Finished Bruce Lee : A Life

Covers his death in some detail. It seems there really isn't much of a mystery. One was created so as to avoid a scandal as he was found dead in his mistress' bed with pot in his stomach. He loved his pot and hash.

He almost died a month earlier with heat stroke; he was especially sensitive to heat it seems. He had his sweat glands removed from his armpits which would have only made him more vulnerable. His brain swelled as a result of it. This may have been made worse by the meds he was taking for pain which was the result of a long term injury he sustained in the gym when he didn't warm up properly years before.

The opinion is he died of heat stroke which caused his brain to swell. He was exhausted after making Enter the Dragon which he put crazy hours into and had lost weight. He was enjoying his woman in the Hong Kong summer heat in an apartment with poor ventilation. That on top of his weakened state (a 2nd heat stroke is quite likely) and his body just couldn't take it.

I hadn't realised he died before Enter the Dragon was released. Sad that. 

It's also easy to not realise Kung Fu was unknown in the West before he came along. His impact was quite something; esp considering the amount of martial arts that abound now in films.

Good book if you are interested in the man.

Face, has anyone ever told you that you have an angular, brutalist, minimal piece of Spartan arse?

The Daddy wrote:

Face is lumpen, self-loathing, fleshy and grey.

Accurate.

I finished Something Wicked This Way Comes last night.  I liked it well enough, but this was my third Bradbury book in a row and I was getting anxious to move on to a new author.  He has a very particular way of writing that’s oftentimes staccato in its rhythms, and I wasn’t sold on much on his dialogue.  Just like Halloween candy you can sometimes have a little too much of it.

Have now started Novik’s Uprooted.  By comparison the prose here is a little...workmanlike, but it’s probably the perfect antidote to the sugar rush of Bradbury.

Raiziel wrote:

I finished Something Wicked This Way Comes last night.  I liked it well enough, but this was my third Bradbury book in a row and I was getting anxious to move on to a new author.  He has a very particular way of writing that’s oftentimes staccato in its rhythms, and I wasn’t sold on much on his dialogue.  Just like Halloween candy you can sometimes have a little too much of it. Have now started Novik’s Uprooted.  By comparison the prose here is a little...workmanlike, but it’s probably the perfect antidote to the sugar rush of Bradbury.

Read that one a loooonnggg time ago. Enjoyed it.  That's the one with the merry-go-round ?   I read it and The Halloween tree in succession. Think it was in a similar setting.

I’m struggling with Uprooted a bit.  It’s not very well written.

That’s my opinion.

EDIT: I actually said not very well written as opposed to badly.  It isn’t badly written, but it feels like it’s at the lowest possible publishable quality.  Dialogue’s a bit cringe too.

I’m going to keep going with it, but I’ve already removed Spinning Silver from my wish list.

Raiz confirmed myso

Just me being silly

I'm messing the end of The Wheel of Osheim. Midway through Milkman too. Gonna finish that then have too many books to choose between...

Haven't read any Abercrombie except the two main trilogies - the other novels/novellae worth it then?

acemuzzy wrote:

I'm messing the end of The Wheel of Osheim. Midway through Milkman too. Gonna finish that then have too many books to choose between...

Haven't read any Abercrombie except the two main trilogies - the other novels/novellae worth it then?

If you liked them, then yes. His best two books, I think, are Best Served Cold and The Heroes. Sharp Ends is great fun too.

Both

Only revolutions

I’ve read a bunch of Pynchon but always struggle with the hotel bit in V. takes the wind right out of my sails.

Infinite Jest was a breeze, it’s got so much going on it never felt like a chore to get through.