What are you currently reading?

[DavidW]

I read Darkness at the Edge of Town by Brian Keene-- he even admits in the novel how he borrowed from The Mist, but The Mist is better this wasn't that good.

I'm currently reading Duma Key by Stephen King.

[MN Dave]

I read Darkness at the Edge of Town by Brian Keene-- he even admits in the novel how he borrowed from The Mist, but The Mist is better this wasn't that good.

I'm currently reading Duma Key by Stephen King.

You brave soul...

[Scarpia]

After reading about Britten's Opera I went back to read the original Death in Venice again.  And again I don't understand why this work is held in such high regard by some people.  I don't have much symphathy with the subject matter and don't find it the best work of Mann.  I was surprised when I later read the wiki page and it said that Mann modeled the main character on Mahler.

[MN Dave]

After reading about Britten's Opera I went back to read the original Death in Venice again.  And again I don't understand why this work is held in such high regard by some people.  I don't have much symphathy with the subject matter and don't find it the best work of Mann.  I was surprised when I later read the wiki page and it said that Mann modeled the main character on Mahler.

I never made it up his Magic Mountain. 

[MN Dave]

Oh, I'm also reading this. Pretty interesting.

[karlhenning]

I love those mop-tops!

[DavidW]

Dave, isn't that the book where the gimmicky title is not the thesis of the book?

I forgot I read something interesting recently--



It was a good read, highly informative and not biased.

[karlhenning]

That looks interesting, Davey.

[MN Dave]

Dave, isn't that the book where the gimmicky title is not the thesis of the book?

Pretty much so far which doesn't mean it's not a good book. It is.

[Scarpia]

I never made it up his Magic Mountain. 

I liked Zauberberg, but Buddenbrucks is perhaps his most conventional work, and perhaps the one I related best to.

[DavidW]

Pretty much so far which doesn't mean it's not a good book. It is.

Yeah I know, I just don't like outrageous titles just to sell.  It makes it sound like "Mozart is a fraud, Luchesi is god" kind of thing.

[MN Dave]

Yeah I know, I just don't like outrageous titles just to sell.  It makes it sound like "Mozart is a fraud, Luchesi is god" kind of thing.

I burned through his blues book and so far he's two for two with me.

[DavidW]

I burned through his blues book and so far he's two for two with me.

Was it titled "Davis is a fraud: the history of how Luchesi created Jazz"? jeje

[MN Dave]

Was it titled "Davis is a fraud: the history of how Luchesi created Jazz"? jeje

ESCAPING THE DELTA

Maybe his publisher made up that Beatles title.

[DavidW]

ESCAPING THE DELTA

Maybe his publisher made up that Beatles title.

Yeah that's what I read, that it was the publisher that came up with the title.

[MN Dave]

Yeah that's what I read, that it was the publisher that came up with the title.

And there you have it. 

[DavidW]

And before anyone jumps down my throat, I wanted to say that I was not trying to even insinuate that Davis created jazz.  The speed of typing is faster than the speed of thought.

[karlhenning]

Je-je-je-je!

[Ten thumbs]

I will shortly have finished reading The Mysteries of Udolpho, Ann Radcliffe's archetypal Gothic novel. It is difficult to describe this book, which some say is too long yet is not long enough. Certainly it is gripping, in spite of some scenes of suspended animation. Its heroine, Emily St Aubert is characterized as 'fainting a lot' but actually she is verbally quite bold when it comes to confronting the villains and pragmatic in her belief that what seems supernatural will be found to have a rational explanation. This novel was one of the most influential of its era but is best approached now as a somewhat surreal psychological drama. It may be a 'flawed' masterpiece but it is nevertheless a masterpiece and deserving of its place in the hall of fame - definitively a classic.

[Saul]

I'm almost finished reading The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien for the third time. Totally amazing, love this book, the films are great too.
Completed reading The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, The Lost Tales and The Children of Hurin, by the same author. Love his works.