I read this on a recommendation from a friend a while back and I was surprised how much I liked it. The blurb and the cover art etc don't do it justice IMHO.
Purple Crow. My buddy owns the bar across from it. Famous authors read their often.
Mea culpa... It turns out that I got the town wrong. Pittsboro (McIntyre's Books) was the place mentioned in the article that I had read recently: https://www.ourstate.com/the-man-of-mystery-at-mcintyres-books/
Where are you in the Stormlight Archive books? Iirc I got through the third book (Oathbringer?). I’m impressed with the way Sanderson’s books tie in with each other, and with themselves—I remember laughing with someone about how he probably has walls covered floor to ceiling with cutouts of character names connected by spiderwebs of yarn etc. But I got a little frustrated with the slow pacing at certain points.
I just started Words of Radiance. I was impressed with the change of pace for wheel of time. I have not got to a slog point yet thankfully. I will say Elantris took a while to get through, but by the latter half I could not put it down. I’m starting to see some connections to the other parts of the series more clearly, which is fun.
I recently read Hemingway's "To Have and Have Not." Loved it.
The Bacall character in the move was a rewrite of the Mrs. Johnson character in Hemingway's novel, but a completely different person... young and beautiful, and definitely not one of the "haves". They didn't even have the same name.In fact, most of the particulars of the movie script, written by director Howard Hawks, was a complete departure from the novel. Hawks, on a fishing trip with good friend Hemingway, told him he could make a great movie from his worst book, which Hemingway agreed was "To Have and Have Not. "
The movie is a mere shadow of the book.
Thank you.
If you like Russian literature:
No. I don’t like Russian literature. That’s the thing. Last year she made me read Dostoevsky’s “The Brothers Karamazov” which was a horrible slog. At this point I think my daughter hates me and I am being punished for sending her to State. At least The Nose was a short story.
lol. Karamazov is no small task and not for the faint of heart (particularly as an unfinished work). She probably should have had you just read the chapter on the grand inquisitor, it’s all you really need. . But please. Dont be disrespecting Dostoevsky.
I haven’t read the recent book in the Stormlight Archive series. That series started to lose me in the last book a little bit. I’ve read a lot of Sanderson as well, but I don’t enjoy his writing style as much as some others.