You should get prepared for the coming of the gods and read a snippet here.
Gods Behaving Badly, Marie Phillips, Struggling AuthorGods Behaving Badly
Gods Behaving Badly, Marie Phillips, Struggling Author Gods Behaving Badly, Marie Phillips, Struggling AuthorO God of earth and altar…
O God of earth and altar,
Bow down and hear our cry,
Our earthly rulers falter,
Our people drift and die;
The walls of gold entomb us,
The swords of scorn divide,
Take not thy thunder from us,
But take away our pride.
G. K. Chesterton
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The King of Torts
I read John Grisham’s “The King of Torts” a couple of weeks ago. It’s the first Grisham book that I’ve read for a while; The Partner being the last one.
Well, I really enjoyed it in an odd kind of way… the story just rolls along and seems to twist and turn, not plot twists, but more what the story is about. There are a number of places where I felt that the author has lost the plot and was breaking rules of coherent and acceptable writing practices; he seems to give you too much information up front. However, this seems not important to the actual story… which is ultimately a moral about greed.
Books, Reading, Greed, John Grisham John Grisham, The King of Torts, The Partner
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Sideways
I finished reading Sideways a few weeks ago, yes I know it’s taken me some time to mention, but there you go. It’s the third in the Trilogy of film books… ie: I read 3 books on the bounce that were made into films all of which I had seen the film first. The book is very good. The story is that of 2 friends who go on a stag week. The groom is going to have his final fling and his best man, Miles, is there for the wine tour. The story has a very interesting interplay between the characters and you seem to get into their mindset pretty well. However, one of the real interesting thing is the detail for the Wine. Miles is a real Wine snob and you get a lot of detail about wine and drinking wine. Although this may sound a little boring, which indeed sometimes it does feel while reading, it actually does two things perfectly… a) gets you into Miles’ character, and b) makes you want to drink the wines they are talking about!
See Also: The Green Mile | Big Fish
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Big Fish
I finished reading Daniel Wallace’s Big Fish last week. This is the second of my trilogy “Reading Book’s of Films that I have watched recently”. It’s a quick book to read being not very long, but it’s lovely and simple and sweet!
If you are not familiar with the book or the film, it’s a man recounting the stories that his father told him as a child about how he used to catch big fish on ice with best boots for ice fishing, where all the stories were about the father. Most of the stories are rather fantasical and a little unbelievable as they paint the father in the light of an extraordinary and great man. But they are used to explain his long absences away from the family.
To me it blends the tall tales that a father tells with the child’s regard of his father as the ultimate hero, and the reconciliation of coming to terms with his father’s pending death.
, Big Fish – the film, The Green Mile
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