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Title: Book recommendations
Post by: DeathFromAbove1979 on December 23, 2008, 03:52:09 am
I just finished reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy and I need a new book. I'm sure a lot of you read and I was wondering if there were any good reads you all have come across in the past and maybe what you're reading right now
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: vansmack on December 23, 2008, 01:16:55 pm
Right now I am reading "Outliers - The Story of Success" (http://www.amazon.com/Outliers-Story-Success-Malcolm-Gladwell/dp/0316017922/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1230052576&sr=8-1) by Malcolm Gladwell.
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: Darth Ed on December 23, 2008, 01:19:42 pm
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon -- It's the funniest, the saddest, most disturbing, most beautiful, most disgusting, most rewarding, most amazing novel I've ever read, and the best novel I probably ever will read. The writing is so good that you'll want to read it aloud to savor ever syllable. A sprawling cast (you'll need to take notes to keep track of everyone, seriously) set in Europe during the waning months of WWII. If you have an interest in World War II, physics, rocketry, mathematics, psychology, musicals, statistics, sexual deviancy, Tarot cards, drug usage, mysticism, filmmaking, synchronicity, and conspiracy theories, then this is the book for you! It's a challenging post-modern work, but, if you read Cormac McCarthy, you can handle it. I highly recommend reading A Gravity's Rainbow Companion by Steven Weisenburger concurrently for illumination of the more obscure references.

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   What Jessica said-- hair much shorter, wearing a darker mouth of different outline, harder lipstick, her typewriter banking in a phalanx of letters between them-- was: "We're going to be married. We're trying very hard to have a baby."
   All at once there is nothing but his asshole between Gravity and Roger. "I don't care. Have his baby. I'll love you both-- just come with me Jess, please ... I need you...."
   She flips a red lever on her intercom. Far away a buzzer goes off. "Security." Her voice is perfectly hard, the word still clap-echoing in the air as in through the screen door of the Quonset office wth a smell of tide flats come the coppers, looking grim. Security. Her magic word, her spell against demons.
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: Herr Professor Doktor Doom on December 23, 2008, 02:00:37 pm
I love Thomas Pynchon's other stuff, but I couldn't even get 1/4 of the way through Gravity's Rainbow.   But I also know other peeps who love it  and love discussing it with others who've read it.  I think your brain just needs to be wired in a very specific way to get it.

Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: DeathFromAbove1979 on December 23, 2008, 02:38:20 pm
I'll give Gravity's Rainbow a shot, I was looking for something insane. Keep 'em comin!
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: Darth Ed on December 23, 2008, 11:25:22 pm
If you have want something really insane (and fun!), you should try Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs. That's another book I recommend reading aloud. Or better yet find a recording of Burroughs reading it. That really added to my appreciation.

I love everything Michael Chabon has written. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a good one to start with. A healthy appeciation of comic books and their history helps with that novel. If that sort of thing doesn't interest you, skip it.

Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury is seriously one of the top three or four best novels I've read.

If you like science fiction, do yourself a favor and read everything Gene Wolfe has written.
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: Jaguar on December 24, 2008, 05:11:05 am
If you have want something really insane (and fun!), you should try Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs. That's another book I recommend reading aloud. Or better yet find a recording of Burroughs reading it. That really added to my appreciation.

That's funny because I was going to recommend the exact same book. The film is pretty good too if you have a head for understanding it all and like that kind of stuff.

I'd also recommend The Town And The City by Jack Kerouac. You have to get past the sickeningly sweet set up but it's important for what is to follow.

Gravity's Rainbow is a serious feast of words. It would also help to have at least of slight bit of understanding of the Tarot in order to follow the plot.

A little Philip K. Dick is always good to get you wondering if all those drugs he consumed opened up some sort of doorway in his mind that allowed him to envision some of the things that were to come.

Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: Seth Hurwitz on December 24, 2008, 08:47:08 am
I read In Cold Blood recently

what a great book
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on December 24, 2008, 08:52:02 am
i'm currently reading and enjoying Something to Tell You by Hanief Kureishi.

