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Read The Librarian, also by Beinhart. Like Wag the Dog, a politically themed mystery. 'Summer Reading.' Read The Godfather, by Puzo. No major departures from the movie, but a good read.
I've been reading a ton lately -- with school coming up, i'm not sure i'll have, uh, any time to read anything but curriculum related materials (i have to read a LOT of stuff to find something to have the kids read, plus I end up reading a lot of outside stuff just to bolster my own depth of knowledge. hmm. Do you bolster a depth?)
Next up... we shall see... Since I'm teaching religions of the World, I need to bone up on my comparative religion. And some religious related issues in history (crusades, arab-israeli wars, modern... wait a sec. I'm noticing a geographic consistency)...
i read Wag the Dog (Formerly American Hero) by Beinhart yesterday. Pretty good, even if you've seen the movie. The two are significantly different in their plots. I'd not read any of his stuff, but it's good entertaining summer reading.
I also read Reefer Madness, by that one guy, what's his name, he wrote Fast Food Nation. Interesting look at the black market economy in the US (marijuana, illegal immigrants, pornography) in a series of case studies. Fascinating, a little meandering.
Reread the Hitchhikers guide trilogy (quintology?) over the weekend. I liked it. I'd actually not read Mostly Harmless.
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I know I'm late joining the discussion, but Luke I thought you would be interested to know that it was the movie that did not depart much from Puzo's book. Unsurprising, considering how much he was consulted in the novel-to-script transformation.
bb, yes, i gathered that. but since i saw the movie first...
it was interesting, in the forward or the postscipt (or is it an afterword) it was noted that the godfather was a moneymaking project for both... so that they could do other projects of interest... Puzo never really came to terms with the fact that that book defined him...
contrast w/ joseph heller, who rebutted complaints that he never topped catch - 22 w/ some statement, like, 'yeah, but who has'.
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