*What book are you reading? (part 2)

[BoatieBird]

Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel.
Thanks for the recommendation idumea, I'm really enjoying it

 

[Thraex]

Are you only interested in one thing, thraex?

Has been a bit of an obsession this year, admittedly, but I'm still only getting to grips with it all, and still finding it fascinating and absorbing. I did spot Scott's "Discoverie of Witchcraft" on the shelf as I was leaving and thought about picking that up (not read it yet)...that's another 'interest' that I can get very focussed on as well, ah well

 

[Greebo]

<snip>I did spot Scott's "Discoverie of Witchcraft" on the shelf as I was leaving and thought about picking that up (not read it yet)...that's another 'interest' that I can get very focussed on as well, ah well

Oh yes, I remember that one; take in small doses and with almost as much salt as you'd take Uncle Al.

 

[gosub]

Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, & Selected Stories by Nikolai Gogol after listening to http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nt3y0

 

[Orang Utan]

Has been a bit of an obsession this year, admittedly, but I'm still only getting to grips with it all, and still finding it fascinating and absorbing. I did spot Scott's "Discoverie of Witchcraft" on the shelf as I was leaving and thought about picking that up (not read it yet)...that's another 'interest' that I can get very focussed on as well, ah well

I get obsessed with subjects a bit too, but my attention soon wonders, and I always need to have something else to read that is unrelated

 

[Greebo]

I get obsessed with subjects a bit too, but my attention soon wonders, and I always need to have something else to read that is unrelated

FWIW I approach that with a similar way to handling a toddler refusing to get dressed. ie don't even give yourself the option of reading or not reading, instead it's "either read this one which needs to be finished before next week, or get a bit further through that one which so-and-so recommended".

 

[Pickman's model]

Has been a bit of an obsession this year, admittedly, but I'm still only getting to grips with it all, and still finding it fascinating and absorbing. I did spot Scott's "Discoverie of Witchcraft" on the shelf as I was leaving and thought about picking that up (not read it yet)...that's another 'interest' that I can get very focussed on as well, ah well

Have you had a look at glanville's work?

 

[Greebo]

Have you had a look at glanville's work?

Who he? Google doesn't seem to have much about him or his work.

 

[TruXta]

This Glanvill? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Glanvill

 

[spawnofsatan]

Kim Philby - My silent war

 

[Greebo]

This Glanvill? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Glanvill

Another one to read if I become insomniac then, or need a far less appealing option than whatever unpleasant or boring thing which I'm supposed to be doing.

 

[Pickman's model]

This Glanvill? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Glanvill

That's the one

 

[Pickman's model]

Who he? Google doesn't seem to have much about him or his work.

Wrote c17 defence of belief in witchcraft, saducisimus triumphatus or similar

 

[Greebo]

Wrote c17 defence of belief in witchcraft, saducisimus triumphatus or similar

Really not that much in need of sleep right now. More in need of a 36 hour day.

 

[Thraex]

Have you had a look at glanville's work?

I haven't, thanks for the heads up. I can sense that the veil will slip again sometime soon then I'll be off in that direction; various threads (ropes more like) in my tapestry that have consistently cropped up since childhood

 

[marty21]

Christopher Hitchens - Arguably - selected prose - enjoying it

 

[Remmet]

Have finally got round to reading On the Road by Jack Kerouac: Really enjoying it so far, I can't believe I haven't read it before it's my ideal kind of book.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Halfway through "Spooks - The Unoffocial History of MI5 From Agent ZIGZAG to the D-Day Deception 1939-45" by Hennessey and Thomas. Interesting, especially where they've avoided getting too melodramatic about the likes of ZIGZAG and GARBO.
Skimming Ralph Payne Gallwey's "The Book of the Crossbow", and just starting on Coyle, Campbell and Neufeld's "Capitalist Punishment", which looks to have some promising essays in it.

 

[spawnofsatan]

Squeaky - Lynette Fromme's biography

 

[DotCommunist]

Ulster & the British connection


Its a bit sprawling and keeps to-ing and fro-ing from one century then back again. Still at least I found out what happened to James 1st.

 

[mentalchik]

The Hydrogen Sonata - Iain M Banks

 

[Manter]

Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, & Selected Stories by Nikolai Gogol after listening to http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nt3y0

Love

 

[Manter]

The blue afternoon, William Boyd and Mountains of Crumbs by Elena Gorokhova

 

[QueenOfGoths]

"Red Country" - Joe Abercrombie. Kind of his take on a frontier Western story. It's good

 

[nogojones]

Reich by Charles Rycroft. A sort of critical review of Wilhelm Reichs work by a Tavistock Institute shrink.

Looks like it may skirt around his work on fascism, but it's got potential.

 

[magneze]

Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World - Nicholas Shaxson

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I am reading some biography of that drummer chap out of Nirvana. Like a good music biography (but prefer an auto biography) and I don't really care who they are about. I quite enjoyed Midge Ure's for instance.

It reads like the author tried really damn hard to shoehorn Ghrol himself into the story of his own life. It's almost like this zero enterty just happened to be at some interesting places and some interesting things went on around him. Actually a large amount of the book focuses on things that happened while Ghrol wasn't around.
It's a crap book but a fat one, I can't understand how I have managed to nearly finish it's crapness in only two days.

Anyway I now appear to have put Nevermind on while doing my work. I don't think I have done that since 1992.

 

[TruXta]

I am reading some biography of that drummer chap out of Nirvana. Like a good music biography (but prefer an auto biography) and I don't really care who they are about. I quite enjoyed Midge Ure's for instance.

It reads like the author tried really damn hard to shoehorn Ghrol himself into the story of his own life. It's almost like this zero enterty just happened to be at some interesting places and some interesting things went on around him. Actually a large amount of the book focuses on things that happened while Ghrol wasn't around.
It's a crap book but a fat one, I can't understand how I have managed to nearly finish it's crapness in only two days.

Anyway I now appear to have put Nevermind on while doing my work. I don't think I have done that since 1992.

Still prefer the first or the third albums.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Still prefer the first or the third albums.

Not really listened to the third one. I thought heart shaped box sounded like a muddy mess and gave it a miss.
The first one has some great songs but the production is shite and there is no power in the drums. I remember dismissing it as heavy metal when I first heard it.

 

[TruXta]

Not really listened to the third one. I thought heart shaped box sounded like a muddy mess and gave it a miss.
The first one has some great songs but the production is shite and there is no power in the drums. I remember dismissing it as heavy metal when I first heard it.

It is a bit metal the first one. The third is great, sounds much better than the previous two. Especially the drums.