BN Book Club

big hat carmen · Post by **big hat carmen** » February 19, 2005 12:14 pm

I finished Gift from the Sea, awesome work.

Will start Florida Roadkill today, I have a bad cold and need to rest and read.

Gotta get Key Weird ordered.

Terry, have you read Mr. Timothy? A It is a continuation of A Christmas Carol with Tiny Tim as an adult.

East Texas Parrothead · February 19, 2005 12:20 pm

big hat carmen wrote:I finished Gift from the Sea, awesome work.

Will start Florida Roadkill today, I have a bad cold and need to rest and read.

Gotta get Key Weird ordered.

Terry, have you read Mr. Timothy? A It is a continuation of A Christmas Carol with Tiny Tim as an adult.

No. Sounds great. I'll order it.

I've got DIRTY WORK at the office. Stone Barrington series by Stuart Woods. Okay, but not wonderful.

conched · Post by **conched** » February 22, 2005 8:41 pm

Key Weird arrived today!

I opened it and saw the quote...When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. H. S. Thompson

I'm going to start on it tonight, although I had already started on Wind from the Carolinas. Unlike ETP, I still feel like escaping to the islands and reading Jimmy related books.

WFTCarolinas is quite different than our Tim Dorsey and other Key West books. I will be reading on that one for quite a while.

I already noticed the family tree lists Juan Cadiz. Is there really a Juan Cadiz or is he another bandmember, alter ego of Jimmy's?

I know he dedicated an album to Juan Cadiz and I've seen pictures of Jimmy wearing a t-shirt with Juan Cadiz on it. Any help???

Sidew13 · Post by **Sidew13** » February 22, 2005 8:45 pm

Key Weird arrived today
gotta finish Hitchhickers Guide first

big hat carmen · Post by **big hat carmen** » February 22, 2005 9:02 pm

Ordered Key Weird

Sidew13 · Post by **Sidew13** » February 22, 2005 9:03 pm

big hat carmen wrote:Ordered Key Weird

couldn't hold out could ya

East Texas Parrothead · February 22, 2005 10:03 pm

KEY WEIRD did not arrive at the Mojito Manse today.

I'm reading a Stuart Woods - DIRTY WORK - at the office.

I'll just wait on KW. Sail on HT. Sail on.

nutmeg · Post by **nutmeg** » February 23, 2005 9:09 am

Has anyone read the Rita Mae & Squeaky Pie Brown mysteries?

Mysteries featuring cats and dogs....

Nicki · Post by **Nicki** » February 23, 2005 12:58 pm

My Key Weird came today - hope yours did, too, ETP. I noticed the Hunter Thompson quote right away, conched. I would like to start it tonight but I have a meeting and then, of course, must listen to whatever part of the Charlotte show is left when I get home.

nutmeg, I haven't read those mystries but will have to try them. I have read some of the Lillian Braun "The Cat Who . . ." series. Love those kitties!

margaritagrl26 · Post by **margaritagrl26** » February 23, 2005 1:17 pm

So am I correct to admit Key Weird is the book we are all currently on??
If so I'll go ahead and order it.
and if stuff ever settles around here Ill get started on it.

East Texas Parrothead · February 23, 2005 3:16 pm

nutmeg wrote:Has anyone read the Rita Mae & Squeaky Pie Brown mysteries?

Mysteries featuring cats and dogs....

I've read all of 'em. They're terrific. I wait for each new one.

East Texas Parrothead · February 23, 2005 3:17 pm

Nicki wrote:My Key Weird came today - hope yours did, too, ETP. I noticed the Hunter Thompson quote right away, conched. I would like to start it tonight but I have a meeting and then, of course, must listen to whatever part of the Charlotte show is left when I get home.

nutmeg, I haven't read those mystries but will have to try them. I have read some of the Lillian Braun "The Cat Who . . ." series. Love those kitties!

Did not come today. Am home with a bad tummy.

Would have enjoyed the read.

East Texas Parrothead · February 24, 2005 6:49 pm

Wooo hoooo!!!!

Amazon sent my an email confirming shipment today.

