Saturday, July 14, 2012
First Lines: Robert Penn Warren - All the King's Men
To get there you follow Highway 58, going northeast out of the city, and it is a good highway and new.
Friday, July 13, 2012
Thursday, July 12, 2012
First Lines: Raphael Sabatini - Scaramouche
He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Intruder in the Dust (1949)
In 1940s Mississippi two teenage boys and an elderly woman combine forces to prevent a miscarriage of justice and clear a black man of a murder charge.
Simple, but congenial adaptation of William Faulkner's anti-racist novel.
Leaves of Grass (2009)
An Ivy League professor is lured back to his Oklahoma hometown, where his twin brother, a small-time pot grower, has concocted a scheme to take down a local drug lord.
Off-kilter farce which isn't as humorous as it intends to be, but has its moments.
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
First Lines: E.B. White - Charlotte’s Web
(art: Garth Williams)
Where's Papa going with that axe?' said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast.
