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Post by nucleusofswarm on Nov 17, 2018 10:55:14 GMT
When was the last time you delved into what the real world has wrought? Biographies, memoirs, essays, science, historical accounts etc.
I got through a good chunk of Hugh Thomas' seminal The Spanish Civil War. Intriguing stuff I used for some scripts but damn it's dense.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2018 11:04:14 GMT
Empire of the Summer Moon an excellent book on the Comanche Tribe absolutely fascinating its out doing the rounds of friends now
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There’s a horror movie called Alien? That’s really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps invading you.
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Post by shutupbanks on Nov 17, 2018 14:18:35 GMT
Manhattan '45 by Jan Morris: a portrait of a city on the verge of a brave new future that it never quite realised.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2018 14:24:02 GMT
I'm still reading Thrill Power Overload - Forty Years of 2000AD. It's a non-fictional account of a non-fictional comic dealing entirely with horror and science fiction! Very interesting to read the behind the scenes 'gossip' concerning the various stories that have spanned the years.
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Post by charlesuirdhein on Nov 17, 2018 14:34:00 GMT
Empire of the Summer Moon an excellent book on the Comanche Tribe absolutely fascinating its out doing the rounds of friends now Ah! Have you tried The Comanche Empire by Pekka Hamalainen? |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2018 14:35:08 GMT
Empire of the Summer Moon an excellent book on the Comanche Tribe absolutely fascinating its out doing the rounds of friends now Ah! Have you tried The Comanche Empire by Pekka Hamalainen? No but i will one day i need space between books of the same ilk But i recommend that one its excellent |
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Post by charlesuirdhein on Nov 17, 2018 14:36:03 GMT
A variety of stuff. The King and the Catholics by Antonia Fraser, and Behind the Green Curtain by T Ryle Dwyer.
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Post by Digi on Nov 17, 2018 15:58:21 GMT
The last non-fiction I read was Livy, in Penguin Books's "Early History of Rome" -- so the first five of Livy's 'books.'
If you want to count that as fiction because Livy mixes history and mythology (as they were considered one and the same, once), then it would be Johnny Cash's 1997 autobiography, "Cash"
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Nov 17, 2018 17:23:40 GMT
it was probably The Greatest Sci-Fi Films Never Made
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Nov 17, 2018 17:31:43 GMT
Football for a Buck: The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL by Jeff Pearlman. All about the American football league which was played in the spring that started in the early 80s and in the end how Donald Trump ended up destroying it. I'm not a big reader of sports themed books but at the halfway point, this is fascinating and fantastic.
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Post by nucleusofswarm on Nov 17, 2018 17:51:23 GMT
Since he passed recently, I'll plug William Goldman's wonderful 'Adventures in the Screen Trade' and 'Which Lie Did I Tell?': excellent books about working in Hollywood, the writing process and being in a creative career. Plus, not many meoirs can go from crippling depression to stories about gay lions.
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