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I think Hoffman played in a bio-pic about the events surrounding Capote's experiences with the killers and researching the Clutter murders Kasey. It wasn't really In Cold Blood, unless I'm missing something which is always possible.
No problem Kasey, I can't recall who did star in the remake. of ICB.
Not the movie in question but the late Philip Seymour Hoffman did Capote better than Capote.
Found this in the forum and thought I'd bring it back to the top. Anybody read any good books lately?
Another question for the avid book readers: what is the best book you have ever read?
Mine would be either Tuesdays with Morrie or The Sun Also Rises.
Just funny that some of the topics on the board’s front page are:
Favorite slow song
Books
I’m selling a green shirt if you want one
National tequila day
When is football season again? Btw, did anyone say the Bible yet for best book? If not, I’ll say it.
I am re -reading Ball Four. Seems boring now, 30 years later. Hard to remember what all the excitement was about.
Per Bankwalker’s suggestion I read two Neal Boortz books on Fair Tax. Found them to be very informative and thought provoking.
Literary folks, eh? You mean people still read?
Take these next few for a spin. Thank me later.
I've read "The Things They Carried" and "Where Men Win Glory". I'm a big Krakauer fan ever since I read his Everest book "Into Thin Air", though admittedly I was less into "Into The Wild" than most.
Love "The Sun Also Rises" My favorite Hemingway book @cschuler13
Into the Wild is my least favorite of his. Mccandless comes off as selfish in it
on almost any forum the off-topic section tends to be one of the busiest/most active sub-forums. posters get to "know" each other and branch out. similar interests and all.
young, idealistic, a dreamer. had he lived I am sure by his 30s or 40s he would have a different outlook.
To be fair I read it 12 years ago haha
Enemy at the Gates is a great military history book about the battle for Stalingrad in WWII. (It’s very different from the movie of the same name.) The battle was insane and considered to be the turning point of the war. Consider 729,000 died in this one battle. (Compared to 407,000 Americans in the entire war.)
I don't disagree that he doesn't come across particularly well at times. but I view him as intelligent, a dreamer, very idealistic, disillusioned with the modern world and wanted to escape. I think a lot of young people feel that to varying degrees. but very few actually give up everything (he came from an upper middle class family and graduated from Emory) and chase that feeling. most of us rebel in our own way and then eventually grow up