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Jonathan Riley from Memphis, Tennessee is reading Flashover by Gordon Highland September 9, 2013 - 9:51am

"In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives." 

Dino's pic for this weeks foreign film discussion is 2006's Oscar winner for best foreign language film. It's a German made movie and you can find it here for free on youtube:

The Lives Of Others

 Be sure to turn on the English subtitles if you don't speak German.

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Christian Williams from Hyde Park, NY is reading Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill September 14, 2013 - 9:01am

Thanks for the link!

I enjoyed the love triangle portion of the story set in a back drop of East Germany Socialism, kinda like a twist on 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'.

I did feel that HGW made his 180 degree turn a bit early in the plot but enjoyable none the less.