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Old 09-16-2021, 10:55 AM   #7191 (permalink)
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Chris Carter…The Night Stalker

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Old 09-16-2021, 05:40 PM   #7192 (permalink)
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Oh, really? I find it fascinating, not tiresome at all.

I just love Wolfe's writing flow and – oh boy, oh boy – I'd love to be a part of that experience (so I guess I might be a bit biased towards the entire thing); maybe apart from the Hell's Angels stuff (I have no idea why would all these hippies and beatniks, and all want to spend time with these guys).
I also just love Tom Wolfe's writing style. I found the characters and events in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test just fascinating - but over time came more to your conclusion, adidasss; that the people on the bus would have made very uncomfortable company.

Hippies + Hell's Angels: at the time, they seemed to have quite a lot in common: minority rebel groups causing shock and horror whereever they went. It took some time before they realised how different they really were.
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Old 09-16-2021, 06:50 PM   #7193 (permalink)
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Gondolin as the most beautiful elven city destroyed by Morgoth and his dragons and balrog holds a special place in my imagination but I haven't yet read the book published a couple years ago compiling his various versions of the story (Tolkien's first actual tale of Middle-Earth written in hospital after the Battle of the Somme during WW1) and the beginning, of the man Tuor and his finding the sea as the first man to do so as a romantic survivalist who just likes fishing and following swans as signs of the gods, is remarkably wondrous.

No other fantasy series can ever produce this level of desire for camping.


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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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Old 09-17-2021, 03:38 PM   #7194 (permalink)
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Gondolin as the most beautiful elven city destroyed by Morgoth and his dragons and balrog holds a special place in my imagination but I haven't yet read the book published a couple years ago compiling his various versions of the story (Tolkien's first actual tale of Middle-Earth written in hospital after the Battle of the Somme during WW1) and the beginning, of the man Tuor and his finding the sea as the first man to do so as a romantic survivalist who just likes fishing and following swans as signs of the gods, is remarkably wondrous.

No other fantasy series can ever produce this level of desire for camping.


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Old 09-17-2021, 05:59 PM   #7195 (permalink)
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What else you gonna post about when you're finishing off a six pack?
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Six pack? I dunno, I'm more of a whiskey guy myself.
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Six pack? I dunno, I'm more of a whiskey guy myself.
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The universe is a worse place for my last post but whatevs.
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