What are you reading?

as my marine/vietnam vet partner used to say, everyone changes when the bullets start flying...

 

after kerouac, i think i've read enough addiction books

 

Jack's life, although certainly tragic, does not even approach "falling off the cliff."

There are lots of novels out there. You have mentioned a daughter, I might suggest the book Lucy in the Sky.
Like so many of us, I had several friends and relatives that took those paths and only once did someone manage to "recover."

But as, my friend says, no one really recovers.

But, he is in his mid-30s, five years clean and just graduated in June magna cum laude.

He says it is fate, but I don't know.

kris

 

idk either, but some are more attracted than others. that seems obvious to me. not including addiction to pain meds and things like that, although psychological problems may be just as much a cause.

 

this?
falling off the cliff: B0C9YVPH9G

 

That looks a bit too dramatic to me LOL

AND, since when have I ever gone off topic...

A few years ago I had some serious medical problems and the nurses really had a problem with me as I would refuse painkillers until I was literally crying as those drugs were so good, it's easy to realize how folks innocently become addicted.

Anyway, I ended up stopping all alcohol as well as other items when I was discharged, including my daily Pepsi -- oh -- the horror!

Funny, alcohol consumption is down significantly in my cadre and younger ... At least that's what I see in the "fake" news LOL.
kristen

 

i hear you. i had to give up my daily glass of red due to meds. not a huge deal, but i miss it

 

There are those occasions. At times, I think A double shot toast of El Patron to Bob Wilson would be appropriate, but I resist.

 

Summer reading.
Actually?
The constant reader might notice that this is a re-read - but I needed to take a break from podcasts, antenna and wave propagation theory, and somebody told me that they were making this into a movie - which ought to be (another) good one.
It will be interesting to see how closely they stick to the book and where they set up the stage for this story.....

 

76 pages, and I’ve no idea what this is about

 

I've not read this from Kafka. All his that I have read seemed to sadden me. That was fine in a time that I wanted to be sad.

Even this precis saddens me
Analysis of Franz Kafka’s The Castle – Literary Theory and Criticism

except for the phrase "more Chaplin than chaplain" which seems jolly.

 

thanks for that. now i know i don't have to finish it, since kafka didn't.

also read metamorphosis, was was strange and meaningless as well. but i have heard his name all my life, like some literary god.
but this from a person who can't even get through tom sawyer or huck finn

 

Try


Number one around here

kris

 

our kids loved that book! we read it so much, they memorized every word, and we couldn't skip anything, or they would let us know.
first grandson loved goodnight moon.