fasstrack Posted September 9, 2012 Report Share Posted September 9, 2012 Just piled in and I can see this is gonna be a page turner. Heard of it before but picked it up for that ever-popular price: free. History books can be a laborious read but I can see the authors are good at terse prose that moves and has humor-like Nell Painter's History of White People, which I experienced Readus Interruptus w/and will get back to. So being that I only just started feel free to begin w/o me. I'll be out doing, um, research. 'Where's my damn Rob Roy? What, the guy went alj the way back to get the Mayflower stash?' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fasstrack Posted September 9, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2012 Just piled in and I can see this is gonna be a page turner. Heard of it before but picked it up for that ever-popular price: free. History books can be a laborious read but I can see the authors are good at terse prose that moves and has humor-like Nell Painter's History of White People, which I experienced Readus Interruptus w/and will get back to. So being that I only just started feel free to begin w/o me. I'll be out doing, um, research. This is too rich not to share: p. 5. (my set-up) The colonists couldn't get decent ingredients for beer-making. One wrote this paean to ingenuouity: If barley be wanting to make into malt/We must be cmtent and think it no fault/For we can make liquor to sweeten our lips/Of pumpkins, and parsnips, and walnut-tree tips. The authors' deadpan response: 'One suspects that the beers produced from such recipes were little better than the poetry'. Agreed, Ogden Nash can rest easy (; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete C Posted September 9, 2012 Report Share Posted September 9, 2012 I assume you're not talking about this: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fasstrack Posted September 9, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2012 I assume you're not talking about this: No-but thanks for the offer (; Seriously, the book came first. But maybe Bogosian was how I knew the title. Hacks borrow, talents steal. Or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Storer Posted September 10, 2012 Report Share Posted September 10, 2012 I assume you're not talking about this: No-but thanks for the offer (; Seriously, the book came first. But maybe Bogosian was how I knew the title. Hacks borrow, talents steal. Or something. I suppose I could Google it, Joel, but what the hell, I'll just ask. Who wrote the book you are talking about and when was it published? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete C Posted September 10, 2012 Report Share Posted September 10, 2012 Boy was there drinking in early America. The temperance movement was not a response to casual, "social" drinking... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fasstrack Posted September 10, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2012 I assume you're not talking about this: No-but thanks for the offer (; Seriously, the book came first. But maybe Bogosian was how I knew the title. Hacks borrow, talents steal. Or something. I suppose I could Google it, Joel, but what the hell, I'll just ask. Who wrote the book you are talking about and when was it published? Thanks for asking, my bad. Guess I figured everyone knew-jazz fans being as big drunks as the musicians, what with poverty and unheralded genius (; It was written by 2 academics (and is not only very readable but hilarious. These 2 are hams from the old country), Mark Edward Lender and James Kirby Martin and published originally in '82 by Free Press. I have the revised '87 edition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fasstrack Posted September 24, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2012 (edited) Did anyone else read this? I'm getting through it very slowly, with little time to read these days. But it's very good---like readable, populist history. I guess someone else agreed, b/c it came out in '82 and was reprinted not long ago. Edited September 24, 2012 by fasstrack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fasstrack Posted September 30, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2012 Guys: You GOTTA read this! I don't know whether it's the Colonials or the authors documenting them who are such a laugh riot. All I know is every page has me in stitches, even as I learn. I wonder now if Bogosian's play really WAS based on the book. If so, what a gimme! He wouldn't have had to write a word... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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