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Originally posted by Chamberk:
Haha, oh crap. I mixed them up.

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)

Then I definitely recommend choosing one before the other.

I'm about to crack open "The Movie Man" by David Thomson. I've been working my way through Thomson's oeuvre.

I'm about to crack open "Monday Night Mayhem: The Inside Story of ABC's Monday Night Football" by Marc Gunther & Bill Carter. Written in '88, I heard this one is a good read.

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Originally posted by ChrisFromAstoria:
I'm about to crack open "Monday Night Mayhem: The Inside Story of ABC's Monday Night Football" by Marc Gunther & Bill Carter. Written in '88, I heard this one is a good read.

I've heard that too. Check back when you're finished and let me know.

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Originally posted by PRG:

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Originally posted by ChrisFromAstoria:
I'm about to crack open "Monday Night Mayhem: The Inside Story of ABC's Monday Night Football" by Marc Gunther & Bill Carter. Written in '88, I heard this one is a good read.

I've heard that too. Check back when you're finished and let me know.

I'm about 100 pages into and had trouble putting it down. The book is as good as advertised.

I am about to crack open "GWTW: The Making of Gone With the Wind" by Gavin Lambert. Lambert, who recently died, was a terrific film writer who wrote a highly readable book on Natalie Wood. I have three unread Lambert books on my shelf and plan to read all three. The others are books about George Cukor and Lindsey Anderson respectively.

I wanted a lite reading, big paperback, summer kind of reading novel for late fall and picked up Robert McCammon's "Swan Song". This is a post-WWIII sci-fi fantasy written back in the early 1980's. I'm reminded much of Stephen King's "The Stand" as the book progresses. It's a fun, fast, uncomplicated read, just what I wanted.

I read about 200 books a year. I am lucky that way.
Last week I read the nine books in Steven F. Havill's "Bill Gastner" series. Good character development, believable plots, and a downhome quality in the hero the hides his brilliance. Love the contemporay mysteries.

After a long sabbatical, I have decided that I am going to return to my reading ways, starting with Michael Crichton's "Next."

Fury by Salman Rushdie

Currently, I'm reading David Wiggins' Ethics: Twelve Lecture in the Philosophy of Morality which I'm reviewing for Essays in Philosophy.

Sheesh, guess I'm the only one reading a Freddy the Pig book. Remember Freddy and the talking animals on the Bean farm? Okay, it's a series of books for ages 8-12 written back in the '40s & '50s but they're still fun to reread. Currently I'm diggin' Freddy and the Bean Home News and have a few more on order. Nice light stuff to read after hard days at work, lemme tell ya.

hey crazed, I read lots of kid's books too, both junior's and children's. There are some really meaningful and enjoyable stories there. You are right about the light stuff after hard work.

I still read those little Golden Books classics, and love their illustrations. Reading Little Red Hen, Poky Little Puppy, Tootle, Nurse Nancy, Shy Little Kitten, Good Humor Man, et al. cheers me up on bad days.

Currently I'm reading The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck for Academic Decathalon at my school and The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe because when I started reading it before, I stopped for a little while to read books for school. I'm planning on reading Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol next though.

I remember reading all those Tom Wolfe books the summer after my freshman year in college, way back in 1977.

Meanwhile, I've got a 100 pages to go in Jill Jonnes' HEP-CATS, NARCS & PIPE DREAMS: A HISTORY OF AMERICA'S ROMANCE W/ ILLEGAL DRUGS.

It is proving to be a terrific read.

Patrick McGilligan: "Cagney: The Actor As Auteur"

Rivelli & Levin's GIANTS OF BLACK MUSIC, which I just finished. Reissued by Da Capo, this one is a compilations of articles that ran in some publication I've never heard of that focused on the jazz avant-garde.

I am just about to start Tim Keown's "Skyline: One Season, One Team, One City," a book published in '94 and has been sitting on my shelf for more than a decade. Too many books, too little time I guess. Keown is (or was) a San Francisco sports writer who followed an inner city basketball team in Oakland for a year.

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I'm currently re-reading David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and Natural History of Religion in preparation for teaching a course in the Philosophy of Religion this term. I've read both before, but this time, I sat down and REALLY read them both, and was rewarded.

I've also just gotten a copy of a book on business ethics by John Hasnas called Trapped: When Acting Ethically is Against the Law which I'm reviewing for the journal Political Studies Review. I need to start that one soon, though, because I've got to get that review in by early February...

I am currently reading Les Particules Elementaires, or Atomised (The Elementary Particles) by Michel Houellebecq. It's a struggle to get through it though - after the first 100 pages it's nothing but ugly, turgid unpleasantness, with flimsy ideas stretched well beyond breaking point. There's only so many grimy handjobs a decent man can take...