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[s.chivers Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close s.chivers]

The Dumas Club, by Arturo Perez-Reverte. This is the novel Polanski’s The Ninth Gate is based on.

[Dom D Spoon! Find all posts View Profile Close Dom D]

I am ridiculously excited to have tracked down a copy of the Ultimate Encyclopedia Of The Movies. When I was a teen this book was my bible. It looks trashy but it's actually not a terrible rundown of a Western centric mainstream/arthouse view of the history of cinema. It has chapters overviewing genres and periods in films but the main bulk of it is an alphabetical listing of the authors view of the most important people in film with a little backstory on each and his listing for the 250 most important movies of all time. When I was a teen this was the key part for me. I spent years trying to knock off that list which was an impossible task back pre-video on the internet. I gave it a cracking go thoguh, scouring pretty much every video shop with a decent collection in a 50 mile radius. Looking at the list now, it holds up. Very western movie centric and not much in the way of cult cinema (Danny Peary's most excellent books filled that void for me shortly after) but it clearly comes from a place of deep movie knowledge.

I'm just so happy to be reunited with this book. Decades later and it's every page is still so familiar to me.

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Just finished Sam Wasson’s The Big Goodbye and it really is wonderful - highly recommended to anyone interested in the rise and fall of the New Hollywood, Polanski, Nicholson and co. I’m looking forward to his book on Coppola.

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Deliver Me From Nowhere, by Warren Zanes. The story of the making of Nebraska.

[Matt H. Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Matt H.]

I just finished FUTURISTIC VIOLENCE AND FANCY SUITS (2015) by David Wong. It's a really inventive, funny and exciting sci-fi story that really seems to be building to a spectacular conclusion.... except it doesn't really have one. The ending is a set-up for future stories with the protagonist (there is a follow-up novel now.)

[Mark Tolch Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Mark Tolch]

KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL by Anthony Bourdain and MY EFFIN LIFE by Geddy Lee. I don't like Rush, but the book is fantastic so far.

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I don't like Rush, but the book is fantastic so far.

You're no Canadian...

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[Mark Tolch Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Mark Tolch]

You're no Canadian...

I'm okay with that haha