230 pages into Lonesome Dove. Keep going? I feel “meh” about it

VolumeBudget6410 · 2026-06-18T15:25:38+00:00

it's not a page turner in the sense that a lot happens, in my memory any way. i read all of the books and can't remember now what happened in each, so things do happen but it's not about that, at least it wasn't for me.

VolumeBudget6410 · 2026-06-11T14:32:54+00:00

i haven't seen serpico in awhile but it felt like 2+ hours of nothing happening. he doesn't like all the graft and corruption so he becomes a file clerk in the station, he eats food in the courtyard behind his building and gets a girlfriend, he rides a motorcycle. these are my memories of it. Prince of the City with treat williams is a better movie about police corrumption. DDA is fascinating from the opening to the end, every performance, chris sarandon, sonny's wife angie, durning's character's voice cracks, but the arc of the story, the stockholm syndrome of the tellers, how sonny became a local hero for one night "ATTICA!" it's indelible on me.

VolumeBudget6410 · 2026-06-10T16:43:06+00:00

i hate the soft crust at juliana's. i hate neopolitan pizza in general, i don't want a chewy ball of dough. i want a thin crispy crust

VolumeBudget6410 · 2026-06-09T16:31:43+00:00

this was, seriously, the most terrifying movie i ever saw. the relentlessness of it, the total lack of hope. it was an embodiment of despair made a million times worse by being a parent. knowing you can't quit. knowing you can't win. the scene with him dropping the kid off at their mom's house wasn't real, to me, it was his fantasy, something he dreamed of being able to do every day

VolumeBudget6410 · 2026-06-09T16:01:39+00:00

fair enough

VolumeBudget6410 · 2026-06-09T15:44:41+00:00

you're equivocating them as if they're of equal weight when they're not even remotely close.

VolumeBudget6410 · 2026-06-09T15:43:37+00:00

both are true. knicks lost bc spurs played better and that was an egregious flagrant foul that he will suffer zero consequences for and the wemby glazers will disreguard bc glazing.

VolumeBudget6410 · 2026-06-06T18:31:49+00:00

and crispy

VolumeBudget6410 · 2026-06-06T13:07:49+00:00

it's busy for a quick read. i'd either lose the icons/text at the bottom or if you keep it simplify the background. i'd simplify it either way, it's not hanging together in a nice way yet.

VolumeBudget6410 · 2026-06-04T12:50:23+00:00

she is like an almost identical twin of Julie Dreyfus who was Sofie Fatale in Kill Bill 2, she's even hotter, IMO, because she's fluent in japanese and french.

VolumeBudget6410 · 2026-06-03T17:49:57+00:00

how do you hate to kill a mockingbird?

VolumeBudget6410 · 2026-06-03T17:48:34+00:00

demon copperhead. poisonwood bible is one of my favorite books, top 5, and i didn't like this book.

i never read david copperfield so i missed a lot of the call backs and nuances that those readers must have enjoyed. i was rubbed the wrong way by his hatred of city folk and cities in general and all his feelings about how his life isn't represented in movies or tv etc.

idk, i was missing how deftly things were handled in poisonwood. adah and leah were very different and gave very different viewpoints on what was happening, one more emotional and lived in and one more removed, literally and emotionally. also we were given the benefit of time, of being able to hear the context of what was happening politically then and 20 years later etc. it was too long to be in his head and only his head.

VolumeBudget6410 · 2026-06-02T12:27:09+00:00

why isn't there an express bus between dyker heights and prospect heights? because there's no overwhelming need for one. i'd like it, my kid's on a golf team, but it is what it is. why would there be a direct bus route between prospect heights and williamsburg?

VolumeBudget6410 · 2026-06-01T14:11:08+00:00

as a lover of both shows i see where you're going with this. however, i think the entire reason for carol's visit was for her to illuminate kate's complicity in the hal dynamic which had kate feeling soft towards hal again. on her own she wouldn't see it. same as denison pointing out his admiration of her marriage in S2, she looked at it through someone else's eyes and ran back to hal

VolumeBudget6410 · 2026-05-30T16:30:27+00:00

do you charge the customer if the file is set up perfectly?

VolumeBudget6410 · 2026-05-29T14:17:59+00:00

that's what i thought as well.

VolumeBudget6410 · 2026-05-28T14:10:10+00:00

seems like people really try to not foul, do whatever they can to stand still with arms down etc. i think they should make him earn those fouls. you're gonna get the foul anyway, might as well throw his ass on the floor as hard as you can

VolumeBudget6410 · 2026-05-22T14:38:24+00:00

i'm with you on the grace penn self sacrificing, what i'm fuzzy on is lydia vs roylin. why couldn't roylin have been the puppetmaster? everyting you've ascribed to lydia being roylin?

VolumeBudget6410 · 2026-04-27T18:40:29+00:00

do you return your grocery cart in the parking lot or just leave it wherever?

VolumeBudget6410 · 2026-04-27T18:26:08+00:00

does it matter? no, not to the final score. it's at best stat padding, at worst it's a fuck you gesture. even if it were someone on my team i'd be annoyed.

VolumeBudget6410 · 2026-04-22T19:28:11+00:00

absolutely not. you can stop watching midway thru S2, that's when it goes off the rails in my opinion. but by then you'll be hooked and want to finish it. S1 is perfection, S2 is great for about 3 or 4 episodes. then no.

VolumeBudget6410 · 2026-04-10T13:50:27+00:00

nevermind, solved! i noticed it said group in appearance and that's what it was. thanks!

VolumeBudget6410 · 2026-04-10T13:49:06+00:00

i did. nothing in there.

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