Big Deal Posted November 1, 2005 Report Posted November 1, 2005 What Went wrong? The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East Bernard Lewis Just started, but pretty good so far. Quote
Swinger Posted November 1, 2005 Report Posted November 1, 2005 Michael Cunningham: A home at the end of the World Great book. Quote
B. Goren. Posted November 1, 2005 Report Posted November 1, 2005 (edited) Just finished this one: One the best I've recently read. Edited November 1, 2005 by B. Goren. Quote
Harold_Z Posted November 1, 2005 Report Posted November 1, 2005 Just finished this one: One the best I've recently read. ← Agreed. I've been recommending this book to many of my friends. Quote
ghost of miles Posted November 2, 2005 Author Report Posted November 2, 2005 (edited) Woke up in the middle of the night last night and enjoyed a good chunk of THE ESSENTIAL MERTON: Edited November 2, 2005 by ghost of miles Quote
ghost of miles Posted November 4, 2005 Author Report Posted November 4, 2005 Antony Beevor, THE FALL OF BERLIN 1945. Same author as STALINGRAD, and a story nearly as brutal. Quote
BruceH Posted November 5, 2005 Report Posted November 5, 2005 Judas Unchained, by Peter Hamilton. Quote
Brad Posted November 6, 2005 Report Posted November 6, 2005 Going to get Team of Rivals, the new Lincoln history from Doris Kearns Goodwin and reading Alan Moorehead's book on the North African conflict during WW 2. Quote
jlhoots Posted November 6, 2005 Report Posted November 6, 2005 Demetria Martinez: Confessions Of A Berlitz Tape Chicana Quote
ghost of miles Posted November 7, 2005 Author Report Posted November 7, 2005 James Ellroy - The Black Dahlia ← If you like that one, try THE BIG NOWHERE as well. Quote
ghost of miles Posted November 8, 2005 Author Report Posted November 8, 2005 Veronica by Mary Gaitskill ← How is it? I'm a big Gaitskill fan and have been waiting years for a new book... but haven't had the $$ to pony up for it yet. Will probably end up on my b-day list. Quote
ValerieB Posted November 8, 2005 Report Posted November 8, 2005 "Between You and Me," Mike Wallace's second memoir. Just started it but I think it will prove to be a brief but fascinating read. What a life he's lived! Met him last night at an interview/book-signing in Beverly Hills. We actually share a hometown (Brookline, MA) which he mentioned when he signed the book. He looks incredible and nowhere near his 87 years! Quote
BruceH Posted November 8, 2005 Report Posted November 8, 2005 87!!!!! Holy Christ! I once lived in Brookline, MA, and considered it my adopted hometown. Great place---maybe I should read the book just for that reason. (Just kidding; there are plenty of other reasons to read it. I saw him the other night on the Daily Show, where he kept emphasizing the CD that comes with the book.) Quote
billyboy Posted November 9, 2005 Report Posted November 9, 2005 Veronica by Mary Gaitskill ← How is it? I'm a big Gaitskill fan and have been waiting years for a new book... but haven't had the $$ to pony up for it yet. Will probably end up on my b-day list. ← I'm about halfway through, and while it's a pretty depressing story, the writing is great, and frequently funny. I will stop and reread a sentence just because it's such a great sentence. I got it from the library.. no $$ to pony up! Next up... The Truth (with Jokes) by Al Franken Quote
frank m Posted November 9, 2005 Report Posted November 9, 2005 Just reread Fitzgerald's "Tender is the Night". I'd read it back when I was in college. I mention it here only because of my astonishment at how much I had forgotten about it. Very sad book. Quote
Matthew Posted November 13, 2005 Report Posted November 13, 2005 The Concord Saunterer: Special Walden Sesquincentennial Issue: Walden the Place and Walden the Book. A wonderful collection of essays published by The Thoreau Society to mark the 150th anniversary of Walden. It's amazing to read the continuing impact of this book in today's world. Quote
alankin Posted November 14, 2005 Report Posted November 14, 2005 Frank King – Walt and Skeezix: Book One (Drawn and Quarterly) Quote
paul secor Posted November 20, 2005 Report Posted November 20, 2005 W.P. Kinsella: The Secret of the Northern Lights - Silas Ermineskin stories Quote
ghost of miles Posted November 21, 2005 Author Report Posted November 21, 2005 Just reread Fitzgerald's "Tender is the Night". I'd read it back when I was in college. I mention it here only because of my astonishment at how much I had forgotten about it. Very sad book. ← I re-read GATSBY several weeks ago... generally re-read that one every couple of years or so. Also re-read some essays from THE CRACK-UP. Just finished LIVIN' IN A GREAT BIG WAY, the new bio of Tommy Dorsey. Quote
jlhoots Posted November 21, 2005 Report Posted November 21, 2005 Cormac McCarthy: No Country For Old Men Quote
Matthew Posted November 30, 2005 Report Posted November 30, 2005 I’ve just finished reading Walter Harding’s The Days of Henry Thoreau, and it is a great biography, it shows Thoreau in all his complexity. It also reminded me what a social person Thoreau was in his lifetime, how devoted his friends were to him, especially in his final illness. Interesting section on Thoreau’s relationship with John Brown, and his reaction to Brown’s execution – Thoreau burned with indignation and wrote some of his most powerful essays in response. My favorite new quote from Thoreau is his response to James Russell Lowell taking out this sentence from Thoreau’s essay in the Atlantic Monthly: “It [a pine tree] is as immortal as I am, and perchance will go to as high a heaven, there to tower above me still.” Thoreau wrote to Russell a letter, in which this sentence appears: I could excuse a man who was afraid of an uplifted fist, but if one habitually manifests fear at the utterance of a sincere thought, I must think that his life is a kind of nightmare continued into broad daylight. Ouch! On to Thoreau’s journals now. Quote
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