*What book are you reading? (part 2)

[Orang Utan]

The interviews he's done for this have been hilarious. The only music I've ever heard of his is World Shut Your Mouth but I am tempted to get a big torrent or spotify the fuck out of him.
His krautrock and Japanese rock music books seem worth tracking down.
Not really interested in monoliths but there is an ace YouTube clip of him mooching around them dressed as a Daniel Poole psytrance casualty talking to other monolith enthusiasts that is well lolsome

 

[belboid]

Fried & Peggy Suicide are, imo, the essential albums. Combining the acid campfire folk and krautrock influenced genius. Wonderful stuff.

Krautrocksampler is hard to get hold of, goes for a lot of money. I think I've got a pdf I can send you. What you need, need, need, to read is Head On, his first volume of autobiography. It's utterly hilarious and insightful, considered on of the best rock autobiogs even by peaople who aren't fans.

 

[ringo]

The interviews he's done for this have been hilarious. The only music I've ever heard of his is World Shut Your Mouth but I am tempted to get a big torrent or spotify the fuck out of him.
His krautrock and Japanese rock music books seem worth tracking down.
Not really interested in monoliths but there is an ace YouTube clip of him mooching around them dressed as a Daniel Poole psytrance casualty talking to other monolith enthusiasts that is well lolsome

The Guardian interview at the weekend was priceless, but if his books are as woefully crackers as his attempts at antiquarianism they're best avoided.

 

[ringo]

What you need, need, need, to read is Head On, his first volume of autobiography. It's utterly hilarious and insightful, considered on of the best rock autobiogs even by peaople who aren't fans.

I'm tempted by this though

 

[weltweit]

Just finished:
Sunstorm, A Time Oddyssey: Book 2 Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter

If you like sci-fi I think you would enjoy it. My second Clarke book, he likes I think to get the science right which I don't always think is necessary and in the second half of the book I thought the science overcame the plot in a couple of chapters. But still, I enjoyed it and will look out for more Arthur C. Clarke stuff now.

 

[sojourner]

I've just been given a copy of George Ingle's Trouble At T'Mill: The 1826 Yorkshire Weavers' Riots.
I wasn't going to read it but it actually looks well written and worth reading!

Hey Orang Utan - have you finished this? Would you mind if I borrowed it, please? Our library doesn't have a copy. Cheers ears.

I started and finished Alice Walker's 'Possessing the Secret of Joy' last night. I've had this so long, and I think I started it, but couldn't continue at the time cos it's such a harrowing read. It is an outstanding book, incredibly well written and structured, with such important stuff to say.

 

[DotCommunist]

Just finished:
Sunstorm, A Time Oddyssey: Book 2 Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter

If you like sci-fi I think you would enjoy it. My second Clarke book, he likes I think to get the science right which I don't always think is necessary and in the second half of the book I thought the science overcame the plot in a couple of chapters. But still, I enjoyed it and will look out for more Arthur C. Clarke stuff now.

You need to read 2001. Its literally one of the sci fi canon, a great read. Clarke is very much from the old school hard science tradition of Asimov and...himself. There were also rans of that era...

it is hard science but with enough of the fantastic in it. Scientifically plausible sci fi isn't enough for my jaded pallate anymore, I need jain nodes and knife missiles. And women characters that are more than 2-d chuavanist caricatures.

You must have seen the Kubrik classic 2001 film?

 

[weltweit]

You need to read 2001. Its literally one of the sci fi canon, a great read. Clarke is very much from the old school hard science tradition of Asimov and...himself. There were also rans of that era...

it is hard science but with enough of the fantastic in it. Scientifically plausible sci fi isn't enough for my jaded pallate anymore, I need jain nodes and knife missiles. And women characters that are more than 2-d chuavanist caricatures.

You must have seen the Kubrik classic 2001 film?

Never saw 2001, at least I don't recall seeing it.
As to knife missiles, I am running out of culture books to read atm...
have pretty much exhausted all in my library.

 

[Greebo]

Napisz do mnie - Daniel Glattauer (trans. Anna Wziątek from "Gut Gegen Nordwind") which I'll finish by the end of summer if it kills me. Having read it in the original, how hard can it be?

 

[dynamicbaddog]

I have nearly finished 'Last Night in Twisted River' by John Irving. I like the story and find the characters engaging, but he does ramble on and I think this would have been a better novel if it was about a few hundred pages shorter.

 

[weltweit]

What it Was, George Pelecanos

Quite a quick read, DC crime thriller, short chapters, easy to get into, lots of rayon shirts and bell bottoms!

 

[MamaBarbara]

Pippi Longstocking! Loving this book

 

[DotCommunist]

Never saw 2001, at least I don't recall seeing it.
As to knife missiles, I am running out of culture books to read atm...
have pretty much exhausted all in my library.

oh you should rectify this. Epic source material made into film by Stanley fucking Kubrik!

best seen on a big tele because its a very visual film iyswim.

 

[weltweit]

oh you should rectify this. Epic source material made into film by Stanley fucking Kubrik!

best seen on a big tele because its a very visual film iyswim.

