alankin Posted September 1, 2011 Report Posted September 1, 2011 Charles C. Mann - 1491 - New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (2nd edition) Everything you've been taught about native Americans is wrong... Quote
BruceH Posted September 1, 2011 Report Posted September 1, 2011 Mulliner Nights -P.G.Wodehouse :tup Quote
TedR Posted September 3, 2011 Report Posted September 3, 2011 At the library I checked out Nica's Dream: The Life and Legend of the Jazz Baroness by David Kastin, published this year. I haven't kept up with this thread but I'd be interested if anyone has read this yet. Quote
jazzbo Posted September 4, 2011 Report Posted September 4, 2011 Trying one from another series of ancient Egypt mysteries. So far, interesting, not as "realistically brutal" as the Doherty series about Amerotke. Quote
jlhoots Posted September 10, 2011 Report Posted September 10, 2011 Fascinating I agree. Don't know why Roth hasn't won the Nobel prize. Quote
BillF Posted September 11, 2011 Report Posted September 11, 2011 Fascinating I agree. Don't know why Roth hasn't won the Nobel prize. Read it some years ago. Seem to remember it as a very strong novel that went into serious decline towards the end. The details escape me now. Quote
jazzbo Posted September 12, 2011 Report Posted September 12, 2011 (edited) The second in the Elric complete compilation series. Quite a lot of non-Elric material in this volume, which I've never read before, so a good thing. Really enjoying revisiting this stuff. Edited September 12, 2011 by jazzbo Quote
paul secor Posted September 15, 2011 Report Posted September 15, 2011 Haruki Murakami: Kafka on the Shore A wonderfully inventive and disturbingly moving novel Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted September 16, 2011 Report Posted September 16, 2011 Just starting the Norman Granz biography. Quote
medjuck Posted September 16, 2011 Report Posted September 16, 2011 Michael Ondaatje's "The Cat's Table". Quote
Leeway Posted September 16, 2011 Report Posted September 16, 2011 Fascinating I agree. Don't know why Roth hasn't won the Nobel prize. He's not politically correct. I think he's a great author. Quote
porcy62 Posted September 16, 2011 Report Posted September 16, 2011 Haruki Murakami: Kafka on the Shore A wonderfully inventive and disturbingly moving novel His best work IMHO Quote
Royal Oak Posted September 16, 2011 Report Posted September 16, 2011 An Idiot Abroad - Karl Pilkington The book of the Ricky Gervais TV series. I literally cannot stand to look at/listen to Ricky Gervais, so I refused to watch the show for a long time. Pilkington is hilarious, but what is worrying is that I find myself agreeing with almost all of what he says. Quote
ejp626 Posted September 16, 2011 Report Posted September 16, 2011 I.B. Singer's Satan in Goray His first novel, set in 1649. Just starting Uzma Khan's The Geometry of God. Probably the last book I'll check out from the Chicago library. Quote
alankin Posted September 16, 2011 Report Posted September 16, 2011 Probably the last book I'll check out from the Chicago library. Are they confiscating your library card? Now reading: "Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman" by James Gleick Quote
paul secor Posted September 16, 2011 Report Posted September 16, 2011 Haruki Murakami: Kafka on the Shore A wonderfully inventive and disturbingly moving novel His best work IMHO That's only the second Murakami I've read. The first I read was After Dark, which had its moments but didn't grab me. I started with that one because early on it mentioned Curtis Fuller's "Five Spot After Dark". I'm planning on reading more of Murakami's works. Hope it's not all downhill after Kafka. Quote
ejp626 Posted September 16, 2011 Report Posted September 16, 2011 Probably the last book I'll check out from the Chicago library. Are they confiscating your library card? Well, I have lost (and had to replace) more than my share of books. But actually I am moving to Vancouver in just under two weeks. Quote
porcy62 Posted September 16, 2011 Report Posted September 16, 2011 Hope it's not all downhill after Kafka. 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. Quote
paul secor Posted September 17, 2011 Report Posted September 17, 2011 Hope it's not all downhill after Kafka. 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. Thanks for the recs. Read about 25 pages of The Wind-up Bird Chronicle in a book store this afternoon, so that will be my next Murakami. Then I'll move on to the ones you mentioned. Quote
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