What Book Are You Currently Reading ?

[boozeboxer]

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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]

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]

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]

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

Harvard Classics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Gandalf]

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.

[Andre]

The Koran is interesting,but i can only read snipets then get disheartened same with the bible ,both contradict themselves; If you cant separate the time zones when stuff was written and get the context of the dreamtime and massive animals flying around etc from the stuff from the historic points, or if you read them as a what to do manual they come off as rather insane. But the world was very different once and so were we in our approach to everything,its an interesting glimpse into it.

[klompton]

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