Best book I've read in the last five years was A Thousand Splendid Suns.
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: Mobius on December 24, 2008, 10:53:20 am
Three really good ones I've recently picked up (if you're into sociology, history/politics and/or NBA hoops):

Outliers (now vansmack approved!)
Team of Rivals
Free Darko Presents the Macrophenomenal Pro Basketball Almanac

Some other out there (though not naked lunch out there) classics, in case you've missed them:

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Confederacy of Dunces


And my favorites from Cormac McCarthy:

The Crossing
All the Pretty Horses
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: sweetcell on January 04, 2011, 02:25:16 am
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2011/01/04/ac.ridiculist.snooki.book.cnn.html
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: brennser on January 04, 2011, 09:10:26 am
My reading time has been curtailed dramatically with kids and a crazy job but I did pick up two over Christmas and am half way through one of them

Skippy Dies

http://www.amazon.com/Skippy-Dies-Novel-Paul-Murray/dp/0865479437/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1294146529&sr=1-1

and

A Visit From the Good Squad

http://www.amazon.com/Visit-Goon-Squad-Jennifer-Egan/dp/0307592839
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: James Ford on January 04, 2011, 09:12:07 am
I'm on a Krakauer roll...

Just finished Under the Banner of Heaven, which points out what a douchey lot the Mormons are. and starting Where Men Win Glory, which prresumably will tell me what a douchey lot the military are.
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: K8teebug on January 04, 2011, 09:36:10 am
Krakauer is great. 

My favorite book as of late is Everything Matters!  by Ron Currie Jr.  Just a wonderful story.

I have also really loved reading the Song of Ice and Fire Series.  I am not much of a fantasy reader, and these are just really awesome books.  The first one, Game of Thrones, is being adapted for HBO and the producers called the story "Sopranos in Middle Earth".  About sums it up.

The Hunger Games series is fun by Suzanne Collins.  Young adult, but a good dystopia book.  Might not want to read them immediately after The Road, because that's about the best dystopia book I've ever read.

Too Much Happiness - Alice Munro -  great short stories.  I especially liked this book of hers.

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake - Aimee Bender

History of Love and/or Great House - Nicole Krauss.  She is the wife of the guy who wrote Everything is Illuminated.  Both are fantastic.
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: chaz on January 04, 2011, 10:00:41 am
I just finished Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts.

http://www.amazon.com/Shantaram-Novel-Gregory-David-Roberts/dp/0312330529

A great, great read.

Next up is The Damage Done:  Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok Prison by Warren Fellows

http://www.amazon.com/Damage-Done-Twelve-Bangkok-Prison/dp/184018275X/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1294149538&sr=1-3
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: Relaxer on January 04, 2011, 10:11:00 am
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Best book I read in 2010. pretty heartbreaking but overall has an uplifting vibe, testament to the human spirit etc etc. I think Dave Eggers is pretty overrated but I can't fuck with what he did in this book.
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: James Ford on January 04, 2011, 10:15:28 am
Considering he finished the Road over two years ago, I think he'll be ok.  ;)


The Hunger Games series is fun by Suzanne Collins.  Young adult, but a good dystopia book.  Might not want to read them immediately after The Road, because that's about the best dystopia book I've ever read.

Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: sweetcell on January 04, 2011, 11:32:09 am
some good recommendations here.  thanks folks.

The Hunger Games series is fun by Suzanne Collins.  Young adult, but a good dystopia book.  Might not want to read them immediately after The Road, because that's about the best dystopia book I've ever read.

i got in to the hunger games over the holiday break, now on #3 of 3.  quite enjoyable.  minor complaint: the occasional peppering of chick-lit, primarily in the first book - the longing for her father, back in a time when everything was perfect...  ::)  otherwise, a fun light read.
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: ggw on January 04, 2011, 11:42:42 am

A Visit From the Good Squad

http://www.amazon.com/Visit-Goon-Squad-Jennifer-Egan/dp/0307592839

This is in my "to read" stack.  I'm zipping through Kitchen Confidential right now and then diving into the Keith Richards autobiography.

I think the books I enjoyed most in 2010 were Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City and David Goodville's American Subversive
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: DeathFromAbove1979 on January 04, 2011, 02:13:07 pm
Currently reading my friend's book. He spent about 2 years writing it. It's a WWII book, but with a nazi experimentation/Indiana Jones twist. I think it's pretty well written and am thuroughly enjoying it. You can read about it more on his site and order a copy. He also has a short story available for download on his site in case you're curious to see what his style is like. The story comes from the 'Lucky Ford Universe'

http://www.unusualoccurrences.com/

If you like action/adventure/WWII stuff, I'd say it's worth the read!
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: walkonby on January 04, 2011, 02:38:07 pm
you should read richard webster's books on each of the four archangels, michael / raphael / gabriel / uriel.  they will show you how to contact each and adjusting yourself into the higher planes of reality.  then you should read crowley's book of the law.  life is balance.  i know, i know . . . most people either find crowley to be a evil lunatic or an idiot who fooled the small minded.  but book of the law was indeed given to him by something not of this world, and if one pays enough attention while reading it, you can actually feel yourself being dragged into something that opens doors of corruptible realization.  i do prescribe not following your footsteps through that door, but instead having the mere knowledge that such things do exist, is indeed fascinating.
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: K8teebug on January 04, 2011, 03:16:48 pm
I really want to read the Keith Richards book.

