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Ten Movies I Would Recommend

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According to my ratings on Netflix (I gave each of these five stars…), I think these are quality movies.

  • Offside (2006)
  • Shoplifters (2018)
  • The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
  • The Shape of Water (2017)
  • Night on Earth (1991)
  • Ronin Gai (1990)
  • Incendies (2010)
  • Cache (2005)
  • Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976)
  • Trouble in Paradise (1932)

Ten Books I Would Recommend

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According to my ratings on Goodreads (I gave each of these five stars…), I think these are quality books.

  • Stories and Early Novels: Pulp Stories / The Big Sleep / Farewell, My Lovely / The High Window by Raymond Chandler
  • Tales Too Ticklish to Tell: Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed
  • Inspector Saito’s Small Satori by Janwillem van de Wetering
  • The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
  • The Real Frank Zappa Book by Frank Zappa
  • The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand
  • The Severed Streets by Paul Cornell
  • Naples ’44: A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy by Norman Lewis
  • Winston, Newton, Elton, and Ed by James Stevenson
  • Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell

Apparently…

On Living Here Now
  • World Book Encyclopedia still sees print; World Book Encyclopedia 2020 is 22 volumes and retails for $1,199
  • Night of the Living Dead (1968) is in the public domain
  • Kelly Blue Book Used Car Guide last saw print in 2017
  • P.G. Wodehouse’s The Inimitable Jeeves and Leave it to Psmith entered the public domain on January 1, 2019 along with all works from 1923
  • Tennessee Williams choked to death from inhaling the plastic cap of a bottle of nasal spray
  • Lyndon Johnson’s campaign song was Hello, Lyndon; Carol Channing performed it at the Democratic National Convention
  • Cigarette ads in paperback books stopped around 1990 because tobacco companies decided that smokers were not readers