NeoGuin:
Now listening to Angela's Ashes
I'm working on:
Stephen King's the Dark Tower(Drwaing of the Three)
Tolken's Lord of the Rings (The Two Towers) and
Evolution of Modern Warfare
and yes I'm taking turns reading all 3.
A textbook on Ancient Greek and Roman technology - fascinating stuff.
Apparently the use of the donkey was so ubiqituous in Greece that the use of the wheel was not seen in some parts of the Pelopenniese (?) till the Twentieth Century...
at the moment
Chronicles: Volume 1 - Bob Dylan
Tony:
That I may wanna read!
Chronicles
Neoguin: it's worth a read - he has a prose style just as good as his lyric writing + it's a fascinating insight into all that was going on from inside the author's mind. A good read.
"Armies of Hanuman " - Book 4 of the Ramayana series by Ashok Banker....It's a racy, entertaining version of the epic....Interesting.
Bird Song by Sebastian Faulks, quite good so far,
and also Made In America, by Bill Bryson
Oops, edited for typo
Bird Song is a book I've saved..
I'm reading Yo! by Julia Alvarez - so far so good.
Chronicles - Bob Dylan
NeoGuin wrote:Tony:
That I may wanna read!
You should read it. His literary style is even better than his lyric writing. You get a view of all the events going on at that time from inside the author's head....intimate, confessional and rationalising. It's powerful stuff.
I'm reading Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. I've been on a Russian lit kick for a few years.
"The Real Biography of Ellen Degeneres"
reading right now "The Vision & the Voice" by Aleister Crowley
So, what is the vision and the voice about?
Not to natter at you by surprise, I'll tell you I am unlikely ever to read a book by that title.
Not to worry Osso, Fatsnail is asking on another thread where he can get hold of a copy of Necronomicon.
Very hard to come by, you know :wink:
I just finished Museum Pieces by Elizabeth Tallent, "A novel about the complicated geometry of emotions between men and women, parents and children" (NYT).
I liked it. As an added bonus, it was set in Santa Fe, a city that interests me.
Now I'm reading Getting to Lamma, by Jan Alexander. The quote on that is "Jan Alexander balances many themes and characters with consummate grace - family, lovers, politics, Hong Kong, Shanghai, New York - in one compelling story." (Robert Abel's quote on the back of the book).
I'm only on page 30 but like it so far.
Dream of the Red Chamber... finished it... lots of deaths was the only thing I can make of it...
reading "Piano on the Beach" by Jim Dornan. Anyone read it already?
