Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: wysiwyg Date: 12 Aug 05 - 09:27 PM What book are you reading right now? The Mother of all BS threads! ~S~ |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Little Hawk Date: 12 Aug 05 - 08:59 PM Just started "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle...and...WOW! Amos, you have got to read this one. |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: GUEST Date: 12 Aug 05 - 08:34 PM The Knockout Artist - Harry Crews. So-so read. If anyone has ever made it through Joyce's Ulysses or Sarte's Being and Nothingness and understood it, I'd appreciate some insight on how you did it. |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: gnomad Date: 12 Aug 05 - 08:34 PM Ebbie - re Testament of Youth A tremendous work, relating to WW1 rather than 2. If it were fiction it would be in a high rank, but it is autobiography and that promotes it a good bit in my reckoning, right alongside All Quiet, and Goodbye to All That, imo. Of course I've slipped a bit in my "high minded reader" rating, I'm now looking into The Scots Kitchen (F Marian McNeill) re the haggis thread, plus Paperweight by Stephen Fry. |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: GUEST,B Date: 12 Aug 05 - 06:24 PM from the ever-increasing stack: "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri -- detailed renderings of Bengali immigrant experience, and way excellent prose. "Die 13 1/2 Leben des Kaept'n Blaubaer" by Walter Moers -- a long story which begins in a nutshell :-) B |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: *Laura* Date: 12 Aug 05 - 05:31 PM It was Harry Potter - now Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell. after that, college requests I read 'Down and out in Paris and London' (another Orwell) and Jane Austin's 'Emma' (which I have tried, and failed, to read before) After that I shall read 'The Time Traveller's Wife' because I bought it a while ago but need to read my college books first. Then I think I will have a bash at Les Miserables. And if that fails - well I haven't read Lord of the Rings in a while. Ooh and someone gave me The Count of Monte Cristo for christmas - this is opening up a world of possibilities now I start to think about it! xLx p.s. I also recommend to everyone and anyone a book called 'Lorelli's Secret' by Carolyn Parkhurst - it is lovely but it might make you cry. |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Peter T. Date: 12 Aug 05 - 04:42 PM "A Testament of Youth" is great, but don't get sucked into reading the sequel (yawn). yours, Peter T. |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: beardedbruce Date: 12 Aug 05 - 03:08 PM OK, finished The Spirit of Dorsai, by Dickson. Now reading Planet Run, by Laumer and Dickson Still reading Poetry: A modern guide to its understanding and enjoyment, by Drew An 1886 textbook on poetry, Poetry as a Representative Art, by G L Raymond, Prof. of Aesthetics in Princeton University |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: GUEST,Dani Date: 12 Aug 05 - 12:58 PM Walking Across Egypt by Clyde Edgerton Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving ... among others. Dani |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: GUEST,petr Date: 12 Aug 05 - 12:27 PM White Slave of the Nootka, a true story by John Jewitt, an armourer on the unlucky ship the Boston whose crew of 22 were slaughtered by the Nootka, on the west coast of Vancouver Island in 1803. Jewitt and one other were the only survivors. Since Jewitt was a blacksmith he was spared by CHief Maquinna and kept as a slave. He took on a Nootka wife and lived among the tribe for a few years. The journal that he kept is a remarkable record of the people of the westcoast of the time. Petr |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Ebbie Date: 11 Aug 05 - 02:55 PM "A Testament of Youth - until it gets too much, then Jonah & Co (Dornford Yates) to cheer me up again." gnomad Although I haven't read that particular book, I know what you mean, gnomad. Years ago when I was dating a German (formerly American POW) I read everything I could find on WWII. I'd take huge stacks of books home from the library. At the same time I took home stacks of sci fi books. When WWII got too stomach turning, I turned to science fiction. I spent four years doing that. |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: sixtieschick Date: 11 Aug 05 - 02:37 PM "They Can't Hide Us Any More" by Richie Havens. A lovely autobiography with wonderful descriptions of starting out singing doo-wop in Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, singing in Greenwich Village in the sixties, opening the Woodstock festival, and other landmarks along his musical journey. Havens gives refreshingly equal appreciation to famous