Nicki · Post by **Nicki** » February 24, 2005 8:02 pm

I am really, really enjoying Key Weird - lots of laughs and some other interesting things which I will wait to discuss until others are reading it - enjoy, everybody

Hope you are feeling better ETP and have a great weekend all

East Texas Parrothead · February 25, 2005 6:43 pm

Nicki wrote:I am really, really enjoying Key Weird - lots of laughs and some other interesting things which I will wait to discuss until others are reading it - enjoy, everybody Hope you are feeling better ETP and have a great weekend all

I'm feeling so good, Nicki. Thanks for thinking of me.

No KEY WEIRD in the mail today. B*U*M*M*E*R.

I'm going to the library to find something for the week-end.

Take care, everyone. Happy reading!

conched · Post by **conched** » February 26, 2005 12:34 pm

Nicki wrote:I am really, really enjoying Key Weird - lots of laughs and some other interesting things which I will wait to discuss until others are reading it - enjoy, everybody Hope you are feeling better ETP and have a great weekend all

Nicki,
I decided to finish reading Winds From The Carolinas before I do Key Weird.

WFTC is one of the best books I have ever read. Has anyone else read it...I'm probably the only one who hasn't

It is one that was on Jimmy's list. The Juan Cadiz character is the absolute BEST.

Better go finish that one today...it is over 600 pages and I'm really, really enjoying it. Many times I have laughted out loud and I have cried. It has all kinds of historical events and geography of Bahamas, etc.

conched · Post by **conched** » February 26, 2005 12:37 pm

sonofabeach wrote:
MangoPress wrote:Amazon has gotten behind on stocking Key Weird, so there's a two-three week wait at this time. Several letters to Amazon about this have netted some vague form letters and a couple additional small orders. Amazon will get the books to you, it's just going to take a little while.

In the meantime, you can still get Key Weird from http://www.tacobob.com if you're signed up with PayPal. It's a little cheaper and usually ships the next day. Sorry for any inconvenience Amazon may be causing.

Blue Lonesome sounds good to me btw, I'll try to check it out. How about 92 in the Shade? I think that was written about the time JB first hit the Keys.
Ya know,I've had "92 in the Shade" for quite some time and have started reading it about 3 times before it just started seeming very strange.
Funny because it's not a very long book either.
But now with me reading Tim Dorsey's zany books maybe I can get through it. I know there's a movie of it starring Peter Fonda but it's very hard to find.

I got the movie 92 in the Shade and watched it last night. That was one strange, awful movie. I was vaguely familiar with the storyline from the book, but HOW BORING.

The saving grace of the movie is all the great old shots of Key West.

SchoolGirlHeart · Post by **SchoolGirlHeart** » February 26, 2005 12:40 pm

I'm behind the power curve, and just finished Fluke. What a hoot!!!

Nicki · Post by **Nicki** » February 26, 2005 1:03 pm

Conched - I will definitely put Winds From The Carolinas on my "to read" list - thanks for the recommendation.

East Texas Parrothead · February 26, 2005 7:39 pm

SchoolGirlHeart wrote:I'm behind the power curve, and just finished Fluke. What a hoot!!!

I'm re-reading it. Already. Am going to order WFC. Sounds good.

Haven't read that much island fiction. But have read Derek Walcott's OMERUS.

The major West Indian poet and dramatist writing in English today. Derek Walcott has lived most of his life in Trinidad. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1992. Walcott has studied the conflict between the heritage of European and West Indian culture, the long way from slavery to independence, and his own role as a nomad between cultures. His poems are characterized by allusions to the English poetic tradition and a symbolic imagination that is at once personal and Caribbean.

Walcott's has called himself "a mulatto of style." His most ambitious work is considered the epic poem OMEROS (1990), which takes its title from the Greek word for 'Homer', and recalls the dramas of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey in a Caribbean setting. It consist of sixty-four chapters divided into seven books. The central characters are two fishermen, Achilles and Philocrete. Among its subjects are sufferings of exile and the contemporary Caribbean life. The task of the bard is sing of lost lives and a new hope. The Odyssean figure of Shabine in 'The Schooner Flight' expresses his rage against racism and rejection of colonial culture: "I'm just a red nigger who love the sea, / I had a sound colonial education, / I have Dutch, nigger and English in me, / and either I'm nobody, or I'm a nation."

OMERUS made me weep with the beauty of the language. I'm not really a poetry person, but I made an exception for this one. You can taste the salty air and feel the trade winds. And it's even more beautiful read aloud.

Took me almost a year to finish it, but OMG, it was beautiful.