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I am just finishing up "How Music Works" by David Byrne. (yes he of Talking Heads). A hugely ambitious effort, but the guy manages to be very succinct and lucid, using his own experiences and theories to posit very interesting ideas on How Music works, Performance. Collaboration, Technology, Business, How to make a Scene etc. I have a very extensive Music literature library (Theory/practice,Artist Biographies,Scenes,Technology etc) and have read much about the subject but have still really enjoyed reading another viewpoint and would not hesitate to recommend it.
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My current poop book. I recommend it for vacations also. Pooping is like a vacation for me...so you get the point.
Book review: The Signal and The Noise - Numbers Rule Your World
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Four Kings , insight into the golden years of boxing well for me they were!.
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Ah..... the Joys of reading on the porcelain throne. Something that improves with age so much so that at some point it becomes your last refuge from the insanity that is the rest of the house.:wc:
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Four Kings , insight into the golden years of boxing well for me they were!.
Great Book. A lot of people don't rate it but I enjoyed it and every boxing Library should have a copy.
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We don't read fairytales. Unfortunately there's NOT ONE book that tells the truth. We've got no time for bullshatt. 'nuff said. :cool:
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No Exceptions for Miss Bottomley by Barry Arseshafter
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I am just finishing up "How Music Works" by David Byrne. (yes he of Talking Heads). A hugely ambitious effort, but the guy manages to be very succinct and lucid, using his own experiences and theories to posit very interesting ideas on How Music works, Performance. Collaboration, Technology, Business, How to make a Scene etc. I have a very extensive Music literature library (Theory/practice,Artist Biographies,Scenes,Technology etc) and have read much about the subject but have still really enjoyed reading another viewpoint and would not hesitate to recommend it.
I can't remember the last time I read a book, probably 20 years ago. These days, I might read an article in a magazine at at the dentist's office, but almost all of the reading I do is online. For me the internet is like a gigantic library. I also get a vast amount of information from the threads Miles starts on this forum. I recently enjoyed "how often do you post drunk", it was very informative. :rolleyes:
I believe the last book I read was the History of the World parts I & II, by H.G. Wells, great read.
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Dia bando
Four Kings , insight into the golden years of boxing well for me they were!.
Great Book. A lot of people don't rate it but I enjoyed it and every boxing Library should have a copy.
As you no I'm not a complete philistine,:toff: in my youth I was well read Dandy and the Beano
are to have a bit of culture.:moon-new: ;D
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Corner Men. This is a fascinating insight into legendary trainers,
up to the Ray Arcel section.Excellent read.
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Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone and some other guy, pretty interesting read.
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Rereading the autobiography of Ben Franklin
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The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
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I am reading a comic book about Captain America who wants to go back into time in 40’’s and be with his friends and family. He cannot adjust to modern life. He then realises that in his time period it was not all it was cracked up to be and that things had moved on for the better.
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I am reading a comic book about Captain America who wants to go back into time in 40’’s and be with his friends and family. He cannot adjust to modern life. He then realises that in his time period it was not all it was cracked up to be and that things had moved on for the better.
The good old days turned out to be the not so good old days.
I'm reading The Enemy, a Jack Reacher novel by Lee Child. I have started reading in spurts, I'll read one book after another for a month or so, then nothing for a couple of months.
This reading in spurts has been going on for about five years, before that I was reading something every night I could, and I've come to realize I was using the reading as down time or stress relief.
I've always had to make time for my reading, I assume most of us do, but now when I have the time, I sometimes say screw it and do something else. Less stress maybe?
How about you guys, how have your reading habits changed over the years?
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I am reading a comic book about Captain America who wants to go back into time in 40’’s and be with his friends and family. He cannot adjust to modern life. He then realises that in his time period it was not all it was cracked up to be and that things had moved on for the better.
What no porn keep on taking the tablets.;D
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I am sitting here on the off day deeply emersed in a fine read concerning the operation and direction for a new Multi Meter. Now, while technically not a book it does contain words in written form. So...yeah me!
