What are you currently reading?

[Jay F]

Wonderful, wonderful book. I've enjoyed many of Roth's latest novels.

[orbital]

Wonderful, wonderful book. I've enjoyed many of Roth's latest novels.

Yes, I'm enjoying it very much. This is my first Roth though, I hope I have not started with his very best 

[mozartsneighbor]

Yes, I'm enjoying it very much. This is my first Roth though, I hope I have not started with his very best 

I am a big Roth fan. I have read about half his books, but that man writes tons, difficult to keep up. "American Pastoral" is definitely one of the best I have read so far. But don't worry Orbital there are a few at the level of American Pastoral: such as The Human Stain and Operation Shylock.
Even if some other of his books are not quite at such an exalted level, I have never read anything by Roth that isn't very very good.

[adamdavid80]

Are there any recommended books about Mozart's music?  All I have so far are Phil Goulding's book and Beethoven or Bust.  Would really like to find something that discusses the music more so than his bio.  Suggestions?

[Haffner]

Are there any recommended books about Mozart's music?  All I have so far are Phil Goulding's book and Beethoven or Bust.  Would really like to find something that discusses the music more so than his bio.  Suggestions?

My favorite is by Alfred Einstein, and it's alot more like a "fan"'s interpretation/appreciation of the music. He gets really in depth in regard to the later string quintets.

[Jay F]

Yes, I'm enjoying it very much. This is my first Roth though, I hope I have not started with his very best 

My favorites are Letting Go, which I believe is his first novel, and Goodbye, Columbus, another early one.

[M forever]

Are there any recommended books about Mozart's music?  All I have so far are Phil Goulding's book and Beethoven or Bust.  Would really like to find something that discusses the music more so than his bio.  Suggestions?

This is not a suggestion. It is required reading:

[Haffner]

This is not a suggestion. It is required reading:

Terrific book. Rosen has several excellent books to his credit.

[ChamberNut]

This is not a suggestion. It is required reading:

Thank you for mentioning this book, M.   

[rockerreds]

Philip K. Dick-Dr.Bloodmoney

[adamdavid80]

This is not a suggestion. It is required reading:

Thank you sir!

[Valentino]

Thanks, M!

Murakami: After Dark. Superb.

[karlhenning]

Paul Roberts, Claude Debussy (Phaidon Press)

Sort of a 'thumbnail biography' series, well illustrated; I'm enjoying it because, well, I haven't read a complete biography of Debussy.

[mn dave]

One of the best blues books I've read.

Also reading: PIG ISLAND by Mo Hayder

[Lilas Pastia]

Taking a break from Nietzsche. Some 150 pages into The Gay science, I feel I'm advancing swimming through treacle.

So I'm turning my attention to my Tintin collection, of which I was missing Tintin au pays des Soviets (I borrowed it from the Library).
Man, this is so subversive!

[karlhenning]

So I'm turning my attention to my Tintin collection, of which I was missing Tintin au pays des Soviets (I borrowed it from the Library).
Man, this is so subversive!

Curious to say, we had a couple of copies of that in the MFA shop a few months ago.

[Bogey]

So I'm turning my attention to my Tintin collection, of which I was missing Tintin au pays des Soviets (I borrowed it from the Library).
Man, this is so subversive!

I am guessing Mr. Spielberg agrees with you assessment of its depth:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0983193/

[Opus106]

No Comebacks (a collection of ten short stories)
Frederick Forsyth

Ideal for the daily bus ride I take, but after tomorrow I would not have to do that for about a fortnight.

[M forever]

So I'm turning my attention to my Tintin collection, of which I was missing Tintin au pays des Soviets (I borrowed it from the Library).
Man, this is so subversive!

I loved the Tintin books as a kid, although my favorite comic books probably were the Asterix and Obelix books, at least until the writer Goscinny died, I never found the later ones written and drawn by Uderzo (probably with a host of assistants) quite as good. I think it would be fun to re-read the Tintin books. I don't remember much about them, except that they were really well drawn and had a very lively and "authentic" feel about them, the action leaped from the page, and really interesting stories set in exotic and mysterious places.

[lisa needs braces]

Author Phillip Pullman published a list of his favorite forty books in the UK Times and said this book was his favorite thriller of all time. I finished it this weekend and loved it! It's a wonderfully researched spy thriller and the final third is ridiculously suspenseful.