What are you reading?

And...the classic counterculture work:

"One flew over the cuckoo's nest."

Need to fortify myself for the next four years. Keep me away from pillows.
kris

 

i've only seen the movie, i should read it

 

The book is something else; movie doesn't do it justice. Similar to Deloris Clairborne (Steven King), it's a complete narration by one character, Chief Broom.

My wife and I made it through Sometimes a Great Notion (Ken Kesey), maybe a couple of years back, reading aloud. It's mostly first person narration as well, albeit through myriad characters. Both books very insightful, well worth a read.

 

My first time through Sometimes a Great Notion was as a junior in high school. Despite the fact I was reading
Dostoevsky, Camus -- and of course -- Franklin W. Dixon (the Hardy Boys), at the time, I struggled through it.

Had a much easier time when I was in my 20s. Franklin W. Dixon - Wikipedia

 

On ETC’s rec:

 

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Let me know how you like it, so I can see if I need to find a way to finish it!

I think I downloaded 'one flew over' and was distracted before I could listen to it. I might give it a tumble here in a bit.
Following my disgust with 'Camino Ghosts' I clicked on my favorite never-read novel (Pride and Prejudice) on Audible which is available free to listen to without owning a copy.
This one was narrated expertly by Roseamund Pike.
I put it back on the shelf to re-read I, Robot and may re-tackle Camino....somehow.

 

just finished 'great expectations'. a bit too wordy for me, and while the plot was pretty good, i didn't like the ending. and there were two of them, so dickens must have wrestled with it.
not one of his best imo.

 

Haven’t tackled that one yet.
I might have it on my phone…….

We’re in for a few weeks of ‘inside weather’ so I might be needing a shelf-bender.

 

ana karenina

 

I have never read E. T. A. Hoffmann's The Nutcracker and the Mouse King. I wonder if the ballet counts as some kind of early audiobook adaptation.

It seems to be about Clara. Only, in the Hoffmann story, isn't she Marie? Seems like when Russians put on the ballet, she's Masha.

At a key moment, she distracts the Mouse King by throwing her slipper at him.

However, in any production I've seen, she clearly retains two perfectly serviceable ballet slippers in the two expected places. So she seems to have distracted the Mouse King by throwing a third slipper that for some reason she had about her person.

This leaves open the question of whether the Mouse King was distracted by a left or a right slipper.

Are those the only possibilities? Or could there be also, perhaps, up, down, strange, or charm slippers?

 

Deepest dive ever into The Nutcracker.

Third skipper it the spare tire of course. Standard equipment.

Quark slippers would change from one type into another midflight.

 

Is Quark a Canadian company?

 

There are several Quark companies including at least one in Canada.

 

Yeah, that's how you know it's a 200-year-old story.

 

Mine belongs in companion thread, What are you proofreading?

 

With the Bob Dylan movie out and Garth Hudson dying, figured I would read up on one of the BIGGEST music groups --THE BAND.

 

Strangely, I missed them even though I was 14 when they first started.
I didn’t even know that popular songs like cripple creek were theirs, until I read his obituary

 

My dad was a big fan of The Band and I guess he passed it on to me. At college, their video -- The Last Waltz -- was super popular. We used to hang in the evenings and watch/socialize while it played.

If you have never seen the Last Waltz, you really should. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Waltz

You can often find it on the various streaming channels.

My father was living in Humboldt County California, which is in the redwoods a few hours north of San Francisco and dad had a friend with a connected family. That friend got passes to the Last Waltz, which took place at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco and offered to take my father along. For some reason, dad declined. He never forgave himself.

 

I was in college in’76, cannot remember what I was listening to.
It all fell apart when the Beatles broke up

 

Don't recall some of my college time. Think I need to refresh memory. Maybe I should call my freshman girlfriend Robin...hmmm...wife probably would not approve