extra reasons for loathing Ruam Emanuel. One tidbit: Joe Crowley, the boss whom AOC knocked off, used "Born to Run" as his campaign theme. Jesus fucking Christ, what is with late Boomer/early Xer white liberals and that song? I've decided I hate it on principle now. Also, some Congressional Democrats describe AOC as "Nixonian," which is a, to be kind, curious application of the phrase.
Audio book to start tomorrow:
Clearly there's a market for these "year that changed everything" books. I've read three or four. They're generally united in failing to deliver on the premise (let alone argument), but rather exist to say that the author really loved that year's music and popular culture. They're exercises in advanced nostalgia. Still, they're useful for mining anecdotes for lectures and the like, and they're often decent narratives.