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Non bisogna sempre sapere tutto l’uno dell’altro. I segreti non ostacolano la felicità
Herman Koch - La cena
Ph Peter Lindbergh
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Caribe's Mystery/Thriller/Horror Fiction TBR - Part 2
#the dinner#herman koch#a taste of darkness#strange sally diamond#liz nugent#everyone in my family has killed someone#benjamin stevenson#angels and demons#dan brown#the fifth doll#charlie n holmberg#book tumblr#booklr#bookblr#tbr jar#tbr list#mystery#thriller#horror
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The Menu is everything I wanted for the film adaptation of Herman Koch's The Dinner.
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May 2024 Book Club Picks
(Trying something new with the title collage!)
The Deception by Marion Chesney: When one of the Beverly daughters is viciously attacked by the odious Harry Devers, Abigail Beverly decides to put her obsession with regaining their family home on hold, especially now that handsome Lord Burfield has made the scene, freshly home from the army and on the hunt for a wife. Meanwhile, Abigail's twin Rachel foolishly makes a bid for Mr. Devers' hand, believing she can tame his lustful spirit. But as her wedding approaches and Rachel grow more fearful of her betrothed, Abigail puts into motion an idea that will save her sister and hopefully be the very thing to regain Mannerling once and for all.
The Sandman by Neil Gaiman: Enter the world of the Endless, powerful beings beyond life and death, as they are drawn into affairs with humans, demons, and occasionally each other's immortal, complicated lives.
The Dinner by Herman Koch: It's a lovely summer's evening in Amsterdam, and two couples are meeting for dinner. The food is good and the conversation is pleasant, but just beneath the surface, terrible things need to be discussed. Each couple has a fifteen year old son, both implicated in a shocking act of violence. Their insulated worlds rocked by the police investigation and simmering tensions between them, the couple's try to keep things civil, but before the night is over, things will explode as they show just how far they'll go to protect those they love.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou: Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash”. At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age - and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns about love for herself and the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned.
The Sundial by Shirley Jackson: When the Halloran clan gathers at the family home for a funeral, no one is surprised when the somewhat peculiar Aunt Fanny wanders off into the secret garden. But then she returns to report an astonishing vision of an apocalypse from which only the Hallorans and their hangers-on will be spared, and the family finds itself engulfed in growing madness, fear, and violence as they prepare for a terrible new world.
#book club#may 2024#the deception#marion chesney#the sandman#neil gaiman#the dinner#herman koch#i know why the caged bird sings#maya angelou#the sundial#shirley jackson
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A fixed appointment for the immediate future is the gates of hell.
The Dinner, Herman Koch
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On a summer evening in Amsterdam, two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant for dinner. At first, the conversation is a gentle hum of polite small talk - the banality of work, the latest movies they've seen. But behind the empty words, terrible things need to be said, and with every forced smile and every new course, the knives are being sharpened. Each couple has a fifteen-year-old son. The two boys are united by their accountability for a single horrific act - an act that has triggered a police investigation and shattered the comfortable, insulated worlds of their families. When the dinner reaches its culinary climax, the conversation finally touches on their children. As civility and friendship disintegrate, each couple shows just how far they are prepared to go to protect those they love.
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You’ll read Dutch literature and it will be simultaneously amazing literature and also the most misogynistic work you’ve ever read
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#NowWatching Tiny Cinema (2022) 🧟♂️💦🔫
“𝚂𝚝𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚍𝚘𝚗’𝚝 𝚐𝚎𝚝 𝚒𝚝 𝚢𝚎𝚝, 𝚍𝚘 𝚢𝚘𝚞? 𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚜𝚎𝚎, 𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚠𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚗’𝚝 𝚋𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖𝚜, 𝚠𝚎 𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚗𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚜.”
#tiny cinema#horror#scifi#movies#anthology#Austin Lewis#Tyler cornack#Lisa Mason lee#Ryan Koch#William morean#Olivia Herman#Paul ford#Shelby dash#Kimberly Alexander#Spotify
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LA CAZA DE BRUJAS V: PELICULAS PROSOVIETICAS
La sociedad norteamericana en los inicios de la II Guerra Mundial era profunda y mayoritariamente aislacionista y no quería que Estados Unidos se involucrase en el conflicto. Esa era la promesa política del presidente Roosevelt. Con el ataque japonés a Pearl Harbor el 7 de Diciembre de 1941, Estados Unidos entró en la guerra. Roosevelt necesitaba que la opinión pública se inclinase rápidamente hacia la intervención militar y pronto comenzaron a filmarse películas antinazis y antijaponesas, así como documentales que exaltaban las victorias norteamericanas y minimizaban las iniciales derrotas ante los nipones en el Pacifico. Se realizaron decenas de películas de todos los géneros que defendían la intervención militar. Hasta Tarzán y Batman aparecieron implicados en la lucha contra alemanes y japoneses.
