what are you reading right now?

[12th house]

I just finished Suze Orman's The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke (http://www.amazon.com/Money-Book-Young-Fabulous-Broke/dp/1594482241/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/103-4055072-5535826?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1184887163&sr=8-2), now I'm working on P.D. James Children of Men (http://www.amazon.com/Children-Men-P-D-James/dp/0307279901/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-4055072-5535826?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1184887330&sr=1-1) and preparing for my 4th Master Cleanser reading Stanley Burrough's original on the topic, The Master Cleanser (http://www.amazon.com/Master-Cleanser-Stanley-Burroughs/dp/0963926209/ref=pd_bbs_2/103-4055072-5535826?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1184887355&sr=1-2).

Next up: David Bach's Start Late, Finish Rich (http://www.amazon.com/Start-Late-Finish-Rich-Achieving/dp/0767919475/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-4055072-5535826?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1184887407&sr=1-1)

[Shalewa]

This week I've read two plays by August Wilson, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and Joe Turner's Come and Gone. Both really wonderfully full of resonance and revelation. It is my intention to read the whole of the Century Cycle this summer. I am also reading on chakras as background for a piece I am developing.

[Monny JcIntosh]

I'm working on P.D. James Children of Men (http://www.amazon.com/Children-Men-P-D-James/dp/0307279901/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-4055072-5535826?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1184887330&sr=1-1)

I didn't realize PD James wrote Children of Men. She's on TV arts reviews over here every so often, and seems a wise and witty old bird.

Outside of academia, I'm reading Tacitus' "Annals of Imperial Rome" - and a textbook on ancient Greek in a pitiful attempt at showing off down the pub. Although my girlfriend tells me that they were unlikely to pronounce everything in an east coast Scottish accent.

[BrazenMuse]

Identity/Difference by William Connelly, Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin, Migrations of the Subject by Carol Boyce Davies, Who Set You Flowin' by Farah Jasmine Griffin...Habits of Mind series, book 3 and Teaching w Love & Logic by Fay & Funk.

[rob gregory]

I'm between "The Confident Decision Maker" by Roger Dawson and "Never Eat Alone" by Keith Ferrazzi.

I love working across the street from a major library.

[Grey Marl]

i'm reading "On Love" Alain De Botton hadn't read anything by him before my girlfriend has all his books - seems popular with the ladies - so picked it up

it's a novel where the narrator gives a highly analytical running commentary of the meeting, seduction and subsequent relationship with his ideal woman

i'm not that far into it so haven't fully formed my opinion yet - but so far definitely thought provoking

[kara]

one thousand white women
by Jim Fergus

interesting, very interesting ...

Description

One Thousand White Women begins with May Dodd's journey west into the unknown. A government program, in which women are brought west as brides for the Cheyenne, is her vehicle. What follows is the story of May's adventures: her marriage to Little Wolf, chief of the Cheyenne nation, and her conflict of being caught between two worlds, loving two men, living two lives. Jim Fergus has so vividly depicted the American West that it is as if these diaries are a capsule in time.

[shanequa sanchez]

just finished the fifith installment of the Kushiel's Legacy series ( there are five books now)...
i'm also reading Rite of Passage by richard wright ( for my adult basic ed class i teach).

[ngeso]

Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
Vietnam: A History by Stanley Karnow

[ABedford-HillsJoint]

The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan.

[C hristian]

my resume.

and every other self-help, adjust your attitude book on CD that i can get my hands on . MUST be read by the author though if living though, otherwise, fagghettaboutit!!

[kev]

i'm reading this right now.

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VH2R86B0L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

he's basically taking some popular theories on phenomenology and clowning the hell out of it.

[Myron]

I'm finishing up The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat and I just started Zorro by Isabel Allende.

Myron

[xtine]

I just finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows this morning. Next up will be Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho

[ngeso]

It only came out 5 days ago! You called in sick all week, didn't you?

BTW, I have never read a single line of Harry Potter. Or J.R.R. Tolkien, for that matter.

[xtine]

It only came out 5 days ago! You called in sick all week, didn't you?

BTW, I have never read a single line of Harry Potter. Or J.R.R. Tolkien, for that matter.

LOL. Shhh... I got it Monday night and just finished it this morning. I couldn't put it down. My daughter, who's also a voracious reader, wanted to read the first book when it came out. I had to check it first before handing it to her. In turn, I ended up getting hooked. So it became a tradition between us that every time a new Harry Potter book would come out, I would read it first. J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit was an English Class requirement in school and it sparked my interest to read The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.

[djmarbll]

I'm reading "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn again. The stuff on Columbus in that book makes anyone who celebrates Columbus Day seem like a supporter of genicide. And thats just the first 10 pages.

[Leslie]

The Sunday New York Times....

[Disco2go]

I'm almost done with that one ( probably will finish up on the subway ride home). But Prior to that I read "Roots" by Alex Haley again, and "Chlidren of Men" by PD James. Next up is some Octavia Butler...

[12th house]

I'm almost done with that one ( probably will finish up on the subway ride home). But Prior to that I read "Roots" by Alex Haley again, and "Chlidren of Men" by PD James. Next up is some Octavia Butler...

i'm very impressed with "Children of Men." PD James is a fantastic author! Her use of the language is some of the best I've enountered in quite some time.

[darrow]

I'm reading "Comeback Cities: A Blueprint for Urban Neighborhood Revival" by Grogan and Proscio. Interesting read about some growth/development trends going on in cities, though now it seems a little dated. Copyright is 2001. A lot has changed since then.

[Sweetiwluv]

I'm almost done with that one ( probably will finish up on the subway ride home). But Prior to that I read "Roots" by Alex Haley again, and "Chlidren of Men" by PD James. Next up is some Octavia Butler...

I have seen Children of Men now I guess I need to read it. It was a good movie I thought so I now need to see how the story if any related to the book in a good way.

OOHHOOHH Read Kindred my favorit OB book in the whole world and Fledgling is great as well. We can discuss!

Smooches


Sweeti

[12th house]

Finished Children of Men yesterday. The movie had to be adapted from the book. There are some plot details that are different in movie vs. book. This does not bother me, although I understand there are some people who don't like to be surprised by a book/movie if it is different from the original. Anyway, an excellent book, very worthwhile read, and PD James is a fantastic writer.

Now I am started on Nurrudin Farah "Links" (http://www.amazon.com/Links-Nuruddin-Farah/dp/1573222658/ref=sr_1_1/102-4788475-5384921?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1186678800&sr=8-1) (thanks Ngeso). Huh, odd, seems to be out of print at the moment in paperback.

[BrazenMuse]

I have seen Children of Men now I guess I need to read it. It was a good movie I thought so I now need to see how the story if any related to the book in a good way.

OOHHOOHH Read Kindred my favorit OB book in the whole world and Fledgling is great as well. We can discuss!

Smooches


Sweeti
I'm so bummed she never got to write another Fledgling book. :frown:
Holla when ya'll discuss that one, please? I love OB's work.

[BrazenMuse]

I'm reading "Comeback Cities: A Blueprint for Urban Neighborhood Revival" by Grogan and Proscio. Interesting read about some growth/development trends going on in cities, though now it seems a little dated. Copyright is 2001. A lot has changed since then.

Ever read Urban Intersections by Bremer?

[darrow]

Hmmmm. Nope, I haven't. I just read a description of it thoughs. Sounds interesting!

[BrazenMuse]

Hmmmm. Nope, I haven't. I just read a description of it thoughs. Sounds interesting!

It provides a useful and interesting vocabulary for discussing the cultural and aesthetic configurations of cities...contrasting, for instance, NY to Chicago...becomes easier.

I'm going to look up the one you mentioned however...

[C hristian]

The Google Story: Inside the Hottest Business, Media, and Technology Success of Our Time

http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/41T825KYPBL._SS500_.jpg

[Monny JcIntosh]

Dino Buzatti's The Tartar Step which, thus far, is an excellent, tense psychological allegory, like a Kafka. Last of three holiday books, the previous two of which were a bit disappointing: first, Steinberg's Log from the Sea of Cortez, which was a great travel book and hymn to the urge to know about nature, padded out with too much inane philosophical musing about the oneness of life, the otherness of Mexican Indians, and other drivel, and second, Richard Yates' Revolutionary Road, which was a 50s American Madame Bovary - terrifying and very depressing.

