What Are You Reading?

[Padraig D]

Re-reading Frank Herbert’s “Dune” for the umpteenth time.

I am really not at all a science fiction reader, but have loved the Dune novels since I was a kid, particularly the first novel.

I am re-reading in anticipation of the release of the second part of Denis Villeneuve’s film adaptation later this year.

 

[user 5438]

will the 2nd film be the 2nd book? I have that shelved but not read - it may be time to open it!

 

[gbann57]

Butting in here, I think the film split the first book roughly in two. Of the three versions i think i like this one best so far.

 

[user 5438]

OMG - you're going to make me access my memory! Funny I remember the ending of the book very clearly but the movie not so much - I'm getting those rotating circular arrows right now trying to match them up. Seems like I do remember the story wasn't nearly finished.

 

[Padraig D]

will the 2nd film be the 2nd book? I have that shelved but not read - it may be time to open it!

Hi Alex. Yes, gbann57 is correct. The first film ended about half way through the first novel.

I believe Villeneuve’s plan is to make films for the first three books of the series.

I agree that Villeneuve’s adaptation is the best so far made. Lynch’s was not good - some great actors but they were badly cast and very hammy. The mini series version was better, but Villeneuve’s was excellent.

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[Grt]

I am reading "The Hemingses of Monticello" by Annette Gordon-Reed, a tenured professor at Harvard Law School. About Thomas Jefferson and his unbelievable household before he became President. I was a history major at the University of Texas, focusing on. History of the Southern United States. This book won the National Book Award AND the Pulitzer Prize. It's incredible.

 

[gbann57]

Recently dug up my battered copy of Robert Ruarks "The Old Man and the Boy". It always brings up memories of my youth

 

[Charley Scanlan]

I'm rereading One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. I'd forgotten that it's told from the point of view of the Chief, which is interesting.

 

[Idlefellow]

I found two of Scott Phillips' novels in some of my son's stuff; Scott's a Wichita boy and the books are loosely based in Wichita so I find them interesting. I've finished The Ice Harvest and am now almost finished with The Walkaway. I just bought Cormac McCarthy's new two-book set, The Passenger and Stella Maris but have not started it yet. I've been taking a collection of Galen Winter's "The Major" stories into the john .

 

[Volkditty]

I'm on a nautical misadventures kick right now...I just finished The Proving Ground about the deadly 1998 Sydney-Hobart yacht race and have dived right into Once is Enough, the first-hand account of a 1956 disastrous attempt to round Cape Horn. I've got Fastnet, Force 10 up in the hopper after this.

 

[Charley Scanlan]

I also picked up Fred Hanna's The Perfect Smoke, it's a well written, digestible bunch of essays on honing your smoking, which I am always trying to do. I got to meet him in the smoking tent at the Chicago Pipe Show, he self effacedly told me to drink a lot of coffee to power my way through his book lol. It's good.

 

[Aussiemike]

Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines
By: David Unaipon

David Unaipon-the man on the $50 note-was a most extraordinary person. An early Aboriginal political activist, he was also a scientist, a writer, a preacher and an inventor.
In the 1920s, under contract to the University of Adelaide, he was commissioned to collect traditional Aboriginal stories from around South Australia. He also acted as a 'collector' for the Aborigines Friends' Association. Most of the stories come from his own Ngarrindjeri people, but some are from other South Australian peoples.

 

[Anasazi6]

Robert Rurark’s Horn of the Hunter

I've read all of Ruarks books. It doesn't get any better than "The Old Man and the Boy". I've read it off and on for 50 years.

 

[Anasazi6]

Recently dug up my battered copy of Robert Ruarks "The Old Man and the Boy". It always brings up memories of my youth

Great book. Never get tired of it.

 

[Charley Scanlan]

I'm reading The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni.

 

[Charley Scanlan]

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[Charley Scanlan]

Also just finished Fred Hana's A Perfect Smoke. He's got some pretty high standards for his pipes and tobaccos, well worth reading.

 

[Padraig D]

Finished Dune again, so wenr on to a re-read of Dune Messiah - about 3/4 way through

 

[Haebar]

Just recently finished listening to the audiobook "The Girls in the Stilt House" by Kelly Mustian.

 

[gbann57]

I need to go through the Dune series again its been decades