#truly like lightning

[dd-is-my-guiltypleasure]

#david duchovny #author #novel #Truly like Lightning #the reservoir #Brazil

[precedex-files]

An excerpt from “Truly Like Lightning” by David Duchovny. Mr. Beautiful seems to share some striking similarities to Mr. Duchovny himself lol. I am certain that creators put themselves and/or their experiences in their works more often than not. It’s always interesting to suss out the possibilities.

#david duchovny #truly like lightning #the name fits!

[642stories]

Story #73 is a CPE review of the same book "Truly Like Lightning" by David Duchovny.

Prompt: A literary magazine has invited readers to submit reviews of modern books that might deserve the status of a classic. You decide to submit a review. Your review should briefly describe the book, explain why you think it deserves the status, and speculate on what makes a book a classic.

David Duchovny, known mainly as an actor, once again scales the heights of the literary world with his novel “Truly like lightning”. It, indeed, is truly like lightning accompanied by one clap of thunder after another – blinding and deafening in its narrative.

Duchovny’s novel tells the story of Bronson Powers, a former Hollywood stuntman and a converted Mormon, who lives off the grid in a plural marriage with three wives and ten children. Seemingly happy in their private desert outside of Joshua Tree, away from the corruption of the modern world, they spend their days hunting, foraging, and farming.  Everything changes, when Maya Abbadessa, an ambitious employee of a predatory investment firm literally stumbles upon Powers’ homestead, setting into motion a deadly chain of events that will test the beliefs of everyone involved.

Throughout the narrative, the reader is confronted with the question of how to tell right from wrong in the world of extremes. There is a constant battle of virtue and vice – money against love, sex against religion, greed against generosity. Transposed through the account of Bronson Powers, both a martyr and a crucifier, this is a story of parents who mean well and children who obey their orders blindly. As if to aggravate the situation and show the inevitability of the tragedy, in the background, the reader witnesses how the environment of the ancient desert of Joshua Tree vanishes, turning yet into another meaningless hotel slash entertaining center.

“Truly like lightning” might seem hackneyed for anyone living dangerously close to Hollywood, but unhackneyed for anyone from afar. Regardless of sounding trite in his commentary on pop culture, the multilayered themes Duchovny explores and masterfully exploits are as universal as they will ever be. After all, what deems a book classic if not the topics that undoubtedly resonate with readers at all times - past, present, and future?

#writing in english #english is my second language #random thoughts #blogging #cpe writing #cpe review #book review #truly like lightning #duchovny's books

[randomfoggytiger]

Wonderful interview-- it's cozy in a bittersweet way, meandering past his past and reflecting on key childhood-adulthood moments in New York (with a mention of his mother-- not yet passed then-- which is always a nice little bonus~.)

I particularly liked (having never heard these pieces of info before)--

“See the lights on the corner there? On the third floor? Two windows down. That was my bedroom, and this was my view.” He gestured toward the churchyard. “It’s a weird view. It’s a graveyard. We used to play baseball there. The headstones were flat, and we used them as bases.” Just then, the bells began to chime. “Wow,” he said. “I’m gonna dissolve.”

and

Earlier, he’d passed by Grace Church School, another alma mater (high school was uptown, at Collegiate), where he and his now ex-wife, Téa Leoni, were married—in the courtyard. “She was a divorcée, I was half Jewish, so I got the garden. Didn’t matter that I’d gone there or that my mother had taught there for thirty years. The law’s the law.”

#txf #but not #DD #Truly Like Lightning #New York #Meg Duchovny #interview #2021 #quote #catchin up on old news

[dykealloy]

what do you mean jennifer saunder's shrek 2 cover of Holding Out for a Hero didn't play over the entirety of dressrosa arc

#happy new year. it's been about a decade since dressrosa arc first aired #i thought i was well and truly done with that last edit but this struck me like a bolt of lightning #one last go at it to wrap up the year #also. to be fair to doflamingo: how the fuck do you predict or prepare for this shit #(small aside: dressrosa arc is so badly paced you would not believe how many eps i had to download to pull four minutes together) #one piece #op #CJ's op watch-through #CJ's edits #dressrosa #trafalgar law #donquixote doflamingo #amv #monkey d. luffy #monkey d luffy #lawlu #roronoa zoro #zoro #donquixote rosinante #lulaw

[carneliandrew]

Just finished this book and highly recommend it. The Mormon and mystic vibes to it made me start rewatching Battlestar Galactica again

#david duchovny #truly like lightning #BSG #LDS #Mormon #flds

[kiivitaja]

 I discovered how thrilling it is to welcome readers from far beyond New York City. (When we featured David Duchovny’s new novel, Truly Like Lightning, the author himself was on a film set in London and the participants came from all over the world. And every single one of them was a woman. I wonder why.) ;)

#david duchovny #Truly like lightning

[memequeme]

Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles // 9-1-1, Season 3, Episode 15, Eddie Begins // Homer (trans. Robert Fagles), The Iliad

#911 #911 on abc #911edit #evan buckley #buddie #evanbuckleyedit #buddieedit #uservalentina #alielook #useraish #mialook #usertreena #userrin #tuserdaria #tvedit #mlmedit #cinematv #cinemapx #userbbelcer #chewieblog #me shit #me gifs #truly this is just extremely self indulgent #anyway buck as achilles eddie as patroclus #or vice versa if we wanna talk about the lightning scene :) #i could actually go off about this for wayyyy too long #everyone on twitter is rewatching so like i had to yk

[themadknightuniverse]

