Serioza Posted August 9, 2009 Report Share Posted August 9, 2009 the Tao of Star wars John M. Porter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdavenport Posted August 11, 2009 Report Share Posted August 11, 2009 P J O'Rourke's "Holidays In Hell" Out of date (a lot has changed since 1989 after all) and I wouldn't necessarily agree with O'Rourke's politics, but funny and pithy anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sal Posted August 14, 2009 Report Share Posted August 14, 2009 I just finished reading Thomas Pynchon's "The Crying of Lot 49". Talk about an unforgettable read. That book was a trip in every sense of the word. I'm now reading "A Wild Sheep Chase" by Haruki Murakami. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted August 14, 2009 Report Share Posted August 14, 2009 Jack Kerouac: On The Road - 50th Anniversary Edition (took me a while to get to it) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swinger Posted August 14, 2009 Report Share Posted August 14, 2009 I just finished reading Thomas Pynchon's "The Crying of Lot 49". Talk about an unforgettable read. That book was a trip in every sense of the word. I'm now reading "A Wild Sheep Chase" by Haruki Murakami. A Wild Sheep Chase is a wonderful book! You should also read his books Sputnik Sweetheart and Kafka On The Shore as well! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fasstrack Posted August 14, 2009 Report Share Posted August 14, 2009 Milestones (Jack Chambers) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted August 14, 2009 Report Share Posted August 14, 2009 Very interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van Basten II Posted August 15, 2009 Report Share Posted August 15, 2009 (edited) Maximum Bob by Elmore Leonard Complete tales and poems by Edgar Allen Poe. Is it the collection published by Vintage? I've had a couple of copies of that edition over the last twenty years. I've been reading some classic horror stories, too, by Ambrose Bierce - the Penguin collection, Spook House: Terrifying Tales of the Macabre. I've enjoyed these so much that I ordered the Dover collection Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce last weekend. Fortunately, there are only three stories in common between these collections, so they are an easy and affordable way to get most - if not all - of Bierce's horror tales in good editions. I have the exact one you pictured. Among the things i discovered reading Poe, english not being my first language, was the use of the word ejaculate, as ejaculating a sentence. Not sure i'd be able to use it today... It also leads me to think that in a world wide web era where everybody can express themselves on line, they are a lot of ejaculations going on and i'm not talking about the plethora of porn sites we can find everywhere. Edited August 15, 2009 by Van Basten II Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmer Posted August 15, 2009 Report Share Posted August 15, 2009 Among the things i discovered reading Poe, english not being my first language, was the use of the word ejaculate, as ejaculating a sentence. Not sure i'd be able to use it today... It also leads me to think that in a world wide web era where everybody can express themselves on line, they are a lot of ejaculations going on and i'm not talking about the plethora of porn sites we can find everywhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sal Posted August 16, 2009 Report Share Posted August 16, 2009 I just finished reading Thomas Pynchon's "The Crying of Lot 49". Talk about an unforgettable read. That book was a trip in every sense of the word. I'm now reading "A Wild Sheep Chase" by Haruki Murakami. A Wild Sheep Chase is a wonderful book! You should also read his books Sputnik Sweetheart and Kafka On The Shore as well! AWSC is my first Murakami book, and based on what I've read so far, I'll eventually read everything he's ever written. He's clearly a special author. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted August 18, 2009 Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 Making my way though Anthony Blunt: His Lives by Miranda Carter. Interesting biography of Blunt, who was one of the infamous Cambridge Spies, who also happened to be a very influential art historian. I became interested about Blunt by reading the novel The Untouchable by John Banville, which is a fictional account of Blunt's life, and to my mind, is one of the great novels of the past twenty-five years. All this came about because, after one year, I discovered that my library has a downstairs section that contains biographies, westerns, and science fictions -- did I feel stupid, like, Matthew, what did you think the stairs going down were for? :blush: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted August 24, 2009 Report Share Posted August 24, 2009 Making my way though Anthony Blunt: His Lives by Miranda Carter. Interesting biography of Blunt, who was one of the infamous Cambridge Spies, who also happened to be a very influential art historian. I became interested about Blunt by reading the novel The Untouchable by John Banville, which is a fictional account of Blunt's life, and to my mind, is one of the great novels of the past twenty-five years. All this came about because, after one year, I discovered that my library has a downstairs section that contains biographies, westerns, and science fictions -- did I feel stupid, like, Matthew, what did you think the stairs going down were for? Finished this book today, and it was a very strange