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Miles Watson
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George Orwell, Lawrence Sanders, Herman Wouk, Frank Herbert, John Kobl
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BOOK REVIEW: WAR AS AN INWARD EXPERIENCE
"War as an Inner Experience" is one of five books of radically varying length which Ernst Jünger wrote about his service in the Imperial German Army during WW1. They were:
1920, In Stahlgewittern (In Storms of Steel)
1922, Der Kampf als inneres Erlebnis (War as an Inner Experience)
1924, Das Wäldchen 125 (Copse 125)
1925, Feuer und Blut (Fire and Blood)
1932, Sturm (novella)
The first of these became an Read more of this blog post »
1920, In Stahlgewittern (In Storms of Steel)
1922, Der Kampf als inneres Erlebnis (War as an Inner Experience)
1924, Das Wäldchen 125 (Copse 125)
1925, Feuer und Blut (Fire and Blood)
1932, Sturm (novella)
The first of these became an Read more of this blog post »
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is 20% done with The Roar of the Crowd: Fascinating autobiography by James J. Corbett, the 19th century heavyweight champion. One of ten Irish-Americans from San Francisco, he worked at a bank by day (top hat and silk gloves) and fought by night. Source material for one of the best of all the movies Errol Flynn ever made, "Gentleman Jim." I love the way people composed their thoughts and words in the pre-Hemingway era of literature.
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| KINGS GO FORTH (my version is called COMBAT MISSION, but it's the same book) is a very, very dark novel. I would liken it in tone to IN A LONELY PLACE, in the sense that it almost wounds the reader with the violence of its depiction of the mental sta ...more | |
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| I bought this book, oddly enough, because I recently saw the John Wayne movie it was based upon and wanted to explore the source material. To my surprise, I found out that the Duke's film was surprisingly accurate, both tonally and historically, to t ...more | |
“It wasn’t fair, but maybe Tommy was right on that score. Maybe a man didn’t have no right to ask for fair. Maybe a man made fair for himself.”
― Pleas and Thank Yous
― Pleas and Thank Yous
“It is no easy thing to be in your mid-twenties and realize that, holy shit, this is it, this is as good as it gets, and from here it's all downhill, the fun's over, the hijinks have jinked their last, nothing lies ahead but drudgery and toil and a sagging belly and death. It's harder yet when a stupid bitch, a numbfuck cunt, one of those horrible sweet-smelling OMG types who wouldn't talk to you in high school and sure as fuck won't talk to you now, takes position on your elbow with a cell phone jammed into her cheek, yammering away. Because who wants to listen to the stream of shit coming out of her mouth? Gossip about friends. Gossip about enemies. Gossip about celebrities. Gossip about gossip. Not a thought in her head. Not a fact. Nothing of interest. Nothing of worth. Just an avalanche of verbal rubbish. The Patriots took on the Redcoats, the Blue fought the Gray, the National Guard stormed the beaches of Normandy, so this submoronic cretin could stand here in her designer boots and talk about what happened at the club last night.”
― A Fever In The Blood
― A Fever In The Blood
“The course she was on was as fixed and unalterable as the trajectory of a bullet, but you could see she did not believe that. No one in the life ever believed it. They saw a dozen, a hundred, a thousand people precede them into the trap, saw how unvarying and pitiless the end was, and with all that fresh in their minds they did the same, of their own free will.”
― Cage Life
― Cage Life
“New York, I thought, was a city defined by its flaws. In every possible way, its virtues were overwhelmed by its vices, as Jekyll was by Hyde. Yet it was these very vices that gave the city its character - like tar in an oak barrel lending its flavor to Scotch.”
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“I thought fleetingly of Anne, how the faces changed but the act was always the same, the need was always the same, no one drew a line between the sex you bought and the love you made, and your body could not tell the difference.”
― Cage Life
― Cage Life
“Kraut was a stand-up guy in the old tradition, in a strange way reminiscent of my father in his steadfast refusal to abandon a position once he had taken it. It was a quality I lacked, and so admired in others when they weren't using it to beat me to the canvas or break my heart.”
― Cage Life
― Cage Life
“The course she was on was as fixed and unalterable as the trajectory of a bullet, but you could see she did not believe that. No one in the life ever believed it. They saw a dozen, a hundred, a thousand people precede them into the trap, saw how unvarying and pitiless the end was, and with all that fresh in their minds they did the same, of their own free will.”
― Cage Life
― Cage Life
“He looked like an idol consecrated to the gods of arrogance. Damned if I would bow.”
― Cage Life
― Cage Life