[ngeso]

I'm on a bit of a Tales of the Gold Monkey trip. Bad case of South Pacific Bora Bora fever.

In other words: I'm parallel-reading In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson, South Sea Tales by Jack London and Typee by Hermann Melville. Installed a view of Nuku Hiva, the main Marquesas Island as my wallpaper du jour.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/188/375992425_93f366ed56_b.jpg

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[Breakadawn]

I'm reading Last Night a DJ Saved my Life - it's a history of the DJ, pretty interesting.
Also the Dice Man - my friend gave it to me, it's a little sick, not sure if I can finish it.
Also The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding
and Advertising Media Planning

Just finished Advertising and the Mind of the Consumer, and the Girls Guide to Power and Success

[Stef]

Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

[kara]

so good

http://www.khaledhosseini.com/images/cover-kiterunner.jpg

[C hristian]

....even better!

http://giving.clintonfoundation.org/themes/clinton/images/bookcover2.jpg

[Bernie]

Currently reading Howard Zinn's "People's History of the United States".

Just finished reading the short pamphlet "Propaganda" by Edward L. Bernays, consider the "father of public relations". It's his delusional viewpoint of having a select few "enlightened" people interpret how things should be viewed by others, i.e. Engineering Consent.

Also recently finished reading Norman Finkelstein's book "The Holocaust Industry".

[kara]

http://www.whineandcheese.net/pics/glasscastle.jpg

in short, it's about these really brilliant, resilient kids who grow up with an alcholic father and freespirited mother (they basically live place to place, then later in life the parents are homeless) and live dirt poor - but the kids are like, super smart. every school they enroll in, they're way above everyone else. it's a really touching book. it shows how they made it thru the craziness of the lifestyle their parents raised them in, to achieve their own successful lives one by one.
i recommend it :thumbsup:

[12th house]

Just started Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain. He's a good, funny writer and the anecdotes about the restaurant business are hilarious!

http://www.progblog.de/uploads/buecher/kitchen-confidential.jpg

[kara]

Just started Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain. He's a good, funny writer and the anecdotes about the restaurant business are hilarious!

http://www.progblog.de/uploads/buecher/kitchen-confidential.jpg

i think i have that at home, but not read it yet - yay, a good one in my own library waiting for me

i just started The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud - I dont know if its any good though, i'm only on page 10 or something ... but I'll pull out Kitchen Confidential for next up. thanks for posting.

[ngeso]

Just started Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain. He's a good, funny writer and the anecdotes about the restaurant business are hilarious!

http://www.progblog.de/uploads/buecher/kitchen-confidential.jpg



Bourdain is great.

I'm definitly a bit of a 'foodie', and a big traveller (active or armchair). 'Chef' has always complemented 'pilot' and 'writer' to form my trio of dream careers. I've always fancied and admired cooks and their creations, if simply for the fact that I am an enthusiastic, adventurous eater myself (I'll eat anything once or on a dare). Plus I'm into all kinds of full-bodied, red-meaty, boisterous, bacchanalian, back-slapping, testosterone-drunk, reckless carefreeness. Real guy stuff all the way!

So Bourdain is someone I want to identify with(*). I'd kill for the life he has right now - he gets to fly around the world, meets strange mountain forest people, eats the most outlandish porcupine dishes, and invariably washes it down with strange hallucinogenic beers made from bugs and snake skin and fermented frog piss. The guy is an absolute PIRATE.

Read his books, they're a laugh a minute. And watch his telly-show - that's where you see the forest people, gerbil satés and the frog piss schnaps.


(* unlike Jamie Oliver, who is a total wuss, basically only knows Italian food, uses too much tin-foil, and has not one tenth of Bourdain's swashbuckling worldliness)

[Lloyd Dev]

I'm currently reading Soul On Ice by Eldrige Cleaver. I haven't been able to put it down.

Also I'm taking a look at some of Hegel's works, as I'm a fond lover of philosophy.

[Lloyd Dev]

I'm reading "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn again. The stuff on Columbus in that book makes anyone who celebrates Columbus Day seem like a supporter of genicide. And thats just the first 10 pages.

I'll be looking out for this one. This is one timely subject.

[Monny JcIntosh]

I'm about to read some D. W. Winnicott, as I'm a new parent but an old pseud.

[LadyA. Acacia]

white priviledge....good one

[kara]

http://www.elizabethgilbert.com/images/eatpraylove.jpg

From Publishers Weekly
Gilbert grafts the structure of romantic fiction upon the inquiries of reporting in this sprawling yet methodical travelogue of soul-searching and self-discovery. Plagued with despair after a nasty divorce, the author, in her early 30s, divides a year equally among three dissimilar countries, exploring her competing urges for earthly delights and divine transcendence. First, pleasure: savoring Italy's buffet of delights--the world's best pizza, free-flowing wine and dashing conversation partners--Gilbert consumes la dolce vita as spiritual succor. "I came to Italy pinched and thin," she writes, but soon fills out in waist and soul. Then, prayer and ascetic rigor: seeking communion with the divine at a sacred ashram in India, Gilbert emulates the ways of yogis in grueling hours of meditation, struggling to still her churning mind. Finally, a balancing act in Bali, where Gilbert tries for equipoise "betwixt and between" realms, studies with a merry medicine man and plunges into a charged love affair. Sustaining a chatty, conspiratorial tone, Gilbert fully engages readers in the year's cultural and emotional tapestry--conveying rapture with infectious brio, recalling anguish with touching candor--as she details her exotic tableau with history, anecdote and impression.

[old disco jock]

i just finished a david lynch book catch the big fish

creativity,consciousness and meditation

around a 150 pages he is a very positive individual

[Myron]

I just finished Middlemarch this morning. That book was a part of my life for the last three weeks or so. Goodbye Dorthea, Lydgate, and Rosamond, I'll miss you guys.

Most likely I'll probably read Another Country by James Baldwin next.

Myron

[12th house]

just finished Amy Bloom's collection of short stories A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You (fantastic writer; she's also a psychotherapist), now onto Elegy for Iris by John Bayley.

http://metropolis.co.jp/tokyominifeaturestories/318/pics/book1.jpg

From Publishers Weekly
It is seldom that someone at once so brilliant and so visible as novelist Iris Murdoch develops Alzheimer's disease in full public view; seldom, also, that a sufferer from this dreadful malady has so skilled and loving an interpreter by her side. Bayley, a noted literary critic (and, recently, novelist) in his own right, has been married to Murdoch for 40 years, and part of the charm of this enormously affecting memoir lies in the ways in which he shows the affections of old age as in no way slower than the passions of youth. Murdoch was already a dashing and rather mysterious figure when she and Bayley met in the Oxford of the 1950s; she was a philosophy don at a women's college who had just written a much-admired first novel; he was a bright, rather naive graduate student.

Something mutually childlike clicked between them, however, and a naked swim in the River Isis (which later became a fond habit lasting even into Iris's illness) cemented their loving friendship. Writing with great tenderness and grace, Bayley evokes their long, warm, mutually trusting marriage, and introduces in the gentlest way the moments, four years ago, when he realized that his wife's sense of reality and of herself were slipping away. She is now anxious, repetitious and often nonsensical in her speech, but still suffused with the same quizzical sweetness and absolute trust he loved in her from the start. Few people afflicted with an Alzheimer's partner can be as self-effacing and endlessly patient as Bayley, but in a way almost as mysterious as the creation of a Murdoch novel, he evokes depths of understanding and warmth that seem scarcely ruffled by the breezes of the conscious mind. This beautiful book could hardly help being deeply consoling to anyone thus afflicted; it is also a compelling study of the overthrow of a remarkable spirit. First serial to the New Yorker.

[Monny JcIntosh]

I just finished Middlemarch this morning. That book was a part of my life for the last three weeks or so. Goodbye Dorthea, Lydgate, and Rosamond, I'll miss you guys.


"the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life..."

A great line at a funeral for a quietly great man I once knew.

I'm insanely busy writing about things that I find mind bendingly difficult, and so don't have much time for reading for pleasure. I started reading Umberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum" again, having never previously finished it, but I can only manage one of the short chapters a night. Next time I get a stretch of time, I'm going to give Grossman's "Life and Fate" a go.

