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| coastline |
Posted - 02/23/2007 : 12:16:14
Right now, I'm reading a book about baseball in Japan, "You Gotta Have Wa," by Robert Whiting. I'm also working my way through Aaron Copland's "What to Listen for in Music" (which I highly recommend) and Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children."
(Oh, and I'm reading about a hundred letters to the editor every day, because that's what I do for a living.)
What's everybody else reading?
 Please pardon me, for these my wrongs. |
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| Bryanwex |
Posted - 09/18/2024 : 15:53:39
Стильные заметки по подбору превосходных видов на каждый день.
Мнения стилистов, новости, все коллекции и шоу.
https://moismi.ru/info/704-kak-otlichit-originalnuyu-veshch-balmain-ot-poddelki-osnovnye-sovety/
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| Bryanwex |
Posted - 09/18/2024 : 14:46:17
Модные заметки по подбору отличных видов на любой день.
Мнения экспертов, новости, все дропы и мероприятия.
https://moismi.ru/info/704-kak-otlichit-originalnuyu-veshch-balmain-ot-poddelki-osnovnye-sovety/
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| Cult_Of_Frank |
Posted - 02/12/2020 : 07:28:19
The Silk Roads. Great for filling in some gaps in our history education and putting some things in context.
 "If we hit this bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate." |
| Troubles A Foot |
Posted - 02/11/2020 : 22:28:11
Burly Go Home by John Swartzwelder. Hilarious.
No Longer Human by Junji Ito. Disturbing.
Lots and lots of Hellboy and Hellboy Universe comics, which I am really enjoying, but keeping track of the correct order is a big pain. |
| coastline |
Posted - 02/11/2020 : 03:17:28
"Olive Kitteredge" by Elizabeth Strout. 5 stars.
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| Troubles A Foot |
Posted - 10/19/2019 : 20:27:23
Reading horror comics for Halloween month.
Hellblazer volume 21
Hellboy Omnibus 1, 2, and now Complete Short Stories vol. 1
Afterlife with Archie
and a crappy Vertigo short story collection called The Unexpected that wasn't horror in the slightest despite the book saying the tales were "terrifying." |
| danjersey |
Posted - 10/17/2019 : 07:53:21
Van Diemen’s Land
James Boyce
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| coastline |
Posted - 09/17/2019 : 18:17:21
"Lucky Jim" by Kingsley Amis. One of those classics that makes me wonder what's wrong with me. I couldn't stand almost a single page of it.
Next up: "Talking to Strangers," Malcom Gladwell's latest. Really looking forward to this one.
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| Troubles A Foot |
Posted - 09/16/2019 : 11:55:53
It's not a convenient argument, it's a philosophy and way of living in the world, whose opposite throws out so much important art and culture that we would be all the worse for it. Anyway, his book is fantastic and I highly recommend it to everyone. It's a good antidote to the endless pessimism and doom-saying that happens these days and helps you appreciate the unbelievably miraculous good things we all have today. |
| darwin |
Posted - 09/14/2019 : 18:50:07
Pinker flew around on airplanes with Epstein and it is becoming quite apparent that administrators and professors at Harvard and MIT knew that Epstein was trouble, but his cash was so hard to resist. Quite a convienent argument for Pinker to make. |
| Troubles A Foot |
Posted - 09/14/2019 : 16:23:59
I assume a countless amount of people probably did. I'd imagine Pinker hung out with Epstein from Epstein's science benefits and charities and organizations he led. That isn't so crazy.
That's also a hilarious response when part of what Pinker stresses is bad in one of the chapters, and I agree, is the idea of throwing out a person's work and knowledge and art and contribution to society because they may have done something bad in their life, and what a mistake that would be for culture as a whole. |
| darwin |
Posted - 09/13/2019 : 17:57:31
Steven Pinker hung out with Jeffrey Epstein |
| Troubles A Foot |
Posted - 09/13/2019 : 05:04:46
Book book I'm reading is Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker
Comic books I'm reading is Hellboy Omnibus volume 1
Scud: The Disposable Assassin
Crisis on Infinite Earths Companion volume 2
X-Men: Inferno Prologue omnibus
and just endless reading of DC and Marvel in semi-chronological order for years and years, currently in late 80s/early 90s for both
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| darwin |
Posted - 09/13/2019 : 04:33:45
The Captain Jack Aubrey series |
| Srisaket |
Posted - 09/11/2019 : 19:29:30
quote:
Originally posted by coastline
"The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera. At the suggestion of Tro.
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Good film as well !! A must watch if you're going to visit Prague (as we were). |
| Srisaket |
Posted - 09/11/2019 : 19:26:06
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Originally posted by Srisaket
Recently:
Human Smoke - Nicholson Baker
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
The Hollow Crown - Dan Jones
Some more:
The Sleepwalkers - Christopher Clark
Ardennes 1944 - Anthony Beevor
The Plantagenets - Dan Jones
The Templars - Dan Jones
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut |
| coastline |
Posted - 05/04/2017 : 07:13:42
Roger Kahn's "The Boys of Summer"
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| TarTar |
Posted - 03/28/2017 : 19:23:23
Currently: The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West
Recently: Please Kill Me - Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
The Stranger - Albert Camus
Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor
My life is dirt but you seem to make it cleaner... reduce my felony to a misdemeanor |
| Carl |
Posted - 03/09/2017 : 09:18:35
John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let the Old Dreams Die. Cracking short stories. |
| Srisaket |
Posted - 03/06/2017 : 17:14:04
Recently:
Human Smoke - Nicholson Baker
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
The Hollow Crown - Dan Jones |
| OLDMANOTY |
Posted - 11/02/2016 : 12:47:42
Good read this, written in a conversational style like you're having a chat with Hooky in the pub. Half way through it at the moment. Does a good job of demystifying some of the 'myths' about Joy Division and Ian Curtis in particular. Yet the thought still lingers...these utterly ordinary lads still created that extraordinary, otherworldly music. |
| Arm Arm Arm |
Posted - 08/18/2015 : 07:02:56
WHAT IT IS LIKE TO GO TO WAR by Karl Marlantes
About a quarter of the way in, very good so far. Written by an ex-marine who served in Vietnam. He shares some interesting insights about his time as a soldier and the nature of killing. Well written, fast moving, yet somber and meditative. |
| hammerhands |
Posted - 08/11/2015 : 07:42:49
Duke - Terry Teachout
Just finished this, I couldn't wait for it to be over.