I am currently reading the letters between Julia Child and her friend Avis.  They are really cool.

Also reading Freedom, which is pretty great, but really long.
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: Relaxer on January 04, 2011, 03:23:18 pm
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Just about to start this after reading a New Yorker piece on it and having a dream about Cleopatra while masturbating this one time and then I woke up and I was all, wuh? Who is this Cleopatra and what is her story?
Advantage: me
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: ggw on January 04, 2011, 05:05:01 pm
Advantage: me

That's what Marc Antony said...
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: Relaxer on January 04, 2011, 05:38:36 pm
Well we're still talking about him so he must have done something right.
Plus that pimp scored some truly historic pussy. I must pay tribute.
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: sweetcell on January 04, 2011, 05:46:53 pm
Advantage: me

That's what Marc Antony said...

HISTORICAL BURN!!!

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Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: K8teebug on January 05, 2011, 09:25:43 am
Did you know that Mark Antony killed himself after a fake report that Cleopatra died?  It was on Jeopardy the other night.  That Cleopatra book has gotten alot of rave reviews.
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: miss pretentious on January 06, 2011, 01:15:49 pm
I hated Naked Lunch.

Anyhow, I can also recc The Hunger Games series for a good, light read.
I'm currently reading:

Rob Sheffield's "Talking to Girls About Duran Duran"
and "Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color that Changed the World," by Simon Garfield

Comics I have on deck:
Mouseguard: Winter 1152
The Best American Comics of 2010
and Batman RIP
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: K8teebug on January 06, 2011, 03:15:39 pm
I am buying that Mauve book for my mom.  Thanks!  That is her favorite decorating color.
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: Seth Hurwitz on January 07, 2011, 09:15:44 am
Been reading 2-3 books at a time...I switch off when one has a lull

currently:
On The Road/Jack Kerouac
The Wisdom Of Crowds
Washington Confidential (crazy gossip paperback from 50's)
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: sweetcell on January 07, 2011, 10:53:47 am
Been reading 2-3 books at a time...I switch off when one has a lull

currently:
On The Road/Jack Kerouac
The Wisdom Of Crowds
Washington Confidential (crazy gossip paperback from 50's)

you have time to read?  shouldn't you be booking shows instead?
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: walkonby on January 07, 2011, 02:09:38 pm
Been reading 2-3 books at a time...I switch off when one has a lull

currently:
On The Road/Jack Kerouac
The Wisdom Of Crowds
Washington Confidential (crazy gossip paperback from 50's)

you have time to read?  shouldn't you be booking shows instead?

you have time to notice?  shouldn't you be bitching and complaining . . . oh wait.
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: DeathFromAbove1979 on January 07, 2011, 02:24:13 pm
Been reading 2-3 books at a time...I switch off when one has a lull

currently:
On The Road/Jack Kerouac
The Wisdom Of Crowds
Washington Confidential (crazy gossip paperback from 50's)

you have time to read?  shouldn't you be booking shows instead?

you have time to notice?  shouldn't you be bitching and complaining . . . oh wait.
oooooooooohhh!!!
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: Relaxer on January 07, 2011, 03:10:41 pm
What? Sweetcell is like the most upbeat, positive person here, pot.
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: yohansen5b on January 07, 2011, 08:52:49 pm
I just finished Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts.

http://www.amazon.com/Shantaram-Novel-Gregory-David-Roberts/dp/0312330529

A great, great read.

Shantaram is indeed quite good.  It took me a while to get into the book, though.  The narrator (read: author) thinks a whole lot of himself and I didn't quite buy into the quality that everyone everywhere (even in the criminal underworld or the third world) was good at heart.  Other than that, an epic read.  Are they still making a movie of it?

Anyhow, I can also recc The Hunger Games series for a good, light read.

I just finished this over the holiday break.  It was enjoyable.  I was surprised at how quickly violent it became.  I need to borrow the other two books from my girlfriend.