[kara]

I just finished Middlemarch this morning. That book was a part of my life for the last three weeks or so. Goodbye Dorthea, Lydgate, and Rosamond, I'll miss you guys.

Most likely I'll probably read Another Country by James Baldwin next.

Myron

did you like Middlemarch? it's one of the many books i half remember reading, probably for school or college or something, but didnt really take the time to process. i was thinking of getting it and trying it again.

"[Middlemarch is] one of the few English novels written for grown-up people" -virginia woolf

[Monny JcIntosh]

I started reading Umberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum" again, having never previously finished it, but I can only manage one of the short chapters a night.

I'm not going to finish it this time, either. It's initially quite promising: three bored editors at a Milanese publishing house slowly start turning into learned versions of Alvin, but by the time things start going, it transforms into a series of sketches of Eco's research. It's supposed to come across as the mad ranting of a crazed conspiracy theorist, but it's all quite dull. The nonsense that it parodies is far more entertaining. With only 100 pages to go, I can't take any more.

[DJ Michael Terzian (Sinister)]

"A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and The Question of TURKISH RESPONSIBILITY"

by (Turkish historian) Taner Akcam

[Monny JcIntosh]

Having binned the Eco, and decided to take a day off to read whatever I like, yesterday I read David Garnett's "A Man In The Zoo", about a man who exhibits himself in London zoo after an argument with his lover. It was wonderful, aside from some appalling racism, which is sadly not atypical of British writing of the time (early 20th century).

I've now decided to try and start this:

http://stephenconnolly.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/41fp1zmkk1l_aa240_.jpg

It will probably take me years, but since giving up on Eco, I remembered life's too short to waste on the shit stuff.

[SpaceMan Boogie]

I finally started reading Dan Brown's Angels and Demons and so far so good....He's writing style leaves you hanging at each chapter yearning for more info....Good stuff so far

[ngeso]

Having binned the Eco, and decided to take a day off to read whatever I like, yesterday I read David Garnett's "A Man In The Zoo", about a man who exhibits himself in London zoo after an argument with his lover. It was wonderful, aside from some appalling racism, which is sadly not atypical of British writing of the time (early 20th century).

I've now decided to try and start this:

http://stephenconnolly.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/41fp1zmkk1l_aa240_.jpg

It will probably take me years, but since giving up on Eco, I remembered life's too short to waste on the shit stuff.


Good luck.

I think the furthest I ever got was 300 or so pages of the first volume.

[Myron]

did you like Middlemarch? it's one of the many books i half remember reading, probably for school or college or something, but didnt really take the time to process. i was thinking of getting it and trying it again.

"[Middlemarch is] one of the few English novels written for grown-up people" -virginia woolf

I really enjoyed it. I was glued to it for a while. It says a lot about how class and gender operated in England of the 1830's and the 1860's/1870's (when it was written).

Myron

[old disco jock]

donna summer book w/ marc eliot

ordinary girl the journey

[ngeso]

Started Philip Roth's Exit Ghost last night. He ranks right up there with my favourite all-time writers. Have to finish it quickly (like by tomorrow night), too, because I should be getting Philip Caputo's Acts of Faith delivered any minute now, and I know I'm going to tear into that one straight away.

Other's in the holding stack, and about to be cleared for landing, include The Inheritance of Loss (Kiran Desai),The opposite House (Helen Oyeyemi) and Requiem for Sophiatown (Can Themba).

[kara]

just found the new Khaled Hosseini book at the library, score.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51f2xhsXaHL._AA240_.jpg

[Monny JcIntosh]

I got sick and read "Moominvalley in November".

It's about various lonely characters who, in the miserable, dark days of November, set off to recapture happier times back in Moominvalley. But the Moomins have gone, and their valley is cold, damp and lonely. Each character's flaws frustrate any real chance of happiness with the others, even as they set about making Moominvalley a bit more homely. It's an incredible book that reminded me how much successful children's fiction draws on deep fears and psychological truths.

[Chris Chase]

7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey. I am still in the beginning stage of the book but I believe it is very powerful. I sure hope so.

[Monny JcIntosh]

I've been caning Robert Palmer's "Deep Blues" on the bus to and from the library, after either Lennox or Danny Gardner recommended it. (Thanks Jamie or Danny.) Great stuff, not just for blues but for history of the times.

[Monny JcIntosh]

Good luck.

I think the furthest I ever got was 300 or so pages of the first volume.

That's about as far as I've got. It's relentlessly ironic, and so quite tiring. I'll try and pick it up at a later date.

In meantime, I read Chesterton's flawed but ace, "The Man Who Was Thursday" and Michaux's "A Barbarian in Asia", which is a bit offensive and a bit Borgesian. In a fin de siecle splurge, I also read some Stephan Zweig, which was OK, and bought Broch's "The Sleepwalkers". But I've now switched from Austria to Russia, and communism, reading Isaac Babel's "Red Cavalry" - which is very disturbing, and quite amazing - alongside Edmund Wilson's "To The Finland Station", after watching Tarkovsky's "Mirror" at the cinema. What I really want to read is still Grossman's "Life and Fate". Sadly, my self imposed break from work has to come to an end in the next couple of days, so I won't have the time.

[BrazenMuse]

I just finished Middlemarch this morning. That book was a part of my life for the last three weeks or so. Goodbye Dorthea, Lydgate, and Rosamond, I'll miss you guys.

Most likely I'll probably read Another Country by James Baldwin next.

Myron

I love Another Country. Re reading it next week...using it in dissertation. Are you reading it? huh?

Middlemarch is actually a favorite of mine. Read Villette yet?

[kara]

I realized I'd never read anything by Langston Hughes before and was at Busboy and Poets so picked this up. I'm halfway through, and it's pretty good. Someone recommended 2 other collections of his to get taht I might follow these up with.

http://www.avdistrict.org/library/lhbook2.jpg

[Chris Chase]

Even though this is geared towards African-Americans, it is a book for everyone.
http://a1055.g.akamai.net/f/1055/1401/5h/images.barnesandnoble.com/images/19600000/19602282.JPG

[kara]

http://www.creativevisionsbooks.com/images/it0316776963.jpg

[Kristel 75]

Economics Demystified

It's an interesting read if you want to get some intro information on Economics.

[strangus]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KH9PHVNRL._AA240_.jpg

Story of a guy who sets out to be the smartest man in the world by reading the Encyclopedia Britanica. Pretty fun read so far

[Ndless Nite]

"God Is Not Great" - Christopher Hitchens

[ngeso]

Finally started Diamonds, Gold and War last night.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51I%2BYmr%2BtmL._SS500_.jpg


...

[12th house]

David Sedaris is hilarious :)

I'm reading this right now.

http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/13960000/13960438.JPG

[Monny JcIntosh]

What I really want to read is still Grossman's "Life and Fate". Sadly, my self imposed break from work has to come to an end in the next couple of days, so I won't have the time.

Despite being in the library until 8pm every day, I've still found time in the last couple of months to burn through 850+ pages of "Life and Fate" in the evenings. Amazing. I spent two evenings reading it through tears.

[dan_v]

just finished 'slash' - slash with anthony bozza (autobiography), throeau's - walden (a classic and must-read for anyone who loves the outdoors and some transcendentalism thrown in for good measure) and am currently diving into 'your brain on music' - daniel j levitin. heard nothing bood great things and have heard him on a special before. smart cookie on the subject of music and perception in neuroscience.

d

[House Music Aficionado]

....


"If I Did It" - Orenthal James Simpson.


Simply put, this is a brilliant piece of literary work composed by a brilliant author. The storyline -- spoken in the hypothetical context -- describes the events leading up to, during the course, and in the aftermath of the tragic events that transpired on June 12, 1994. From there, a nightmare of epic proportions began seeing O.J. wrongfully arrested, tried, and put through a torturous series of judicial quagmires.


Fortunately, a well-informed, intelligent and socially conscious jury acquitted Simpson on two first-degree murder counts, albeit the charges were grossly unjust, and utterly frivolous and vexatious.


Regrettably though, Mr. Simpson was wrongfully held liable in civil court for wrongful death. Gross practice of injustice at its best, folks.


This book, however, satisfies the appetite for those who seek a dose of salacious content for their personal solace. I highly recommend this book.


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[LaNegraLoca]

... from Junot Diaz.