life, was Anthony Blunt's. The phrase that kept coming to my mind is "hollow man," it was like any hint of personality, or interior life disappeared in Blunt's life, and only a shell was left. If it wasn't for the fact that Blunt was a Soviet spy during WWII, there would really not be too much to say about his life. Blunt's work to transform the Courtauld Institute, and his work on Poussin, were very good accomplishments (though there's still debate on his Poussin work), but the final impression is: There's nothing there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted August 24, 2009 Report Share Posted August 24, 2009 Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted August 24, 2009 Report Share Posted August 24, 2009 (edited) A couple of good thrillers, one exploring the murky world of intelligence in the current 'war on terror' climate (not recommended to those of an 'America is the greatest country the world has ever seen' persuasion), the other set in Germany and eastern Europe on the eve of World War II: And my favourite book of recent weeks: Marvellous story set around Penzance in Cornwall about a painter suffering from mental illness and the effect on her family. Gale is especially good at seeing the world from a child's perspective. Edited August 24, 2009 by Bev Stapleton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sal Posted August 24, 2009 Report Share Posted August 24, 2009 "The Fire and the Word: The History of the Zapatista Movement" by Gloria Munoz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WorldB3 Posted August 24, 2009 Report Share Posted August 24, 2009 (edited) Just finished: As horrible as the serial double murders over several years that this book goes into what is even more frighting is the corruption and incompetence of the Italian judicial systems and police. A real eye opener and great page turner. Up next: to gear up for 9/9/09 Edited August 24, 2009 by WorldB3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceH Posted August 24, 2009 Report Share Posted August 24, 2009 Movieland---Jerome Charyn I actually read this a few years ago, but I'm enjoying giving it another once-over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted August 28, 2009 Report Share Posted August 28, 2009 Percival Everett: damned if i do A very fine (and prolific) writer whose work doesn't receive the attention that it should. What else is new? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted August 28, 2009 Report Share Posted August 28, 2009 (edited) Philip K Dick, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. Another great Dick title! Edited August 28, 2009 by BillF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted August 28, 2009 Report Share Posted August 28, 2009 (edited) Dada: Zurich, Berlin, Hannover, Cologne, New York, Paris. Illustrated account of the Dada art movement, and it's very enlightening, just some astounding work here. Where was I in my Art History class in college? This is the first time I've come across Sophie Taeuber & Hans Arp, I must have been asleep in class or something. I love Taeuber's masks and marionettes, wonderful art. Edited August 28, 2009 by Matthew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdavenport Posted August 29, 2009 Report Share Posted August 29, 2009 Due to my recently reduced powers of concentration, I decided to go back to my childhood and read "The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole" by Sue Townsend. Still on the "easy reading" tip, started Bill Bryson's "Down Under". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted August 29, 2009 Report Share Posted August 29, 2009 Philip K Dick, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. Another great Dick title! I re-read that book for the first time at the end of the seventies right after the relationship with the first woman I'd lived with turned sour and ended. It was really helpful to me somehow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmer Posted August 29, 2009 Report Share Posted August 29, 2009 I have both Bierce books now and am enjoying them, but I want to correct a mistake I made in my first post about them. I was wrong about the number of stories they have in common. In the Dover a number of stories are grouped under headings like “The Way of Ghosts,” and in the table of contents only these headings appear, which make them seem like the titles to stories. Looking at the table of contents on Amazon, then, did not reveal how many of the same stories are also in the Penguin. Twenty-two of the stories are the same. In total, the Dover has thirty-seven stories and the Penguin thirty-six, so there are fifteen different ones in the Dover and fourteen in the Penguin. If you like Bierce, I think they’re both worth owning, but the Dover might be the better buy because it has the celebrated “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” while the Penguin doesn’t. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porcy62 Posted August 29, 2009 Report Share Posted August 29, 2009 Uki Goni : The Real Odessa: Smuggling the Nazis to Peron's Argentina. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted August 29, 2009 Report Share Posted August 29, 2009 John Kruth 'Bright Moments - The Life and Legacy of Rahsaan Roland Kirk' Uki Goni : The Real Odessa: Smuggling the Nazis to Peron's Argentina. Via KLM? Heard a good BBC radio documentary on that a year or so back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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