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What are you reading Chapter 4
- Thread starter slobake
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Just breezed through a few months of comics... Now back to Greek Mythology, before heading off on to various other mythologies next. We'll see which pantheon calls to me then.
Gregg Allman - My Cross to Bear
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Just finished this. If you've read (or are watching the current TV series) Daisy Jones And The Six, about a fictional band's rise and breakup, this will seem a similar concept. Personally, I felt this the better book, partly as it's got a more Irish feel, albeit set mainly in England. Great characters, and fantastic writing by Joe O' Connor, who throws in all sorts of real-life people and places seamlessly and creates some truly wonderful dialogue.
Highly recommended.
Highly recommended.
I enjoyed that very much. love his music and the stories of the band.Gregg Allman - My Cross to Bear
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I recently read Brett Baier's "To Rescue the Republic' and of course I want to read this Grants memoirs. But I shied away. Is it a difficult read? And your talking about Mark Twian doing the persuading?
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Another thrift store find:
A very interesting, faith-based take on environmental issues and the relationship between humans and other living things on earth, and between humans and the earth itself.
A very interesting, faith-based take on environmental issues and the relationship between humans and other living things on earth, and between humans and the earth itself.
Actually a re-read.
It’s very well written and he's pretty funny, IMO.
It’s very well written and he's pretty funny, IMO.
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Just started this the other day…
… it’s really interesting so far, I’ve only read the first part detailing all their common influences early on but the next chapter starts with The Beatles meeting Dylan for the first time. Looking forward to the rest of it.
… it’s really interesting so far, I’ve only read the first part detailing all their common influences early on but the next chapter starts with The Beatles meeting Dylan for the first time. Looking forward to the rest of it.
Grant's writing style is more of a narrative on his career in the army, he was a hero of his day a great war hero and president, he was becoming ill he eventually died of throat cancer but Mark Twain sort of nudged him into finishing his memoir.
I heard at one point that Mark Twain had done some editing for Grant but later I read where that was actually refuted. So I guess that Twain actually persuaded Grant to sit down and finish the darn thing.
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Would love updates. Sounds interesting as long as the author is competent.
Really enjoying it so far, the author is music-savvy but it’s not too dry and technical. It’s great to get a timeline of all the releases and he always notes when there’s a known event when one band encountered the other’s music, like when Bruce Johnston took a Pet Sounds acetate to London. He also discusses the Byrds a lot, as a band that were equally influenced by all three.
This a bit of a departure from my regular subject, but it’s very interesting.
