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Old 03-11-2009, 02:15 PM
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Read F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button yesterday. Great story...movie mangled it though.
People forget what a great surrealist Fitzgerald could be sometimes. The haunting imagery in the Great Gatsby is proof enough of that. Have you read a Diamond as Big as the Ritz or any of his other short works?
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People forget what a great surrealist Fitzgerald could be sometimes. The haunting imagery in the Great Gatsby is proof enough of that. Have you read a Diamond as Big as the Ritz or any of his other short works?
Not yet, but I plan to - I picked up a collection of his short works not long ago, which is where I read Benjamin Button. Diamond as Big as the Ritz is in there, plus a ton of others. Planning to dig into the rest of 'em in the near future.
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Old 03-13-2009, 11:42 AM
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No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan, by Robert Shelton.
I must warn you to steer clear of Bob Dylan Chronicles. Blood on the Tracks is my favorite album ever, I know every word to Desolation Row and Dylan's book pissed me off. It's sad how the greatest post Ginsberg poetic voice in America can turn into your senile great uncle at the drop of a hat.
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I must warn you to steer clear of Bob Dylan Chronicles. Blood on the Tracks is my favorite album ever, I know every word to Desolation Row and Dylan's book pissed me off. It's sad how the greatest post Ginsberg poetic voice in America can turn into your senile great uncle at the drop of a hat.
Really? I was actually looking forward to reading that. What made it so bad?
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It has some nice anecdotes, but it's dull, disjointed and positively maddening. The story straight from the horse's mouth is quite confusing and ranty. It's readable if you're prepared to skip pages to get past really obtrusive digressions.
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