What Book Are You Currently Reading ?

**Gandalf** · 07-11-2013 03:14 PM

I finally got through that Hitch book, but it was really long and obviously a lot to talk about in a career like that. It got really sad towards the final decade. Time was running out, his health was failing and he wanted to make his 'realistic' Bond 'The Short Night'. However his wife had a series of strokes, Hitchcock himself was failing and falling over in the bathroom. Still he clung to the dream that he could win over the fans again, but it was never going to happen. He seemed to have given up on life in the end. Even if the script were finished, he wouldn't be able to shoot it himself. His wife now declining with dementia and Hitchcock seeming to have lost the will to live. And apparently that is what he did. We willed himself to death by refusing meals, drinking only water and talking to nobody. Eventually it happened. His wife lived on for 2 more years seemingly not noticing the death. 'Oh Hitch is out at the studio. Back later'. Very odd.

Anyway, a great, exhaustive book, excellently researched. Imo the most important director of them all. A talented, talented filmmaker.

**ryanman** · 07-11-2013 03:22 PM

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Charles Bukowski - Notes of a Dirty Old Man.

It's a collection of his newspaper columns. Just started reading it today.

**VictorCharlie** · 07-16-2013 02:37 PM

Watch out UK crowd I'm on the cusp of becoming a learned scholar on your empire

**boozeboxer** · 07-17-2013 01:44 AM

Originally Posted by ryanman

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Charles Bukowski - Notes of a Dirty Old Man.

It's a collection of his newspaper columns. Just started reading it today.

I really enjoy Bukowski's books, but I haven't read this one. Will have to check it out.

I just finished the The Voice of Bugle Ann. A fun piece of Ozark heritage.

**Gandalf** · 07-18-2013 03:48 PM

The Suede book was a cracking read. A bit short, but informative. It made me think a little less of Anderson as he always claims it was all about 'Suede', but he would fall under one addiction after another and I would imagine you need to be a bit more serious like Bernard Butler, to be claiming to be all about the music. 'Coming up' bounces them back and then he is onto smack and crack and a couple of last albums that don't hold up. Brett gets angry with Bernard and Codling for letting the band down, but he was no angel and over the long haul it told as Brett was the least musically able. You sense the solo work is him trying to prove that he can write on his own and that did eventually lead to the Suede reformation. Brett himself had to be clean and focussed for that decent album to come out. None of that historical 'I will just add the top line and my work is done....where are the drugs?' nonsense. Just a case of, 'I got my shit togetherand learned the instruments, now lets make an album'.

**boozeboxer** · 07-18-2013 05:56 PM

My new book is called Dry Storeroom No. 1 : The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum. At first I was disappointed that this was about a museum in the UK, however it is a fascinating read and well worth the buck I spend to buy it at a second hand store.

**killersheep** · 07-19-2013 06:12 PM

On and off I look to read some Harvard Classics, it's a good foundation for life.

Harvard Classics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

**Gandalf** · 08-25-2013 04:17 PM

My Kindle only seems to work in my other apartment, so whilst there I took the time to download 4 books.

1- No Ordinary Joe - Written by Calzaghe (apparently)
2- Oscar Wilde - By something someone. I left the damn kindle there I cannot remember. Supposedly a bit salacious.
3. The Kuran - Odd I know.
4 The Bible - Again, odd, but free.

Might as well give it a go, for revision and sharpening critical skills.