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“Thinking Best Ever is one thing, making something else.
Thinking goes round and round.
Making rolls along, super slow maybe, but you don't end where you start.”
― Mabel and Me: A Novel about The Movies
Thinking goes round and round.
Making rolls along, super slow maybe, but you don't end where you start.”
― Mabel and Me: A Novel about The Movies
“A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.”
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“Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.”
― The Personal Notebooks Of Thomas Hardy
― The Personal Notebooks Of Thomas Hardy
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Nice to meet you Majenta. Thanks for your interest in my stuff. We seem to like the same books. Best,
Jon
Hello, Jon! Happy Monday, Happy Halloween! Thanks for contacting me. Congratulations on your books! Have a great new week. Happy reading, writing, and everything else. Blessings!Best wishes from Majenta
Hello Jon,thank you for the friend invite. I am looking forward to your reviews and comments on books.
Dolors wrote: "Hello Jon,Honored to receive your friend invite after having read your profile. I can't wait to read your reviews and your comments both on literature and on cinema whenever the occasion arises."
And you are one of the top reviewers on Goodreads. I look forward to hearing what you have to say.
Hello Jon,Honored to receive your friend invite after having read your profile. I can't wait to read your reviews and your comments both on literature and on cinema whenever the occasion arises.
Yes, that's a classic for sure. And yes, there are many, many interesting and talented filmmakers all across the globe. It's thrilling to think about how many others I've yet to discover.
As I remember, you had the best book on the subject, Hitchock By Truffaut, on your list. But so much is out there!
Thanks for the friend request, Jon. It's great how involved you are with the world of cinema; I'm also a huge fan of the medium and its history and related criticism/theory. Feel free to talk about movies with me any time (and books, too, obviously).
If you don't want comedy, you might try Sunrise, by Murnau, or Napoleon by Abel Gance (though that really needs a big screen). I', just written a novel about Mabel Normand, first Queen of Comedy. Her film with chaplin Tillies Punctured Romance, is funny. Or The General (Buster Keaton). So many!
Hello, thanks for the friend request! I don't watch as many silent movies as I should, though I did watch The Phantom Carriage a while ago and thought it was fantastic. Are you a fan of silents? Any recommendations? I adore Calvino and NYRB. If I'm not careful, I'll wear myself out of both of them.
You will do yourself a favor reading Gardam, particularly if you're a fan of historical fiction. She brings her place to such vivid, alien life.Thanks for friending me.
Thanks for the friend request, Jon. It's a pleasure to meet you. Your books look very intriguing. I'm a fan of historical fiction. As for Jane Gardam, she's one of the authors whose books I've owned but never got around to reading. I'm always getting something new and the old stays on the shelves or worse, goes up into the attic. It's the trilogy that I've been meaning to read for awhile.
Hey Jon,Thanks for the friend request. My reading interests are definitely all over the place.
I meantioned a book by Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, about Darwin and evolution and the proofs of the existence of God.
Thanks for the friend request, Jon! I messed up the message with the book recommendation you sent - not sure now what it was:(
Hi Jon, thanks for adding me as a friend. I am indeed drawn to good ol' Noo Yawk, I've lived in or near the city for 25 years. It feels like *home* in that indefinable way that places can do.
Cheers
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