Dominicanos rejoice - this book is hilarious!!
A tale of a quirky young man going through trials and tribulations - a Dominican residing in Jersey with an old school mother and a free-spirited sister. It's hard enough being nerdy with things not going your way ... blame it on 'el fuku' ... the curse!

I was born in the U.S., but my mom and her family tried to instill the ways of the D.R. ... heeheehee! You will laugh, you will cry, and cheer for the underdog!

[Grey Marl]

I read the Martin Hannett bio -"Who killed Martin Hannett", a quick weekend read.

A few misgivings re this sometimes morbid book but worthwhile for a look at another prematurely gone eccentric musical genius...

[kara]

http://images.oprah.com/images/obc_classic/book/2006/night/night_main_218x450.jpg

[12th house]

My airplane read going down (and back) from Miami was John Grogan's Marley & Me. Total pablum, but also very cute and fun to read.

http://wirelessdigest.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/05/28/marley.jpg

[baleariksoul]

Hazrat Inayat Khan - The Music Of Life.

For the second time.

Hello dhp btw. First post... :wink:

[BrnSuga769]

Greetings, I am reading "Minion" by: L.A.Banks... Its the first book in a series of Vampire Huntress Legends; along with various text books for my classes.
Busy, Busy, Busy.
Peace and Blessings.

[12th house]

After reading Marley & Me on the plane to Miami, I read The Kite Runner, and now I'm reading The Bastard on the Couch (http://www.amazon.com/Bastard-Couch-Explain-Feelings-Fatherhood/dp/B000GG4FN6/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208808707&sr=8-1)...

From Publishers Weekly
Last year's much-ballyhooed The Bitch in the House, edited by Hanauer, collated essays by women on their frustration and rage. Now Jones (Hanauer's husband and a novelist and journalist) offers the male version, wherein guys discuss how they feel about their standing in today's shifting cultural landscape (that is, if they care at all). As Jones notes, "The fact that women are in charge of their own birth control and reproduction may be a gigantic cultural shift, but I've yet to hear a single man complain about it." Divided into sections on "Hunting and Gathering," "Can't Be Trusted With Simple Tasks," "Bicycles for Fish" and "All I Need," the essays vary from somewhat revelatory to unsurprising, but they are almost uniformly entertaining and well written. There are several pieces in the vein of Christopher Russell's droll snippet about being bossed around by his Type A wife. Despite her "officious way," deep down, Russell knows her fussiness is often necessary. Some are more visceral, like Robert Skates's display of his jaded humor about the pain of divorce ("Punching doors seems to help. Throwing phones through windows ain't bad either"), or Jarhead author Anthony Swofford's wry tale of beating up a guy at a bar who was molesting Swofford's passed-out girlfriend. While precious few entries stray from the rested maunderings of educated professionals-there's no real scoop on what guys on the assembly line think-the book still manages to open a window into a place many women are pretty convinced doesn't exist: the male psyche.


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[Myron]

I have about a month of pleasure reading before the summer semester begins so I might as well do some reading.

Right now I'm reading:

Highwire Moon by Susan Straight
From Novelist:
Two generations of women--Serafina, a Mexican-Indian girl who emigrates illegally to California, and her daughter, Elvia, separated from her mother when Serafina is deported--struggle to maintain their dignity amidst the frequently brutal world of migrant farm labor. By the author of Aquaboogie. Reader's Guide available.

Nickelodeon Nation: The History, Politics, and Economics of America's Only TV Channel for Kids
From www.amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com)
Nickelodeon is the highest rated daytime channel in the country, and its cultural influence has grown at an astounding pace. Why are Nickelodeon shows so popular? How are they developed and marketed? And where do they fit in the economic picture of the children's media industry? Nickelodeon Nation, the first major study of the only TV channel just for children, investigates these questions.

Entertainment, Education, and the Hard Sell: Three Decades of Network Children's Television
From An Analysis of Thinking and Reserach About Qualitative Methods
This book is purely an analysis of the diversity of programming for children from 1948 to 1978.

Although the book is an empirical analysis, it does provide a look of the evolution of children's programming on network television (or how Saturday morning became "Saturday Morning."

[baleariksoul]

The Hypocrisy of Disco by Clane Hayward.

Liked the title, so far (50 pages in) it kinda reminds me of Euginides.

San Francisco in the late 70's...

[Tony Mundaca]

http://philologos.org/__eb-tws/
http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p120/tonymundaca/300px-Orion_constellation_map.png

[Monny JcIntosh]

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[baleariksoul]

Vince Aletti's - "Disco Files"

http://www.djhistory.com/books/disco-files

Schoolin'...

(I think you'll like it too).

[Edith A. Giles]

I'd just recently finished reading "Wild Boy: My Life In Duran Duran" by Andy Taylor.

It's REALLY good reading, especially for all you other duranies on DHP....


Here's the link:
http://www.amazon.com/Wild-Boy-My-Life-Duran/dp/0446509302/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242235519&sr=1-1#

[C-King]

Run For Your Life by James Patterson was a good weekend read.

[MaDe]

Carlos Castsneda - "A Separate Reality: Further Conversations with don Juan". Rereading all his books for the 2nd time...

[Disko Ole]

Love saves the day - a history of american dance music culture, 1970-1979 by Tim Lawrence

[ngeso]

I'm actually reading, for the first time ever, Love in the Time of Cholera.


I'm not answering phone calls. I'm doing candles, wine, Carlos Gardel, the works. I want to take time off from work.

It's that good.

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[kara]

I'm actually reading, for the first time ever, Love in the Time of Cholera.


I'm not answering phone calls. I'm doing candles, wine, Carlos Gardel, the works. I want to take time off from work.

It's that good.

...

agreed.

[ngeso]

Cholera was excellent, especially after Zafon's a bit disappointing Shadow of the Wind. One for the island top ten.

I'm currently having a Spanish/Caribbean thing going on, toying with tackling either Marquez' biography Living to Tell the Tale, some Naipaul (Biswas or Miguel Street) or Lezama Lima's Paradiso, the latter a very daunting read, I gather.

As I'm undecided, I'm killing some quick time in Indochina with Jon Swain's River of Time and Duras' Lover.

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[MaDe]

CARLOS CASTANEDA - Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of don Juan
For the 2nd time. A wonderful experience and revelations

[El Mayimbe]

some Alain De Botton again

http://www.alaindebotton.com/assets_cm/files/image/cover_proust.jpg

[ngeso]

some Alain De Botton again

http://www.alaindebotton.com/assets_cm/files/image/cover_proust.jpg


I need to get that. I've never read Proust. I'm waiting for the right moment.

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[MaDe]

CARLOS CASTANEDA - Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of don Juan

[ngeso]

Currently acquainting myself with Andalusian history. One thing that strikes me is that either moorism is not an ethnological term, or else it wasn't just Africans that migrated to the Iberian peninsula from 711 A.D. onwards.

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[Bernie]

Finishing up reading the book "Seeds of Destruction" by F. William Engdahl

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/seeds_of_destruction.jpg

This book is available via Amazon, but you may be able to get it cheaper from www.GlobalResearch.ca

Quite a read with lots of references of how major corporations (i.e. Monsanto, Dow, Sygenta) are working to control the food supply of nations by holding patents to genetically modified seeds.

The book describes much about the role of the Rockefeller family and their dealings with eugenics, funding Nazi experiments, funding population control experiments, and their role in helping to start "agribusiness".

I also recommend Engdahl's book "A Century of War, Anglo-American Politics and the New World Order"

[kara]

Finished last night:

http://bookmovement.com/bookImages/b/belCanto_315.jpg

Based on the Lima Crisis, this book is about a group of terrorists who hold high executives and people of high political standing hostage. It explores how the terrorists and hostages cope with living in a house together for several months. Many of the characters form unbreakable bonds of friendship, while some fall in love.

It took me awhile to get into it, but then ending - whooeey! I was frozen on the sidewalk reading the last pages.