Lots of dishing of dirt and never a compliment without prefacing it with
terrible criticism. If you want to have a reason to like Ellington less,
let this book be your guide.
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| fumanbru |
Posted - 07/21/2015 : 04:37:13
i wanted to get re-energized about jogging so i picked this up. pretty amazing stuff. this guy runs ultramarathons...100 miles at a time...then at the age of 57 decides to run across the us in hope of breaking the world record....works out to running 117 marathons in under 45 days. hopefully i'll never complain again on my 3 mile runs!
 "I joined the Cult of Frank/ cause I'm a real go-getter!"...long live snitz!! |
| Jose Jones |
Posted - 07/19/2015 : 17:34:49
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Originally posted by coastline
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Originally posted by Jose Jones
also, reading it on my kindle app on my phone. my book is everywhere i am. idle time? i welcome it.
Whatever happened with this, Jose? Do you still read books on your phone? I read one once, but the experience didn't seem authentic enough. I do read books on my iPad (if I can't get my hands on the printed version), but I just can't do the tiny screen for a book.
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it went really well! i have the actual Cryptonomicon book, which is how i first consumed it, but it lends itself so well to periodic reads while waiting for the bus or sitting in a waiting room or whatever. it's just that type of book.
i've read a few other books on my phone since then: The Shining, Reamde, The Given Day, The Wind Through The Keyhole. but i do prefer an actual book. especially since i'm already staring at a computer screen all day at work.
so, currently reading Seveneves, Neal Stephenson's latest, in it's full, pulpy splendor. hardcover. lugging it around on the bus.
i read and loved Anathem (in book form). and i now have it on my phone, ready to be re-read. i love carrying around some of my favorite books in my pocket. But, overall, i'd like my first experience with a book to be in book form.
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| hammerhands |
Posted - 06/18/2015 : 21:07:17
I'm reading a book on the my iPad, Kindle Reader,
but it's a sleep inducing technical manual, title withheld.
The title alone can cause instant paralysis.
The only trouble I'm having is that whenever my finger
is on the screen it thinks I want to highlight the text.
If it wasn't technical I would have the voice-over read it to me.
I'm very early into 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School.
I thought I could read it during my busy January and February
grind, but I just plain forgot about it. It's a book you can read
a few pages of and think about.
This page shows how you travel through negative space and
stop at positive space.
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| OLDMANOTY |
Posted - 06/18/2015 : 13:15:40
Autobiography of Slits guitarist. Only a few chapters in but great so far. |
| OLDMANOTY |
Posted - 04/21/2015 : 10:11:02
^^
Kindle for me these days. Doesn't replicate the look, feel & smell of a book but can't do without it now.
Anyway, just read this:
Beautifully written post-apocalyptic novel. Really haunting, loved it.
Recently read:
The Bone Clocks - David Mitchell. Kind of Cloud Atlas lite. Flawed but really enjoyed it.
Rock Stars Stole my Life - Mark Ellen. Entertaining memoir of slightly cheesy 80's rock journalist who used to be in a band with Tony Blair.
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| coastline |
Posted - 03/22/2015 : 02:46:43
quote:
Originally posted by Jose Jones
also, reading it on my kindle app on my phone. my book is everywhere i am. idle time? i welcome it.
Whatever happened with this, Jose? Do you still read books on your phone? I read one once, but the experience didn't seem authentic enough. I do read books on my iPad (if I can't get my hands on the printed version), but I just can't do the tiny screen for a book.
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| coastline |
Posted - 03/22/2015 : 02:40:44
Been reading a lot of Raymond Carver. Can't seem to find time or patience to read novels these days, so short stories are where it's at. Carver's "Cathedral" is fantastic.
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| pmjk |
Posted - 05/21/2014 : 23:06:52
20 X very good short stories.
https://www.facebook.com/longstoryshortdcc/photos/a.868182079862391.1073741828.868130506534215/868182083195724/?type=1&theater
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| OLDMANOTY |
Posted - 05/12/2014 : 11:19:03
Stoner - John Williams
Handling The Undead - John Ajvide Lindqvist
Look Who's Back - Timur Virmes
This Is How - M.J. Hyland |
| coastline |
Posted - 02/10/2014 : 05:54:51
"The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera. At the suggestion of Tro.
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| Jose Jones |
Posted - 02/10/2014 : 03:12:42
V by Pynchon. my first foray into his world. It's like Tom Robbins translating Tom waits from French into English. I'm enjoying it.
A bunch of Toms there.
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| Arm Arm Arm |
Posted - 10/24/2013 : 13:45:30
Just finished GRAYSON by Lynne Cox.
Non-fiction account of a woman swimming with a baby whale, trying to reunite him with his Mother. Pretty amazing and emotional!
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