The Cephalopod Coffeehouse: April 2015: "George Harrison: Behind The Locked Door" and "All You Need Is Kill"

Reading has become a luxury I don't seem to be able to afford recently.  However, in the last few weeks I have finished TWO distinctly different books.

First, I read the book All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka.  This was the novel that inspired last summer's Tom Cruise sci-fi action flick "Edge of Tomorrow".  I really enjoyed the movie and was please I had seen it previous to reading this book.  While the book was enjoyable, I felt some of the concepts were actually fleshed out a bit better on the big screen.

Secondly, I grabbed George Harrison: Behind the Locked Door by Graeme Thomson on a whim at the library last month.  I once joked I had four constant friends growing up and they were named John, Paul, George and Ringo.  In my teens, I read a lot of Beatle biographies plus the big ones about John and Paul.  Ringo was Ringo and I never bothered to learn much about him beyond the highlights.  There was, however, a dearth of information on George.

This book does a wonderful job of uncovering who George really was.  There is lots of first hand accounts and interviews with those closest to Harrison.  It is a fascinating read.

I place this with the best Beatle related books I have read.

--------

The idea is simple: on the last Friday of each month, post about the best book you've finished over the past month while visiting other bloggers doing the same.  In this way, we'll all have the opportunity to share our thoughts with other enthusiastic readers.  Please join us HERE!

This Day In History: October 6, 1969

For the first time in Beatles history a George Harrison song got the A side of a 45, "Something"/"Come Together."

 

(I hope the video is still available!)

Blogging From A To Z: T is for

...Time Bandits.

One of the first movies I ever saw multiple times in the theater (along with 9 to 5 the previous year, and Dragonslayer during the summer of the same year as Time Bandits.)  I love everything about this movie, from the opening sequence through to the end song and little snippet after the credits.

This day in history...

2001 - George Harrison died at the age of 58. He had been undergoing treatments for cancer.

When I learned of George's dying, I remarked it made me sad because in high school, four of my best friends were named John, Paul, George, and Ringo. They got me through a lot of "high school" stuff.

The woman I was eating with remarked on the coincidence of me having four friends with the same names as The Beatles.

She wasn't very bright.

This Date in History...

1969 - For the first time in Beatles history a George Harrison song got the A side of a 45, "Something"/"Come Together."