immigrant 1 Posted December 10, 2007 Share Posted December 10, 2007 Crazy From The Heat - David Lee Roth The Ancestor's Tale,Richard Dawkins, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Monkey Posted December 10, 2007 Share Posted December 10, 2007 (edited) Always got two on the go (see previous post), usually music and mountaineering books. First the music. Guy Pratt My Bass and other Animals. Very funny story of a session man, played for the latter day Pink Floyd among others, full of witty anecdotes. The story of the boozy plane flight with Jimmy Page is hilarious, here is the excerpt from his stand up show. Guy Pratt on Jimmy Page Mountaineering book Tenzing is my hero, he clawed his way up from yak herder to.........well......Tenzing A glorious life ultimately ruined (in my opinion) by a younger woman, alcohol and a feeling he never did enough for the sherpa people which is absolute rubbish vis-a-vis the Himalayen Mountaineering Institute in Darjeeling. At the end of his life him and Hillary became close friends and spent a lot of time just talking. The story of his funeral is amazing and very moving. A true hero and a great story about the loss of innocence. Tenzing (left) and Hillary 1953 just after their succesful summit. Little did they know that their whole lives would change forever after this. .......and finally Tenzing on the summit of Everest 1953.........iconic or what? Edited December 10, 2007 by Northern Monkey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRB Posted December 10, 2007 Share Posted December 10, 2007 I'm reading my introductory weather and climate notes for one of tomorrow's exams. I have to fail the exam to not get an A in the class, so I'm not that stressed about it. COlonial and revolutionary American history is another matter, however. I have to get an A on the final to get an A in the class. That is the other one tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x-lolarose-x Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Pride and Prejudice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken Posted December 13, 2007 Author Share Posted December 13, 2007 I'm reading Oliver Twist. Never actually read any Dickens before...I thought it might be pretty hard going because of when it was written, but it's the complete opposite! It's ace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katuschka Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 America - A Narrative History by Tindall and Shi .....again. I've already read the book, but that was ages ago when I was preparing for my entrance exams. I'm taking an exam from US history in January, so I need to read it again, because I feel like I've forgotten almost everything. One more extrathick tome I need to go through. Oh well, life's hard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragster Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Garage Rock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue_Soul Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 "The Tender Bar" by J. W. Moehringer, still at the beginning but I like it so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seirios Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 THE JACARANDA TREE by Herbert Ernest Bates (finished recently) CHILDREN OF DUNE by Frank Herbert (still reading) INSIDE THE SERAGLIO: Private Lives of the Sultans in Istanbul by John Freely (sneak preview, greedy how I am) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllisonAdler Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Just starting Kate Mosse's follow-up to Labyrinth, Sepulchre. I loved the first one--hope this will be as good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cletus Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Charles Dickens - Hard Times Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Blue Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 Unsurprisingly. I do most of my reading on the train to & from work. So I read a lot. This book (above) I'm just about to start. I just finished a Richard Layman book. Some old shite about black rain turning punters psychopathic. It was a load of wank, but I was desperately scurrying around the house on Tuesday morning trying to find something (anything) to read on the train. If I don't have a book to read, I have to listen to the drivel from the other passengers. ie. iwaslike no way hewaslike way iwaslike are you ready hewaslike in a minute iwaslike hurry up hewaslike where's my keys iwaslike dunno hewaslike there thur iwaslike you're a fud hewaslike no am no etc etc etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoboInvisaBunny Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 I just finnished "Song of Susannah" by Stephen King. It's the 6th book in the Dark Tower series, and there's on book left, and I don't have it :'( So now I'm just reading "Who was that Masked Man Anyway?" by Avi. It's an interesting book, it's told completly with diolauge(sp?). I've never read a book like that before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tangerinedream Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 The New Yorker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveAJones Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 A proposed 2008 Led Zeppelin Tour itinerary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muse Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 I got about halfway through (an abridged) War And Peace at work today. I was skimming. I don't think I could take reading every last detail. It's pretty good but I'm sure I won't be reading it again once I'm done. Tolstoy was clearly paid based on the length of the book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBird Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom The magic mushroom was rediscovered only fifty years ago but has accumulated all sorts of folktales and urban legends along the way. In this timely and definitive study, Andy Letcher strips away the myths to get at the true story of how hallucinogenic mushrooms, once shunned in the West as the most pernicious of poisons, came to be the illicit drug of choice. Chronicling the history of the magic mushroom, from its use by the Aztecs of Central America and the tribes of Siberia through to the present day, Letcher takes a critical and humorous look at the drug's more recent manifestations. Since the 1970s scientists and others in major Western nations, the United States and the United Kingdom in particular, have identified hundreds of hallucinogenic species, isolated their active ingredients, learned how to cultivate them on an industrial scale, and spread them around the world. More than any other civilization that has come before us, and despite all the myths we have built, we, by all rights, are the true magic mushroom enthusiasts. I love mushrooms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tang991 Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 (edited) Jules Verne- Journey To the Center of the Earth, this thread, Popular Science article about SCRAMjets. Edited December 15, 2007 by tang991 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoso13zeppelin Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 (edited) Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Can't remember who wrote it. I have a weakness for sci-fi. I don't know why… Edited December 15, 2007 by zoso13zeppelin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOJO Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 Precious M writers digest called: A ROCK-N-ROLL ROMANCE WITH A TWIST. A LOOK INTO THE HARD, WILD WORLD OF SEX, DRUGS AND ROCK-N-ROLL. http://www.trafford.com/robots/04-2405.html#goto1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cecil. Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 a Very odd collection of tales,,,The Other Passenger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarlaxle 56 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 I'm reading Oliver Twist. Never actually read any Dickens before...I thought it might be pretty hard going because of when it was written, but it's the complete opposite! It's ace. I'm going to start reading that one soon, I'm going to write an essay comparing to The Prince and The Pauper by Mark Twain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarlaxle 56 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Can't remember who wrote it. I have a weakness for sci-fi. I don't know why… Douglas Adams, and it's not just "sci-fi" it's one of the greatest books of all time, and he was one of the greatest writers of all time. You should definitely read the rest of the series, and you might also be interested in his other two books "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" and "The Long Dark Teatime of The Soul" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leddy Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Another old mainstay! I am reading this: But I'm gonna have finished it in the next couple of days...I can't decide what to read next! I bought quite a lot of new books the other week. Your post at the moment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoso13zeppelin Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 I am finally reading Twilight again… Been a long time… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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