I just finished Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections (http://www.amazon.com/Corrections-Novel-Jonathan-Franzen/dp/0312421273)"  I just started Greg Milner's "Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music (http://www.amazon.com/Perfecting-Sound-Forever-History-Recorded/dp/0865479380/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1294447894&sr=1-1)"
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: killsaly on January 08, 2011, 01:27:07 pm
Im reading the Dexter books now and give them praise.  For Burroughs, the Western Lands trilogy is pretty sweet and a good head trip.
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: ggw on April 18, 2011, 05:28:05 pm
A Visit From the Good Squad

http://www.amazon.com/Visit-Goon-Squad-Jennifer-Egan/dp/0307592839

I don't know about you, but I have been looking for pauses in songs ever since I finished the book.

And the Pulitzer people liked the book too:
http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/2011
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: Mobius on April 18, 2011, 11:13:57 pm
Patti Smith Just Kids . . .is fantastic
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: K8teebug on April 19, 2011, 08:11:13 am
I am going to start Goon Squad soon. 

Currently reading book 4 of song of ice and fire and Undaunted Courage.

anyone here on goodreads?

Has anyone else read Everything Matters!  One of my favorite reads of last year.
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on April 19, 2011, 10:40:16 am
A Visit From the Good Squad

http://www.amazon.com/Visit-Goon-Squad-Jennifer-Egan/dp/0307592839

I don't know about you, but I have been looking for pauses in songs ever since I finished the book.

And the Pulitzer people liked the book too:
http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/2011

did you guys read it on a kindle?  if so, was the reading experience as bad as the first reviewer describes?
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: ggw on April 19, 2011, 12:54:34 pm
did you guys read it on a kindle?  if so, was the reading experience as bad as the first reviewer describes?

The kindle is to reading as the CD player is to music.
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: sweetcell on April 19, 2011, 01:05:49 pm
The kindle is to reading as the CD player is to music.

a more faithful reproduction of the art, as the artist intended it to be experienced?  that's hardly the case for kindles.

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Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: ggw on October 18, 2011, 10:37:21 am
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harDCore, straightedge, AIDS, teen pregnancy, overdoses, even name-checks the 9:30 Club two or three times.

Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: Papa_Wallace on October 18, 2011, 10:57:28 am
Does anybody have any suggestions on books about parenting difficult children?

Papa
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: ggw on October 18, 2011, 11:08:57 am
Does anybody have any suggestions on books about parenting difficult children?

Papa

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Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: ggw on November 07, 2011, 03:23:50 pm
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Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: Justin Tonation on November 07, 2011, 05:01:57 pm
Does anybody have any suggestions on books about parenting difficult children?

Papa

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Y32brlftL._SS500_.jpg)

We just got this in my library.
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on November 07, 2011, 06:43:17 pm
isn't there some horrible youtube video going around about . . . you know, i don't think i will go there.  even i have standards.
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: Herr Professor Doktor Doom on November 08, 2011, 07:05:07 pm
Anyone heard much about the new Umberto Eco?
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: jrho on November 09, 2011, 08:42:54 am
I haven't heard much, but Eco's talking about it at Sixth & I Synagogue tonight. Tickets are $12 for the talk, $27 for a signed copy of The Prague Cemetery and two tickets to the talk.

http://www.politics-prose.com/event/book/umberto-eco-prague-cemetery
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: DeathFromAbove1979 on November 09, 2011, 10:21:28 am
I'm reading Batman: Year One right now. It's taken me forever to get through cuz I don't have much tim to just read :\ the Borders by my house closed too. Such a shame.
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on November 09, 2011, 01:23:50 pm
I'm reading Batman: Year One right now. It's taken me forever to get through cuz I don't have much tim to just read :\ the Borders by my house closed too. Such a shame.

or spell . . . unless tim is a person, and you don't have much of him.

 ;D
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: Brian_Wallace on November 09, 2011, 01:42:40 pm
I'm reading Batman: Year One right now. It's taken me forever to get through cuz I don't have much tim to just read :\ the Borders by my house closed too. Such a shame.

or spell . . . unless tim is a person, and you don't have much of him.

