What are you reading in 2022?

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I ordered Danger on the Silver Screen: 50 Films Celebrating Cinema's Greatest Stunts (Turner Classic Movies) and got it today, I'm going to start reading it. I saw it advertised on TCM and looked at it on amazon and thought I would enjoy it.

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Turner Classic Movies presents a heart-racing look into the world of stunt work featuring films that capture the exhilaration of a car chase, the comedy of a well timed prat fall, or the adrenaline rush from a fight scene complete with reviews, behind-the-scenes stories, and hundreds of photographs.

Buckle in and join TCM on a action-packed journey through the history of cinema stunt work in Danger on the Silver Screen. This action-packed guide profiles 50 foundational films with insightful commentary on the history, importance, and evolution of an often overlooked element of film: stunt work. With insightful commentary and additional recommendations to expand your repertoire based on your favorites, Danger on the Silver Screen is a one-of-a-kind guide, perfect for film lovers to learn more about or just brush up on their knowledge of stunt work and includes films such as Ben-Hur (1925 & 1959), The Great K&A Train Robbery (1926), Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928), The Thing from Another World (1951), Bullitt (1968), Live and Let Die (1973), The Blues Brothers (1980), Romancing the Stone (1984), The Matrix (1999), The Bourne Supremacy (2004), John Wick (2014), Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation (2015), Atomic Blonde (2017), and many more.

 

[Richards]

I'm reading the next in the D.D. Warren series by Lisa Gardner, When You See Me. This time they're finding 15-year-old bodies of women who were buried in the Georgia mountains, which may or may not tie in with D. D. Warren's confidential informant, Flora, who was herself kidnapped and abused for over a year by a truck driver years ago.

Johnathan

 

[HawaiiSteveO]

1/2 way through Rhythm of War, liking it much more this time around. I absolutely blasted through it when it first came out and missed a lot. Not a series you want to hurry through for sure .

 

[Mallus]

I’m still reading Spencer Ackerman’s Reign of Terror. It’s a fantastic account of the post-9/11 War on Terror and its effect on the US political landscape. Written by a national security journalist who is also an expert on the X-Men! I’m on my 3rd renewal from the library. It’s so infuriating I keep putting it down.

Also rereading Bank’s Consider Phlebas. Might give the whole Culture cycle another go.

 

[Richards]

I just started a book called Queen of Dragons by Shana Abé. It's set in the Carpathian Mountains in the 1770s and details a race of shape-shifting dragons, the drákons, who can apparently take on human form or become mist. (I suspect there's going to be a tie to the belief of vampirism based on that mist-form, considering the Transylvanian setting.) So far so good, although I just started it this morning.

Johnathan

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

1/2 way through Rhythm of War, liking it much more this time around. I absolutely blasted through it when it first came out and missed a lot. Not a series you want to hurry through for sure .

For some reason, this book in the series took me 3 different times to get through. Which is weird, because I read the first three in one go. All three of them combined only took me two or three weeks to finish, but the Rhythm of War easily took me a month on its own.

 

[Cadence]

Read the first three Inspector Alleyn books by Marsh, and a bit more of Merritt's Dwellers in the Mirage. 1619 is still sitting at about the half-way point.

Picked up a bunch of Josephine Tey and Dashel Hammett (never read any of either, exposed to the later in other media). Currently reading Tey's first Inspector Grant book.

 

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I ordered Danger on the Silver Screen: 50 Films Celebrating Cinema's Greatest Stunts (Turner Classic Movies) and got it today, I'm going to start reading it. I saw it advertised on TCM and looked at it on amazon and thought I would enjoy it.

Finished it up and I did enjoy it. It gives a nice view of the history of stunt work in Hollywood and points out that while the Mythbusters' busted the using a knife down a sail, Douglas Fairbanks managed to do it himself.

 

[jdrakeh]

Right now, I'm re-reading The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine which is one of the single most fascinating books that I've ever read.

 

[Nellisir]

Just finished Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke. A nice, fast read. Enjoyed it. 4/5