Started this morning:

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0395901499.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

[rodney perkins]

Our children are dyiing (nat hentoff)

[El Mayimbe]

Currently acquainting myself with Andalusian history. One thing that strikes me is that either moorism is not an ethnological term, or else it wasn't just Africans that migrated to the Iberian peninsula from 711 A.D. onwards.
...




hence why Im arguing with our favorite troll here about the Reconquista, its some seriously interesting developments that created our world today


when you've got 700 years of ongoing fighting over the Iberian Peninsula then then all of the sudden you "discover" a completely new unknown world such as the Americas you're going to see some dynamic legacies emerge.


ie. black beans with white rice is known as "moros y cristianos" for cuban dishes :wink:

[ngeso]

hence why Im arguing with our favorite troll here about the Reconquista, its some seriously interesting developments that created our world today


when you've got 700 years of ongoing fighting over the Iberian Peninsula then then all of the sudden you "discover" a completely new unknown world such as the Americas you're going to see some dynamic legacies emerge.


ie. black beans with white rice is known as "moros y cristianos" for cuban dishes :wink:

The Umayyad emirate (756 to 929 A.D.) and caliphate (929 to 1031 A.D.) originated in Syria, and relocated to Al Andalus after being overthrown by the Abbasids, who moved their capital from Damascus to Bagdhad. The Umayyads orientation towards these two cities led to the rise of Cordoba to prominence and to the Andalusian golden age. The Umayyads were supplanted by the Almoravid berber dynasty in mid-11th century. They in turn were followed by the Almohad berber dynasty (1130-1269 A.D.).

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[El Mayimbe]

The Umayyad emirate (756 to 929 A.D.) and caliphate (929 to 1031 A.D.) originated in Syria, and relocated to Al Andalus after being overthrown by the Abbasids, who moved their capital from Damascus to Bagdhad. The Umayyads orientation towards these two cities led to the rise of Cordoba to prominence and to the Andalusian golden age. The Umayyads were supplanted by the Almoravid berber dynasty in mid-11th century. They in turn were followed by the Almohad berber dynasty (1130-1269 A.D.).

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if you ever get a chance, checkout southern spain esp Cadiz, Sevilla & Cordoba. SOme of the most gorgeous architecture (and women) from that era still exist today :thumbsup:


http://www.casaandaluciacalpe.com/_xmedia/menus/0000000001/foto1.jpg

[ngeso]

if you ever get a chance, checkout southern spain esp Cadiz, Sevilla & Cordoba. SOme of the most gorgeous architecture (and women) from that era still exist today :thumbsup:


http://www.casaandaluciacalpe.com/_xmedia/menus/0000000001/foto1.jpg



Have the Spanish woman. Will be there in 5 weeks, if I can get some time off work.

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[ngeso]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513zwSAHO6L._SS500_.jpg

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[Edith A. Giles]

Lately, I've been reading this book.....

Here's the link for it: http://deephousepage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=198603

[Martin Red]

http://content-2.powells.com/cgi-bin/imageDB.cgi?isbn=9781844672912


http://www.versobooks.com/books/ab/b-titles/brennan_t_secular_devotion.shtml

[Kerplunk]

Just started 1984 by George Orwell, after reading Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk.

[kara]

http://www.noonewatching.com/archives/2007/02/assassination%20vacation-thumb.jpg

[Myron]

I just finished The Girl Who Played with Fire by Steig Larsson. Just as good as the first book, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, although I did find the end a bit unbelievable. Too bad the English translation of the third book, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest won't be out until next year. Kara would love the Millenium series.

[BrazenMuse]

Just finished reading "Tyrell" by Coe Booth and "Snitch" by Alison Van Diepen. They are on our new curriculum for the high school. I really enjoyed both... for the way language is deployed, Booth does a better job than Van Diepen.

...ah, high interest teen literature.

[House]

Cryptonomicon

Its long

Fairly good, so far

[BrazenMuse]

Nickel & Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich...must read!

She went out and did the hard work of real investigative journalism by moving and looking for jobs...as a low-wage worker. The experiences are fascinating and eye-opening to say the least...I'm using it in 12th grade english and we are also using it in 10th grade as well...

[El Mayimbe]

just finished:


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[12th house]

Nickel & Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich...must read!

She went out and did the hard work of real investigative journalism by moving and looking for jobs...as a low-wage worker. The experiences are fascinating and eye-opening to say the least...I'm using it in 12th grade english and we are also using it in 10th grade as well...


this is probably the best of her investigative books chronicling the state of wealth inequality/down economy, etc. Bait & Switch was ok (more about how higher educated/wealthier people fare in the down economy; "golden handcuffs")

[kara]

recently finished:

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http://www.amybloom.com/

and

http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/images/a/a-spot-of-bother.jpg


http://www.markhaddon.com/

[ngeso]

Read this on the train from Leipzig to Frankie last Sunday. Standard Roth, guy lit. Raunchy old man, young women, lots of detailed shagging, tragedy. The way I like it.


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[El Mayimbe]

k, im debating as to whether I should read this 1st:


http://violetcrush.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/the_fountainhead.jpg




or this one:


http://www.samriddhi.org/userfiles/images/book-of-the-month/2008/atlas.jpg

[Sal Paradise]

k, im debating as to whether I should read this 1st:


http://violetcrush.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/the_fountainhead.jpg




or this one:


http://www.samriddhi.org/userfiles/images/book-of-the-month/2008/atlas.jpg

Kill Your Self

[Monny JcIntosh]

Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall, which won this year's Booker Prize. It's an historical novel, about Thomas Cromwell, who rose from humble beginnings to become Henry VIII's closest advisor. It's excellent.

Coming off that, I picked up Diarmid McCulloch's Reformation, which is a history of the Reformation that got praise from all over the shop.

[ngeso]

On the East African war. Reading the one leads to wanting to read the other.

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[kara]

just finished this:

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and can't wait for the 2nd one to come out on paperback.


About to start:

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[Nightshade]

I'm reading How To Choose The Best Music Production Software :thumbsup: it is free to download http://bit.ly/bi2gYf you allowed to share it with whoever you think might need it :respent:

[kara]

Just picked up this for May book club...

http://static.oprah.com/omagazine/200703/images/omag_200703_Menge.jpg

And halfway through ...

http://inkeehong.com/articles/image/Larsson-the-Girl-Who-Played-with-Fire-UK2009.jpg

And have been fighting the temptation to start this before I finish the others ...

http://www.lybrary.com/images/5552033639.jpg

[DodgeDanger]

Black Seminarians and Black Clergy Without a Black Theology: by Yosef Ben-Jochannan

Trial and Error: The Autobiography of Chaim Weizmann

[Myron]

I've just started the Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. :grinyes:

[kara]

I've just started the Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. :grinyes:

just hit page 100 ... :grinyes:

and halfway through The Help (great read!)

[darrow]

I'm about half way through Weaveworld by Clive Barker.

[Soulman T]

Reading that House bible and comparing it to that other House bible ..
lotta bibles in the house kid .. just gotta grab the right bible ..
:thumbsup:

[ngeso]

Ploughing through this. If you like magical realism (Marquez, Allende, Esquivel), you will totally enjoy this.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51pydxrQyYL._SS500_.jpg

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[Martin Red]

Loved this


What happens when God dies?

The sun still rises and sets, because God had already set the planets in motion. But what happens to us?

This is the theme behind the novel, God is Dead.

It begins with God, disguised as a wounded Dinka woman from Sudan, being killed by the Janjaweed in the Darfur desert. The observation that feral dogs feeding on her body now speak ancient languages give rise to the conclusion that God, indeed, has died.

What happens next? Author Ron Currie looks at humanity from a variety of perspectives, and the text almost reads as if the succeeding chapters were given to a variety of authors to experiment with this theme. But they were all written by Currie, of course. He writes well, with intensity and clarity.

But God remains dead. No Gandalf resurrection here.

This novel is worthy of more than one reading. I've only read it the once, but I "see" that I missed subtle messages here. Knowing where Currie takes the story, I know I can get more out of it the second time around. It is also easy to select one or two chapters to revisit.

And remember, this is a novel, not a "God is not Great" expose of religion. But you will feel sorry for God, who lives, and dies, experiencing the suffering in Darfur.