Will check my library again to see if they have 2001, it wasn't in last time I looked.

eta: just reserved a copy ...

 

[starfish]

A Departure by Tom Ward. I seem to be on an apocalyptic story streak at the moment. Its better written than the last book i read & chapter 3 nearly had me in tears on the train home today.

 

[Voley]

Just finished Ray Mears autobiography which, by and large, is just like watching one of his programmes. Very enjoyable. He shows a steelier side occasionally which surprised me as his programmes are normally so gentle. There's a bit where he describes fronting it out with a bloke with a machete in Africa and a chapter where he describes psyching himself up to track Raoul Moat which is written like a soldier going into battle. By contrast there's a beautiful chapter about a canoe trip in Canada that made me pine to hit the trail on my own with nothing but the clothes on my back, a backpack and a decent pair of boots. His defence of the monarchy on the basis he likes the Duke of Edinburgh Award was shite, mind, but you can't have everything. Recommended.

 

[jeff_leigh]

Last Argument of Kings - Joe Abercrombie 3rd in the Trilogy

 

[weltweit]

Eye in the Sky, Philip K. Dick

1/2 way through

eta: just finished it, as sci-fi goes, the style is new to me, but it reads like an easy thriller. I think he ran out of plot a bit at the end, but I will probably look out for others by Philip K. Dick ..

 

[sojourner]

Just finished Ray Mears autobiography which, by and large, is just like watching one of his programmes. Very enjoyable. He shows a steelier side occasionally which surprised me as his programmes are normally so gentle. There's a bit where he describes fronting it out with a bloke with a machete in Africa and a chapter where he describes psyching himself up to track Raoul Moat which is written like a soldier going into battle. By contrast there's a beautiful chapter about a canoe trip in Canada that made me pine to hit the trail on my own with nothing but the clothes on my back, a backpack and a decent pair of boots. His defence of the monarchy on the basis he likes the Duke of Edinburgh Award was shite, mind, but you can't have everything. Recommended.

Cheers Voley! Didn't even know he had one out, AND the library's got a copy so will order that

 

[maya]

but I will probably look out for others by Philip K. Dick ..

Ubik, The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch, A Scanner Darkly, Valis and the short story collection Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick comes highly recommended...

 

[ringo]

Beloved - Toni Morrison. Bloody hell, heart rending. I'll get my girls to read it one day, but not until they're a fair bit older. Mid teens I guess.

 

[Dillinger4]

A few books I have read recently:

Nadja by Andre Breton
The Making of the English Working Class by EP Thompson (started, I don't expect to finish it this year)
The French Revolution by Christopher Hibbert (I am going to follow this with Lefebvre)
Guy Debord by Anselm Jappe
The Secret Worlds of Stephen Ward: Sex, Scandal and Deadly Secrets in the Profumo Affair by Stephen Dorrill and Anthony Summers
Total Chaos by Jean Claude Izzo

Next I am going to read the biography of Oswald Mosley by Stephen Dorrill, Whitehall by Peter Henessy. I am also planning to reread some JG Ballard, and maybe The French Intifada: The Long War Between France and its Arabs by Andrew Hussey. Might wait until that comes out in paperback.

 

[sojourner]

Currently re-reading In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. Thought it was great first time I read it, but he dunt half witter on dunt he? Way too much tiny detail. Am only reading it cos waiting for a couple of books to come into the library.

 

[weltweit]

Firstborn, A Time Oddyssey: Book 3 Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter

Just finished this, I had read book 2 "Sunstorm" before this one, I wonder if there is a book 4? ... I enjoyed it I like the style of these and enjoyed the new sci-fi ideas (new to me I mean) ..

 

[jeff_leigh]

Currently re-reading In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. Thought it was great first time I read it, but he dunt half witter on dunt he? Way too much tiny detail. Am only reading it cos waiting for a couple of books to come into the library.

If you don't like tiny details stay away from Thomas Mann, Although Death in Venice is a good read but that was a novella ( probably not long enough for him to get into his stride )

 

[articul8]

Reading F Scott Fitzgerald's "Tender is the Night" - finding it a bit hard work really. Posh people being annoying, drinking a lot and having emotional difficulties I'm struggling to care less about.

 

[Orang Utan]

Care more, surely?

 

[MrSki]

This is not a Love Song by Karen Duve.

Read the first 200 pages in one day but it took me a week to plough through the last 50!

Not really my cup of tea but it wa okay at the beginning.

Mostly about self image & weight loss. There are better books to read than this.

 

[weltweit]

Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

Just finished this. I have been reading a lot of sci-fi recently and perhaps for this reason although I enjoyed it, it wasn't totally ground breaking for me. I did enjoy it, but somehow it wasn't as thought provoking as for example 1984 was way back when I read that.

 

[sojourner]

Just finished Ray Mears autobiography

Started this last night and am halfway through. He made me laugh proper when he talked about tracking people, then he'd find them, and they never knew he was there!

Wow - his obsession with bushcraft goes so much deeper than I thought! It's ace reading. The machete story!! I really fancy reading Ffyona Campbell's book now. It's not in the library though

Cheers Voley