What book are you reading?

smarchee · June 2015

dankind said:

smarchee said:

Ministry is a memoir both ugly and captivating, revealing Al Jourgensen as a man who lived a hard life his own way without making compromises. He survived prolonged drug addiction—twenty-two years of chronic heroin, cocaine, and alcohol abuse, to be more precise—before cleaning up, straightening out, and finding new reasons to live.
Scariest, bloodiest pit I've ever seen, and I've been to several Slayer (and other thrash metal/hardcore) shows.

Is there a chapter on Lard? Any good stuff on my former neighbor Gibby Haynes?

there is stuff about Lard and there is lots of stories about Gibby Haynes, holy fuck, blown away with that book, definitely worth a read

dankind · June 2015

smarchee said:

dankind said:

smarchee said:

Ministry is a memoir both ugly and captivating, revealing Al Jourgensen as a man who lived a hard life his own way without making compromises. He survived prolonged drug addiction—twenty-two years of chronic heroin, cocaine, and alcohol abuse, to be more precise—before cleaning up, straightening out, and finding new reasons to live.
Scariest, bloodiest pit I've ever seen, and I've been to several Slayer (and other thrash metal/hardcore) shows.

Is there a chapter on Lard? Any good stuff on my former neighbor Gibby Haynes?

there is stuff about Lard and there is lots of stories about Gibby Haynes, holy fuck, blown away with that book, definitely worth a read

I stood behind Gibby Haynes in a line for pony rides for our kids at a block party last year. It was surreal, considering the fact that I'd seen the man perform nekkid. Good times then, good times now.

jlaustin · June 2015

Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts. It is quite the tome, only about 200 pages in, but really enjoying it.

Amazon book review:
"It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured."

So begins this epic, mesmerizing first novel set in the underworld of contemporary Bombay. Shantaram is narrated by Lin, an escaped convict with a false passport who flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of a city where he can disappear.

Accompanied by his guide and faithful friend, Prabaker, the two enter Bombay's hidden society of beggars and gangsters, prostitutes and holy men, soldiers and actors, and Indians and exiles from other countries, who seek in this remarkable place what they cannot find elsewhere.

As a hunted man without a home, family, or identity, Lin searches for love and meaning while running a clinic in one of the city's poorest slums, and serving his apprenticeship in the dark arts of the Bombay mafia. The search leads him to war, prison torture, murder, and a series of enigmatic and bloody betrayals. The keys to unlock the mysteries and intrigues that bind Lin are held by two people. The first is Khader Khan: mafia godfather, criminal-philosopher-saint, and mentor to Lin in the underworld of the Golden City. The second is Karla: elusive, dangerous, and beautiful, whose passions are driven by secrets that torment her and yet give her a terrible power.

Burning slums and five-star hotels, romantic love and prison agonies, criminal wars and Bollywood films, spiritual gurus and mujaheddin guerrillas---this huge novel has the world of human experience in its reach, and a passionate love for India at its heart. Based on the life of the author, it is by any measure the debut of an extraordinary voice in literature.

Malroth · June 2015

jlaustin said:
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts. It is quite the tome, only about 200 pages in, but really enjoying it.

Amazon book review:
"It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured."

So begins this epic, mesmerizing first novel set in the underworld of contemporary Bombay. Shantaram is narrated by Lin, an escaped convict with a false passport who flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of a city where he can disappear.

Accompanied by his guide and faithful friend, Prabaker, the two enter Bombay's hidden society of beggars and gangsters, prostitutes and holy men, soldiers and actors, and Indians and exiles from other countries, who seek in this remarkable place what they cannot find elsewhere.

As a hunted man without a home, family, or identity, Lin searches for love and meaning while running a clinic in one of the city's poorest slums, and serving his apprenticeship in the dark arts of the Bombay mafia. The search leads him to war, prison torture, murder, and a series of enigmatic and bloody betrayals. The keys to unlock the mysteries and intrigues that bind Lin are held by two people. The first is Khader Khan: mafia godfather, criminal-philosopher-saint, and mentor to Lin in the underworld of the Golden City. The second is Karla: elusive, dangerous, and beautiful, whose passions are driven by secrets that torment her and yet give her a terrible power.

