What are you currently reading?

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Danny


Daverz


Bogey

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About to stroll through one of these guilty pleasures....not sure which one.  Either way, a real treat now that they have taken all of the "varnish" off of previous printings and just left us with what Howard actually wrote in the order he wrote it in (which I believe happens to not be in chronilogical order story wise).  However, I must admit I do miss the Frazetta cover art that I enjoyed as a kid.

 
There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

Harvested Sorrow

I'm currently in the process of reading:

Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
Philosophers Without Gods: Meditations On Atheism and the Secular Life edited by Louise M. Antony
What Evolution Is by Ernst Mayr

I will soon be reading:

Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel Dennett

Haffner

Always learning more...

Danny

Quote from: Haffner on October 10, 2007, 05:21:15 AM
Always learning more...

You and me both. :)

Along with O'Connor and Catechism, a readin' critical essays about film noir first published back in '93:

val

ANDRE LITSHKE:  "HISTOIRE DE LA MUSIQUE RUSSE"

From a great specialist of Russian music, this book is very interesting in special in all the period before 1800. I learned a lot about religious and secular music in Russia in Middle Age and until the second part of the 18th century when italian and french opera "invaded" Russia.

Lethevich

Hector Berlioz - Evenings with the Orchestra



Short answer to the topic's question: it's extremely good.

It is similarly entertaining as the Mémoires, but more story-like - the first page or two were enough to make me resolve to read it through - the surreal images it conjoured up were hilarious. I recommend Amazon's look inside feature (click the cover) if interested.
Peanut butter, flour and sugar do not make cookies. They make FIRE.


Mozart

I am not actually reading it, but I am listening to the audio version




This book is hilarious!

Bogey

Quote from: Danny on October 10, 2007, 11:33:02 PM
You and me both. :)

Along with O'Connor and Catechism, a readin' critical essays about film noir first published back in '93:


Nice Bruddah!
There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

locrian

The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov


Lady Chatterley

Quote from: longears on October 07, 2007, 10:35:57 AM
Might I suggest Ray Carver next?

Raymond Carver ,an absolutely wonderful author.
I've just heard the audio book of Matthew Pearl's A Poe Shadow,lots of fun.

Harry

I am reading a book about Churches in Holland, amazing how many we have, and what beautiful architecture. also about the Organs of which we have many.

Harry

Quote from: sound sponge on October 13, 2007, 07:32:57 AM
The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov

That's a absolute smashing book. A russian girlfriend bought me this one, and I must have read it a dozen times since. How do you like it Dave? :)

Haffner

Quote from: Corey on October 15, 2007, 07:34:10 AM





To this day, I remain knocked out by that book. It was obviously a massive influence on the Existential and Phenomenological schools of philosphy.

rockerreds

John Cheever-Oh What A Paradise It Seems

Kullervo

Quote from: Haffner on October 17, 2007, 06:41:17 AM



To this day, I remain knocked out by that book. It was obviously a massive influence on the Existential and Phenomenological schools of philosphy.

Yes, it's tough-going, but I am really enjoying it, especially the Diapsalmata  and the essay on tragedy.

val

Quotesound sponge

The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov

One of my two or three preferred novels. The chapters with Pilatus are so beautiful ...