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Usually try not to bore you all but you've asked now.
Tend to read combos when not reading a novel.
The Master Key, Charles F Haanel
Chartres /sacred geometry sacred place. Gordon Strachan
And The Templars The history the myth.M Haag.
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I've spent a few days reading through the plays of Oscar Wilde and the one I finished today was 'La Siante Courtisane'. Before that I had a fun rerun through Dr jekyll and Mr Hyde.
As for Mars Ax, I see he is being a bit of a nob up there. Obviously I must be on guard and profound 24 hours a day and say nothing flippant or casual and be full of enlightenment at all times. This is not my thread, this is not your thread, so cut out the nonsense.
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Do Travel Writers Go to Hell?
Then it's on to book five of a Song of Ice and Fire.
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Family of Secrets by Russ Baker, and Death Row Breakout, a collection of short stories by Edward Bunker.
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I tried to read The Man Who Left Too Soon - The biography of Steig Larsson by Barry Forshaw but found it, in contrast to Larsson's unputdownable trilogy, pretty unpickupable.
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Maybe dying at the age of 50 before the publication and consequent worldwide success of your debut trilogy of crime novels does leave your biographer a little short on material, but surely that is the challenge, a challenge that Barry singularly fails to overcome. Forshaw spends a couple of chapters discussing Larsson and then starts to dissect his work, book by book, chapter by chapter, sentence by sentence and fecking word by word, or at least that is what it feels like at times. 151 pages of a 307 page paperback spent providing a not very insightful summary/synopsis of a trilogy 99% of the readers will already have read. It feels like partaking in a particularly intricate and labyrinthine Larsson like criminal investigation yourself trying to glean any insights into the author himself and what drove him to be so much more meticulous than his undeserved biographer.
I don't want to rubbish it completely because it is a book and after reading the first 70 odd pages I did not use it wedge open a sash window or line the annual bonfire night cat litter tray. I was also rewarded by skimming to page 248 the enticing prospect of hearing Film Composer Jacob Groth's score for the Swedish Film versions of the books, now that I know he is a fellow admirer of Bernard Hermann, Hitchcock's musical collaborator and the man responsible for the mind blowing score to Scorcese's masterful Taxi Driver. I will find the time to watch the blueray now, but can't help begrudge Forshaw for stealing a couple hours of my life.
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Moving not quite perpendicularly but in a geometrically related fashion nonetheless, I have now started fellow Swede Henning Mankell's book "The Shadow Girls"
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Tackling the subject of Immigration and refugees in Swedish Society the book is markedly different to Mankell's "Wallander" series and seems already to be written in a much more succinct but still elegant and straight forward style. This translation is by Ebba Seggaberg and the Wallander books I have read are translated by Laurie Thompson and Stephen T Murray. I don't think the translation has coloured it it is just another voice that Mankell has adopted to inhabit a different world and so far it is most enjoyable. Like Larsson, Hanning Mankell's left wing politics are clearly evident in subject choice and empathies and the book is none the worse for it. ( He is currently at work on a screenplay about his father in law, Ingmar Bergman which if it ever gets made should be more than worth a look.)
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Grapes of Wrath having just finished fahrenheit 451----wow they used to write good.
come to think of it, they used to BOX good, too.....:(
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The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
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The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Have you an Italian heritage?
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no such thing as a book anyways.
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The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Have you an Italian heritage?
Nah, just a very interesting read. I'm not big on fiction at all so I lean towards books like this.
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The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Have you an Italian heritage?
Nah, just a very interesting read. I'm not big on fiction at all so I lean towards books like this.
fuggeddaboutit
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I'm casually thumbing through some Sherlock Holmes stories having just finished 'The Sherlockian' by Graham Moore.