 ;D

Maybe DeathFromAbove1979 is more clever than we think and he's refering to his distaste for Tim Drake:

(http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090407082812/marvel_dc/images/thumb/7/7b/Robin_Tim_Drake_0003.jpg/150px-Robin_Tim_Drake_0003.jpg)

Brian
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: K8teebug on November 09, 2011, 03:44:18 pm
(http://yonasu.com/wp-content/uploads/51mGxL5j-CL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)

You liked this?  Just wondering if it's worth my while.  Been seeing it alot of places!  (Wired, EW, etc)
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: K8teebug on November 09, 2011, 03:44:55 pm
Patti Smith Just Kids . . .is fantastic

agreed.  Amazing book.
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: DeathFromAbove1979 on November 09, 2011, 03:52:27 pm
I'm reading Batman: Year One right now. It's taken me forever to get through cuz I don't have much tim to just read :\ the Borders by my house closed too. Such a shame.

or spell . . . unless tim is a person, and you don't have much of him.

 ;D

Maybe DeathFromAbove1979 is more clever than we think and he's refering to his distaste for Tim Drake:

(http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090407082812/marvel_dc/images/thumb/7/7b/Robin_Tim_Drake_0003.jpg/150px-Robin_Tim_Drake_0003.jpg)

Brian
Tim Drake is a snot nosed brat! Practically black mailed Bruce into being Robin. So weak! Kind of. Didn't he also get his face bashed in by The Joker? Hahahaha
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: Brian_Wallace on November 09, 2011, 04:00:26 pm
Tim Drake is a snot nosed brat! Practically black mailed Bruce into being Robin. So weak! Kind of. Didn't he also get his face bashed in by The Joker? Hahahaha

No.  That's Jason Todd.  But it's Dick Grayson who had the mullet....AND a ponytail!

(http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3r5khLKt61qc7r93o1_500.jpg)

Brian
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: ggw on November 10, 2011, 11:17:58 am
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You liked this?  Just wondering if it's worth my while.  Been seeing it alot of places!  (Wired, EW, etc)

It would be a long while.  It's more than 900 pages.  I am about 300 pages in and the story didn't really get going until after the first 200.  So far I am enjoying it, but if you haven't read Murakami before, I would start with The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle or Kafka on the Shore first.  I think this book has been getting a lot of attention based on those previous ones than purely on the merits of 1Q84.
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: DeathFromAbove1979 on November 10, 2011, 04:19:03 pm
Tim Drake is a snot nosed brat! Practically black mailed Bruce into being Robin. So weak! Kind of. Didn't he also get his face bashed in by The Joker? Hahahaha

No.  That's Jason Todd.  But it's Dick Grayson who had the mullet....AND a ponytail!

(http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3r5khLKt61qc7r93o1_500.jpg)

Brian
Fuck all the Robin's. I could care less. Although I think in "Under The Red Hood" Jason Todd is pretty badass. If that's him. Alls I know is Nightwing is kinda weak.
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: K8teebug on November 10, 2011, 04:40:59 pm
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You liked this?  Just wondering if it's worth my while.  Been seeing it alot of places!  (Wired, EW, etc)

It would be a long while.  It's more than 900 pages.  I am about 300 pages in and the story didn't really get going until after the first 200.  So far I am enjoying it, but if you haven't read Murakami before, I would start with The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle or Kafka on the Shore first.  I think this book has been getting a lot of attention based on those previous ones than purely on the merits of 1Q84.

Familiar with Kafka on the Shore!  I know how long it is.  Thought it would be a good winter book.
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: Stillwater on December 25, 2011, 06:39:37 am
I think I'm reading Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand next.  Anyone read it? Apparently she went to American and lives in Fairfax...
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: dyecraig on December 26, 2011, 10:29:11 am
ahmet ertegun biography - the last sultan - so many great anecdotes
judy collins autobiography - sweet judy blues eyes - she's wilder than you'd think!
ace frehley autobiography - no regrets - fun read, seems like a regular good guy
of course, keith richards - life - what a memory (!?)
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: hutch on December 26, 2011, 11:30:17 am
ahmet ertegun biography - the last sultan - so many great anecdotes
judy collins autobiography - sweet judy blues eyes - she's wilder than you'd think!
ace frehley autobiography - no regrets - fun read, seems like a regular good guy
of course, keith richards - life - what a memory (!?)

except for the judy collins these are all on my list


currently reading the neville brothers oral history "the brothers" with david ritz.... fascinating stuff

finished clapton's autobio....great stuff.. way better than i expected..and ozzy's autobio and a gene simmons book
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: notme on December 26, 2011, 11:16:42 pm
ian copeland "wild thing"
Title: Re: Book recommendations
Post by: Thousand Made-Up Loves on December 28, 2011, 01:42:23 am
Great Society Subway
Last of the Black Emperors

American Psycho