Book jam - what you all reading?
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BoomBoomBigelow
Genius of Love
Cormac's a fave.
BoomBoomBigelow
Genius of Love
Halfway through a bio of Hunter S. Thompson. By Jay Cowan, friend/tenant/acolyte. Writing is meh, interesting view.
Flamencology
You don't deserve koa.
His early work is great, and Blood Meridan is a masterpiece.
Later on... The Road is uneven, I don't have much love for All the Pretty Horses, and No Country for Old Men is a great example of the movie being better than the book.
BoomBoomBigelow
Genius of Love
Yah, read NCFOM after seeing the film, and decided the movie nailed it and then some.
tiger roach
Urban Bovine Knievel
Just started King's "It."
Dogsinplastic
avuncular to no one
Jack Bruce Composing Himself...Jack's bio that I checked out of the library over the summer and hadn't gotten around to reading. I picked it up again the day after his passing. It reminds me of the Sting and Mingus bios. There a similar sense of ego that I found/find unappealing. I realize that having confidence is part of the deal with creative types and more so when you reach a certain level of fame. Apparently Bruce and Baker had it in spades before they were known outside of England.
Still cool to read about his roots. I knew his lineage, but not the stories and histories of the various bands.
Still cool to read about his roots. I knew his lineage, but not the stories and histories of the various bands.
BlockInlay
Octavate.band
From the wiki: The book was subsequently fictionalized as the NBC television drama Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–99), on which Simon served as a writer and producer. Many of the key detectives and incidents portrayed in the book provided inspiration for the first two seasons of the show, with other elements surfacing in later seasons as well. It later also provided inspiration for the HBO television series The Wire.
Gary Blanchard
beloved, local musician
I haven't read that, but I did read this:
From the wiki: The book was subsequently fictionalized as the NBC television drama Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–99), on which Simon served as a writer and producer. Many of the key detectives and incidents portrayed in the book provided inspiration for the first two seasons of the show, with other elements surfacing in later seasons as well. It later also provided inspiration for the HBO television series The Wire.
I enjoyed The Corner, but after a while, as a Baltimore native, it became too one-note to continue his books. Much like John Waters, he focuses on one aspect of Baltimore and overplays it as far as I am concerned.
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Devil is Dill
Doubleplusgood
Terry Pratchett Going Postal.
Jbird
Kick Henry Jackassowski
I just finished reading The Ill-Made Knight by Christian Cameron
Excellent historical action-adventure novel in the vein of Bernard Cornwell.
It's the first book I've read by Cameron, and I'll be looking to pick up more of them. He has a degree in 14th century history (though most of his books to date have been about classical Greece) and he's done all the period arms training. So I would hope he knows what he's writing about.
Excellent historical action-adventure novel in the vein of Bernard Cornwell.
It's the first book I've read by Cameron, and I'll be looking to pick up more of them. He has a degree in 14th century history (though most of his books to date have been about classical Greece) and he's done all the period arms training. So I would hope he knows what he's writing about.
Flamencology
You don't deserve koa.
Amazing book.
It's a good read, and it's the best single-volume bio of Washington that I've read. I much preferred his biographies of Alexander Hamilton and John Rockefeller, though.
Kerouac
weird musical dildo
Froning is a four time winner of the "Fittest Man in the World" title and a CrossFit MONSTER. I'm halfway through and for the most part I'm really enjoying it; I love his fitness insight, but he discusses his faith and spirituality in depth and I'm just not interested in that.
