Bluesnik Posted August 11, 2017 Report Share Posted August 11, 2017 Penguin by design by Phil Baines. Published in 2005 at its 70 birthday, this is a narration of the story of this imprint's design lead life, being one of the first in concentrating on paperbacks. It has taken me more than ten years to read this but its worth every bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ejp626 Posted August 12, 2017 Report Share Posted August 12, 2017 Just wrapped up The Sound and the Fury. Even though I read it before and knew broadly what happened, it was a challenge. While Benjy's thoughts are completely jumbled, Quentin's (in the 2nd section) jump around nearly as much. It is only the second half where there is a more linear narrative. Also Camara Laye's The Radiance of the King, which in many ways is an African-version of Kafka's The Castle. Oddly one review claims that The Radiance of the King starts off with an epigraph from Kafka, though certainly not in my edition (Vintage). If I can borrow it from the library I'll try to get the NYRB edition to check out Toni Morrison's introduction. Gide's The Vatican Cellars next and then Fontane. I have to decide whether to go with the NYRB translation of Irretrievable or No Way Back (on Penguin).  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted August 16, 2017 Report Share Posted August 16, 2017 Steve Hamilton: Exit Strategy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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paul secor Posted August 19, 2017 Report Share Posted August 19, 2017 Michael Gray: Hand Me Down My Travelin' Shoes: In Search of Blind Willie McTell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejp626 Posted August 19, 2017 Report Share Posted August 19, 2017 Slight detour into Bowles's The Sheltering Sky. Many, many years ago I got a few chapters in and set it aside for some reason. I should wrap it up this afternoon and then Gide's The Vatican Cellars. Probably Lucky Jim after that. Hard to believe, but I never got around to this one before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted August 19, 2017 Report Share Posted August 19, 2017 3 hours ago, ejp626 said: Slight detour into Bowles's The Sheltering Sky. Many, many years ago I got a few chapters in and set it aside for some reason. I should wrap it up this afternoon and then Gide's The Vatican Cellars. Probably Lucky Jim after that. Hard to believe, but I never got around to this one before. Lucky Jim! One of the very few books that's made me laugh out loud. Don't know if I would today, though, or whether 1950's humor still works. You'll let me know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejp626 Posted August 19, 2017 Report Share Posted August 19, 2017 4 hours ago, BillF said: Lucky Jim! One of the very few books that's made me laugh out loud. Don't know if I would today, though, or whether 1950's humor still works. You'll let me know. Humor dates quickly, that's for sure. I found J.P. Donleavy unbearable. I have somewhat higher hopes for Amis. Thinking back, I did find Murdoch's Under the Net quite amusing. I think I am slightly more in tune with her, but not with Muriel Spark, whose work I just don't enjoy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted August 19, 2017 Report Share Posted August 19, 2017 Daniel Silva: House Of Spies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alankin Posted August 19, 2017 Report Share Posted August 19, 2017 20 hours ago, T.D. said: Â How was this one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HutchFan Posted August 19, 2017 Report Share Posted August 19, 2017 Just finished this: Jazz Lives: Portraits in Words and Pictures by Michael Ullman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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T.D. Posted August 23, 2017 Report Share Posted August 23, 2017 (edited) On 8/19/2017 at 1:42 PM, alankin said: How was this one? Sorry for the delay. It's pretty good. I've read a lot of science bios and "popular science" books (incl. Von Neumann and Turing bios, various works touching on the Institute for Advanced Study [IAS], Los Alamos, Teller, the ENIAC, etc) , so much of the material was not new to me. But the weaving in of the IAS and hardware/software development was new and interesting. There's also lots of good info on significant figures who have been neglected in many historical accounts, for instance Nicholas Metropolis, who decades ago co-authored the "Metropolis-Hastings algorithm" now practically ubiquitous in Bayesian statistics as "Markov Chain Monte Carlo". Worthwhile reading IMO. [Added: Also, I've long been an admirer of Freeman Dyson, so found it pretty cool to read a book authored by his son.] Edited August 23, 2017 by T.D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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alankin Posted August 24, 2017 Report Share Posted August 24, 2017 12 hours ago, T.D. said: Sorry for the delay. It's pretty good. I've read a lot of science bios and "popular science" books (incl. Von Neumann and Turing bios, various works touching on the Institute for Advanced Study [IAS], Los Alamos, Teller, the ENIAC, etc) , so much of the material was not new to me. But the weaving in of the IAS and hardware/software development was new and interesting. There's also lots of good info on significant figures who have been neglected in many historical accounts, for instance Nicholas Metropolis, who decades ago co-authored the "Metropolis-Hastings algorithm" now practically ubiquitous in Bayesian statistics as "Markov Chain Monte Carlo". Worthwhile reading IMO. [Added: Also, I've long been an admirer of Freeman Dyson, so found it pretty cool to read a book authored by his son.] Sound interesting.  I will have to put this on my to-read list.  Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Tapscott Posted August 24, 2017 Report Share Posted August 24, 2017 Fascinating story. Well worth the read. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted August 24, 2017 Report Share Posted August 24, 2017 1 hour ago, John Tapscott said: Fascinating story. Well worth the read. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinuta Posted August 26, 2017 Report Share Posted August 26, 2017 Â I read these classic Asimov's in random order donkey's years ago . Rereading them in the correct chronological order is highly enjoyable and oddly compulsive. Amazingly they are all out of print here so I'm reading Kindle versions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted August 27, 2017 Report Share Posted August 27, 2017 (edited) The book shows how the extraordinarily long career of Jimmy Heath mirrors the development of jazz from a disreputable ethnic subculture involving drug abuse and prison sentences to academically esteemed subject studied by the flower of white youth and lauded by the highest in the land (White House visits, etc.) Personally very interesting as I've been listening to the music for sixty years myself. Edited August 27, 2017 by BillF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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