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I played Will Pentland and understudied W.O. Gant. The show ran nearly 2 years on Broadway. Anthony Perkins was Eugene Gant.
Was the show you played in highschool the same they ran on Broadway? Or an abridged one?
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Junot Diaz's THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE HER
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Sep 17, 2012 - 4:49 PM
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mastadge
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I have just finished reading The Killer Inside Me, which was ace. You can't go wrong with Jim Thompson.
I might start American Tabloid next. But has anyone read Horns? By, Joe Hill, i think, Stephen King's son? Someone lent it us and I've got to read it soon anyway.
I've read Horns. It was very readable, often very amusing, but not great. His next novel, NOS4A2, is coming soon, and I'm looking forward to reading it.
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Sep 18, 2012 - 6:50 AM
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Brad Wills
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Shameless self-promotion but...
In a bit of a different vein, I'm reading out loud. I've just dipped my toes into the world of audiobook narration and my first project, MUGS BIRDSONG'S CRIME ACADEMY is now available on Audible. Here's the publisher's summary:
After being reformed for five years in the Wyoming pen, the celebrated criminal Mugs Birdsong decides to found a crime academy that will instruct lawmen on the ways of means of lawlessness. He sets up shop in an abandoned orphanage in Rock Springs, and soon is instructing classes in bank robbery, train robbery, and various other sterling occupations. He sells autographed wanted posters, and persuades a banker to let him stage a mock robbery at the bank, for the benefit of his students - and that's when the fun begins.
I had a great time with this with this picaresque tale, and it afforded me the opportunity to use a host of character voices and broad characterizations. It's a very entertaining story, and at three hours, it's a perfect afternoon (or two) passer.
Here's the link. Please take a look, and I hope you enjoy!!
http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_1_1?asin=B009AEVUYM&qid=1347972225&sr=1-1
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"The Sand Pebbles" by Richard McKenna
Wonderful book. One of my favorites.
Since I am watching every episode of TV's MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE, I read a couple of the novelizations. Really didn't care for them. The characters didn't behave or think as they did in the show. It was as if the writer hadn't seen an episode of the program. And I suspect they had a foreign writer as some word spellings were British.
I also recently read "Quiller," by Adam Hall, a follow-up to his book "The Quiller Memorandum." His style is somewhat in the vein of John LeCarre's George Smiley books in that the spy game is very unglamorous and hinges on small things and human behavior.
I also just went through several thriller adventures by Matthew Reilly which move at breakneck speed, hardly letting up for a moment. He combines the techno flash of Tom Clancy with the sort of lost civilizations favored by Graham Hancock. Fun stuff.
I've moved on to "American Lightning," by Howard Blum, with the cover blurb "Terror, mystery, the birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century." It's a very readable true story involving Clarence Darrow, a famous detective of the day, Billy Burns, and D.W. Griffith. Everything revolves around some anarchist type bombings, the most notable destroying the building in which the L.A. Times was housed and killing 21 people. What Burns uncovers is extremely interesting.
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