Thread: What are You Reading?

Originally Posted by Cangooner

For the last couple of days I have been reading something that I have missed *terribly* for far, far too long. Bloom County is back! OK, so it isn't War and Peace, but it does my heart good to see Opus again.

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I understand the sentiment, but as an outsider to that part of the world I don't get the joke...


Mick

Originally Posted by MickR

I understand the sentiment, but as an outsider to that part of the world I don't get the joke...


Mick

In a nutshell, Bloom County was a *brilliant* comic that ran during the 80s, stopping in '89. It was intelligent, political, insightful, and hilarious. So the gag is that Opus (the penguin) has awoken from a 25-year slumber, and refuses to go back to his hellish world of the 80s, for the reasons he gives (all of which are still issues today). The last bit has to do with the recently-published novel by Harper Lee in which the hero of "To Kill a Mockingbird" Atticus Finch is revealed to be a racist and bigot. Or so I've heard. TKIM is my all-time favourite novel, so I'm hesitant to pick up the new one. Atticus has long been one of my heroes, and I'd quite like to keep it that way... Anyway, all the things Opus tries to avoid are still around, and his one icon has well and truly been clasted. (apologies for murdering the Greek there)

Currently I am reading Lord of the Rings. I have already read the Hobbit, I am almost finished with LotR, and am deciding if I want to read the Simarillion or take a break and switch to another series before I go back to Middle Earth. Good books, though, a long read. I really only read when going to bed and only a few pages at that so you can imagine how long it has taken me to read the two books together.

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

Just finished the Tabasco book,some interesting stats I think,at the turn of the last century they were selling 20K bottles a year.
Today they crank out 600 thousand bottles a day,Interesting to me

And if I heard right they just grow seed now and send it to Africa etc. to be grown there and other places. The paste is returned for further processing.

Originally Posted by Cangooner

In a nutshell, Bloom County was a *brilliant* comic that ran during the 80s, stopping in '89. It was intelligent, political, insightful, and hilarious. So the gag is that Opus (the penguin) has awoken from a 25-year slumber, and refuses to go back to his hellish world of the 80s, for the reasons he gives (all of which are still issues today). The last bit has to do with the recently-published novel by Harper Lee in which the hero of "To Kill a Mockingbird" Atticus Finch is revealed to be a racist and bigot. Or so I've heard. TKIM is my all-time favourite novel, so I'm hesitant to pick up the new one. Atticus has long been one of my heroes, and I'd quite like to keep it that way... Anyway, all the things Opus tries to avoid are still around, and his one icon has well and truly been clasted. (apologies for murdering the Greek there)

And now I'm laughing at a comic strip I read several hours ago!


Mick

Just finished "A Boy and His Tank" By Leo Frankowski.
Now into the sequel:
"The War with Earth"
I have read them before but...They are a good read!
~Richard

Originally Posted by Geezer

Just finished "A Boy and His Tank" By Leo Frankowski.
Now into the sequel:
"The War with Earth"
I have read them before but...They are a good read!
~Richard

Thats what I find myself doing more and more Richard,Reading books I read 20 yrs ago and they are like reading a new Book for the first time.
Maybe it is an age thing

Just finished, "The Culture Series" by Iain M. Banks, fun read, always enjoy a good sci-fi read.

Next for me is about the 7th re-read of one of my favorite books of all time - Somerset Maugham's, "The Razor's Edge".

And Orville has put me in the mind for some Heinlein....

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

Thats what I find myself doing more and more Richard,Reading books I read 20 yrs ago and they are like reading a new Book for the first time.
Maybe it is an age thing

Yes, And, I think that we are used to a style that we knew and find few modern writers that use it.

Originally Posted by Geezer

Yes, And, I think that we are used to a style that we knew and find few modern writers that use it.

Good point - agreed - finished watching another BBC series episode last night, series the wife and I have been watching, "Crimson Fields" about WWI field hospital. Think I may skip "The Razor's Edge" and maybe read, Faulkner's, "Soldier's Pay" again or Hemingway's, "Farewell to Arms"...some of the greatest writer of our times are from that post WWI period, especially some of the ex-pat American writers IMO.