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William Thornton Keep writing. Sometimes writer's block only means you can't figure out where to go next on your story. Sometimes I will skip ahead to a scene I know i…moreKeep writing. Sometimes writer's block only means you can't figure out where to go next on your story. Sometimes I will skip ahead to a scene I know is going to happen. You may get inspiration writing that scene to go back and pick it up. And you can always rewrite. I think a lot of writers get blocked because they want to get as close as they can the first time. Maybe all that labor helps you figure out a better way. (less)
William Thornton We communicate in stories. I don't think people have ever lived in a time more saturated by narrative - fiction and non-fiction. Fairy tales. True Cri…moreWe communicate in stories. I don't think people have ever lived in a time more saturated by narrative - fiction and non-fiction. Fairy tales. True Crime. Science fiction. Horror. Romance. Biography. Sometimes the best thing about being a writer is listening to somebody else's story. How would you tell it? What can you learn from their telling? Does this help anyone get a little further down the road? (less)
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A Requiem for Logan Roy


Logan Roy's entrance into the second episode of "Succession" begins with a question: "Why does everybody ask how I'm doing?" 

It now looks like a signal to the audience of what's to come. Of course, the question hovering over all four seasons of "Succession" is the mortality of Logan Roy (Brian Cox) and which of his children will succeed him at the head of his companies. Or, perhaps, none of th

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This Crazy Thing Called Love by Susan Braudy
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Well-researched, balanced retelling fo the Woodward saga. It's hard not to feel sorry for these people until you remember how rich they are, and then something else takes over - a tremendous sense of waste. ...more
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The Completion of C. S. Lewis by Harry Lee Poe
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All three of Poe's books on Lewis are the best I've read about him. One gets a sense of him as a real person, struggling with his own burdens, grateful for the grace of God, late in life seeing the things that he has talked about all his life suddenl ...more
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The Making of C. S. Lewis by Harry Lee Poe
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The second volume of maybe the best biography of Lewis yet. Poe gets into the heart of Lewis' thought life as well as his life, giving the apologetics and fiction that readers expect, as well as his scholarship. Cuts through some of the myth that has ...more
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The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
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I was carried away by the broad passages where Spark sets the scene and time. I was constantly flummoxed by the hopscotch nature of the plot, skipping back and forth through time with little indication of what was happening when. I like it when an au ...more
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The Last Kings of Hollywood by Paul   Fischer
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Some familiar stories, and a few unfamiliar ones. By focusing on these core personalities, and occasionally on Scorsese, DePalma and others, you get the familiar story of how Lucas and Spielberg supposedly steamrolled gritty 70s cinema into soulless ...more
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
"If there was such a thing as the greatest novel ever written it would not be this bloated, overly dramatic brick of words. And I can't help but wonder, if a woman had written this melodramatic novel, would any one think it was great?
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Love Is Strong as Death by Paul Mendes-Flohr
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This was a frustrating book because I had the feeling I was getting only a smattering of the research that the author did into Rosenzweig's life, and yet, he seems to be occasionally a minor player in his own life story. There could have been much mo ...more
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The Family Man by James Lasdun
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Probably the best book I've read about the Murdaugh saga, with details I hadn't heard and alternate theories of the crime that I was unaware of. The book has the benefit of hindsight, but it also goes into some detail about the details that led to th ...more
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Explaining Hitler by Ron Rosenbaum
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Thirty years later, this is still one of the best books I've ever read and it holds up very well on subsequent rereadings. Beyond the discussion about Hitler is the nature of evil. Is it better than someone is a "true believer" in whatever evil they ...more
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