Read any decent books lately?
I've just finished Head On, vol 1 of Julian Cope's autobiography. Completely crazy but an amazing read for anyone who used to like the Teardrops...
Any recommendations?
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What are you reading right now?
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I am currently reading a book about 3 nuns that left the convent. It's called Changing Habits. Interesting actually.
AgentWood wrote: since i finished harry potter i've gone back to eric hobsbawm's 'the age of revolution.'
What's that about?
bLuE oRdEr wrote:
AgentWood wrote: since i finished harry potter i've gone back to eric hobsbawm's 'the age of revolution.'
What's that about?
i'm assuming you're referring to hobsbawm and not potter..unless you're writing from irian jaya.
eric hobsbawm is, in my opinion, one of the best historians of the 20th century. he's a marxist--old school, and he's about 500 years old now. anyway, 'the age of revolution' is the first in his series on modern western history. i've only read the last one: 'the age of extremes: the short 20th century, 1914-1991.' one of the best history books i've ever read. his essay in the collection 'revolutionaries' about why america was destined to lose the war in vietnam was so spot on it could have been written in 1970...but it was written in 1965.
here's a link to his biography from the guardian which gives more info about his books.
Thanks; from what I can gather from that article, Age of Revolution is about the 19th Century, which would make it very interesting to me.
bLuE oRdEr of California, by way of Portland, but not by way of Irian Jaya.
bLuE oRdEr wrote: Thanks; from what I can gather from that article, Age of Revolution is about the 19th Century, which would make it very interesting to me.
bLuE oRdEr of California, by way of Portland, but not by way of Irian Jaya.
it starts with the early years of the industrial revolution (1780s) in england and the french revolution and ends with the revolutions of 1848.
Hmm, what am I not reading?
The list is as follows:
Just finished A Long Way Down, Hornby's latest.
300 pages into Ball Four, a classic of sports literature.
A few pages into a biography of Robert Penn Warren
The Jump, about Sebastian Telfair and his decision to skip college and go straight to the NBA (trying to expand my sports-reading from just baseball)
Thinking about re-reading The Great Gatsby just because it's been a while and I just finished All The King's Men and feel like revisiting classic American literture of the fiction persuasion.
Thinking about getting Gene Wilder's memoir just because he's always been one of my favorites, but haven't yet.
Also finished recently a dual biography of Laurel and Hardy that I'd recommend to anyone who loves their stuff and wants to know more.
bLuE oRdEr wrote: High and Mighty, currently. Expose of SUVs.
Oh! I love arguing with people about their stupid SUVs!
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I'm reading the Sin City comics; a bit of misogyny & ultraviolence before bedtime is always nice. And Lost in Music by Giles Smith; I just wanna read the Nik Kershaw story.
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Tinny wrote:
bLuE oRdEr wrote: High and Mighty, currently. Expose of SUVs.
Oh! I love arguing with people about their stupid SUVs!
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Aside from giving the COMPLETE low-down on SUVs, it's actually a pretty good read. Well-written, and highly recommended.
Human Stain by Philip Roth- if I can ever get past page 2!
_______________________________________________ I've got it all wrongCause you were not the wrong oneAnd I don't know where to turn when you're gone
True Faith - An Armchair Guide To New Order, Joy Division, Electronic, Revenge, Monaco and The Other Two
The Benn Diaries, and a Collection of Will Self Short Stories anmd Articles, and (to a lesser extend now) Robert Hughes on Goya.
I just finished reading Michael Connely's The Narrows and William Boyd's Fascination. I am currently reading Secretum by Monaldi & Sorti.
Taboo # 7 wrote: Hmm, what am I not reading?
The list is as follows:
Just finished A Long Way Down, Hornby's latest.
300 pages into Ball Four, a classic of sports literature.
A few pages into a biography of Robert Penn Warren
The Jump, about Sebastian Telfair and his decision to skip college and go straight to the NBA (trying to expand my sports-reading from just baseball)
Thinking about re-reading The Great Gatsby just because it's been a while and I just finished All The King's Men and feel like revisiting classic American literture of the fiction persuasion.
Thinking about getting Gene Wilder's memoir just because he's always been one of my favorites, but haven't yet.
Also finished recently a dual biography of Laurel and Hardy that I'd recommend to anyone who loves their stuff and wants to know more.
How was A Long Way Down?
just finished the sixth part of Stephen Kings Dark Tower. have ordered the seventh (and last) part, should be here anyday now. can't read Harry Potter's latest yet because Derek is such a sloooooow reader so I'm in between books just now. not really into 'heavy' books like some of you are. no historic novels or such for me.
Dan Delgado wrote:
Taboo # 7 wrote: Hmm, what am I not reading?
The list is as follows:
Just finished A Long Way Down, Hornby's latest.
300 pages into Ball Four, a classic of sports literature.
A few pages into a biography of Robert Penn Warren
The Jump, about Sebastian Telfair and his decision to skip college and go straight to the NBA (trying to expand my sports-reading from just baseball)
Thinking about re-reading The Great Gatsby just because it's been a while and I just finished All The King's Men and feel like revisiting classic American literture of the fiction persuasion.
Thinking about getting Gene Wilder's memoir just because he's always been one of my favorites, but haven't yet.
Also finished recently a dual biography of Laurel and Hardy that I'd recommend to anyone who loves their stuff and wants to know more.
How was A Long Way Down?
Pretty good, though I think Hornby did the job of more than one narrator more effectively in About A Boy. The "disgraced TV presenter" character made me think of Tony Wilson, even though I think Hornby never talks about JD/NO and might have based the guy on any number of pompous entertainment types. I give it 
and 1/2 out of a possible
Just finished The Weight Of Water. I loved this book. Now have started These Bones Are Not My Son's
Silent Bob Speaks - The collected writings of Kevin Smith. A must read for the funs of Clerks Mallrats Chasing Amy Dogma Jay and and Silent Bob strike back and Jersey Girl
NObabe wrote: True Faith - An Armchair Guide To New Order, Joy Division, Electronic, Revenge, Monaco and The Other Two
since i got mine last spring i've scanned through it a few times; since then i've been using it as 'bathroom' reading and before bed reading when i'm bored (i read the almanac before bed, too!). i'd say it's more of a laundry list than a book, per se. i like brian edge better for both content and pictures, even though it's dated. :D
AgentWood, have you ever read the Peoples History series of American history by Page Smith? Seven or eight volumes. A lot of reading, but very good reading.
