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03-13-2013, 07:16 PM
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Unknown treasures
Inspired by the Blue Highways thread.
What are the little known books and movies that hit your favorites list? Try to limit it to 2-3 of each.
Here's my start:
Movie - Paris, Texas. Too slow for today's moviegoers. No gore, no sex. Great character development, Harry Dean Stanton at his best
Book - Cities in Flight trilogy by James Blish. Earth as a dead planet with cities leaving and being migrant workers for the universe, eventually to return to earth.
I'm sure this group will add to my list of books to read and movies to watch.
Mike
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03-13-2013, 08:15 PM
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Books - Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
The Gunslinger series by Stephen King
Early Dean Koontz
***Empires of Sand by David Ball (one of the best books I've ever read)
anything by Bill Bryson, especially A Walk in the Woods
anything about Arctic exploration
Anything by Larry McMurtry
Yes, mostly novels but I digress
Movies - for lack of memory at the moment I'll have to go with anything that the Coen Bros have done, or possibly The Shawshank Redemption
Oops, looks like I missed the 'little known' part the first go round.
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03-13-2013, 08:32 PM
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Re: Unknown treasures
Yeah, I've got a ton well known books I love to reread. But, mostly everyone has been exposed to them.
Lonesome Dove is the best of the Western genre, ever.
Mike
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03-13-2013, 08:47 PM
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Re: Unknown treasures
The Big Sky, by A. B. Guthrie, Jr., is the ultimate western or book about the west. I'd also say Blood Meridian should be on everyone's list ... you may not like it, but it's definitely a western. I also thought Riders of the Purple Sage, by Zane Grey, was a classic read since it was one of the first to have all the elements of what we think of as a western novel.
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03-13-2013, 09:03 PM
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+1 for Blood Meridian. Phenomenal book.
Ok, Rare movies, not necessarily travel
oriented -
Mother Lode with Charlton Heston
The Last Chase with Lee Majors
My Bodyguard
Treasure of the Yankee Zephyr
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03-13-2013, 09:16 PM
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Haven't read Blood Meridian yet but I am working my way through McCarthy's work although very slowly, mostly because the violence is not my style. However, I make an exception because he's so good.
For a truly little known gem, try Hard Twist by Barbara Van Cleve. True stories of western ranch women with great photos. No mythology here--just the reality of life on remote ranches with no city's comforts.
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03-13-2013, 11:04 PM
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Re: Unknown treasures
Can't say if these are hidden, but a few good road movies are:
Transamerica w/Felicity Huffman
Jackpot by the Polish Brothers
Two-Lane Blacktop natch
Desert films:
Gerry by Gus Van Sant--if you're in the mood.
Twenty Nine Palms by Bruno Dumont--universally despised except by me.
Books:
Don Delillo's Point Omega is a fascinating little book set partly in the desert.
Vagabond for Beauty changed my life
Then there is this art film w/SMB content:
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03-14-2013, 03:24 AM
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Re: Unknown treasures
I'll second "A walk in the Woods"
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03-14-2013, 10:14 AM
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Re: Unknown treasures
City of Lost Children, a very strange movie with Ron Pearlman.
any book by John Sanford
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03-14-2013, 10:29 AM
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Re: Unknown treasures
Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeta
Then there is this art film w/SMB content:
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Now I know why no chickens flew out of your top when you shot the vid of opening it.
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