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What are you reading Chapter 4
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Tom Clancy - Red Storm Rising
I'm a historian/academic, so I read enough serious stuff in my day job.
I'm a historian/academic, so I read enough serious stuff in my day job.
Finished A Scanner Darkly and can't recommend it enough. Now I'm about 50 pages into Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children. The style is pretty engaging so far and the general premise of the novel is interesting to me; I'll have to see if the next 50 pages transform it into something utterly riveting, or if I'm going to have to take my time and spend a few weeks getting through it.
Just started Rock Critic Murders by Jesse Sublett, kind of a hard boiled detective/noir novel with a music twist. I read it years ago when it was first published (1989), and found it buried on my bookshelf last night, underneath a pile of sci-fi paperbacks.
The protagonist is a 29 year old bass player in Austin that also does skip-tracing. He get's hired to do a reunion show with his old Rock and R&B band, and then of course there's a murder. I don't remember much about the book other then enjoying it, so it's almost like reading it for the first time. It looks like there are two other books in the series that are available for Kindle and iPad, so I might be getting those soon.
The protagonist is a 29 year old bass player in Austin that also does skip-tracing. He get's hired to do a reunion show with his old Rock and R&B band, and then of course there's a murder. I don't remember much about the book other then enjoying it, so it's almost like reading it for the first time. It looks like there are two other books in the series that are available for Kindle and iPad, so I might be getting those soon.
THE RICKENBACKER ELECTRIC BASS: 50 YEARS AS ROCK`S BOTTOM END -by Paul D. Boyer (Even though I`ll doubtless never own one. 
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and...
THE ART OF STEVE DITKO -by Craig Yoe
)and...
THE ART OF STEVE DITKO -by Craig Yoe
Jerusalem by Simon Sebag Montefiore. I've just gotten to the Crusades, and it's a pretty good book so far.
Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy. Read it when it first came out, time to re-visit. Then it's on to "The Gripping Hand" by Jerry Pournelle. It's the follow on to "The Mote in God's Eye". Good stuff.
The House of Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
1850s novel of a New England ancestrial family house built on property swindled from a lower class workman.
The later generation of this family live there and are elderly. House has a curse on it. Reported to be a map of another larger property in the West. One wealthy esteemed brother is after the other feeble brother for the map & deed.
Young girl from out of town family comes there to live and take care of the elderly brother and sister. Cheers up the place and brings activity and pleasure to the residence - including a young boarder who rents part of the house.
Very well written story at once a mystery, spiritual/supernatural, a love story, and tale of moral right and wrong.
Hawthorne was hero to Dickens and Hardy, his contemporaies, and I can understand why. Interesting tale with a fun narrative.
1850s novel of a New England ancestrial family house built on property swindled from a lower class workman.
The later generation of this family live there and are elderly. House has a curse on it. Reported to be a map of another larger property in the West. One wealthy esteemed brother is after the other feeble brother for the map & deed.
Young girl from out of town family comes there to live and take care of the elderly brother and sister. Cheers up the place and brings activity and pleasure to the residence - including a young boarder who rents part of the house.
Very well written story at once a mystery, spiritual/supernatural, a love story, and tale of moral right and wrong.
Hawthorne was hero to Dickens and Hardy, his contemporaies, and I can understand why. Interesting tale with a fun narrative.
Like I've said before, I usually have 3-4 books going at the same time. Currently;
- The Simple Art of Murder by Raymond Chandler (short story collection);
- SLAN by A. E. Van Vogt (for the umteenth time);
- Lightning by Dean Koontz (Nazi time traveler in love); and
- Perelandra by C. S. Lewis (which is surprisingly hard to read, I'm finding).
- The Simple Art of Murder by Raymond Chandler (short story collection);
- SLAN by A. E. Van Vogt (for the umteenth time);
- Lightning by Dean Koontz (Nazi time traveler in love); and
- Perelandra by C. S. Lewis (which is surprisingly hard to read, I'm finding).
There was an online game made to support that book before it was released. A novel ( groan ) idea at the time. Now start ups and green light games are all the rage.
The game was interesting if somewhat odd. Kinda like the book.
Recently finished THE IRON HEEL -by Jack London (1906?)
Started re-reading Hal Clement`s 1957 "hard" science fiction classic: CYCLE OF FIRE
Started re-reading Hal Clement`s 1957 "hard" science fiction classic: CYCLE OF FIRE
The Wrecking Crew - Kent Hartman
The beginning of the sixties rock hits and the studio players who played on the majority of these West Coast hits. Histories of the kids who would become the mega songwriters for the rock hits of the early 60s - late 70s. Recording techniques and lots of studio and industry stories.
Quick read. Easy style. A chronological tale of pop rocks golden years.
The beginning of the sixties rock hits and the studio players who played on the majority of these West Coast hits. Histories of the kids who would become the mega songwriters for the rock hits of the early 60s - late 70s. Recording techniques and lots of studio and industry stories.
Quick read. Easy style. A chronological tale of pop rocks golden years.
