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Yeah, I was complaining about the killer in NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN walking away scot free at the end and a member, I forget who, said in a film class he took being filmed from behind like that symbolizes death. Thought of that when I saw all three covers of Bond photographed from behind. Made me feel good about the Cohen killer but bummed me out about Bond.
 
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Yeah, I was complaining about the killer in NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN walking away scot free at the end and a member, I forget who, said in a film class he took being filmed from behind like that symbolizes death. Thought of that when I saw all three covers of Bond photographed from behind. Made me feel good about the Cohen killer but bummed me out about Bond.
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Cormac McCarthy, who wrote NCFOM, has a habit of using a central character in his stories who is not quite of this world in that, though not exactly supernatural, the normal rules do not quite apply. Notably the Judge in Blood Meridian, and Jimmy Blevins in All the Pretty Horses.
The Coens have used a similar device in their Fargo TV series.
 
My bargain from The Works today £12
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Two books at the library sale today, both hardback, both in good shape, both fifty cents: LEONARDO'S MOUNTAIN OF CLAMS AND THE DIET OF WORMS, essays on natural history by Stephen Jay Gould, and the companion to the PBS Series about the mystery of EVOLUTION by Carl Zimmer. Where to put them will be a bigger mystery.
 
I'm on a bit of a Neal Asher kick. I just downloaded the Transformation Trilogy of Dark Intelligence, War Factory and Infinity Engine.
 
On Saturday I picked up all three books in the Black Magician Trilogy by Trudi Canavan. All hardbacks at £1.99 each in an AgeUK charity shop!

It was a sunny day, so I went and sat in a beer garden for a couple of pints and a couple of chapters!(y)
 
A Moveable Feast by Hemingway
Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties by Noel Riley Fitch
The Parisian World of Frederick Chopin by William Atwood

The periods of Paris during 1830 - 40s and 1920 - 30s are fascinating, especially the former, with all those brilliant writers, musicians and artists gathered in that culture centre of the world.
 
My better half went to an estate sale today and picked up some books. Besides a large number of cartoon paperbacks (Mad, Andy Capp, B.C., The Wizard of Id, Hagar the Horrible, Dennis the Menace, and even the relatively obscure Crock and Tumbleweeds), we got the following SF paperbacks:

Amazing Stories: The Anthology (1995) edited by Kim Mohan. Kind of an odd volume, as it contains one story reprinted from 1953, four stories reprinted from the 1990's, and several stories original to the book.

The Avatar (1978) by Poul Anderson.

Several books by H. Beam Piper:

Uller Uprising (1952)

Space Viking (1963)

Federation and Empire (both 1981, both story collections)

First Cycle (1982) (unfinished novel, completed by Michael Kurland)
 
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