Burning slums and five-star hotels, romantic love and prison agonies, criminal wars and Bollywood films, spiritual gurus and mujaheddin guerrillas---this huge novel has the world of human experience in its reach, and a passionate love for India at its heart. Based on the life of the author, it is by any measure the debut of an extraordinary voice in literature.

on my list!

MayDay10 · June 2015

Game of Thrones

Malroth · June 2015

MayDay10 said:
Game of Thrones

DOOOON'T!
Okay, read them. They literally reinvented fantasy and made it readable for a 40 yr old man. The fourth book is one of the best books I have ever read. The sixth? well...........

Thirty Bills Unpaid · June 2015

F Me In The Brain said:

23scidoo said:

F Me In The Brain said:

23scidoo said:
The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker
Please let us know what you thought, I am a big fan of Barker's early stuff. (The Great & Secret Show is a book I re-read every year or two; one of my all time favorites...) I am a bit skeptical of this one but if you have a good report I will snap it up!
The Great and Secret show is a great book, but after all this years, Weaveworld is still my fav..
The Scarlet Gospels is sequel to Hellraiser..so you know the motif..i have read about 120 pages so far and this is classic Barker for me..hope i help you..
have you read the Abarat series??
Loved Weaveworld as well but just the awesome/bizzare scope of TG&SS makes it one of my favorites. Have read it 10x at least and every time I find that I forgot some of the crazy details he imagined.
Yes, I will add it to my list, thanks!

No, I did not read Abarat, that was young adult and I prefer his "sick & twisted fuck" stories.

Weaveworld was the first Barker book I read, but not the best.

Have you read, The Damnation Game? Excellent book.

DancedNLaughter · June 2015

One Kick by Chelsea Cain. Very action packed so far . . . .

23scidoo · June 2015

Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

F Me In The Brain said:

23scidoo said:

F Me In The Brain said:

23scidoo said:
The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker
Please let us know what you thought, I am a big fan of Barker's early stuff. (The Great & Secret Show is a book I re-read every year or two; one of my all time favorites...) I am a bit skeptical of this one but if you have a good report I will snap it up!
The Great and Secret show is a great book, but after all this years, Weaveworld is still my fav..
The Scarlet Gospels is sequel to Hellraiser..so you know the motif..i have read about 120 pages so far and this is classic Barker for me..hope i help you..
have you read the Abarat series??
Loved Weaveworld as well but just the awesome/bizzare scope of TG&SS makes it one of my favorites. Have read it 10x at least and every time I find that I forgot some of the crazy details he imagined.
Yes, I will add it to my list, thanks!

No, I did not read Abarat, that was young adult and I prefer his "sick & twisted fuck" stories.
Weaveworld was the first Barker book I read, but not the best.

Have you read, The Damnation Game? Excellent book.

Excellent..how about, Imajica??

F Me In The Brain · June 2015

Imajica & Damnation Game, both of them. Very good books -- Still couldn't touch The Great & Secret Show in my opinion.

Thirty Bills Unpaid · June 2015

23scidoo said:

Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

F Me In The Brain said:

23scidoo said:

F Me In The Brain said:

23scidoo said:
The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker
Please let us know what you thought, I am a big fan of Barker's early stuff. (The Great & Secret Show is a book I re-read every year or two; one of my all time favorites...) I am a bit skeptical of this one but if you have a good report I will snap it up!
The Great and Secret show is a great book, but after all this years, Weaveworld is still my fav..
The Scarlet Gospels is sequel to Hellraiser..so you know the motif..i have read about 120 pages so far and this is classic Barker for me..hope i help you..
have you read the Abarat series??
Loved Weaveworld as well but just the awesome/bizzare scope of TG&SS makes it one of my favorites. Have read it 10x at least and every time I find that I forgot some of the crazy details he imagined.
Yes, I will add it to my list, thanks!

