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I`ve just started " My Next Breath " by Jeremy Renner. His memoir of his Jan. `23 accident, getting run over by his 14000 LB. Snowcat he was operating at his Tahoe property. He screwed up and paid the price. He chronicles the incident, rescue, treatment and rehab. Horrific injuries, 38 broken bones and a large list of other serious matters. I have no idea how he made it through that.
 
Started rereading this the other day. Whenever the “Ministry of Truth” is mentioned I automatically think of the CBC. It’s amazing where George Orwell saw the world heading in 1948 when he wrote this book. Don’t think it can happen? Just take a look at China, it already has.
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Started rereading this the other day. Whenever the “Ministry of Truth” is mentioned I automatically think of the CBC. It’s amazing where George Orwell saw the world heading in 1948 when he wrote this book. Don’t think it can happen? Just take a look at China, it already has.
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Back when teenage guys were " reading " Playboy or Penthouse, Trudeau was " reading " that. ;)
 
A sci-fi fairy tale on an astonishing scale
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Paradox series by Rachel Bach

I’ve reviewed Rachel Bach’s three-book Paradox trilogy (Fortune’s Pawn, Honor’s Knight, and Heaven’s Queen) together here because, first, they are one complete story, and second, because I binged them so hard and fast I didn’t have time to review them one at a time. I think maybe three days...
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Steinbeck
Incredible wordsmith…..think I’m doing some more reading to refresh

Apparently there is a new East of Eden in works for Netflix …7 episodes,

> Netflix is producing a limited series adaptation of John Steinbeck's "East of Eden", starring Florence Pugh, Christopher Abbott, Mike Faist, and Hoon Lee</mark>. The seven-episode series, written by [Zoe Kazan] will offer a contemporary take on the multigenerational saga, focusing on the Trask family and Cathy Ames, the novel's antihero. Filming is currently underway in New Zealand.
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Decent choice for Cathy
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Netflix's East of Eden series is eyeing a Poor Things star to join the Florence Pugh-led project. John Steinbeck's 1952 novel was first adapted into the 1955 film directed by Elia Kazan and starring James Dean in his first major role as a troubled young man searching for his identity while competing for the affection of his deeply religious father with his favored brother. In 2022, after a competitive bidding war, Netflix acquired the rights to the East of Eden limited series with Florence Pugh starring and producing. Zoe Kazan, the granddaughter of Elia Kazan, is writing and executive producing.
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Jennifer Lawrence had been cast but I think Pugh is closer to description. Just about 60% through the audio book...the production is very good with the voices
Very engaging story.
 
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Steinbeck
Incredible wordsmith…..think I’m doing some more reading to refresh

Apparently there is a new East of Eden in works for Netflix …7 episodes,


Decent choice for Cathy
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Jennifer Lawrence had been cast but I think Pugh is closer to description. Just about 60% through the audio book...the production is very good with the voices
Very engaging story.
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Steinbeck is my favourite author, great stories in plain language. My all time favourite is “Of Mice And Men”, I’ve read it 3 or 4 times and still cry when I get to to the end. I watched the original “East of Eden” last year, great movie, great performances except for James Dean who I think is one of the most overrated actors ever. The wife and I were in Marfa, Texas last year where “Giant” was filmed,James Dean’s last movie, so we decided to watch it. His performance was unbearable, I almost couldn’t watch it.
 
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This is the book Ghost and The Darkness movie was based on
scary shite....movie still haunts me.

It's very interesting to read a first hand account right on the edge of the railroad opening Africa often to tribes that had very little contact with the outside world. Of course the maneaters were horrendous but the other stories are also excellent and easy to imagine oneself back just before the turn of the 19th century before war and influenza ravaged the world. Britain at the height of it's empire. Very satisfying read.

Would be a good companion read to some of the histories of Africa and empires like the Shaka Zulu ....their leader a military and social organizational genius on a par with Napoleon....and who nearly defeated the British army. I might grab a few of the relevant books to re-read.
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Shaka

Shaka kaSenzangakhona (c. 1787 – c. 22 September 1828), also known as Shaka[2] Zulu (Zulu pronunciation: [ˈʃaːɠa]), was the most influential leader of the Zulu Kingdom. He is widely credited with uniting many of the Northern Nguni people, specifically the Mtetwa Paramountcy and the Ndwandwe into...
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Despite inflicting a convincing nightmare on myself I persist.
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Very evocative, irreverant and brutal writer.
Some of these authors are just wonderful in their outlook and willingness to state it...
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THIS is a book about Africa in which I have tried to avoid most of the foolishness, personal heroism, and general exaggeration that usually attend works of this sort. It is a book important only to the writer and has no sociological significance whatsoever. :sneaky:
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