and lesser-known musicians and singer-songwriters. The man's passion and compassion for the human spirit shines through his observations, and he describes his own processes of writing songs, playing guitar and performing in detail. |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Clinton Hammond Date: 11 Aug 05 - 02:09 PM "Poul Anderson is still alive?!" Sorry to hear about the misfortune... |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Pseudolus Date: 11 Aug 05 - 11:45 AM 1st to Die by James Patterson. |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Paco Rabanne Date: 11 Aug 05 - 11:17 AM 'Ace of spades' by Motorhead. |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Le Scaramouche Date: 11 Aug 05 - 11:11 AM I've dipped into Das Kapital again. Most of it is dreadfully dull, but some good stuff. Loathe seedy old Marx, but it's one of the most influential books written. Strange and Norrell is terrific. I guess I'm one of the few people that actualy liked the ending. Not a new book or a summer one, but stay away from Howard's Bonaparte's Warriors. Applingly bad novel with a lame plot and the most one-dimensional cardboard cutouts imaginable. |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: gnomad Date: 11 Aug 05 - 10:49 AM A Testament of Youth - until it gets too much, then Jonah & Co (Dornford Yates) to cheer me up again. |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Cool Beans Date: 11 Aug 05 - 10:21 AM Poul Anderson is still alive?! |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: freda underhill Date: 11 Aug 05 - 02:43 AM "Inside the Kingdom" by Carmen Bin Laden |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Peter Kasin Date: 11 Aug 05 - 02:42 AM "The Soul of a Chef," by Michael Ruhlman. Ruhlman follows some chefs through a very rigorous trial by fire "master chef' course at the Culinary Institute of America (known as "the other CIA"), and then in other chapters shows how several other chefs strive to achieve excellence. There's a very special work ethic and drive among these chefs that shines through in this book. It is obviously an extremely physically and mentally demanding profession. I haven't yet read Ruhlman's first book, "The Making of a Chef,' about the schooling of new chefs at the "CIA," but if it's as good a read as this one... Also re-read my sister's (sixtieschick) chapter on legumes in her cookbook Heaven's Banquet, the page entitled "The Ten Commandments of Bean Cookery." She spills the beans on what to do and not do with them. I just ordered through Amazon "Down and Out In Paris and London", by George Orwell, and look forward to reading it. Chanteyranger |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Peace Date: 11 Aug 05 - 01:30 AM It's lookin' for the title: "How the Scots Invented the WER-uld". |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Metchosin Date: 11 Aug 05 - 01:28 AM I've got a problem with disappearing books too, I was reading How The Scots Invented the World, but it seems to have gone AWOL. |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: open mike Date: 11 Aug 05 - 01:03 AM just finished number one ladie's detective agency am in the middle of jJOe Merchant..by Jimmy buffet and before that read a few Nevada Barr books. i have read everything Tony Hillerman has written (i think) unless there is one recent one i have missed. my next one wil be about Belle Starr...i think she was a female bandit or something in the wild west...so don't tell the library, but i took it without checking it out i will bring it back and turn it in, but sort of felt like doing a "steal this book" like who was it? Abbie Hoffman wrote...i wonder how many of those titles actually were ripped off? oh yes and i read a couple of kid's books on meteors asteroids and comets today on the book mobile...getting ready for the peak of the Perseid Meteor shower tomorrow. |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Shanghaiceltic Date: 10 Aug 05 - 10:11 PM Jung Chang's Mao and John Le Carre's Constant Gardner. It will be intersting to see if the Chinese print version of Mao gets into China. It will certainly upset the old gits in Beijing as it utterly refutes many of the myths surrounding the man and lays bare a rather nasty and underhand person who was both dihonest with his poilticos and held the Chinese people in contempt. |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: beardedbruce Date: 10 Aug 05 - 10:09 PM but I would like to get somebody else singing along... |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: beardedbruce Date: 10 Aug 05 - 10:07 PM boxes of books, bags of ginger, as many instruments as I can fit in, and a half dozen sleeping bags... 8-{E |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Amos Date: 10 Aug 05 - 09:55 PM SHuck, I