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Gone Baby Gone (rediculously good book made into a movie content)
http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/gonebabygone/trailer1/
Movie based on a book by Dennis Lehane, who wrote Mystic River...its from one of his 5 books in a series about these two PI's Kenzie and Gennaro and
arguably the best of the series. I've been waiting for this for a while now...so siked its not even funny....I'm going back to rewatch.
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I read this book a little while back, basically on the reccommendation of a fellow thorpster. It was excellent and I am soooo looking forward to this
one.
Lehane's other stuff is really good too.
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I just read somewhere that one of his newer books 'Shutter Island' has had it's picture rights bought by Wolfgang Peterson. Not sure how I feel on Mr
Posieden/Perfect Storm directing...but it could be sold too. He probably bought it up after Mystic River did so well.
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I just got Shutter Island off of Amazon a few days ago. Haven't had a chance to read it yet.
Just finished Sacred and Darkness Take My hand.
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Yeah I have it at home, haven't read it yet either. Knowing about the movie bumps it up on my list.
Just finished up 'Unfinished Business' by Joe Pistone which was the follow up to Donnie Brasco now that he can actually talk about more details after
all the trials.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Jason the Magnificent
Yeah I have it at home, haven't read it yet either. Knowing about the movie bumps it up on my list.
Just finished up 'Unfinished Business' by Joe Pistone which was the follow up to Donnie Brasco now that he can actually talk about more details after
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would you reccommend that one? I need some new stuff.
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i'm not much of a reader, but that movie looks good.
If I fail math, there goes my chance at a good job and a happy life full of hard work.
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It was good, but if you haven't actually read Donnis Brasco already I would read that instead. Thats an amazing book. Unfinished Business was good but
the first half was mostly covered in DB, it got very tangential towards the end...him coming out basically created the domino effect that starting
bringing down the mob in the RICO era. While he wasn't responsible for every mob bust there were reasons directly connected to him that made a lot of
it possible and he really just seems like he likes talking himself up at this point. I think he deserves all the credit in the world, but all of the
books and movies and spoken word tours seem like they're going to his head.
I read tons and tons of true crime stuff... but some of the better ones of those I've read recently
'Brutal' by Kevin Weeks about being with Whitey Bulger in Boston
'Double deal' by Mike Corbitt who was a corupt suburban Chicago cop in Sam Giancanna's pocket
'Under and Alone'...forget the author... its by/about the agent that infiltrated the Outlaws
last good fiction book I read (that wasn't written by Lehane haha) was The Winter of Frankie Machine by Don Winslow, I think I've brought it up on
here before because DeNiro's is directing/starring in the movie which he bought the rights to prior to the book even being released. It's about a
hitman who's retired and runs a bait shop and laundry service in San Fran (I think) and ends up getting framed for some stuff and having to get back
into the mix.
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Don't want to start yet another Frankie Machine thread, but now it looks like Scorsese is attached to direct DeNiro. Yes Virginia, there is a Santa
Claus.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by juandiablo
I just got Shutter Island off of Amazon a few days ago. Haven't had a chance to read it yet.
Just finished Sacred and Darkness Take My hand. |
Also , I finished Shutter Island...it's way different than his other stuff, great read but a slow start... almost a kind of Hitchcockian ending.
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'Under and Alone'...forget the author... its by/about the agent that infiltrated the Outlaws
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William Queen. Great book. The big deal about this guy was that he got fully patched into the Mongols (not Outlaws) and actually became an officer
in the club. A huge deal for an ATF agent.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by JUICE MAYNE MSHC
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'Under and Alone'...forget the author... its by/about the agent that infiltrated the Outlaws
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William Queen. Great book. The big deal about this guy was that he got fully patched into the Mongols (not Outlaws) and actually became an officer
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you are correct, been a while since I read it, great book.
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I think I'll check that out.
I'm reading A Drink Before The War right now when I have a few minutes here and there. Maybe I'll be able to sit and relax with it this morning for a
while.
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A little while ago I read this book called Born To Be Wild about a man named Robert Nauss who was in the Warlocks MC locally to where I grew up. He
was big time in the meth world in the 70s and murdered some people and they couldn't pin it on him, and he escaped from a max security prison and
stuff. It was great. It might have been better for me baing I was familiar with most of the settings and locations in the book, but if you come across
It I'd say give it a check. It's hard to come by unless you pull it off ebay or amazon for too much $ these days.
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that movie looks awsome. It looks similar to the style of MYSTIC RIVER sinec you pointed it out. The emotion the way it is written/directed really
brings out the ....well emotion. I saw that Ben Affleck had his hand in it somehow.
Each aspect of the soul has it's own part to play, but the ideal is harmonious agreement with reason and control.
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Yeah pretty much all Lehanes books are set in a "fictional" Boston. Affleck directed it, hence his brother starring, and when I first heard about it I
was worried...but after that preview I'm psyched.
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This Friday!!!!
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goin to see Murphy's Law on Friday
Goin to see this on Saturday....
a great weekend in store...
just finished reading Prayers For Rain on Friday...
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Thats a good one...I forget the exact line but when the mob guy told Patrick that Bubba said he'd hit the streets and start killing if anyone laid a
hand on him...hard stuff.
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I like the Bubba charachter.
Who's playin him in the movie?
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Slaine, hes some white irish rapper from Boston
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ha yeah i just looked that up on IMDB
i kinda like Slaine for some odd reason....
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yes, I'm being a total geek over this movie but now a featurette...
http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/gonebabygone/featurett...
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I was lookin at the cast on IMDB...
wasn't cheese a big fat fucker in the book?
and the mental picture i got of bubba was a dude that would be a bit bigget than Slaine
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Cheese was also white, he was called that because of his skin tone. Doyle...Freidmans char was also white I would guess....a police chielf in
dorchester....with the name Doyle...and Bubba was polish and I'd picture him bigger too, but I guess these are the small liberties we'll have to see
work or not work in the movie. I really don't care too much about cheese or doyle....bubba's character being on or not is my single biggest worry
about the movie. Honestly I kind of pictured Pat and Ang a bit older and more worn down too, but I read that if he was older Bennifer was supposed to
play him, I'm happy he picked little bro and stayed directing.
We'll see friday.
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