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When Ed Anger Became America...
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I mean, I've been missing the days of quality journalism, Facebook, CNN, BBC, they can't deliver.
And I hearken back to the good 'ole days of Ed Anger and the "Weekly World News", which, for the time, seemed rather low-brow, all those aliens, Bat-Boy and Elvis sightings, and who would have thought the day would come when his views would be considered laughably "centrist".
This should be on a Tee Shirt. "I miss the compassionately informed reason and morality of Ed Anger". Or "I'm still mourning the death of quality, well balanced journalism" on a page-header with Bat-Boy or Elvis or maybe even Donald Trump.
Anyways, that's where we are at the moment.
Strange Pilgrims - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Anything to avoid Lowry...
In any event, I quite like Marquez, and this collection of short stories - vignettes - did not disappoint.
A Sicilian Romance - Ann Radcliffe
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...and Malcolm Lowry sits half-read on a shelf. I appreciate him, but, for the moment, not to my taste.
SO - Ann Radcliffe - I'm pretty sure I've read "The Castle of Udolpho", this didn't disappoint.
A Gothic Romance, with the usual variety of Star-crossed lovers, Ruined Castles, Estates, Monasteries, Convents and Dungeons (albeit poorly used...), caves, the rumor of ghosts, kindly governesses, evil fathers and stepmothers, Bandetti, convenient coincidences, mistaken identities, and the wrath of God plays out in the passions of the players.
If she didn't invent the genre she certainly perfected it, the quality of prose is fine, only the events - the story, is just that, a diversion to entertain, and at no point does the reader believe it. But that's a matter of taste...
Read up on her here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Radcliffe
All of Us Strangers
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A British film about a lonely London Screenwriter who goes to visit his childhood home and meets his deceased parents...
And a mysterious stranger.
A curious and contemporary take on the themes of ghosts, loss, loneliness and grief.
Good.
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