Tell me again

#here is the double study 💕 #I'm so sane #I just like the line that goes from one side to the other one so much #from the side table #up his hand #his arm #across his chest #and finish under his other arm #a very nice dynamic for a frontal pov #they truly did an amazing job for the lightning and angles in this scene #love it #never getting tired of watching it either #so much tension #(and what a good looking hand under that light) #(looks like a sculpture) #ANYWAY #i'm sane #lalo salamanca #tony dalton #better call saul #bcs #my art

[singlethread]

“It's like the universe is screaming at you and you refuse to listen”

#911 fox #911 edit #911 fanart #evan buckley #eddie diaz #Buck x Eddie #buddie #911edit #userdahlias #6x10 #evan buck buckely #lightning arc #art #fan art #digital art #fanart #painting #this truly one of my favorite things I’ve ever made #my creation #I hope y’all like it

[nea-art]

They deserve some rest

#myart #illustration #the owl house #eda clawthorne #lilith clawthorne #fanart #i might have a habit of overdoing lightning like this #but its just fun tbh #also season 3 truly is a lot huh

[dd-is-my-guiltypleasure]

I ask if his daughter had read this latest book. “I don’t think [so] … It’s like seeing your dad naked in a way. I don’t necessarily want to read my dad’s stuff. I don’t blame [her].” Amram moved to Boston soon after his divorce, remarried, and later retired in Paris where he died of heart disease in 2003. Duchovny discovered his father’s unpublished second book, A Lifetime Is Once, in a drawer after he passed; as a sequel to Coney, it was more autobiographical of his adult life and included commentary about his children, with whom he suffered some distance. “It was painful at the time,” Duchovny says. “It put me in a position that I suppose I put my children in, which is of walking into that kind of gray area … But when I’m dead, I hope that [my children] can go to the books and say, ‘Oh, that was Dad.’” 

Now I want to read his dad's book !

Over the course of our conversation, Duchovny has periodically scooted his chair closer, trying to remain in the shade. “I’m not getting fresh,” he says with a grin. The tide is inching nearer as well, and we have to speak up over the tumbling surf. We discuss the 20 new songs he recently wrote, his next films, and I’m wondering at his energy for all of this. I tell him so. “You’re tireless, David.”

“I’m tired,” he replies without hesitation, laughing. “I’m not tired, I’m just, what am I tired of, honestly …” There’s a long pause as he gathers his thoughts. Another wave smacks and falls away. “I’m tired of the fear that I’m going to do the same thing just because I’m afraid — that if I’ve had some success, that I’m going to try to chase that. I’m tired of feeling like I have to prove myself … And you know, I’m 61, and I see it coming …” He holds his hand out into the sunlight, gesturing at the future, and I notice a constellation of age spots. “I want to make sure I say it all, if I can. That’s why we’re all here, to give our interpretation of it.”

#david duchovny #multi-talented #the reservoir #truly like lightning #malibu #love that pic #the caboose #His mom passed away 🤔😕💔

[stormboundstars]

not Sally Jackson revealing the Montauk cabin (which they got cheap because it's near the septic tanks apparently) to be the place where she first met Percy's father, clearly having an emotional moment with her son on screen, and my sibling suddenly going, “wtf was Poseidon doing near the septic tanks???” 😭😭😭

#truly the spirit of persassy is in all of us this fine 20th of december #percy jackson and the olympians #percy jackson #sally jackson #pjo #pjo tv #pjo tv show #pjo tlt #the lightning thief #pjo poseidon #posting and tagging like i'm 13 cringe but free bc ough #my favorite book series finally has a good screen adaptation!! #pjo spoilers

[642stories]

Story #72, which is a 'Truly like lightning' review.

“The X-files” were my Bible throughout the 90s to 2000s. I fell in love with the character of Fox Mulder long before I fell in love for the first time for real. I didn’t think Duchovny could get any better than that until he started writing and I started reading what he had written. 

“Truly Like Lightning” is not David Duchovny’s first book, but it’s his best so far - it will strike you to the very core and leave you aching, with questions whirling like a snowstorm in the head. 

Set in the desert of Joshua Tree, the story centers around the former Hollywood stuntman Bronson Powers, now a converted Mormon living unplugged in a polygamous marriage. They raise their ten kids away from the evils of society until one day a young ambitious employee of a corrupt real estate company targets their land. Cultures clash. Faith is tested. Choices are made.

The book will hook you and won’t let you put it down… if you manage to push through the first fifty pages. Seriously, it took me two weeks to read that part, where Duchovny mostly explained the background of his characters, and only two days to finish the 445-page manuscript, when the story finally turned into an action movie-like narrative.  

All things considered, it’s worth every minute of reading. What made a successful man abandon all the perks of Hollywood and choose to live the life of an isolated nomad? What happens to Powers’ family once they are forced off their land and into the temptations of the world they left behind? What’s with the children who have never had a say in any of that? 

Read the book. And be prepared to be struck. 

#writing in english #english is my second language #random thoughts #blogging #book review #truly like lightning #duchovny's books

[oensible]

blep || TBL @ SJS || 2024.03.21

#anthony duclair #tampa bay lightning #san jose sharks #sharks lb #<- tagging with the sharks tags because he is also still a beloved shark to me. also this is at a sharks game so its relevant!! #like son like father... #gif #edit realizing too late that EGADS.... ive made it too yellow this time. truly i cannot win <3

[etherealnoir]

I can't believe we're witnessing Gregory and Janine become one of the greatest TV couples of all time, even though I'm mad at them rn.

Tyler and Quinta should be so proud of themselves.

#abbott elementary spoilers #abbott elementary #Truly when you meet your work spouse as an actor it's like lightning in a bottle #they need to do as many projects together as they possibly can bc they have phenomenal chemistry