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[Beamer]

I do more reading than watching, so I figured this was a good thread.

Books, magazines, message board threads, add whatever you think is worth reading.


Currently I'm reading this:

"The most wonderfully idiotic love song to swashbucklers ever set to Korngold trumpets. Fraser again proves himself a master."
--The New York Times

Thus far I love it. The cover is absolutely perfect to describe the book, too. It's a classic pirate illustration, but then someone sarcastically doodled on it to add color and make it ridiculously harmless.
It pretty much takes every pirate stereotype, most defined in Errol Flynn films, throws them in, then mocks them lovingly. It also adds 1980s consumerism (it was written in 1983), sprinkled very lightly but kept modern, not historical (one pirate loves yves saint laurent.) When the plot threatens to take a turn you don't care about, the narrator makes a point of asking who would possibly care.
I'm enjoying it.

[Nilan 666]

In honor of the upcoming elections, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72. Probably chase that with Better Than Sex.