That old thread died and I can't find a new one, and I always enjoy seeing what everyone is reading and recommending.
Working on Dan Whitehead's "What's A Nice Actor Like You Doing In A Movie Like This?" Pretty fun book about weird movies known actor's pop up in. Cheap on Kindle.
I recently finished up Rapture Ready! Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture by Daniel Radosh and I cannot recommend it enough. Fascinating. The author is a 31 year old secular Jew and he got a peek into the culture and wanted to see more. It's written in, what I feel, is a very fair manner. It's a little distant, a little bemused, but even with stuff he might not agree with, he just writes it down, without (too many) remarks. He let's people condemn or redeem themselves by their own words. I grew up Southern Baptist in Texas, so a ton of this is very familiar to me. At the time, I didn't think about it. I was 16, ya know? But it's been something that's been a burden on me since my early 20's, and I've recently become fascinated with the idea of Christian Culture, something that, obviously, existed, but that I never thought was anything different. Hell of a good book.
Finished up Cloud Atlas 2 days before the movie. Really wished I'd done it months before or after the movie. Their both so similar but diverge in many meaningful ways, it was difficult for me to separate the two. Both are really good, though.
Yesterday morning, I capped off Choke Hold by Christa Faust, the second in her Angel Dare series. Not quite as good as Money Shot, but that book is so goddamn great, it's hard to compare. Both are hard boiled crime thrillers starring former pornstar Angel Dare. They read FAST and are a fucking blast.
And now I'm trying to decide whether to read The Year of Living Biblically, Leviathan Wakes or the first Spatterjay book.
Working on Dan Whitehead's "What's A Nice Actor Like You Doing In A Movie Like This?" Pretty fun book about weird movies known actor's pop up in. Cheap on Kindle.
I recently finished up Rapture Ready! Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture by Daniel Radosh and I cannot recommend it enough. Fascinating. The author is a 31 year old secular Jew and he got a peek into the culture and wanted to see more. It's written in, what I feel, is a very fair manner. It's a little distant, a little bemused, but even with stuff he might not agree with, he just writes it down, without (too many) remarks. He let's people condemn or redeem themselves by their own words. I grew up Southern Baptist in Texas, so a ton of this is very familiar to me. At the time, I didn't think about it. I was 16, ya know? But it's been something that's been a burden on me since my early 20's, and I've recently become fascinated with the idea of Christian Culture, something that, obviously, existed, but that I never thought was anything different. Hell of a good book.
Finished up Cloud Atlas 2 days before the movie. Really wished I'd done it months before or after the movie. Their both so similar but diverge in many meaningful ways, it was difficult for me to separate the two. Both are really good, though.
Yesterday morning, I capped off Choke Hold by Christa Faust, the second in her Angel Dare series. Not quite as good as Money Shot, but that book is so goddamn great, it's hard to compare. Both are hard boiled crime thrillers starring former pornstar Angel Dare. They read FAST and are a fucking blast.
And now I'm trying to decide whether to read The Year of Living Biblically, Leviathan Wakes or the first Spatterjay book.