paul secor Posted July 4, 2004 Report Posted July 4, 2004 Rebecca Rischin: For the End of Time - The Story of the Messiaen Quartet Quote
ghost of miles Posted July 5, 2004 Author Report Posted July 5, 2004 Joan Didion's SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM and Geoffrey Butcher's NEXT TO A LETTER FROM HOME: MAJOR GLENN MILLER'S WARTIME BAND. Quote
ejp626 Posted July 7, 2004 Report Posted July 7, 2004 I just finished Chinese Takeout by Arthur Nersesian, which is a novel about struggling artists trying to make it in Manhattan/Brooklyn in 1999/2000. It was pretty entertaining. Quote
Chrome Posted July 7, 2004 Report Posted July 7, 2004 I'm a big PKD fan, but I read a pretty terrible review of this ... would love to hear what you think. As for me, I just started "The Magic Mountain" by Thomas Mann. Quote
jazzbo Posted July 7, 2004 Report Posted July 7, 2004 I'm about half way through this book. If you're a PKD fan it's a fun book: it's sort of an odd novel showing slices of the day to day of PKD over the years, totally imaginary. I do think that his imagined bits of PKD reality seem pretty on target to how I MYSELF imagine PKD might have thought and felt and said and did. . . . And it's fun to read and analyze and wonder. . . I think PKD would have liked this one! Quote
Chrome Posted July 7, 2004 Report Posted July 7, 2004 Jazzbo: Have you read "The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick"? It's a collection of his essays and miscellaneous "stuff" that was pretty interesting. It was my first glimpse of what Dick had to say about his own writing, especially his "Exegesis." He was one far-out kinda guy. Quote
jazzbo Posted July 7, 2004 Report Posted July 7, 2004 Yes, I think I've read everything of his save the books of letters (haven't justified the expenditure yet---they are EXPENSIVE!) and his lone children's book, and nearly every book written about him. . . . I've been reading Dick since I found a copy of "The Zap Gun" in Gianopolis' book store in Addis Ababa in 1967! Quote
7/4 Posted July 9, 2004 Report Posted July 9, 2004 Yes, I think I've read everything of his save the books of letters (haven't justified the expenditure yet---they are EXPENSIVE!) and his lone children's book, and nearly every book written about him. . . . I've been reading Dick since I found a copy of "The Zap Gun" in Gianopolis' book store in Addis Ababa in 1967! He wrote a children's book??? I wonder what it's like... Quote
jazzbo Posted July 9, 2004 Report Posted July 9, 2004 Nick and the Glimmung (written 1966, published 1988) Haven't read it. You know it has to be . . . odd. Quote
Jazzmoose Posted July 9, 2004 Report Posted July 9, 2004 Thanks for asking, 7/4; for some reason I was afraid to... Quote
paul secor Posted July 10, 2004 Report Posted July 10, 2004 Dow Mossman - The Stones of Summer Any impressions you'd care to share? I saw the film about the search for the author - an entertaining watch. I felt that the filmmaker could have found Dow Mossman without going to all of the trouble he went to - but then he wouldn't have had a film. For all of the publicity the book has gotten, I can't recall seeing a review. Quote
Brad Posted July 10, 2004 Report Posted July 10, 2004 (edited) Following my trip to France and Normandy, I'm now reading Max Hasting's Book Overlord, recommended for history buffs. Edited July 10, 2004 by Brad Quote
ghost of miles Posted July 12, 2004 Author Report Posted July 12, 2004 Re-reading David Halberstam's SUMMER OF '49, a wonderful baseball book about the Yankees-Red Sox pennant race that year. Quote
jazzbo Posted July 12, 2004 Report Posted July 12, 2004 "I am Alive and You are Dead" was a nice fun read for a Phil Dick fan. Now rereading "Roots of War" by Richard J. Barnet. A very timely book when it was published nearly thirty years ago and today. . . . Quote
Jazzmoose Posted July 12, 2004 Report Posted July 12, 2004 Ack! I'm on a junk kick...made serious headway on getting the garage under control, but in the process found my boxes of SF paperbacks and such. So, I'm reliving my younger days. At the moment, it's Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat books, alternating with short stories by William Tenn. Quote
undergroundagent Posted July 12, 2004 Report Posted July 12, 2004 I just finished a couple Dan Brown novels: "Da Vinci Code" "Angels & Demons" Great stuff!!! Long live Robert Langdon! Quote
7/4 Posted July 13, 2004 Report Posted July 13, 2004 "Da Vinci Code" I read that a few weeks ago, a real page turner. I really enjoyed it. Quote
undergroundagent Posted July 13, 2004 Report Posted July 13, 2004 Check out the other one then!!! It precedes "Da Vinci Code," and is what Langdon refers to in the beginning of the novel. Quote
BruceH Posted July 13, 2004 Report Posted July 13, 2004 Ack! I'm on a junk kick...made serious headway on getting the garage under control, but in the process found my boxes of SF paperbacks and such. So, I'm reliving my younger days. At the moment, it's Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat books, alternating with short stories by William Tenn. William Tenn rules! "The Liberation of Earth" "Venus and the Seven Sexes" "Down Among the Dead Men" Oh yeah. Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted July 13, 2004 Report Posted July 13, 2004 Trying to figure out the friggin' grid on the local tv guide. Get real folks. Quote
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