dunno, BB!! All the books on this thread sound so interesting, and there was one like it a while back. It was just the luck o' the draw I found that lot. I guess you'll have to bring what strikes you the best and we can wade through 'em! And by the way, I love this collection of old standards you are performing in the Tavern! A |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: beardedbruce Date: 10 Aug 05 - 08:43 PM A, So, what else would you like? I can bring some to the Getaway, along with the tenor banjo and lots of sleeping bags... B |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Amos Date: 10 Aug 05 - 08:21 PM BB: You dinna unnerstan', mon -- I gitted 'em on account o' I wanted 'em!! :D A |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Ebbie Date: 10 Aug 05 - 07:32 PM Like I said, Clinton, you're full of surprises. Must admit though, I hadn't heard of Good Omens. |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Clinton Hammond Date: 10 Aug 05 - 04:45 PM Everybody I know and love are ASTOUNDED whenever conversation turns to Good Omens and I get up and leave the room.... "What? YOU didn't LOVE this book!?!?!?" they ask, as if I just said I was giving up Guinness.... "I've got more laughs outa reading stereo specs... or shampoo instructions... ", and then I shrug, pour another pint, wait for them to finish and vear the conversation to Smoke And Mirrors or American Gods... You know... GOOD books... Heh And well, I finished Good Omens on the can a few hours ago... It can go I think... I won't miss it off my bookshelf... I'm getting as signed, leather bound edition of Tigana off an online Guy-Kay-Fan chum of mine... She's selling cause her rent went up, and I'm a little more flush than I've been lately... An RL chum of mine just got a copy of it for his B-day, so I should refresh myself on it so we can yack about it... |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Peace Date: 10 Aug 05 - 04:38 PM "Empire of the Stars" |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: lady penelope Date: 10 Aug 05 - 04:37 PM Gotta agree, that's way patient Clint. I'm impressed, or sorry for you........ now I'm not sure....... Johnathan Strange & Mr Norrell can't remember the author' name (bad girl...) and my comfort series at the moment is the Marcus Didius Falco books by Lindsey Davis (working my way back through them before I read the latest one) Little Hawk's right - there's a lovely big spread of books being read out there..... TTFN Lady P. |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Peter T. Date: 10 Aug 05 - 04:35 PM Perhaps we should start a thread on summer books to stay away from. Someone lent me the bestseller The Mermaid Chair ("You'll like this, you're spiritual!"). Aaaaargggghhhh!!!!!!!!!! yours, Peter T. |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Ebbie Date: 10 Aug 05 - 04:16 PM Clinton, I would never have guessed you to be the patient kind. Glad to hear it. *G* I rarely give up on a book but I once started reading something with 'Purple' in the title (no, it wasn't 'The Color Purple - more like Purple Plush or maybe it was Red Plush)and flung the book (it was a paperback) across the room after realizing I had read 100 pages and still didn't care about any of the characters. Giving up on it was a guilt-producing thing for me but I feel freer now. LOL As for 'Good Omens' here are some things people have said about it: Review: "What's so funny about Armageddon? More than you'd think...Good Omens has arrived just in time!" Detroit Free Press Review: "The Apocalypse has never been funnier." Clive Barker Review: "An utter delight — fresh, exciting, uproariously funny." Poul Anderson Review: "A steamroller of silliness that made me giggle out loud." San Diego Tribune Review: "Outrageous...read it for a riotous good laugh!" Orlando Sentinel Review: "Wacky and irreverent." Booklist Obviously, the fault lies within you, Clinton. *G* |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Don Firth Date: 10 Aug 05 - 03:43 PM I heard about this on NPR some time back. What an absolutely brilliant idea!! Turn the world into a library. Release a book. Don Firth |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: beardedbruce Date: 10 Aug 05 - 03:25 PM Amos, Bring them to the Getaway- Somebody will want them. Maybe we should all bring books we don't need, and see who does ( need them). B |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Amos Date: 10 Aug 05 - 03:20 PM In addition I just saved from disposal by the library near me The Revised Golden Bough, a think book by Bronowski, several Fodor's guides to places I'd love to go to, and several other gems, all for free. A |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: moongoddess Date: 10 Aug 05 - 03:05 PM I must remember NOT to hit the TAB button