A story about "Lunar Park" — 4 years ago
We’ll see how it goes.
Items harleyj237 consumed in…
August, 2005
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Friday 19
Started consuming…When the Mississippi Ran Backwards
Started consuming…The Pirate Coast — 2 people
Started consuming…Captain Alatriste — 2 people
Started consuming…Hot Property
Not worth consumingFinished consuming…GhostWatcher
Started consuming…Stalker (1979) (2pc) (Sub) — 874 people
Started consuming…Under the Frog — 11 people
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Tuesday 23
Worth consuming!Finished consuming…Primer — 339 people
Started consuming…Dr. Bloodmoney (Vintage) — 40 people
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Thursday 25
Entries about these items
A story about "Borges and the Eternal Orangutans" — 4 years ago
... ‘Vogelstein is a loner who has always lived among books. Suddenly, fate grabs hold of his insignificant life and carries him off to Buenos Aires, to a conference on Edgar Allan Poe, the inventor of the modern detective story. There Vogelstein meets his idol, Jorge Luis Borges, and for reasons that a mere passion for literature cannot explain, he finds himself at the center of a murder investigation that involves arcane demons, the mysteries of the Kaballah, the possible destruction of the world, and the Elizabethan magus John Dee’s theory of the “Eternal Orangutan,” which, given all the time in the world, would end up writing all the known books in the cosmos. Verissimo’s small masterpiece is at once a literary tour de force and a brilliant mystery novel.’ – from the back cover blurb.
I’ve heard (or rather read online) good things.
A story about "When the Mississippi Ran Backwards : Empire, Intrigue, Murder, and the New Madrid Earthquakes" — 4 years ago
Another book that sounds intriguing.
A story about "The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, The First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805" — 4 years ago
This could be an interesting book.
A story about "Captain Alatriste" — 4 years ago
I hear this is being made into a movie. I loved “The Club Dumas,” a previous book by Arturo Perez-Reverte, but wasn’t nearly as impressed by the Roman Polanski-Johnny Depp movie that grew out of it. I forget who’s the lead in the Alatriste movie, but whoever it was made me think that this could be interesting …
A story about "Captain Alatriste" — 4 years ago
Okay. The film of the book stars Viggo Mortensen as the Spanish soldier-turned-mercenary Captain Alatriste, a heroic figure from the country’s 17th century imperial wars. It’s directed by a Spanish director as well, Agustín Díaz Yanes, so that may be reason for hope, since that’s where the movie is set.
A story about "Hot Property: The Stealing of Ideas in an Age of Globalization" — 4 years ago
I’m intrigued by the premise. Don’t know about the execution.
A story about "GhostWatcher" — 4 years ago
NOT WORTH CONSUMING
But thank goodness, it looks like they’ve made a sequal.
A story about "Under the Frog: A Novel" — 4 years ago
I’ve picked this up a couple times over the years, but checked it out of the library recently and have recently made an actual, concerted effort to read it. The (mis)adventures of a Hungarian basketball team during and after World War II as Communism took hold in the country. Looks interesting …
