AllenLowe Posted May 3, 2008 Report Share Posted May 3, 2008 sounds like my old campaign slogan - only the other way around - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van Basten II Posted May 10, 2008 Report Share Posted May 10, 2008 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christiern Posted May 10, 2008 Report Share Posted May 10, 2008 Give me a call when someone will found on eBay 'AllenLowe for Dummies'. How about "Dummies for Allen Lowe"? I've been a member for quite some time. Back to currently reading, I'm re-reading Bob Wilber's autobiography. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted May 13, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 13, 2008 Richard Price, LUSH LIFE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted May 13, 2008 Report Share Posted May 13, 2008 Pharaohs of the Sun: Akhenaten : Nefertiti : Tutankhamen, Boston Museum of Fine Arts catalog and overview, edited by Freed, Markowitz and D'Aurado Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted May 13, 2008 Report Share Posted May 13, 2008 Richard Price, LUSH LIFE. Great book IMHO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted May 14, 2008 Report Share Posted May 14, 2008 Now started reading this It's my wife's book. But she gave up on page 55, so I'm having a go. I suspect it's rather too full of foot by foot accounts of the battles and, if that's the case, I'll probably give up, too MG Didn't give up on this; finished it yesterday evening. Pretty good. Very chilling to read how the British Government was bounced into a war it didn't want by unscrupulous guys who had their own agendas to pursue. And by methods alarmingly similar to those adopted for Iraq. MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bright Moments Posted May 14, 2008 Report Share Posted May 14, 2008 mary gordon - spending this is one steamy book! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted May 18, 2008 Report Share Posted May 18, 2008 (edited) Raced through this in two weeks. A superb collection of accounts from a wide range of witnesses to the Vietnam War. The account by the air stewardess who served on the planes running from California to Japan and then on to Vietnam brought tears to my eyes: 'Definitive' might be over-egging the pudding somewhat. At present hopping between: Edited May 19, 2008 by Bev Stapleton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted May 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2008 Temporarily set aside LUSH LIFE to read Adrian Tomaine's graphic-novel-in-stories, SHORTCOMINGS (almost as good as Daniel Clowes' GHOST WORLD) and am now in the middle of Pete Hamill's WHY SINATRA MATTERS (a thumbs-up for any other Sinatra fans...a good 200-page treatise that gives a sense of FS's origins and makes sparing but apt use of Hamill's late-period friendship with the Voice). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted May 18, 2008 Report Share Posted May 18, 2008 I read this years ago and forgot what a fine little book it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim McG Posted May 19, 2008 Report Share Posted May 19, 2008 Inheriting the Trade by Tom DeWolf...a childhood friend of mine. Inheriting the Trade Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted June 2, 2008 Report Share Posted June 2, 2008 Edward P. Jones: The Known World "So Patterson resigned, took himself back to that English town near the Scottish border where his people had lived for centuries. He spent all the rest of his years as a sheep farmer and became known as a good shepherd, 'a man born to it.' ... Whenever people in that part of the world asked Patterson about the wonders of America, the possibilities and the hope of America, Patterson would say that it was a good and fine place but all the Americans were running it into the ground and that it would be a far better place if it had no Americans." There are many thoughtful and memorable passages in this novel, but this one stuck with me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim McG Posted June 2, 2008 Report Share Posted June 2, 2008 Inheriting the Trade by Thomas Norman DeWolf. Written by a childhood/HS friend of mine. A must read for those who want to understand the slave trade in America. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted June 2, 2008 Report Share Posted June 2, 2008 The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted June 2, 2008 Report Share Posted June 2, 2008 David Lodge, Deaf Sentence Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rostasi Posted June 2, 2008 Report Share Posted June 2, 2008 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewHill Posted June 5, 2008 Report Share Posted June 5, 2008 Bought this book years ago. Finally getting around to it: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted June 6, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2008 (edited) Rick Perlstein, NIXONLAND. Met the author at a party several years ago and he talked about working on this--a very good read so far. Just started it last night, but up till 2 a.m. and pretty much had to make myself put it down and go to bed. Edited June 6, 2008 by ghost of miles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kh1958 Posted June 8, 2008 Report Share Posted June 8, 2008 In Search of Buddy Bolden--Donald Marquis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted June 8, 2008 Report Share Posted June 8, 2008 Really interesting - Vietnam from the perspective of a Vietnamese. Explains a great deal about the 1945-54 period that had always been misty to me. I'd never realised how brutal the French reconquest was after WWII. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted June 9, 2008 Report Share Posted June 9, 2008 I started reading this a couple of weeks ago. I've had it for about fifteen years and this is my third time through it. I'm charmed by the quality of the writing and I find his approach, which is more of a cultural history than a political or religious one (though those aspects do come in), to be very enlightening. So, I'm halfway through it, and this one comes through my door from Amazon And now I'm reading two! Stephen Fothergill was a big thorn in my side when I was at work, accusing the Thatcher government of deliberately shunting people off the dole onto incapacity benefit, to make the unemployment figures look better. He was wrong, but we couldn't tell him why. If this book doesn't show that he's worked it out yet, I may tell him now MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poetrylover3 Posted June 9, 2008 Report Share Posted June 9, 2008 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poetrylover3 Posted June 9, 2008 Report Share Posted June 9, 2008 A difficult read just as The Gulag Archipelago was difficult. The horror of this massive self destruction of the spirit is brought home time and again by the witness of Journals and Letters as well as the objective tone of the narration. The difference between the two works is the deep irony and rage of Solzhenitsyn's book-it is somehow more personal in tone. In an age when there is a widespread attempt to whitewash or distort the historical record we owe it to ourselves and others to master the basic facts of what is otherwise seemingly unthinkable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted June 16, 2008 Report Share Posted June 16, 2008 'The Sacred Willow' got my curious about the Franco-Vietminh War. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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