Pero había un problema: Estado Unidos se había convertido en aliado del enemigo del capitalismo, la Unión Soviética, y las películas anticomunistas de unos años antes con Ninotchka a la cabeza había que sustituirlas por otras que enfatizasen la alianza ruso-americana y la lucha del pueblo y de los dirigentes de la Unión Soviética. Así se los hizo llegar Roosevelt a los grandes estudios y de estos en pocos años, hasta el final de la guerra, salieron unos productos, 8 en total, que históricamente se han convertido en curiosidades pero que, en su día tras el fin de la guerra, le dieron enormes problemas a todos los que habían intervenido en esas películas. La mayor parte de los guionistas, algunos directores y actores de estas películas tuvieron que sufrir las represalias que se pusieron en marcha tras el final de la guerra y que culminaron histéricamente en la Caza de Brujas.
Dos curiosidades sobre estas películas: la primera es que en sus guiones otorgan a los papeles femeninos una inusual importancia en películas de tipo bélico. Era la traslación a la necesidad de incorporar las mujeres al esfuerzo de guerra de toda la nación. La segunda curiosidad es que ya os podéis imaginar que estas películas jamás fueron estrenadas en España y solo algunas de ellas se han podido ver después de 1975 editadas en DVD.
Examinemos brevemente cuales fueron estas películas:
MISS V FROM MOSCOW (1942): dirigida por Albert Herman. Una rusa y un norteamericano en el París ocupado trabajan para la resistencia francesa. No la conozco y según los críticos es bastante artesanal y endeble.
MISIÓN EN MOSCÚ (1943): pura y curiosa propaganda prosovietica. Dirigida por Michael Curtiz, con la intepretación de Walter Huston y con un guion de Howard Koch -quien posteriormente fue puesto en la lista negra y tuvo que exiliarse en el Reino Unido – es un conjunto de alabanza a todo el sitema político soviético, incluidas las purgas al trotkismo (caracterizado como una quinta columna al servicio de Hitler) y al mismo Stalin. El propio embajador estadounidense en Moscú, Joseph Davies, aparece en los primeros planos dando fe de la bonanza del regimen ruso a todos los niveles. Pero si es curioso que el propio embajador avale la película lo es más que fuese producida por la Warner cuyo propietario cuando finalizó la guerra se convirtió en uno de los más encarnizados perseguidores de izquierdistas o simplemente liberales en Hollywood.
EL CHICO DE ESTALINGRADO (1943): dirigida por Sidney Sankow y Tay Garnett (el mismo de la gran versión de El cartero siempre llama dos veces, de 1946) es una película puramente bélica que sirve para ensalzar la lucha de los ciudadanos rusos, en este caso unos niños, frente al avance de los alemanes hacia Estalingrado.
LA ESTRELLA DEL NORTE (1943): dirigida por Lewis Milestone (Sin novedad en el frente) y con un elenco de actores de primera línea con Dana Andrews, Walter Huston Walter Brenan y Erich Von Stroheim; fue la respuesta que la MGM dio al presidente Roosevelt cuando este les comunicó a las grandes productoras que “América necesita un filme de nuestros aliados rusos. Debe ser un retrato bien estructurado que motive el suministro de apoyo al gobierno en su alianza con la Unión soviética���.
Es la película más conocida de toda esta serie. Es de buena factura y es de una candidez increíble con algunas secuencias que rayan en la ñoñería: granjeros rusos que viven en un país idílico, cantando La Internacional y completamente ajenos a la invasión nazi que se les venía encima.
En 1957 “rehicieron” la película: cambiaron el montaje y sobre todo los diálogos. Los hechos no ocurrían en Rusia sino en Hungría; una voz en off alertaba del peligro comunista y para perder la conexión con el original le cambiaron hasta el título por Armored Attack (afortunadamente hace pocos años se ha podido ver en su integridad original).
Como era de esperar la guionista Lillian Helman fue puesta en la lista negra y el director tuvo que huir a Europa para continuar su carrera.
SONG OF RUSSIA (1944): dirigida por Gregory Ratoff y Laslo Benedek es posiblemente la más conocida de esta serie junto a La estrella del Norte. Tuvo como actor estelar a Robert Taylor que luego para disculparse de esta aparición prosovietica declaró voluntariamente ante el HUAC denunciando a muchos compañeros. La película es la clásica historia de amor: poco antes del inicio de la guerra un director de orquesta norteamericano de gira por la Unión Soviética se enamora de una chica rusa. Luego en la guerra, ambos, símbolo de la unión de la US y de USA, lucharan frente a los alemanes.
THE RUSSIAN GIRLS (1943): dirigida por Henry S. Kesler y Fyodor Otsep narra las aventuras amorosas, en plena invasión nazi de la Unión Soviética, entre un piloto de aviación norteamericano herido y una voluntaria rusa de la Cruz Roja.
CONTRAATAQUE (1945): dirigida por Zoltan Korda y con Paul Muni entre sus actores. Adaptación de una obra de teatro que exaltaba el heroísmo de los soldados rusos ante los alemanes; el director de origen húngaro logra una buena película de género bélico.
Principio del formulario
DIAS DE GLORIA (1944): dirigida por Jacques Tourneur (La mujer pantera) y con la intervención de Gregory Peck. Tourneur dirige con eficacia la exaltación de los guerrilleros rusos ante los nazis, aunque sin grandes calidades artísticas y destacando las múltiples alabanzas a los soviéticos. A destacar que fue la primera película en la que Gregory Peck fue el actor principal.
