MartyJazz Posted July 21, 2008 Report Posted July 21, 2008 Susan Jacoby: The Age of American Unreason Nice review here: http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/02/15/susan_jacoby/ Quote
poetrylover3 Posted July 27, 2008 Report Posted July 27, 2008 Boom! Tom Brokaw. Nice review of 60s politics and culture with interviews with survivors. Cinnamon Kiss. Walter Mosley is in a class of his own, with a sharp and distinctive prose voice that is a pleasure to the eyes and ears. Easy Rawlins is one of my favorite fictional "detectives", side by side with Phillip Marlowe. Quote
jazzbo Posted July 27, 2008 Report Posted July 27, 2008 Started on a huge undertaking: reading all volumes of Thomas Mann's "Joseph in Egypt" books in the new translation by John Woods. Only 1600 pages or so. . . . Quote
Swinger Posted July 27, 2008 Report Posted July 27, 2008 J G Ballard, Concrete Island Excellent choice! J.G. Ballard has never written a bad novel. Quote
BillF Posted July 27, 2008 Report Posted July 27, 2008 J G Ballard, Concrete Island Excellent choice! J.G. Ballard has never written a bad novel. Yes, I seem to be having a very good run at the moment. Read High Rise recently and will soon be moving on to Crash. Quote
paul secor Posted August 10, 2008 Report Posted August 10, 2008 (edited) several Flannery O'Connor stories Edited August 10, 2008 by paul secor Quote
jazzbo Posted August 10, 2008 Report Posted August 10, 2008 Finished "Tales of Jacob" and started "Young Joseph" (both Thomas Mann). The new translation is very good indeed and welcome. Quote
BruceH Posted August 30, 2008 Report Posted August 30, 2008 Manny Farber---Negative Space (read it before, years ago) Quote
jazzbo Posted August 31, 2008 Report Posted August 31, 2008 Started on a huge undertaking: reading all volumes of Thomas Mann's "Joseph in Egypt" books in the new translation by John Woods. Only 1600 pages or so. . . . Well, I'm still reading this a month later. . .but I only have 300 pages to go! I'm into "Joseph the Provider." Fascinating stuff, nice translation. Quote
jlhoots Posted August 31, 2008 Report Posted August 31, 2008 (edited) Linda Hogan: People Of The Whale Edited August 31, 2008 by jlhoots Quote
Jazzmoose Posted September 5, 2008 Report Posted September 5, 2008 several Flannery O'Connor stories Always good stuff! I've gotten on my occasional James M. Cain jag this week. Yesterday was Double Indemnity, today was The Postman Always Rings Twice. Probably go with Mildred Pierce tomorrow, Love's Lovely Counterfeit on Saturday and then Serenade on Sunday. It usually runs down about there, but we'll see... Can't take The Butterfly anymore; gives me Pia Zadora nightmares! Quote
jazzbo Posted September 5, 2008 Report Posted September 5, 2008 "Norstrillia," Cordwainer Smith (for maybe the fourth time?) Quote
A Lark Ascending Posted September 5, 2008 Report Posted September 5, 2008 (edited) Wonderful...can we have more women writing military history, please. Doesn't get bogged down in units, divisions and the minutiae of weaponry. Instead, tells a fantastic narrative tale with social history woven in along the way. I ended it with a sense of Henry V as a real, modern person making decisions like rulers today have to make. Popular history at its best. Edited September 5, 2008 by Bev Stapleton Quote
BruceH Posted September 5, 2008 Report Posted September 5, 2008 "Norstrillia," Cordwainer Smith (for maybe the fourth time?) PKD and Cordwainer Smith...do you dig Olaf Stapledon too? Quote
jazzbo Posted September 5, 2008 Report Posted September 5, 2008 Yes. . . haven't read him in a long time. . . but yes. Quote
bruce talbot Posted September 5, 2008 Report Posted September 5, 2008 just starting on DFW's 'Infinite Jest' now that it's had a good few years to develop/mature/whatever. So far some pretty funny stuff mixed in with much more information than I need about tennis. Quote
Joe Posted September 5, 2008 Report Posted September 5, 2008 Julian Jaynes' THE ORIGIN OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE BREAKDOWN OF THE BICAMERAL MIND Philip Ball's UNIVERSE OF STONE: A BIOGRAPHY OF CHARTRES CATHEDRAL Quote
AllenLowe Posted September 5, 2008 Report Posted September 5, 2008 the Bible - oh, sorry, for a minute I thought I was Sarah Palin - Quote
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