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Neil Young - Live Rust, Reprise.

Santana - Santana (III), Columbia, promo copy.

Tim Buckley - Starsailor, Straight Records. Kenny Burrell - K.B. Blues, BN, King pressing.

The Velvet Underground - Loaded, Cotillon.

Bert Jansch - Nicola, Transatlantic UK early pressing.

Traffic - The Low Sparks Of High Heeled Boys, Island UK early pressing.

The Band - The Band, Capitol, early US pressing.

Elmore Leonard, The complete western stories, in italian.

Freddie Hubbard - The Artistry Of Freddie Hubbard, Impulse!, mono pressing. Probably my fave of Hubbard Lps I've got.

Forgot I have this one, I'll dust it.

FRANK ZAPPA - Joe's Garage, Act 1, Zappa Records.

GUADALCANAL DAIRY - Walking In The Shadow Of The Big Man, Elektra. Thanks MG! Hard times (even my english is a bit rusty), but things are getting better, hopefully.

LED ZEPPELIN - Physical Graffiti, Swan Song Records.

Thanks to everybody. I'm getting throu a hard divorce, so lately I hadn't time and mood for music and discussing it. Hope it's getting better. My best wishes to everybody.

The first book I read with the criminal report of the author, instead of bibliography/biography, in the last pages. In the italian edition at last.

Agree, but I think it's all about money, a simple cost-benefit analysis

source Always loved the guys, I just loved the idea they where somewhere playing music.

Definitely, I had the same feeling. I've been deeply changed by that place.

Not at all, "Norwegian Wood" and "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" are excellent too. BTW he is a jazz and vinyl lover, so I tend to be forgiving about him...just joking he's great writer. I didn't like all his works, but, Dostoyevsky and Conrad a part, I could say the same for every writers.

His best work IMHO

Happy Birthday Bob.

I am familiar with Murakami' works lately, and the Bird isn't his best novel, IMHO. I loved Norwegian Wood, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Kafka on the Shore, Dance Dance Dance.

Fruits flavors generally. The best ice creams in Italy are hand crafted in Sicily. When I am there I use to eat big ice creams instead of breakfast and lunch. And don't forget the granita (slush)!

Compared to the best crime and spy novels, it lacks depth and humour. I mean the good guys are really really good, most of them are into Mossad only because some of their relatives were killed by the bad guys that are really really bad. I mean the worst thing the good good guys do in the novel is smoking cigarettes, despite they promised to quit to their wifes. Obvioulsy the bad bad guys smoke because they enjoy to smoke, the good guys smoke because they have to, everybody knows that keeping the world safe from the bad guys is a stressfull job. Plus there is a rankin for good and bad guys: the very very good guys are in the Mossad, the very good guys are in the CIA, the good guys are in MI5, the guys are in the French Secret Service, the bad guys are in the new KGB, FSB, the very bad guys are former KGB agent, the very bad bad bad guys are in Al-Qaeda. Compared to this novel, Spielberg's "Munich" looks like a movie wrote by Hamas.

Definitely disappointing: shallow characters, dull style, lack of humor or depth. Actually I should have give it up after 20 pages, but I had to finish it, so is a perfect best seller, to some extent.