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Synopsis
"[A] stoic poignancy reminiscent of Raymond Carver..."God Is Dead" is a heady cocktail of ideas...Currie has proved he can write and write well." - "Guardian". God - or Sora, as she's called - has come to earth to experience its conflicts first hand, but adopting a human form also means assuming human frailty and mortality, and when Sora's death - and her true identity - is discovered, the world is immediately and irrevocably changed. Waves of panic, civil unrest and mass suicide sweep the globe; young men take the future into their own hands, armies go to war over fate versus free will, and parents - in the absence of an alternative, and with nothing else to do on a Sunday - turn their children into objects of worship. "God is Dead" is truly - and terrifyingly - original; blasphemous and heretical, it's an exceptional debut and a remarkable read."From its stark title to its startling final page, Ron Currie's novel packs one tight punch of fresh ideas in prose so smart it smarts...As a satirist, Currie has only bad news to impart but, as a devotee of Kurt Vonnegut, he does it with such humour, you'll barely notice." - "Telegraph". "As smart and addictive as any debut novel you're likely to pick up this year..." - "List".

[Martin Red]

Synopsis

The first of those born in the baby boom following the Second World War came of age in the radical sixties. Not since 1918 had the young talked serious revolutionary politics as they did then. But in 1918, the men who came back from the war knew that the world was amiss, and what they had to do about it. When at last the generation that fought the Great War came to power, they changed the world. By contrast, the generation that came after decayed fast. For the first time since the Second World War, there was money, there was safe sex, there was freedom, and no one bothered to stop and remember the price earlier generations had paid for this. Most of them hardly realised the privations of their parents, and the struggle that had taken place to ensure that they were not equally deprived. What began as the most radical-sounding generation for half a century turned into a random collection of youthful style gurus, sharp-toothed entrepreneurs and management consultants who believed revolution meant new ways of selling things; and Thatcherites, who thought freedom meant free markets, not free people. At last it found its most complete expression in New Labour, which had no idea what either revolution or freedom meant, but rather liked the sound of the words. While the philosophy of the sixties seemed progressive at the time, the baby boomers we remember are not the political reformers, but the millionaires. In What Did the Baby Boomers Ever Do for Us? Francis Beckett argues that the children of the '60s betrayed the generations that came before and after, and that the true legacy of the swinging decade is ashes.



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What Did the Baby Boomers Ever Do For Us? by Francis Beckett

Fiona Millar wonders if perhaps it's time for the 60s generation to fade from view

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jul/31/baby-boomers-francis-beckett-review

[El Mayimbe]

Hit Men by Fredric Dannen



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[OneMasterMixer]

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A young American couple is murdered while vacationing in Europe. The young woman’s father Jack Kanon, a New York City police investigator travels to Europe to hunt down the murderer. Other young couples in, France, Germany, Denmark and Sweden have since then been killed and the evidence points in the same direction. Kanon joins up with Scandinavian journalist Dessie Larsson to find the murderer. Kanon and Larsson must work against time since every murder is preceded by a postcard to a regional daily.

[kara]

just bought and the 1st chapter is like whoa

http://www.bittenandbound.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Andre-Agassi-Open.jpg

[OneMasterMixer]

http://gilscottheron.net/images/13t.jpg

A new edition of the first novel by the legendary musician and Godfather of Rap, a 1970s Harlem noir tale



Digging the rhythms of the street, where the biggest deal life has to offer is getting high, this hip, fast-moving thriller relates the strange story of the murder of a teenage boy called John Lee. The story is told in the words of four men who knew him when he was just another kid working after school, hanging out, waiting for something to happen. Just who did kill John Lee and why?


A very accomplished first novel which the author wrote while still at college. Four distinct narratives bound up with a murder in an area of New York full of racial, class, political and generation tense.

[Martin Red]

http://www3.waterstones.com/wat/images/special/author/l/iceberg_slim.jpg
Chicago pimp and hustler-turned writer who has had a great influence on black culture in the US ...

Born Robert Beck, Iceberg Slim was a smart kid 'poisoned by the street', who was sent to prison during his second year at University for selling bootleg liquor and pimping. It was here he adopted the name Iceberg Slim, because "the best pimps keep a steely lid on their emotions, and I was one of the iciest."

Throughout the forties and fifties, Slim effectively ruled Chicago, with 'stables' of girls earning for him. He became addicted to cocaine and heroin, but after a third stretch of prison he cleaned up, moved to L.A. and became a writer. His seven books describe the rage in which the black man has been said to live, with particular focus on sex and violence. Iceberg Slim is one of the key influences on 80s and 90s rap stars, especially Ice-T who named himself after his idol.

Fact file
Name: Robert Beck

Date of birth: 1918 (d. 1992)

Place of birth: Chicago

Similar Authors: Donald Goines, Herbert Simmons, Clarence Cooper




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Synopsis
The ultimate anti-hero, Iceberg Slim, takes you into the secret inner world of the pimp, and the smells, the sounds, the fears and petty triumphs of his world. A legendary figure of the Chicago underworld, this is his story: from defending his mother against the evil men she brought into their lives, to becoming a giant of the streets. A seething tale of brutality, cunning and greed, "Pimp" is a harrowing portrait of life on the wrong side of the tracks, and a rich warning from a true survivor.

[ngeso]

Finished Roth's Nemesis last night. Didn't really like it that much (i.e. to me one of the lesser Roths).

Am now going to maybe throw in Richard Yates' Cold Spring Harbor over the weekend, before doing either Franzen's Freedom or Rachman's Imperfectionists.

Also on my nightstand: Oscar Niemeyer's memoirs The Curves of Time and Daphne du Maurier's Vanishing Cornwall.

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[ngeso]

...and having a great time with Cold Spring Harbour. I didn't know about Yates until I saw Revolutionary Road, so I'm looking forward to reading his other work as well. He's like Updike, but less funny and more startling.

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[John Ep]

...and having a great time with Cold Spring Harbour. I didn't know about Yates until I saw Revolutionary Road, so I'm looking forward to reading his other work as well. He's like Updike, but less funny and more startling.

...

Speaking of Updike, i'm reading "Rabbit is Rich" now, and really loving it. contains the best line in the history of American literature when Rabbit meditates, "Cunt would be a good flavor of ice cream." I don't want this novel to end.

If Yates is like Updike, he's on deck....thanks!

[kara]

Black, White and Jewish by Rebecca Walker

and

One Day by David Nicholls

[ngeso]

Speaking of Updike, i'm reading "Rabbit is Rich" now, and really loving it. contains the best line in the history of American literature when Rabbit meditates, "Cunt would be a good flavor of ice cream." I don't want this novel to end.

If Yates is like Updike, he's on deck....thanks!

I think Yates is not as ribald as Updike. With Updike I usually enjoy the raunchy bits in a post-AIDS wistful, nostalgia kind of way; his protagonists (like Roth's) are always the most likable with their pants down. With Yates (off the back of my one-book experience) it seems to be more in-your-face, nonchalant taboo-breaking with bad endings. Yates is (probably) more depressing than all his contemporaries. That said, Yates portrayal of post-war suburban cars & girls America is fascinating. If you dig 'Mad Men', you're going to like Yates.

Re Updike, I've had the Everyman's Library Rabbit Angstrom edition sitting on my desk for close to a year now. I'm still contemplating how to tackle that 1500+ page read. In the meantime I've started into Freedom...so far not bad.

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[John Ep]

[QUOTE=ngeso;1471701]I

Re Updike, I've had the Everyman's Library Rabbit Angstrom edition sitting on my desk for close to a year now. I'm still contemplating how to tackle that 1500+ page read. In the meantime I've started into Freedom...so far not bad. (Quote)

You can just read one novel at a time, starting w/ Rabbit Run, then take a break. But I warn you, they are hard to put down. Updike is a freak, I had know idea.

I'm on the last few pages of Rabbit is Rich and am dreading finishing it....

[Devant]

ganked the Communist Manifesto from my girl's place for desk reading at work today.

[kara]

ganked the Communist Manifesto from my girl's place for desk reading at work today.

if i saw someone reading that at work, i'd be scared... :biglaugha:

[ngeso]

Currently immersed in roaring twenties culture, so I'm reading Nancy Mitford, F. Scott Fitzgerald and works on British colonial history, and listening to loads of Duke Ellington.

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[kara]

Currently immersed in roaring twenties culture, so I'm reading Nancy Mitford, F. Scott Fitzgerald and works on British colonial history, and listening to loads of Duke Ellington.

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LIke biograhies? WHo's nancy Mitford??

[ngeso]

LIke biograhies? WHo's nancy Mitford??