when posting a message. OOPS! I am currently reading "The Jack Tales" - Folk Tales from the Southern Appalachians, collected and retold by Richard Chase. I started these last week with my grandchildren and find them absolutely wonderful. |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: moongoddess Date: 10 Aug 05 - 03:01 PM |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Cluin Date: 10 Aug 05 - 02:47 PM Several books at once, as usual... just finished Walter Mosley's Fearless Jones; just finishing up Geoffrey Ashe's The Discovery of King Arthur; and the rest, well it seems I'm on a rereading binge this week: moving back through the Harry Potter books (3/4 through Chamber of Secrets); thick into The Portable Jung; a chapter into Campbell's Hero With a Thousand Faces; and most of the way through Dudley Young's Origins of the Sacred; The Golden Bough always has a dog-ear left in it too; and Barry Trotter and the Unnecessary Sequel sits by the bedside waiting for a start. |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Clinton Hammond Date: 10 Aug 05 - 02:31 PM "Good Omens"... for the 4th or 5th (And last) time... One last re-read to see if I could put my finger on why I think this book sucks... After that I donno... Half Bood Prince I guess... but I really wanna revisit both Tigana and American Gods... |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: beardedbruce Date: 10 Aug 05 - 02:18 PM The Spirit of Dorsai, by Dickson Poetry: A modern guide to its understanding and enjoyment, by Drew An 1886 textbook on poetry (at home, so don't have excat title and author) various manuals on UltraSparc 10 and 30 workstations |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Liz the Squeak Date: 10 Aug 05 - 02:11 PM Not reading anything because I can't find my copy of 'The Dead Zone' which has gone walkabout... if anyone sees it, please tell me where it is! LTS |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Little Hawk Date: 10 Aug 05 - 01:31 PM Wow! A lot of good books here. Ebbie, I like your taste in reading. Peter, Dejah Thoris affected me exactly the same way as a young teenager. (grin) It must be fun reading that stuff again. A lot of you are reading books which I was reading back in the 70's or whatever. Lately I just read the spiritual self-development stuff, although I did go through a cowboy novel period a year ago and finally read a bunch of Louis L'Amour and Zane Grey novels and some by the guy who wrote "Get Shorty", etc. They were all very entertaining. |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Don Firth Date: 10 Aug 05 - 01:20 PM Right, Amos, I'll give Allende's Zorro a shot. Ebbie, I just googled "Bush on the Couch" and came up with lots of reviews and commentaries on Frank's book. SCARY!! But it sure seems to hit close to the mark. Don Firth |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Firecat Date: 10 Aug 05 - 01:09 PM I finished the latest Harry Potter about a week ago. My current reading is "Is It Me?" by Terry Wogan (his autobiography) and "Jo of the Chalet School" by Elinor M Brent-Dyer. |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Amos Date: 10 Aug 05 - 12:55 PM Don: So far, it's kinda dumb. The 1940 movie with Tyrone Power, Basil Rathbone, and a young, lusciously demure Linda Darnell was probably the best realization of the Zorro character. Read Isabel Allende's novel, Zorro. A remarkable job of really recreating the situation behind the fabled masked fencer. A |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Cool Beans Date: 10 Aug 05 - 12:51 PM "The Bridge of San Luis Rey," by Thornton Wilder. I read it quickly in high school, now find it a tough slog, even though it's short. There's a movie coming out, thaty's why I'm revisiting the novel. |
Subject: RE: BS: What book are you reading right now From: Ebbie Date: 10 Aug 05 - 12:50 PM I too am reading God's Politics, Don. In fact, for the first time in my life I am participating in a forum based on a book. GP is being dissected every two weeks by a local group of about 15 people. I'm also reading Our Dreaming Mind by Robert Van de Castle, "a sweeping exploration of the role that dreams have played in politics, art, religion, and psychology from ancient civilizations to the present day." It's very interesting, actually. And it's BIG. I love big books. And I'm reading Bush on the Couch by Justin Frank, MD. As one reviewer said, "An eminent and courageous psychotherapist offers us a penetrating account of the psychological makeup of the most powerful man in the world. It is compelling and persuasive and downright frightening. Most readers will end this book stunned, asking themselves how it has come about that we have chosen a leader so ill-equipped for the job." |
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