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Thanks Sam! I'm quite pleased to see you liked "Film Maudit", particularly in such company.

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I have just finished reading On the Trail of the Assassins by Jim Garrison for the second time (the first was in 1999). A great book by a real hero.

Also, I recommend the director's cut of JFK, a mesmerizing film based on the book. The Blu-Ray edition includes the JFK: The Question of Conspiracy documentary, two multimedia essays and about an hour of deleted scenes, so it is really worth it, in my view.

I also look forward to watching the The Untold History of the United States TV series, also by Oliver Stone, and maybe reading the companion book he wrote with Peter Kuznick.

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Last weekend I finished reading George MacDonald's Lilith. It is a great book, and rather different from other Victorian phantasies. There is a tremendous bestiary of hideous monsters and ghoulish spectres from shunned, fear-haunted dimensions herein and a scene that carries the ultra-potency of Eternity. MacDonald is often ranked alongside Tolkien and Lewis and other optimistic and Christian fantaisistes (his The Golden Key is being reprinted by Pegana Press, thus putting the great Scottish fantaisiste in the company of Clark Ashton Smith and Dunsany), yet, whilst Christianity is not entirely absent, MacDonald's book does not strike me as being overtly preachy. I also began and finished Frank Belknap Long's memoir of Lovecraft, Dreamer on the Nightside. It is full of fine observations and amusements; though Long did know Lovecraft in person, I would say that S.T. Joshi does know Lovecraft better than anyone else.

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Black Dog and How the Marquis Got His Coat Back, two short stories/novellas by Neil Gaiman. I found them to be severely lacking and underwhelming. I also reread Watchmen; it is still a masterpiece.

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Battling Boy by Paul Pope, one of the best artists out there, even though I hate the fact that he is a Libertarian.

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Aeschylus The Orestia.

I've decided to go back to the beginning. It is amazing. Hadn't read it since high school and my God has it aged well (or maybe I aged well, not sure).

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On Love and Death by Patrick Süskind, a little book that is an essay about, well, love and death. Great book by a great, if not prolific, author. I've read everything he published (not much) and enjoyed it tremendously.

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Do audiobooks count? Just finished listening to Lovecraft's Dunwich Horror and Shadow Over Innsmouth. Also Wittginstein's Tractatus Logico-philosophicus, and am over halfway through Dick's Galactic Pot-Healer. Am currently rereading Harold Bloom's Genius over and over, and just started Dickens' Pickwick Papers.

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I say audiobooks absolutely count.