Nancy Mitford wrote The Pursuit of Love and Love In A Cold Climate. I've got them in an omnibus edition, and I want to perhaps get into it sometime this weekend, depending on whether I finish Scott's Tender Is The Night or not. During the week I raced through The Bolter, the biography of Idina Sackville, a between-wars nymphomanic hedonist flapper, an icon of scandal, and one of the infamous "Happy Valley" set.

[kara]

Nancy Mitford wrote The Pursuit of Love and Love In A Cold Climate. I've got them in an omnibus edition, and I want to perhaps get into it sometime this weekend, depending on whether I finish Scott's Tender Is The Night or not. During the week I raced through The Bolter, the biography of Idina Sackville, a between-wars nymphomanic hedonist flapper, an icon of scandal, and one of the infamous "Happy Valley" set.

wolw I haven't heard of any of these people or works, thanks for sharing the information/wealth... going to look into all of that!~

[OneMasterMixer]

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Tick Tock
BY James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge

NYC's #1 detective, Michael Bennett, has a huge problem—the Son of Sam, the Werewolf of Wisteria and the Mad Bomber are all back. The city has never been more terrified!

Tick—a killer's countdown begins, but...
A rash of horrifying crimes tears through the city, throwing it into complete chaos and terrorizing everyone living there. Immediately, it becomes clear that they are not the work of an amateur, but of a calculating, efficient, and deadly mastermind.

Tick—can Michael Bennett catch him before...
The city calls on Detective Michael Bennett, pulling him away from a seaside retreat with his ten adopted children, his grandfather, and their beloved nanny, Mary Catherine. Not only does it tear apart their first vacation since Michael's wife Maeve died—it leaves the entire family open to attack.

Tock—your time is up.
Bennett enlists the help of a former colleague, FBI Agent Emily Parker. As his affection for Emily grows into something stronger, his relationship with Mary Catherine takes an unexpected turn. All too soon, another appalling crime leads Bennett to a shocking discovery that exposes the killer's pattern and the earth-shattering enormity of his plan. From the creator of the #1 New York detective series comes the most volatile and most explosive Michael Bennett novel ever.

[ngeso]

wolw I haven't heard of any of these people or works, thanks for sharing the information/wealth... going to look into all of that!~



I finished The Pursuit of Love on Friday on the train from work. I must say, although I was a bit apprehensive about Mitford being maybe too "chick-ish", it was quite an entertaining read. I'll definitely carry on with her. I don't know: I love English women - or indeed their portrayal(*) -, particularly of that period around the wars.

Right now though I have to get into the latest offering by Michel Houellebecq, La Carte et le territoire (I don't think there's an English translation yet). F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is The Night is boring me a bit, so I'm going to drop that for a moment. What I did discover this weekend was Julie Orringer's The Invisible Bridge. I haven't made my mind up to buy it, but I'm looking at it hard. Again, between-wars Europe, Budapest and Paris as backdrop, but a daunting 600+ pages.

(*) i.e. hot, discreetly debauched, gin & tonic-swilling, globe-trotting adventuresses and aviatrices with exceptional vocabulary and fantastic hair.

[kara]

for book club. FASCINATING! and i rarely read non-fiction...

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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they’d weigh more than 50 million metric tons—as much as a hundred Empire State Buildings. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb’s effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions. Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave.

[ngeso]

This week:

I'm almost through with Dancing in the Glory of Monsters. A mindboggling yet rivetting account of the African world war raging in the Congo since the Rwandan genocide in '94. Forget Darfur, this is where it is truly at.
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I read a few pages of the introduction in bed last night. This is my first music read in maybe two or three years. I hope I'll have a glorious time revisiting my musical coming-of-age period between '80 and '86. My iPod has been running solid on post-punk gems for weeks now.
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...

[nielsvanmil]

After many years of standing in my bookshelf, this year I finally had the guts to take "The Brothers Karamazov" from Dostoyevksy out to read it. Although it took me a lot of time to read it (it's almost 1000 pages) it was much more readable than I thought it would be for Russian literature from the 19th century. The themes in this book are amazingly actual, still to this day and age, and because of the immense depth Dostoyevksy gave his characters I enjoyed every every page of it. This book truly lived up to it's colossal status.

" The Brothers Karamazov is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger and completed in November 1880. Dostoyevsky intended it to be the first part in an epic story titled The Life of a Great Sinner, but he died less than four months after its publication.
The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel that enters deeply into the ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. It is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, and reason, set against a modernizing Russia. Dostoyevsky composed much of the novel in Staraya Russa, which is also the main setting of the novel. Since its publication, it has been acclaimed all over the world by thinkers as diverse as Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger, Cormac McCarthy, Kurt Vonnegut, and Pope Benedict XVIas one of the supreme achievements in literature.

[ngeso]

Off the back of watching the 3rd series True Blood en bloque and getting really deeply into Southern music, literature and culture (I've been lost on a total Muscle Shoals/Country/Swamp Rock & Blues trip for the past 3 weeks or so), I came across this read: Nine Lives. A very insightful biographical account of 9 people reflecting on their lives through hurricanes Betsy and Katrina. It's a totally endearing portrayal of New Orleans and its people. I'm very, very smitten...

The actual nine lives:
http://www.danbaum.com/Nine_Lives/About_Nine_Lives.html

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[Paula]

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Following in the footsteps of her idols Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, Kola Boof asserts her own literary prowess with a chilling sociopolitical love story.

Set in modern West Africa, Europe, and the U.S., and featuring the kind of heroine readers rarely get to encounter in popular culture--beautiful charcoal-skinned Eternity, a spirited and diabolical young African hellcat whose life is stigmatized by a heart-stopping secret--The Sexy Part of the Bible is an erotically astute novel filled with mystery and adventure.

Enveloped in the arms of a domineering Fela Kuti-type rap star and revolutionary named Sea Horse Twee, Eternity finds herself miraculously surviving several African rebellions--and in the interim, she powerfully unmasks the science of cloning, which becomes a powerful metaphor in the story.

Written with the lush musicality of North African classics, The Sexy Part of the Bible is guaranteed to stay on your mind long after you've put it down.

Kola Boof is the author of several novels and poetry collections, including Flesh and the Devil and Nile River Woman. Her writing has appeared in Harper's and the story collection Politically Inspired. Her autobiography, Diary of a Lost Girl, was published in 2006. She has been interviewed by MSNBC, FOX News, and CNN; and has been featured in TV Guide, Time, the New York Post, and the New York Times. She lives in Southern California.

[ngeso]

A fun vitriolic rant. Loving it every day on the train to and from work.

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[djfunq]

"butterflies in a diving suit" , by Jean-Dominique Bauby

[djfunq]

A fun vitriolic rant. Loving it every day on the train to and from work.

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agreed

[neon]

Three Seconds, by Roslund & Hillstrom.

[Karmyda]

The Strangest Secret, by Earl Nightingale and The Power of Positive Thinking
Classics, but great stuff if you are into self help books.

[ngeso]

I had a great time with God Is Not Great. Which leads me straight to Eyelyn Waugh, whom Hitchens is very troubled about (exceptional author, dodgy religious views, Nazi sympathy, etc.). I need to get stuck in more English classics in any case.

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[neon]

Yeah, I haven't read some classics in a while. I need to get back to that too. :)

Right now, I'm reading "A Brief Guide to Secret Religions." It's very interesting.

[House]

I likeded The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

[House]

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was pretty good. Oddly structured, but still quite enjoyable. I will definitely read the other books in the series

[djfunq]

I had a great time with God Is Not Great. Which leads me straight to Eyelyn Waugh, whom Hitchens is very troubled about (exceptional author, dodgy religious views, Nazi sympathy, etc.). I need to get stuck in more English classics in any case.

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[djfunq]

I had a great time with God Is Not Great. Which leads me straight to Eyelyn Waugh, whom Hitchens is very troubled about (exceptional author, dodgy religious views, Nazi sympathy, etc.). I need to get stuck in more English classics in any case.

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[djfunq]

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was pretty good. Oddly structured, but still quite enjoyable. I will definitely read the other books in the series
I saw the movie and while it said; brutal, shocking, not allowed in America I was a bit dissapointed so i didn't rent the other two in the series. I can imagine the book is better than the movie

[kara]

The Hunger Games trilogy... it's so bad but so good. :rofl:

[ngeso]

After having a spectacularly good time with Brideshead Revisited, and in line with my current Early-20th-Century obsession (my GF thinks I've gone totally nuts), I'm reading Edward Paice's Tip & Run, which is perhaps the most concise up-to-date account of the Great War theatre in East Africa. I had read William Boyd's An Ice Cream War a while back, so I know the territory. I'm also keen to get stuck into either Tim Jeal's Emperors of the Nile or Stanley biography anytime soon.

