What are you reading?

waxjunky

Books, magazines, liner notes, cereal boxes?I'm about halfway through "Champagne" by Don and Petie Kladstrup. Good read. Well-written and not at all too stuffy, as food histories can sometimes be.I had no idea how much trouble went down in the Champagne region, going all the way back to Atilla the Hun. And Loius XIV and Dom Perignon were born in the same year and also died in the same year. Interetsing trivia for a wine connoissuer such as myself.

johmbolaya

I'm about to start reading this:


I started reading this in mid-December, but got distracted with the holidays. I'm sure I mentioned MacMillan before, but I heard about him when I was back home seven years ago, and really liked what he had written. He's lived in Hawai'i for about 25 years, and the stories he writes with a Hawaiian theme often have something to do with the ocean, be it boating, fishing, or whatever. Those books I've read by him were short stories, but this one is one story so I look forward to this. It is available through Amazon, but you can also go to Bamboo Ridge Press:
http://www.bambooridgepress.com

Other books he has written include:
Squid Eye[/b]
Exiles From Time[/b]
Ullambana[/b]

These three are available through http://www.anoaipress.com

HarveyCanal

The_Hook_Up

as per my new years resolution to read the classics I should have read by now but havent, I am reading:

DJ_Enki

I turned in my late pass and read Fiasco, finishing it a couple days ago. It's a hell of a book, though it can angery and/or depress you by showing just how badly our government screwed the pooch regarding Iraq.

HankScorpio

Currently reading "The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records". It's a great book, a lot of interesting history about Impulse. There are 2-page anecdotes throughout the book detailing certain albums that give some background info about the recording session, how the album came about and so on.

Next up is Bukowski's "Factotum". I've read a bunch of his books and want to see the movie after I read the book. I also picked up the latest in the 'Hannibal' books, I didn't even know there was a new one until I was at a bookstore. I don't know if it'll be all that great, but I'm interested nonetheless.

Mad Drama Teacher

My 12th graders and I just started a spy/detective/mystery unit with this as the main piece. We started to watch "Goldfinger" today in order to solidify our knowledge of what makes a spy/detective/mystery story. I had them all take notes on "plot," "themes," "characters," and, of course, strictly for the boys, "Lines that will get women in the sack." We'll probably dig into some old-timey comic books like "Dick Tracy" and listen to those old "The Shadow" programs. It'd be fun to throw a Murder Mystery Pizza Lunch Theater (tm), but it'd never get off the ground with this group.

tonyphrone

READING IS FUNDEMATAL!

DJ_Enki

My 12th graders and I just started a spy/detective/mystery unit with this as the main piece. We started to watch "Goldfinger" today in order to solidify our knowledge of what makes a spy/detective/mystery story. I had them all take notes on "plot," "themes," "characters," and, of course, strictly for the boys, "Lines that will get women in the sack." We'll probably dig into some old-timey comic books like "Dick Tracy" and listen to those old "The Shadow" programs. It'd be fun to throw a Murder Mystery Pizza Lunch Theater (tm), but it'd never get off the ground with this group.

That sounds like a fuckin' dope unit. Any Agatha Christie up in there?

johmbolaya

Currently reading "The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records". It's a great book, a lot of interesting history about Impulse. There are 2-page anecdotes throughout the book detailing certain albums that give some background info about the recording session, how the album came about and so on.

I've been wanting to pick this up. Reading up on Rudy Van Gelder's studio and his mentality towards capturing the music in a studio that, for most, was an odd set-up yet added the kind of warmth which kept artists coming to him for years.

CousinLarry

Currently reading "The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records". It's a great book, a lot of interesting history about Impulse. There are 2-page anecdotes throughout the book detailing certain albums that give some background info about the recording session, how the album came about and so on.

Just got this in the mail today. Looking forward to reading it.

faux_rillz

Looks like a winner, dude.

Mad Drama Teacher

HAHA! Yeah right! That is a sinful book--I would never cheat on Christ with a real human.

HankScorpio

I've enjoyed the details about ABC Execs and how they worked with Bob Thiele, Creed Taylor, and other people at Impulse. It's amazing that such a high level of quality was maintained for so many albums over the course of 10+ years.

I've been wanting to pick this up. Reading up on Rudy Van Gelder's studio and his mentality towards capturing the music in a studio that, for most, was an odd set-up yet added the kind of warmth which kept artists coming to him for years.

squiid

My 12th graders and I just started a spy/detective/mystery unit with this as the main piece.

Alan Watts, in his lecture series that used to air on WFMU, gave a nice lecture on Chesterton. Worth checking out if you can find it (I have it on Cassette in some box somewhere).

Talks a lot about music in that same lecture, and music's relation to life (neither are 'end' oriented pursuits).

Mad Drama Teacher

Sorry, probably no Agatha.

theHumanchee

http://www.amazon.com/Low-Life-Lures-Sna...ie=UTF8&s=books

not too far into it yet...

pjl2000xl

im going through a whole collection of steven k dicks novels and short stories. Reading lots of back issues of tape op. Thats basically been it lately.

pcmr

french version

essential thoughts

tjames

&

Fatback

again

kitchenknight

Probably the first ever NYTimes Book of the Year inclusion to mention DJ Assault's 'Ass & Titties'.

pj4533

I havn't followed current events nearly enough in the past few years (beyond the fluff on tv), so I started reading some new non fiction. Currently on this:

hugh_lucero

for the second time .. incredibly poetic

kitchenknight

for the second time .. incredibly poetic

i dated a girl who was a writer/editor who swore by this book. will have to get around to this one.

motown67

Read this at the beginning of X-mas break:



Bought this years ago and just now finished reading it. Has some nice general overviews of groups plus discographies.



Currently reading this:

DJ_Enki

I havn't followed current events nearly enough in the past few years (beyond the fluff on tv), so I started reading some new non fiction. Currently on this:

How is it so far? This one's definitely on my list unless I get word that it's

Birdman9

downloaded from a blog, can't afford an actual one and can't find it 'in the field'.

But this is worth the trouble, so far a great, great read! The author went on tour and performed onstage and in the studio with the band in '73 on the Muscle of Love Tour, and spills a lot of beans about the band from the inside. So far one of the best rock books I have read.

prof_rockwell

did this one over the summer -


this was a neat read about the development of one of the US's earliest planned communities (after Levittown)

currently reading:

GenePontecorvo

Starting off the year w/ some mindless fare

SPlDEY

How is this? I really enjoy some Brett Easton Ellis..

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- spidey