Black Dawg Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LedZepChick Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 I'm still reading Twilight sporadically... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigstickbonzo Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 About to finish "Road to Monticello" by Kevin J. Hayes. Best Jefferson bio I've read so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zepulon Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 (edited) I just finished reading Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls . It got me so hooked that I finished it in just a few days, and it was almost 450 pages long! Now I'm reading The Land of Green Plums by Herta Muller, about a group of university friends living in a Communist world. It's not an easy read, but its poetic flow of words and emotional storyline make the book very powerful. Edited January 28, 2009 by Zepulon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PennyLane Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 Reading currently, "Who Built the Moon?", by Christopher Knight and Alan Butler. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustle In My Hedgerow Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 'The Brothers Karamazov' by Dostoevsky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alinds Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninelives Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 That author sounds familiar. Do you know offhand if he's written anything else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustle In My Hedgerow Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 That author sounds familiar. Do you know offhand if he's written anything else? If I recall correctly that was his only novel to date. Maybe you're thinking of Timothy Ferris? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninelives Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 If I recall correctly that was his only novel to date. Maybe you're thinking of Timothy Ferris? Hmm. I just looked up Timothy Ferris and I definitely wouldn't have read his books. Perhaps the name just sounded familiar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spalove Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 The Great Gatsby Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virginia Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 I finally started "Breaking Dawn" last night. So far I've enjoyed the first book much more than the others, but I do want to see how it all ends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slagfarmer Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 I just finished Ken Follet's Pillars of the earth and world without end. Both are excellent. I am currently reading John Grisham's The appeal. and it is not very good...might not Finnish it. Not a lot of good coming out of the Grisham camp these days I'm afraid IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PennyLane Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 I just finished Ken Follet's Pillars of the earth and world without end. Both are excellent. I am currently reading John Grisham's The appeal. and it is not very good...might not Finnish it. Not a lot of good coming out of the Grisham camp these days I'm afraid IMO. I am a John Grishman fan but The Appeal was suppose to go back to his original writings, e.g., the Firm. I saw an interview with John Grisham on MSNBC on Thursday. Maybe story will pick up near the end. Thanks for the critique. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allbettsareoff Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 I am in the middle of reading "Off The Rails" aboard the crazy train with The Blizzard of Ozz by Rudy Sarzo. Excellent so far I can't put it down I recomend this book to anyone who likes rock and roll biographies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~tangerine~ Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 Currently reading this series with my 4 year old...such endearing characters in these books, especially the main one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electrophile Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 I just bought Nick Mason's book on Pink Floyd. Very excellent read, so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electrophile Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 It's from 2005. It's not as juicy as maybe some people would want, but I think it's pretty informative. Not that there was really anything in there I didn't already know, it's still better hearing it from a band member than some other outside source. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electrophile Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 It's David Gilmour. The problem was, Roger's ego was starting to eclipse the music. I don't know if you've seen The Wall (the tour, not the movie) but it was so overblown and starting with Animals on forward the other three members of the band were marginalized to the point where they weren't contributing to the music at all. Hell, Waters fired Rick Wright before The Wall tour even started. The Final Cut was basically a Roger Waters solo album. I don't blame the others for being pissed off at him. Frankly, I'd rather see David Gilmour and his touring band than anything Roger Waters is doing, even if Waters did write all the songs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninelives Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 It's David Gilmour. The problem was, Roger's ego was starting to eclipse the music. I don't know if you've seen The Wall (the tour, not the movie) but it was so overblown and starting with Animals on forward the other three members of the band were marginalized to the point where they weren't contributing to the music at all. Hell, Waters fired Rick Wright before The Wall tour even started. The Final Cut was basically a Roger Waters solo album. I don't blame the others for being pissed off at him. Frankly, I'd rather see David Gilmour and his touring band than anything Roger Waters is doing, even if Waters did write all the songs. I have heard David speak about the Wall tour and he said it just got to be ridiculous. Sounded to me like he and Roger had vastly different ideas on the direction of the band. Roger got into these conceptual albums and David wasn't really into it. I'm sure ego was also a huge part of their demise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electrophile Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 I have heard David speak about the Wall tour and he said it just got to be ridiculous. Sounded to me like he and Roger had vastly different ideas on the direction of the band. Roger got into these conceptual albums and David wasn't really into it. I'm sure ego was also a huge part of their demise. Egos are always part of the reason a band breaks up, unless there's extenuating circumstances, like for instance Led Zeppelin. They weren't going on without Bonzo, so that was that. There's a documentary called Pink Floyd: Behind The Wall and it goes into great detail about how the tour was crafted, from the actual "bricks" used on stage to the puppets and the graphic imagery (the fucking flowers, the marching hammers, etc,.) I think when David said it was ridiculous, that was him being nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PsychoRockNRoll Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virginia Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 I'm almost finished with "Breaking Dawn" (the 4th and final book in the "Twilight" series). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PsychoRockNRoll Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 I'm almost finished with "Breaking Dawn" (the 4th and final book in the "Twilight" series). oh, it seems that Twilight's everywhere. it also seems that I'm the only person who haven't read or seen it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longdistancewinner Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 oh, it seems that Twilight's everywhere. it also seems that I'm the only person who haven't read or seen it I haven't read them. I was given the second book by my aunt and uncle for Christmas. I hadn't even expressed a desire to read them or see the film, so where my aunt got the idea from to buy it for me, I'll never know - I'm 23, not 15. And because she bought me the second one, I couldn't read it without needing to go out and buy the first one, which was a bit annoying. And I still haven't read them (yes, I did buy the first one in the end ) - if only because Meyer's used the most beautiful literary man (Jane Eyre's Edward Rochester ) and turned him into an angsty teenage vampire - what the frig? I currently have two books on the go - Marianne Faithfull's Memories, Dreams and Reflections and Pamela Des Barres' Take Another Little Piece Of My Heart. Once those are done with I'm gonna read Charlotte Bronte's Villette and Morgana Welch's Hollywood Diaries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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