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[El Mayimbe]

just finished:


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Yes!!!!!!


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[djfunq]

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[djfunq]

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[ngeso]

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[kara]

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[Paula]

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a great read for ANYONE in the music business -- high recommend this for women in the industry.
funny how she uses the term dark-skinned 3 times in the first two chapters
reading this now before that inaccurate, culturally sanitized film version is released.

[kara]

The Round House

By Louise Erdrich

Amazing. Being referred to as the Native American To Kill A Mockingbird.

Only 40% in so no comment on that yet...But can already say it is a must read.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/16/books/the-round-house-louise-erdrichs-new-novel.html

And from NPR-

"by Alan CheuseI've devoted many hours in my life to reading, and among these hours many of them belong to the creations of novelist Louise Erdrich. In more than a dozen books of fiction — mostly novel length — that make up a large part of her already large body of work, Erdrich has given us a multitude of narrative voices and stories. Never before has she given us a novel with a single narrative voice so smart, rich and full of surprises as she has in The Round House. It's her latest novel, and, I would argue, her best so far.
The narrator is an Ojibwe lawyer named Joe Coutts, son of tribal judge Bazil Coutts and tribal clerk Geraldine Coutts. The novel opens in Joe's 13th summer — in 1988 — as we see him and his father at work in the garden of their house on the North Dakota reservation.
"Small trees had attacked my parents' house at the foundation. ... They had grown into the unseen wall and it was difficult to pry them loose," Joe tells us. Even in this description of a seemingly calm and bucolic task, we can hear hints of the violence and difficulty of the events soon to come, as Joe pries loose the truth of a long and painful story.
As Joe later puts it, his mother's clerk job is "to know everybody's secrets," working as she does with tribal records going back many generations. It happens that while father and son work at their gardening, she drives off to fetch an apparently controversial file from her office and suffers a brutal, nearly fatal sexual assault. This event turns upside down the life of the family and the entire reservation's sense of justice.
As pure story, the novel unfolds at an even pace, taking us through the revelation of the mother's terrible encounter with a man whose description, let alone identity, she refuses for a long while to divulge. After being treated for her wounds — at least the physical injuries — she retreats into her room at home while father and son attempt to pursue some justice in this case.
The elder Coutts works with law enforcement, including the FBI. Young Joe goes sleuthing, which leads to some wonderful set pieces, as when he and his reservation pals take it upon themselves to spy on the priest in residence on the reservation. The priest happens to be a badly wounded Iraq War vet, who catches them at their spying and sends them spinning out back into the world. It's a world that becomes more and more sinister when, like self-proclaimed detectives out of a Mark Twain novel, Joe and his friends sift through clues at the ancient ceremonial lakeside round house where his mother was attacked.
Halfway through the story, Joe makes clear what we as readers know has to be true. "You have read this far," he says, "and you know that I'm writing this story at a removal of time from that summer." That long view — and the experience of having become, like his father before him, a tribal judge — gives Joe a clarity of mind and an emotional distance from that tumultuous period of his adolescence, when the harm done to his mother spurred him to commit even greater violence. All of this he describes in a voice that's smooth but never bland, nurtured by years of experience and honed by memory, a voice reminiscent of some of John Steinbeck's best narrators.
As a judge, he tells us that everything he does, no matter how trivial, must be crafted keenly. He might be speaking for the novelist, who has created for us the keenly made story of a peculiar history, in an out of the way part of our continent, that touches on the hearts and souls of us all. [Copyright 2012 National Public Radio]"

[ngeso]

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Loving this. Thinking of buying the rest of the trilogy in hardcover.

[ngeso]

More porn for me.


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[ngeso]

For someone such as myself, who identifies as, and perpetually thinks like, a migrant, this book completely resonates with me. Amazing insights into how the world works in terms of migrational movement.



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[ngeso]

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[ngeso]

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Since starting out with The Kings of Cool, I have made short work of most of Don Winslow, including tearing through The Dawn Patrol, California Fire & Life, The Winter of Frankie Machine and The Death and Life of Bobby Z in the space of two weeks over Christmas.

To finally land at The Power of the Dog. I'm about halfway through. Like all of Winslow's work, completely captivating. His books are basically Southern CaliMexican surfer-noir/desert road movies on narcotics, with a Ranchera soundtrack (well, that's what comes from my phones when I sit down for some pages, anyway). I already dread the moment, when I've read all of his work and am strung out cold turkey, waiting for his next piece. I've got Savages and The Gentlemen's Hour (plus his earlier work) to look forward to, but after that?

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[Jojo SiC]

5981

[kara]

This Where I Leave You - Jonathan Tropper

It's hysterical - like a Jewish arrested development

[ngeso]

My mom gave me this for Christmas. I had never heard of it before (so much for considering oneself somewhat wellread...) . I picked it up earlier in the week, and have done the first two chapters. Delectable stuff so far.

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[ngeso]

On the other hand this came in the mail today. After spending the better part of two months with Don Winslow in SoCal and Mexico, it's time to go back to Vietnam. I hear this one is supposed to be really good. Maybe the History of the World will have to wait a bit...

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[kara]

you still get books? e-reader babe! e-reader!

[ngeso]

you still get books? e-reader babe! e-reader!



For me books are something essential to my wellbeing, so-to-speak. The feel, the texture, the scent of paper, the blotches of spaghetti sauce, the marks of transition, the dust. If there is a line to be drawn, that's where I've drawn it. I'm going to buy the real thing to the very last day. I know it is only a matter of short time before paperback novels will begin to seriously disappear (I expect big expensive hardcover to be around for a while longer), but by then I'll be in my fifties, and I will have retired to a comfortable seclusion and the Classics, which will occupy the remainder of my time.

When I die, I am going to leave behind a library of books and art and scripts and little models and trinkets and mementos as a manifestation of my work, leisure and pleasure. I'm not going to go out leaving behind electrical junk without the password, without magic, and some cloud motherfucker owns my heart, my soul and everything that ever meant anything at all in life to me.

www.bookshelfporn.com

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[House]

For me books are something essential to my wellbeing, so-to-speak. The feel, the texture, the scent of paper, the blotches of spaghetti sauce, the marks of transition, the dust. If there is a line to be drawn, that's where I've drawn it. I'm going to buy the real thing to the very last day. I know it is only a matter of short time before paperback novels will begin to seriously disappear (I expect big expensive hardcover to be around for a while longer), but by then I'll be in my fifties, and I will have retired to a comfortable seclusion and the Classics, which will occupy the remainder of my time.

When I die, I am going to leave behind a library of books and art and scripts and little models and trinkets and mementos as a manifestation of my work, leisure and pleasure. I'm not going to go out leaving behind electrical junk without the password, without magic, and some cloud motherfucker owns my heart, my soul and everything that ever meant anything at all in life to me.

www.bookshelfporn.com

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Truth!

[kara]

For me books are something essential to my wellbeing, so-to-speak. The feel, the texture, the scent of paper, the blotches of spaghetti sauce, the marks of transition, the dust. If there is a line to be drawn, that's where I've drawn it. I'm going to buy the real thing to the very last day. I know it is only a matter of short time before paperback novels will begin to seriously disappear (I expect big expensive hardcover to be around for a while longer), but by then I'll be in my fifties, and I will have retired to a comfortable seclusion and the Classics, which will occupy the remainder of my time.

When I die, I am going to leave behind a library of books and art and scripts and little models and trinkets and mementos as a manifestation of my work, leisure and pleasure. I'm not going to go out leaving behind electrical junk without the password, without magic, and some cloud motherfucker owns my heart, my soul and everything that ever meant anything at all in life to me.

www.bookshelfporn.com (http://www.bookshelfporn.com)

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er, that just turned me on. that was HOT.

read on my man...

[ngeso]

Not so much of a read as simply outstanding personal lifestyle photography. I have these on my desk permanently for a quick browse when I'm bored-at-work. Beats any fashion mag by a mile.



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