The Book Club's Very Unofficial Pointless Announcements Thread

I can almost hear Pete rolling his eyes.

No, I think he's crying.

I can understand wanting to make something fresh and have a new take on a classic but it's a great story the way it is. I could understand if they are totally doing the Baz revamp they did in Romeo & Juliet with the modern take on it but Gatsby is set in a specific time and era. I don't know.

I'm totally going to start out with a Manhattan. Thanks for the suggestion! Going to have to get the old gang up, and sneak into the theater with a flask of hooch and a split the champagne. AWw, I'm too old to get kicked out of a theater for drinking.
Now I'm thinking about going out for St. Patty's. Check this out.
Blend an Irish-styled stout beer with chocolate and vanilla ice cream, and Irish Creme.

The brewery by my house (which I'm a Mug Club Member of) they make a version of that. It's delicious!

Is it actually in 3-D for real? Because I was just kidding.

Yes.

I don't think it's bad that it's in 3D. The glamour and the parties deserve it. I haven't actually seen any previous version, but I love Baz Luhrman and trust he'll do a good job.

My friend posted this on facebook. I figured a few of you could appreciate this. I have know idea how to follow it myself.

Here is the source: http://tessiedesigncompany.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/stephen-king-universe...

Oh, Derek would love that. Maybe Richard too.

yeah, i just saw that. pretty cool.

I miss that cunt Derek.

Has anybody read that Wool book series by Hugh Howey? It keeps getting recommended to me at Amazon and it's got a ton of favorable reviews but I can't find anyone trustworthy that's read it.

Me too, I'm very curious about it but don't want to waste my money.

Maybe I'll just buy it and then I can be everyone else's trustworthy source.

Amazon's recommendations are a bit dodgy. It doesn't matter what you've read before or rated highly, you'll still get the Twilight, Fifty Shades of Grey and Hunger Games books recommended to you along with the latest Dan Brown, Tom Clancy and all the other best sellers list shit.

last night while reading Mathijs & Sexton's Cult Cinema (2011) i came across this:

"..both a pastiche and a critique. Soon after its release, In Bruges was being touted as a cult film on the website "The Cult," the official site of Fight Club writer..."

People taking us serious and shit.

They said they wouldn't use names!

I want my royalties!

Wisconsin Death Trip
by Michael Lesy

"First published in 1973, this remarkable book about life in a small turn-of-the-century Wisconsin town has become a cult classic. Lesy has collected and arranged photographs taken between 1890 and 1910 by a Black River Falls photographer, Charles Van Schaik."

i was born there and this is an incredible book.

the documentary, not so much. the only good part to come from it was the portrayl of a cocaine addicted school teacher (a lady of course considering the time) who went on a looting rampage across the countryside.

Really? That's not what I get.

Really. Just looking at my recommendations now, The Hunger Games is there apparently because I bought books by Stephen King and Douglas Coupland; the new Dan Brown is there because I purchased the new Joe Hill and a couple Ira Levin books; Fifty Shades of Grey because I bought books by Ian McEwan and Jonathan Franzen. I don't see the similarities between the previous purchases and the current recommendations. I think it's just Amazon plugging the most popular stuff at the time.

STARING INTO THE ABYSS releases today! Whatever help you can offer, I'd really appreciate it.

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Staring-into-Abyss-Richard-Thomas/dp/9197972592
Microsite: http://abyss.krakenpress.com/

"The stories in STARING INTO THE ABYSS are little literary predators that are smart, savage, and stealthy, with a lethal pounce at the end. Readers who enjoy finely-crafted and genuinely disturbing dark fiction will love Richard Thomas's outstanding collection."
--Lisa Morton, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Monsters in L.A.

"STARING INTO THE ABYSS by Richard Thomas is an outstanding book, a grim tapestry of broken lives and shattered dreams, of dark fantasies and dark reflections. It's one of the better single-author collections I've had the pleasure to read in recent years, and as such, gets my highest recommendation. It's also a fine testament to a talent I suspect we are going to be hearing a lot more from, and soon."
--Kealan Patrick Burke, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Turtle Boy, and Kin.

"With STARING INTO THE ABYSS, Richard Thomas takes you on a ride into a world of darkness and despair, punches you in the gut, and leaves you breathless. You'll hug your psyche a little tighter after reading."
--Damien Walters Grintalis, author of Ink

"STARING INTO THE ABYSS is gritty and ugly, seductive and sexy. Inside these filthy walls you will find everything you've ever feared you'd become; thugs, drunks, cons, prostitutes, murderers. Think of these pages as a mirror of what anyone--even you--can become, after just a few critical mistakes in life. Richard Thomas has proven time and again that he is one of the rising stars in the neo-noir culture. With Staring into the Abyss, he proves he has mastered it." --Max Booth III, author of True Stories Told By a Liar and Black Cadillacs

"NO ONE DOES IT like Richard Thomas. Dark and disturbing, his unique blend of horror and noir digs its way into your psyche and leaves you begging for more."
-C. W. LaSart, author of Ad Nauseam

Richard, make a thread, a lot of people don't check this thread.

Also, why you no kindle??

okay, will do. thought it might be too much. but good call. there's a kindle, it's attached to the paperback

http://www.amazon.com/Staring-into-the-Abyss-ebook/dp/B00CDED8GO

there IS no B&N/Nook yet, i'm looking into that. they're probably just slow.

Ah, okay, I missed it! I'll have to check it out when I finish Mike's. I'm not reading as often these days, but soon!

w00t.

thanks, des! w00t yourself, tuffy! much appreciation.