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Michael Jarvis
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The Path of the Tapir
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The Location Scout
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Field of Vision
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Dog-Head: Tales from the Neotropics
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The Location Scout - review by Readers' Favorite
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Michael Jarvis’s The Location Scout introduces the reader to Lucas Sloan, an American rum-drinker who lives the dream life, according to everyone around him. Scouting the locations is just the tip of the iceberg. He also needs to negotiate contracts, check with local authorities, and remain on set during filming to put out fires—some literal.
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Michael Jarvis’s The Location Scout introduces the reader to Lucas Sloan, an American rum-drinker who lives the dream life, according to everyone around him. Scouting the locations is just the tip of the iceberg. He also needs to negotiate contracts, check with local authorities, and remain on set during filming to put out fires—some literal.
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“You got lucky with the moon. Tonight there won't be one, or it'll be so new that you'll still have all the darkness you want. Because right now you're thinking two words: unlawful entry.”
― Field of Vision
― Field of Vision
“I'm no crazier than anyone else. I love life the same as most people - what else have we got that's real? I like to take a good picture; I like to wake up in love; I like to read a good book; I like to travel without many plans; I like a shifting mix of the expected and the unexpected; I like to swim in rivers and oceans; I like to walk; I like to see sunlight coming through trees; I like old cites and snow and live music and all the kooky things I've been doing these last few days. All of it, the good and the bad and the stuff in between. I'm not saying I haven't made mistakes. I'm not saying I haven't been rude or cavalier or predictable. I'm only saying that if you asked me, I'd say, Yeah, I'm too young to die.”
― Field of Vision
― Field of Vision
“Out of the brown mouth into a slanted easterly rain they head south along the shore, pushed toward it on a light chop, all but the pilot huddling under plastic sheeting that covers lumber, nails, window casings and plantains - the women sharing a seat, Reese behind them and the boatman behind him in a narrow-running balance. The land retreats as the dory crosses a wide bight toward the next point, rising and dropping on larger waves while a seaside village of thatch and palm passes thin and blurry in the drizzled distance. Two miles later another village appears, much the same but longer along the curve and then, past the point, the coast is tangled in mangrove, grass and sea grape. The passengers peer out of the plastic at a rain-erased horizon as the dory slices and slows in equal measure and the boatman bails with a cut jug the rolling puddle at his feet.”
― Dog-Head: Tales from the Neotropics
― Dog-Head: Tales from the Neotropics
“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time ― proof that humans can work magic.”
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“If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture—that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves.”
― Desert Solitaire
― Desert Solitaire
“If you pray for rain long enough, it eventually does fall. If you pray for floodwaters to abate, they eventually do. The same happens in the absence of prayers.”
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“Out of the brown mouth into a slanted easterly rain they head south along the shore, pushed toward it on a light chop, all but the pilot huddling under plastic sheeting that covers lumber, nails, window casings and plantains - the women sharing a seat, Reese behind them and the boatman behind him in a narrow-running balance. The land retreats as the dory crosses a wide bight toward the next point, rising and dropping on larger waves while a seaside village of thatch and palm passes thin and blurry in the drizzled distance. Two miles later another village appears, much the same but longer along the curve and then, past the point, the coast is tangled in mangrove, grass and sea grape. The passengers peer out of the plastic at a rain-erased horizon as the dory slices and slows in equal measure and the boatman bails with a cut jug the rolling puddle at his feet.”
― Dog-Head: Tales from the Neotropics
― Dog-Head: Tales from the Neotropics
“Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it’s not clear that he ever really did.”
― The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
― The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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Hi Michael! Thanks for the invite. I agree with your recommendation of the Wind Up Bird Chronicle!. A most fantastic story. I added Shadow Country as well.
Stephanie wrote: "Hi Michael, thanks for the friend-vite! I am enjoying True Grit, it was one of my selections for a book challenge I am participating in. I wanted to read a Western that wasn't Louis L'Amour, Zane G..."Hi Stephanie, nice to hear from you. I liked True Grit for its deadpan humor too, and because like all of Portis's work, it has a completely original and unique feel, as if no one else could have possibly written it. And I'm glad you clarified the Channing connection, which somehow puts my mind at ease. ha!
Hi Michael, thanks for the friend-vite! I am enjoying True Grit, it was one of my selections for a book challenge I am participating in. I wanted to read a Western that wasn't Louis L'Amour, Zane Grey, or Elmer Kelton... Yes, that is Carol Channing, and no, I do NOT resemble her in any way, lol! I just loved those goofy glasses!
Hi Erwin, good to hear from you. I appreciate your comments.