This summer, I read books. I read In Cold Blood by Truman Capote and Animal Farm by George Orwell and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck and now I have forgotten what else.
Posts: 1115 | Location: new york | Registered: 10 October 2005
I just read Sleeping With Schubert by Bonnie Marson, which is totally amazing. A really different concept - a woman from Brooklyn gets inhabited by Franz Schubert's spirit. Wasn't sure I'd like it, but I flew through it. A fantastic read.
I've been reading "Our Band Could Be Your Life" by Michael Azerrad. Pretty good book. I've especially enjoyed the sections about Black Flag and The Minutemen so far.
Posts: 1376 | Location: Valparaiso, IN | Registered: 01 July 2006
I just cracked open "Bloodsport" by James B. Stewart. It was written a decade ago and involves the whole Whitewater scandal and the conversative attacks on the Clinton administration. I am a big fan of Stewart's. He wrote "Den of Thieves" a terrific account of the Wall Street scandals in the 1980s.
Man of Straw by Heinrich Mann. I really liked the beginning to middle of the book due to the protagonist being a total asshole, coward, and any other derogatory noun you can think of. I enjoyed watching his personality go down the gutter, and how this inevitably moved him up in the social ladder. It was a very well done attack against political vice, but could have done without much of the latter half, if not all. It started to become repetitive, and I became bored with how little the story really moved plot-wise. Overall, if I were to rate the book, I'd give it a 7.
Posts: 174 | Location: My Tree | Registered: 15 December 2005
Just started on another Tony Hillerman novel featuring his two key characters, Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn. "Skeleton Man" is more of the same for the Native American mystery series and as far as I'm concerned, that's good.
Posts: 8892 | Location: State of Insanity | Registered: 22 September 2005
"Bringing the Heat: A Pro Football Team's Quest For Glory, Fame, Immortality and a Bigger Piece of the Action" by Mark Bowden. It was written about a dozen years ago and focuses on the Philadelphia Eagles NFL team. This was long before Bowden penned his best-known book, the magnificent "Black Hawk Down."
Originally posted by ChrisFromAstoria: Film director Roman Polanski's autobiography.
That could be interesting. Let me know how it is.
It isn't biography, but autobiography, so everything is told from Polanski's point of view, but it is still very worth reading. He goes into great detail about "the incident" with the 13 year old, who he portrays as a little Lolita. What is interesting is that Polanski's take on what happens is very different from the 13-year-old's grand jury testimony that is widely available on-line.
I am about to crack open Theodore Rosengarten's "All God's Dangers: The Life of Nat Shaw." This was published in the mid 1970s and won a National Book Award.
Currently reading the Qur'an. It was given to me at an Islamic protest rally in NYC when I went for a meeting at the UN last year. This wee little girl ran up to give it to me and ran off again. The story (wee girl) is quite funny and I'm enjoying the work more then I could imagine. I've read a great deal of religious literature and this, by far, is the one that moves me the most with just the sheer way it is written
Working on Les Miserables (unabridged.... whoo) and Don DeLillo's White Noise.
------ Aren't there any girls out their who like good music? I need to and want to meet them. My favorite bands are Overkill River, The Nife, Songs:Ohio, and Nuetral Milk Hotel. Please let me know if your into indy music and like to go to show's and drink beer's and makeout.
Posts: 2306 | Location: ATL-abouts. | Registered: 24 October 2006
I'm reading Underworld at the same time as Les Mis.
I know, I know. What was I thinking?
(White Noise is pretty awesome, though - I read it a year ago, and that's why I picked up Underworld)
------ Aren't there any girls out their who like good music? I need to and want to meet them. My favorite bands are Overkill River, The Nife, Songs:Ohio, and Nuetral Milk Hotel. Please let me know if your into indy music and like to go to show's and drink beer's and makeout.
Posts: 2306 | Location: ATL-abouts. | Registered: 24 October 2006
