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  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,327
    F Me In The Brain said:
    brianlux said:
    This autobiography is going to rank up there with one of the best music bios I've come across.  Really, really good!
    See a Little Light The Trail of Rage and Melody Mould Bob 9781573449700 Amazoncom Books


    @Wobbie      Did you read?  I know old Mould is one of your boners.


    I did read. the gay sex was a little graphic. :tired_face::lol:
    If I had known then what I know now...

    Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
    VIC 07
    EV LA1 08
    Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
    Columbus 10
    EV LA 11
    Vancouver 11
    Missoula 12
    Portland 13, Spokane 13
    St. Paul 14, Denver 14
    Philly I & II, 16
    Denver 22
    Missoula 24
  • a5pj
    a5pj Hershey PA Posts: 3,976
    Just finished Welcome to the Monkey House, going to start God Bless you Mr. Rosewater soon. :)
    Wouldn't it be funny if the world ended in 2010, with lots of fire?



  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,831
    F Me In The Brain said:
    On book 4, Age of Legend.
    Michael Sullivan.
    Very good series - the first three were page turners.
    2 more after this one....I like when the series is already done and you can binge read it 
    Waiting a year or two between books and forgetting so many plot points kinda sucks.
    This series would make a killer show.


    Age of Death
    and then the last one....
    Age of Empyre


    The back half was not quite as good as the first, although it might make for better television adaptation.  Good series, glad I read.

    The love he receives is the love that is saved
  • static111
    static111 Posts: 5,110
    The Age of American Unreason In a Culture of Lies : Susan Jacoby
    Women, Race & Class : Angela Davis
    The Lightning Thief: Rick Riordan (with my daughter)
    Scio me nihil scire

    There are no kings inside the gates of eden
  • Hobbes
    Hobbes Pacific Northwest Posts: 6,438
    Folks over on Twitter are giving NYT Books the business for this inaccurate story. Many creative responses giving the proper credit to Mary Shelley, but I think this was one of my favorites...


  • OffSheGoes35
    OffSheGoes35 Posts: 3,517
    Hobbes said:
    Folks over on Twitter are giving NYT Books the business for this inaccurate story. Many creative responses giving the proper credit to Mary Shelley, but I think this was one of my favorites...


    This is a fine example of how awesome you are, Hobbes. I bow in gratitude. :bow:
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,831
    Awesome!
    The love he receives is the love that is saved
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    edited November 2021
    Just started this one, one of those books that somehow got lost in the shelves among other music books and forgotten about.  How could it be?!  I met Bill Minor in the summer of '85 at a writing workshop.  He's an amazing jazz/poet soul well deserving of the description "cool".  Looking forward to this long-overdue read!
    Unzipped Souls: A Jazz Journey Through the Soviet Union, William Minor 

    Unzipped Souls A Jazz Journey Through the Soviet Union by William Minor

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • RiotZact
    RiotZact Posts: 6,293
    First read Dune about a year ago in anticipation of the Denis Villeneuve film. He is my favorite working director. Really loved the book, and seeing the film made me really want to read it again, as well as the other 5 Frank Herbert sequels. Which I hear get progressively weirder as they go on. 

    Anyone have any experience past the first novel?


  • a5pj
    a5pj Hershey PA Posts: 3,976
    RiotZact said:
    First read Dune about a year ago in anticipation of the Denis Villeneuve film. He is my favorite working director. Really loved the book, and seeing the film made me really want to read it again, as well as the other 5 Frank Herbert sequels. Which I hear get progressively weirder as they go on. 

    Anyone have any experience past the first novel?


    5 Sequels?!?! I have not read, or even knew that there were, any of em. If you plan on taking the dive let me know how they are. Dune was great.
    Wouldn't it be funny if the world ended in 2010, with lots of fire?



  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,831
    I read some way back when, can't remember where I left off.  I liked them but must have tailed off or I would likely have finished.
    The love he receives is the love that is saved
  • RiotZact
    RiotZact Posts: 6,293
    There’s actually a ton of sequels, but only the first 6 books are by Frank Herbert. His son and some other guy took over after that and milk the franchise for everything it’s worth. Most fans of the Frank Herbert books hate anything beyond the first 6.
  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    Looking a little ragged these days.


    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • GlowGirl
    GlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 12,124
    dankind said:
    Just finished this one, which was beyond brilliant!



    I’ll start this one tomorrow. 



    Her voice really resonates with me. 
    I just bought Normal People today. I am looking forward to starting it.
  • Malroth
    Malroth broken down chevrolet Posts: 2,557

    only a few pages in on a very short book,
    but haunting, to put it mildly.

    See the source image
    The worst of times..they don't phase me,
    even if I look and act really crazy.
  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856


    I’m about to start this one. I am a big fan of Stephenson’s work but it isn’t always easy reading. I’m looking forward to diving in!
    my small self... like a book amongst the many on a shelf
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Last night, I started reading Malcolm Margolin's The Ohlone Way.  The writing is beautiful and, having grown up in the Bay Area, this is an overdue read for me and one I'm certain to appreciate.  The first chapter, which describes the land, animal life, and climate of this area as it was 200 years ago, was very disturbing to me to read.  The vast abundance of wildlife that existed then ("To the Ohlone, the grizzly bear must have been omnipresent, yet today there is not a single wild grizzly bear left in all of California") which is now gone,  the behavior of animals so totally changed ("Foxes, which are now very secretive, were virtually underfoot"), the climate that was moist, now turned semi-arid... all of this changed in a mere 200 years.  This is hugely unsettling.
    But I will look forward to settling into this one and perhaps, as Margolin suggests in the Introduction:
    "If we look long enough, if we dwell on their joy, fear, and reverence, we may in the end catch glimpses of almost forgotten aspects of our own selves."

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    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841

    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • xavier mcdaniel
    xavier mcdaniel Somewhere in NYC Posts: 9,442
    the book on the history of Big East conference basketball
    Reading 2004
    Albany 2006 Camden 2006 E. Rutherford 2, 2006 Inglewood 2006,
    Chicago 2007
    Camden 2008 MSG 2008 MSG 2008 Hartford 2008.
    Seattle 2009 Seattle 2009 Philadelphia 2009,Philadelphia 2009 Philadelphia 2009
    Hartford 2010 MSG 2010 MSG 2010
    Toronto 2011,Toronto 2011
    Wrigley Field 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Philadelphia 2, 2013
    Philadelphia 1, 2016 Philadelphia 2 2016 New York 2016 New York 2016 Fenway 1, 2016
    Fenway 2, 2018
    MSG 2022
    St. Paul, 1, St. Paul 2 2023
    MSG 2024, MSG 2024
    Philadelphia 2024
    "I play good, hard-nosed basketball.
    Things happen in the game. Nothing you
    can do. I don't go and say,
    "I'm gonna beat this guy up."
  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 29,975
    Finished this one last night

    Athens 2006 / Milton Keynes 2014 / London 1&2 2022 / Seattle 1&2 2024 / Dublin 2024 / Manchester 2024 / New Orleans 2025

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