13/7/2024
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tagged by @sliceofdyke hiiii maddie !!!
last song listened to: riptide by vance joy! i was showing my little cousin the next song she should learn on guitar lol
favourite place: my grandpas house. and dock hill in london everyone should go to dock hill
favourite book: ohhh wait this is actually hard. probably dear mr m by herman koch OR john dies at the end by david wong
currently reading: the tatami galaxy
favourite TV show: Home Improvement 100%
favourite food: prawn pasta or stir fry noodles like specifically from the restaraunt in my mothets hometown
tagging @hollowslantern @maxxxena @lodish @barazushi @liquidstar @squingy @singlularbraincel @unendingphantasm and @tapir tell me if u dont wanna be tagged !!
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working my wy through your mccarthy list! what are you reading atm?
ah, my beloved cormac!! I am reading the late great hilary mantel’s a place of greater safety right now 📚 my to-read list is currently:
⎯lincoln in the bardo by george saunders ⎯the assassination of margaret thatcher by hilary mantel ⎯the tie that binds by kent haruf ⎯wild houses by colin barrett ⎯the dinner by herman koch ⎯intermezzo by sally rooney, which I am v excited about ✨🤍
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L'infelicità è costantemente alla ricerca di compagnia. L'infelicità non tollera il silenzio, specialmente quei silenzi imbarazzanti che calano quando si è soli.
Herman Koch - La cena
Ph James Wigger
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Mid-Year Book Freak Out Tag
I am aware I'm a little late but I still wanted to do this tag!
Best book you've read in 2024 so far?
A Short Stay In Hell By Steven L. Peck
2. Best Sequel you've read in 2024 so far?
Waking Gods by Sylvain Neuvel
3. New release you haven’t read yet, but want to?
Evocation by S. T. Gibson
4. Most anticipated release for the second half of 2023?
Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid
5. Biggest disappointment?
The Dinner by Herman Koch
6. Biggest surprise?
Milk Teeth by Jessica Andrews
7. New favourite author?
David Sodergen (Who wrote Maggie's Grave, the Haar, the Forgotten Island, Night Shoot)
8. New fictional crush?
I couldn't think of any :/
9. Newest favourite character?
The nameless man from the Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
10. Book that made you cry?
The First to Die at the End by Adam Silvera
11. Book that made you happy?
Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
12. Favourite book to movie adaptation you’ve seen so far this year?
Poor things directed by Yorgos Lanthimos
13. What book do you really need to read by the end of this year?
I really need to finish the Arc of a Scythe series by Neil Shusterman because I started it and never finished.
#book#books#bookblr#book tag#mid year book tag#mid year book freakout tag#book community#book lover#reading#bookworm#booklr#book blog#books & libraries
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mid year book freak out (2024 edition)
Best book you've read in 2024: the dinner - herman koch. this shit went so crazy!!!
Best sequel you've read in 2024: haven't read any this year.
New release you haven't read but want to: private rites - julia armfield. literally cannot contain my excitement.
Most anticipated release for the second half of the year: the wild huntress - emily lloyd-jones. purely on account of that being the only book whose release date i'm aware of.
Biggest disappointment: the nest - cynthia d'aprix sweeney. could've been soooo good but it was sooooo boring. maybe i set my sights too high.
Biggest surprise: gonna cheat a little bit and say the hinterland doctrine. yes the death note fic. i went in completely blind and slurped that shit silly style. a delightful treat for real.
Favorite new author (debut or new to you): i'd like to read more emily lloyd-jones and emily austin. the year of the emilys i guess.
Newest fictional crush: uhhhh idk.
Newest favorite character: gen from the queen's thief really is quite charming and i'm looking forward to more his exploits.
Book that made you cry: nothing this year!
Book that made you happy: i... dont think...... ive read a single feel good happy book this year........
Favorite book to film adaptation that you've seen this year: nothing so far though maybe i'll take this as a sign to watch That vampire show
Most beautiful book you've bought so far (or received): probably one of the old pulpy sci fi books ive picked up and haven't read yet.
What books do you need to read by the end of the year: the road through the wall, paradais, the atlas complex, and the sunshine court are all in varying degrees of needing to be read.
How many books have you read so far: 19! my loose goal by this point was 12 books so we're ahead of the curve!
nobody tagged me but it fun!! if anyone wants to i'd be interested to see what everyone's reading this year 👀
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i read the dinner by herman koch a few years ago and one of the scenes i remember is when the narrator paul goes to the bathroom at a restaurant and theres a guy at the urinal peeing very loudly, which makes paul jealous and resentful, and he starts getting angry at elaborate made up scenarios of the pissing stranger showing off the virility of his powerful stream and gloating about it. or something. anyways this is jaimecore
#the book was whatever i liked it at the time but in retrospect i dont think it rlly stands out#summerhouse by swimming pool started off fun and got boring near the end
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If I had to give a definition of happiness, it would be this: happiness needs nothing but itself.
The Dinner, Herman Koch
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