I'm also reading 'The Modern Gentleman: A Guide to Savvy, Etiquette, & Vice' by Mollod & Tesauro
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I'm always juggling around 4-5 books at a time. Usually martial arts books.
Anyway an EXCELLENT book I recently finished is called "King of the Gypsies: Memoirs of the Undefeated Bareknuckle Champion of Great Britain and Ireland" A.K.A.: "Bareknuckle: Memoirs of the undefeated champion"
Unfortunately I don't have enough posts to add a link yet, but you can easily find it on Amazon, or just go to Half Price books which is where I got my copy for only 5 bucks!
This book kicks ass! It tells the story of Bartley Gorman (the man who was the inspiration for Brad Pitts character Mickey in the movie Snatch.
If you're into fighting and practicing bare knuckle boxing as it was done in the pre MoQ daze.... then this book is for you.
Check it out!
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I have just started reading this at the moment.
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I have finally after the recommendation of @Nameless got around to it. I have great respect for Eco the great polymath and am often disappointed to see him topped in the worlds great intellectual lists, by the dreary and dull Emperor with no clothes, Noam Chomsky. He is certainly a better writer but whatever, it is probably high time for me to rise above such churlishness, obviously for many he is a top floater of boats, so, horses for courses and all that.
The first few pages are a blast, like a bicycle with mud encrusted tires speeding down hill, picking up more and more debris as it quickens, the layers of vitriol and ire handed out to all races is magnificent and so beautifully sandwiched between character embellishment and prose, that one finds a great joy in such mean spiritedness.
By page 17 he has already rattled through the Jews,Germans,Spanish,Croats,Maltese,Gypsys,English ,
Prussians,French,Italian,Arabs,Ostrogoths,Saracens ,Swabians,Greeks,Christians,Muslims,Freemasons,
Jesuits,The Negroes of Africa,and has started the new paragraph on page 17 with the sentence
"I hate Women,from what little I know of them"
;D
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OH and you will see, the aventures of "Capiston Simonini" are just about to begin. The most fascinating thing in this book is how his main character does all that... so smoothly, without over exagerating the story. This is has definitely been one of the best novels I've read this past year, glad you'Re already in this book up your elbows :D
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I'm reading a book on American foreign policy misadventures in Latin America for a class. Not a very good read but I'm looking forward to starting "The Generals" by Thomas E Ricks.
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I rarely read mysteries/police procedurals anymore but this one's off to a pretty good start. At this point I only have time for reading right before I go to bed so I didn't feel like anything too heavy.
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I'd been reading a few pages of 100 Years of Texas Waterfowl Hunting on the crapper since Christmas and finished it yesterday. If you aren't a Texas duck/goose hunter it isn't that interesting but it also chronicles a lot my family's historic role in hunting on the coast.
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A kindel and when I manege, to switch it on I'm going to read that book.;D
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I just got through Finkelstein's 'Knowing Too Much: Why the American Jewish Romance With Israel is Coming to an End'. It's a cracking read and for me at least, is as good as anything he has written. It documents how in the past 40 years growing awareness of Israel's agenda has been becoming more and more apparent to ordinary Americans and in particular Jewish Americans. They are simply less and less inclined to listen to the likes of Israeli apologist propaganda 'historians'. Finkelstein highlights the disenchantment most Jewish Americans feel with what the Israeli state has come to represent.
It's a rewarding, well written and well informed book, as all of Finkelstein's works are. Well worth a read.
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I am reading Jack Kerouac's On the Road. All in all a pretty fun book.
I have checked out Tristam Shandy. Has anyone ever read that one?
I also have Jeckyl and Hyde, which interstingly, Miles said in a previous post he was reading.
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Jeckyll and Hyde is a great book indeed. My only gripe with it is that it is too short. It really pulls you in, but it all ends pretty quickly. It's the kind of book you can read in an afternoon with 3 cups of tea. It stays with you a lot longer though.
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Some book/biography about saddam hussein, really enjoyable, love going back to non-fiction books.