Deliverance | 
"The first words I really remember were said very clearly. What a view. *What* a view. But I had my eyes closed. The river was running in my mind, and I raised my lids and saw exactly what had been the image of my thought. For a second I did not know what I was seeing and what I was imagining; there was such an utter sameness that it didn‘t matter; both were the river."
"The sun fell behind the right side of the gorge, and the shadow of the bank crossed the water so fast that it was like a quick step from one side to the other."
"In a while more we came out against the side of a bank that shelved up, covered with ferns and leaves that were mulchy like shit."
"I had watched everything that had happened to Bobby, had heard him scream and squall, and wanted to reassure him that we could set all that aside; that it would be forgotten as soon as we left the woods, or as soon as we got back in the canoes. But there was no way to say this, or to ask him how his lower intestine felt or whether he thought he was bleeding internally."
Masculinity is so alienating that you can't even take care of your bros ?
"Griner set his heavy-hanging face on Lewis; they battled in midair; the sound of crickets in the grass around the garage clashed like shields and armor plate."
"It was dark and iron-smelling, hot with the closed-in heat that brings the sweat out as though it had been waiting all over your body for the right signal."
"When Lewis killed the engine, the air came alive and shook with insects, even in the center of town, an in-and-out responding silence of noise."
"Up ahead, the road ran between two hills. Lined up dead center between them was a mountain, high, broad and blue, the color of concentrated woodsmoke."
"We hummed along, borne with the inverted canoe on a long tide of patent medicines and religious billboards. From such a trip you would think that the South did nothing but dose itself and sing gospel songs; you would think that the bowels of the southerner were forever clamped shut; that he could not open and let natural process flow through him, but needed one purgative after another in order to make it to church."
"He was devoted to his family, particularly to his little boy Pope, who had some kind of risen hornlike blood blister on his forehead that his eyebrow grew out of and around in a way to make you realize the true horrors of biology."
pickI loved this adventure gone wrong story. Narrated by actor Will Patton, who was also excellent. Maybe I'll actually watch the movie now.
pickJust enjoyed a re-read of this classic thriller in a vintage paperback (shout-out to McKay‘s used books in Chattanooga, TN!). While the (awesome) movie may be a pop culture punchline at times, the novel about a wilderness nightmare experienced by four suburban men on a canoe trip is fast-moving, frightening, and still of considerable psychological interest in our day. Read this one on a camping trip if you can, preferably by flashlight.
Trying to read more backlist this year. The movie was set in Georgia at Carters Lake. My husband and I have spent some time up there and it prompted me to put this on my TBR
pickFour city slickers head up into the wilderness of Northern Georgia to paddle down a river that will soon be dammed up and flooded over. What could go wrong? This was very engaging first-person narrative. I could not put it down.
"It unrolled slowly, forced to show is colors, curling and snapping back whenever one of us turned loose."
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#SurvivalSituation is probably one of my least favorite tropes...it often stresses me out (which is probably an indication of how well the book is written) but I really was amazed by Deliverance. Dickey got the balance right for my sensitive readerly constitution. 😬
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When the universe is kind ! lf I finish Wolf Hall, I will be needing Bringing Up The Bodies for #conqueringcromwell I‘ve been looking for early Oates , this one is part of a series.Wanted to give the Roth , one of his best , to someone.If you are into alternative history, recommended.And a clean , old,copy of Deliverance? Yes, please $6 for all , thrift store.
Probably best known for Deliverance ,his novel that was made into a film.He was a pretty good poet too.His birthday was today as well .1923-1997
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1. Deliverance
2. Bambi
3. Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer
pickI‘m a big fan of this movie, so I figured it‘s about time I read the book. I‘m surprised that the movie actually sticks very closely to the book & is an excellent adaptation. It‘s a bit slow in places because the vast majority of the book is descriptions of the river & the woods. But that just amps you up more for the action parts so it didn‘t detract too much from my enjoyment of the book. If you like the movie, you‘ll probably like the book. 4⭐️
I know it‘s a stretch to finish this many books in 3 days but my plan is to get through as many of them as I can. Not pictured because they‘re on my iBook app: Mile 81 and UR — 2 Stephen King short stories — as well as Night Shift, which I‘m 30% into, and making some mileage on Salem‘s Lot. I only got in a measly 22 minutes before I passed out last night. 😬 Good luck everyone! #24B4Monday
“She had a fine, open, grey-eyed face with a few freckles. She was somebody I didn‘t mind looking in the eyes, and straight into them too, so if she didn‘t mind, the look would go deep.” #screamathon #bucketlist #horror
Lifetime #bucketlist and #screamathon read, both. #horror #americanlit @4thhouseontheleft #audiobook I fell in love with Will Patton as a narrator listening to the Mr. Mercedes trilogy by #StephenKing. His voice is made for Americana literature—Dickey and Steinbeck and Twain and Faulkner.
“The world is easily lost.” — Deliverance
so-soI found the book a little slow. Over all I enjoyed it though. I have never seen the movie but I hope it's a bit more exciting than the book
I apologise in advance to any Littens from the North Georgia wilderness . I am sure it is lovely and you are not all toothless, banjo playing mountain men who like to terrorise city folk. But in the spirit of #MarchIntoOz #WeveGottaGetOutOfThisPlace #campingsucks
pickEnjoyed this more than I expected to! #deliverance #audiobook
My full Deliverance review is now posted on my blog!
http://www.twohectobooks.com/2018/02/42-deliverance-by-james-dickey.html
pickThis book is like a male version of The River at Night, only much, much better. I really enjoyed the writing, but it may be of the type that is better read, not listened to. An exciting story! It does feel like it was written way further back than in the 90‘s though...
Finally we have a stretch of lovely sunny days... And I come down with a stupid cold. 😥 Sigh. At least I have this classic tale of a wilderness adventure gone horribly wrong to keep me company.
pickTremendous hubris, tremendous prose. I was left somewhat wanting, but that might just be the sadist in me talking.
I save my credits for the Audible BOGO sales unless there is a must-have audiobook. I'm not super familiar with all of these but there is the joy!
I've always enjoyed the movie in a skin crawling way. I'm hoping the book "delivers." ?
In the comparatively few times I had ever been in the rural South I had been struck by the number of missing fingers. Offhand, I had counted around twenty, at least. There had also been several people with some form of crippling or twisting illness, and some blind or one-eyed. No adequate medical treatment...But there was something else. You‘d think that farming was a healthy life...but I never saw a farmer who didn‘t have something wrong with him
Did anyone else jump on the Audible 3 for 2 sale? I never spend my credits right away and wait for bogo or other sales.
pickThis book. Loved it. Good movie but greater book. I first read it when heading off to paddle & portage my way through the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. #notthegreatesttiming
pickWith only knowing what pop culture had taught me, I really did enjoy this much more than I thought I would.
