What are you currently reading?

[Mn Dave]

COLD HAND IN MINE by Robert Aickman.

Of course it's good.

[Mn Dave]

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Of course it's good.

[Coco]

Two:

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just finished listening to this on CD after reading it a couple of years back.  Cannot say enough about how great this book is

[Lethevich]

I finished this one, which I loved - unfortunate that its unorthodox POV and approach will not garner much interest, but for anyone interested in a mixture of astute observations on the nature of music, performance, and sketches of musical and cultural life in mid-century Europe (especially England and Germany) from a non-musician "outsider", then it is a little gem. It's done a lot to make me deeply interested in historical recordings (which I didn't care about before) to hear with the knowledge of the character performing the music:

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Amongst the valuble miscellaneous commentry in this one, there is considerable valuable material on Delius, Elgar and Bantock:

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Covers a lot of ground, a good intro to Kahn's life, movings and ideas:

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I like the style of this one and wish there were more like it - I lent it to a friend who doesn't care about classical and I was delighted to find (as I had dared to suspect) that she could enjoy it from a philosophical POV alone:

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The title sums up whether you would care about this or not - if you do, then it's nourishingly detailed and with decent amount of illustrations (but not printed on seperate photo paper):

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Slowly working my way through this and nearing the end - the composer is a remarkable character and the anecdotes the author provides are respectful but not blinkered:

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Nice to see Paul Rapoport there several times - I 'know' him as a reader, I befriended him on Facebook and I met him in person a day after the 'Gothic' performance...

[Lethevich]

n__n I can't claim that it was anything other than coincidence that I checked those books after reading Opus Est: Six composers from Northern Europe, he just has similar tastes to me and has cornered the market somewhat

[Lisztianwagner]

After finishing to read Freud's "Beyond the principle of Pleasure" and "Wit and its Relation to the Unconscious", and Baudelaire's "Artificial Paradises"; now I think I'll start Nieztsche's "Die fröhliche Wissenschaft".



Ilaria

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

n__n I can't claim that it was anything other than coincidence that I checked those books after reading Opus Est: Six composers from Northern Europe, he just has similar tastes to me and has cornered the market somewhat

Opus Est was a seminal book for me. I read it in 1980 (18/19 years old) and it really influenced my thinking about 20th-century art in general. It was nice to be able to say that to him.

[Mn Dave]

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[Mn Dave]

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Yes. Yes, we are. 

[Grazioso]

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What's he struggling for? Them ladies is half nekkid!

[Robert]

I became aware of Paul Rapoport about 25 years ago in Fanfare magazine....I enjoyed his reviews....We seem to be on the same wavelength.  When I found out about his opus book I spent months trying to locate a copy.  I even spoke to Martin Anderson about trying to locate a copy.  He was not able to help me.  Finally I was able to locate a used copy on Amazon.   .....excellent...

[Grazioso]

No Name by Wilkie Collins:



Too early to tell how good it is, but I can say that Wilkie Collins wrote one of the coolest Victorian novels, The Woman in White, a huge hit "sensation novel" that made Collins rich and famous. Imagine a Victorian Hitchcock suspense thriller with an unusual heroine and an unforgettable villain:



Armadale and The Moonstone are quite good, too.

[Mn Dave]

What's he struggling for? Them ladies is half nekkid!

Look behind him!!! 

[DavidW]

Grazioso, I love The Woman in White and the Moonstone.  If No Name and Armadale are as good I suppose I should read those... so are they as good?"

[Daverz]

What's he struggling for? Them ladies is half nekkid!

And they all look like Betty Page!

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

I became aware of Paul Rapoport about 25 years ago in Fanfare magazine....I enjoyed his reviews....We seem to be on the same wavelength.  When I found out about his opus book I spent months trying to locate a copy.  I even spoke to Martin Anderson about trying to locate a copy.  He was not able to help me.  Finally I was able to locate a used copy on Amazon.   .....excellent...

I am glad for the happy outcome! So you know Martin Anderson, too?

[Grazioso]

Look behind him!!! 

Who cares about the guy being eaten by panthers? There are half-nekkid women!

And they all look like Betty Page!

If I can get half an hour with four Betty Page lookalikes, you may then feed me to the panthers 

Grazioso, I love The Woman in White and the Moonstone.  If No Name and Armadale are as good I suppose I should read those... so are they as good?"

Too early to tell on No Name, but of the other three I'd rank The Woman in White at the top, then Armadale, then The Moonstone.

[Mn Dave]

Wilkie Collins

Have you read DROOD by Dan Simmons?

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