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Abandoned books and/or movies #11

These are the books I have stopped reading over the past three months.

Rat Girl-- Kristin Hersh

Eating Mud Crabs in Kandahar: Stories of Food During Wartime by the World's Leading Correspondents-- edited by Matt McAllester

Intern Nation-- Ross Perlin

Skyjack: The Hunt for D.B. Cooper-- Geoffrey Gray

Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts-- Julian Rubinstein

Los Macheteros: The Wells Fargo Robbery and the Violent Struggle for Puerto Rican Independence-- Ronald Fernandez

Foucault's Pendulum-- Umberto Eco

Ocean's of Words-- Ha Jin

Sleeping Where I Fall-- Peter Coyote

A Radical Line-- Thai Jones

The Making of Black Revolutionaries-- James Forman

Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour-- David Bianculli

Abandoned Books and/or Movies #5

Finn McCool's Football Club: The Birth, Death, and Resurrection of a Pub Soccer Team in the City of the Dead by Stephen Rea

Stephen Rea is from Northern Ireland. His wife is from North Carolina. In 2004 they moved to New Orleans. In New Orleans, Stephen Rea found a pub called Finn McCool's where he liked to hang out, drink, and watch European football matches on cable television. He and his friends there formed a soccer team of their own. Soon after that, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. After the hurricane was over, some of the members of the team moved back to New Orleans, began rebuilding, and reformed the team. Later, Stephen Rea wrote a book about the whole thing.

The book covers three areas:

• Watching, talking about, and occasionally playing soccer; these parts of the book were boring.
• Stephen Rea's views on U.S. life and culture; these parts were uninformed and often insulting.
• Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath; these parts were interesting-- I tried to find and read most of them.

The Monkees: The Zany Adventures of Davy, Peter, Micky, and Mike -- Those Lovable and Wonderful Monkees by Gene Fawcette and Howard Liss

This book was published in 1966 for an original price of 50 cents. It is a comic book about the Monkees having adventures on a dude ranch, at a beauty contest, and battling corrupt Mexican inventors. For obvious reasons, I was unable to finish this book.

What I have been listening to lately #24

The show is Solid Gold 1979. The song is "Tusk" by Fleetwood Mac, and the USC marching band has come along just for fun.

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