No, I did not read Abarat, that was young adult and I prefer his "sick & twisted fuck" stories.
Weaveworld was the first Barker book I read, but not the best.

Have you read, The Damnation Game? Excellent book.
Excellent..how about, Imajica??

Have not read. You say I should?

Thirty Bills Unpaid · June 2015

F Me In The Brain said:
Imajica & Damnation Game, both of them. Very good books -- Still couldn't touch The Great & Secret Show in my opinion.

Thanks for these suggestions.

FinsburyParkCarrots · June 2015

I first read it twenty-five years ago. I still appreciate it.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Black-Jacobins-Louverture-Revolution/dp/0140299815

smarchee · June 2015

Back in his broken hometown, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Charlie LeDuff searches through the ruins for clues to its fate, his family’s, and his own. Detroit is where his mother’s flower shop was firebombed in the pre-Halloween orgy of arson known as Devil’s Night; where his sister lost herself to the west side streets; where his brother, who once sold subprime mortgages with skill and silk, now works in a factory cleaning Chinese-manufactured screws so they can be repackaged as “May Be Made in United States.”

Having led us on the way up, Detroit now seems to be leading us on the way down. Once the richest city in America, Detroit is now the nation’s poorest. Once the vanguard of America’s machine age—mass production, blue-collar jobs, and automobiles—Detroit is now America’s capital for unemployment, illiteracy, dropouts, and foreclosures. It is an eerie and angry place of deserted factories and abandoned homes and forgotten people. Trees and switchgrass and wild animals have come back to reclaim their right¬ful places. Coyotes are here. The pigeons have left. A city the size of San Francisco and Manhattan could neatly fit into Detroit’s vacant lots. After revealing that the city’s murder rate is higher than the official police number—making it the highest in the country—a weary old detective tells LeDuff, “In this city two plus two equals three.”

jlaustin · June 2015

^^^^
Saw this at the bookstore and almost picked it up. I'd love to hear what you think of it.

Thirty Bills Unpaid · June 2015

jlaustin said:
^^^^
Saw this at the bookstore and almost picked it up. I'd love to hear what you think of it.

My interest is definitely tweaked as well.

smarchee · June 2015

fantastic book, definitely worth the read, he is a great writer and he talks about the history of the city, its importance to America then and now and involves himself and writes about the city government, the police force and the firefighters. Sad and poignant though, I would high recommend it, I really enjoyed it and read it very quick

23scidoo · June 2015

Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

23scidoo said:

Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

F Me In The Brain said:

23scidoo said:

F Me In The Brain said:

23scidoo said:
The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker
Please let us know what you thought, I am a big fan of Barker's early stuff. (The Great & Secret Show is a book I re-read every year or two; one of my all time favorites...) I am a bit skeptical of this one but if you have a good report I will snap it up!
The Great and Secret show is a great book, but after all this years, Weaveworld is still my fav..
The Scarlet Gospels is sequel to Hellraiser..so you know the motif..i have read about 120 pages so far and this is classic Barker for me..hope i help you..
have you read the Abarat series??
Loved Weaveworld as well but just the awesome/bizzare scope of TG&SS makes it one of my favorites. Have read it 10x at least and every time I find that I forgot some of the crazy details he imagined.
Yes, I will add it to my list, thanks!

No, I did not read Abarat, that was young adult and I prefer his "sick & twisted fuck" stories.
Weaveworld was the first Barker book I read, but not the best.

Have you read, The Damnation Game? Excellent book.
Excellent..how about, Imajica??
Have not read. You say I should?

IMO..

samjam · July 2015

Breezing right though Scar Tissue, Anthony Kiedis' autobiography. This guy has led one HELL of a life...can't put down the book. Enthralling! Gonna be sad when it's over.

dankind · July 2015

Heartbreaking (so far).

What book are you reading?

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