jazzbo Posted September 30, 2008 Report Posted September 30, 2008 Wow Mark, you sure have been a downer lately! Quote
jazzbo Posted September 30, 2008 Report Posted September 30, 2008 Hey, happens to the best of us! And doesn't last! (fingers crossed). Quote
sal Posted September 30, 2008 Report Posted September 30, 2008 (edited) Junot Diaz: The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao How's this? It's been getting good reviews, and I'm looking around for a good used copy here in Chicago. I read this and thought it was just OK. He's a good writer, I just didn't really like the way he presented the story. Too often I felt like I was reading a book on the history of the DR rather than a work of fiction. Edited September 30, 2008 by sal Quote
ghost of miles Posted September 30, 2008 Author Report Posted September 30, 2008 A graphic-novel mystery: Mat Johnson's INCOGNEGRO. Plus Farah Jasmine Griffin's book on Billie Holiday (interesting approach, but rather disappointing so far). Quote
BruceH Posted September 30, 2008 Report Posted September 30, 2008 Copernicus' Secret: How the Scientific Revolution Began, by Jack Repcheck. Quote
paul secor Posted September 30, 2008 Report Posted September 30, 2008 Dorothy West: The Wedding Quote
sal Posted October 3, 2008 Report Posted October 3, 2008 What did you think of "Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao", jlhoots? Quote
BruceH Posted October 4, 2008 Report Posted October 4, 2008 the epic of gilgamesh I'd give my mother's right arm for that. Quote
jlhoots Posted October 4, 2008 Report Posted October 4, 2008 What did you think of "Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao", jlhoots? I liked it more than you did. I found the writing style & story quite moving. I did have to get out my Spanish dictionary now & then. Quote
Jazzmoose Posted October 6, 2008 Report Posted October 6, 2008 the epic of gilgamesh Never heard of it; must be new... Quote
Jazzmoose Posted October 6, 2008 Report Posted October 6, 2008 (edited) Picked up Joe Haldeman's The Coming today, and I'm about to sign off this thing and get back to it. If all you've ever read by him is The Forever War, give yourself a treat and try some more! If, on the other hand, you've never read The Forever War and like SF at all, what are you waiting on??? Edited October 6, 2008 by Jazzmoose Quote
porcy62 Posted October 6, 2008 Report Posted October 6, 2008 Alexandre Dumas' feast over here. After 'The Three Musketeers' I just started 'Twenty Years Later', with 'The Count Of Monte Cristo' laying on the night table. Quote
ghost of miles Posted October 11, 2008 Author Report Posted October 11, 2008 Finally finished Rick Perlstein's NIXONLAND and am now getting started on Nick Salvatore's biography EUGENE DEBS: CITIZEN AND SOCIALIST ('tis the season to be liberal and all that). Debs came from Terre Haute, about 45 minutes west of here (as did Claude Thornhill). Quote
Jazzmoose Posted October 11, 2008 Report Posted October 11, 2008 Started F.M. Busby's The Breeds of Man. I've been carting this book around for about fifteen years now; Busby was someone I wanted to try at some point in life and I just never got around to it. I remember him being fairly highly touted back at that time, but I'm completely out of touch with the SF world of today; anyone know if he's still read? Or still writes? Quote
Jazzmoose Posted October 11, 2008 Report Posted October 11, 2008 ...Nick Salvatore's biography EUGENE DEBS: CITIZEN AND SOCIALIST ('tis the season to be liberal and all that). You know, I feel like I ought to read that, just as a thankyou to Kurt Vonnegut... Quote
BruceH Posted October 11, 2008 Report Posted October 11, 2008 (edited) Started F.M. Busby's The Breeds of Man. I've been carting this book around for about fifteen years now; Busby was someone I wanted to try at some point in life and I just never got around to it. I remember him being fairly highly touted back at that time, but I'm completely out of touch with the SF world of today; anyone know if he's still read? Or still writes? Busby goes way back. I don't know if he was ever really big, but I do seem to remember him being mentioned more in the 70's. Never read him myself. Wait, didn't he write that short story "If This Is Winnetka, You Must Be Judy"? Great title. Edited October 11, 2008 by BruceH Quote
BillF Posted October 11, 2008 Report Posted October 11, 2008 Wait, didn't he write that short story "If This Is Winnetka, You Must Be Judy"? Great title. Almost as great as that jazz title, "The Big Noise From Winnetka"! Quote
BruceH Posted October 11, 2008 Report Posted October 11, 2008 Started F.M. Busby's The Breeds of Man. I've been carting this book around for about fifteen years now; Busby was someone I wanted to try at some point in life and I just never got around to it. I remember him being fairly highly touted back at that time, but I'm completely out of touch with the SF world of today; anyone know if he's still read? Or still writes? According to Wikipedia he passed away in 2005, stopped writing in 1996 or so. Quote
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