What are you reading Chapter 4

[fnordlyone]

Lost Girl: D. H. Lawrence. I had been forced to read Lady Chatterly's Lover in college and like his style. That was only about 25 years ago. So, I'm reading my second novel by him. This one is awesome. Very modern like Faulkner or Joyce-- more modern than today, written yesteryear. I guess I'll have to read all his stuff now.

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I know what you're thinking... this is Victorian romance... NOPE! It would be like calling Faulkner's Snope Trilogy a Duke's of Hazard comedy (both are funny). But early on in this novel-- no sign of Young and the Restless, or Jane Austin, thank Bob.

 

[the harp unstrung]

Ya know...even if this book was schlock...and it does have its mawkish passages...I'd suggest reading it just for the masterful job the author does giving a wonderful voice to the protagonist.
I thought it was incredibly creative!

 

[old spice]

"The Making of the Atomic Bomb," by Richard Rhodes.
Winner of a National Book Award 30 years ago.
An in-depth story of people, atomic physics and history from 1880-1960. I've read it perhaps a dozen times, and am reading it again.

 

[Captain Chaos]

Watchmen.

 

[Pauler1976]

The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
I had read almost all of Jules Verne's classics this year alone and seem to be stuck in a Steampunk era from mid 1850's to early 1900's

 

[Funky Ghost]

my new hobby is reading
I lucked out and got a copy of the first book in the expanded Dune series from Goodwill a while back.
While reading it I realized it was the very beginning of the entire saga, and I loved it!
Now I'm into the Schools of Dune series, right in the middle book (of 3).

Remember Mentats from the first Dune book?
Those were the humans who think like computers.
Well, it turns out the first one was trained by a robot.

The first book of the Schools of Dune series is about the Bene Gesserit & how they came to be from sorceresses from the planet of Rossak.

Mentats are also the drug of choice in the Fallout series for brainiacs

 

[slobake]

 

[Killed_by_Death]

Isn't Thufir Hawat the main mentat in the book(s)?

He is in the original Dune, but in the book I'm reading the first Mentat, Gilbertus Albans, is one of the main characters. He started a school training other humans to think like computers.

 

[fjadams]

The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
I had read almost all of Jules Verne's classics this year alone and seem to be stuck in a Steampunk era from mid 1850's to early 1900's

Have you read Tono-Bungay? Probably my favorite of his.

 

[fjadams]

Brandon Sanderson's Arcanum Unbounded. A collection of his shorter (in his case short is a generic term) stories about the various planets in his Cosmere.

 

[Knavery]

Since I moved to Colorado and unknowingly bought a house in what is referred to as the Rocky Flats hot zone, I'm reading Full Body Burden. I'm seriously pissed that this wasn't divulged when I purchased my property.

 

[zontar]

Authority-D Martyn Lloyd-Jones

And I may be reading some HG Wells soon.

 

[Pauler1976]

Have you read Tono-Bungay? Probably my favorite of his.

Not as of yet FJ, but will definitely look into! Thanks for the suggestion

 

[fjadams]

Not as of yet FJ, but will definitely look into! Thanks for the suggestion

My copy was printed in the late 40s and the paper is becoming very fragile. Don't think I'd dare read it anymore.

 

[Art Damage]

I spend way too much time on the bus commuting to and from Minneapolis every day for work, so I can rip through books pretty quickly just trying to kill time. Currently reading "It Worked for Me in Life and Leadership" by Colin Powell and I'm really enjoying it.

 

[rtslinger]

and only because I don't have any gigs till Jan 14th

 

[hrodbert696]

Just this morning I finished Chrissie Hynde's autobiography, Reckless: My Life as a Pretender. Interesting, and fairly depressing. I know more about the drug habits of her and her circle than I ever needed to know, and the book ends with half the original band members dead from their habits. In some ways it's a fairly standard sex-drugs-and-rocknroll story, though drugs are very much in the foreground and she's curiously muted (though not reticent) on sex. Maybe it's hearing the story from a woman's perspective.

On the positive side, though, I learned a lot about the scene of her time and, apparently, the way that all sorts of artists that I never knew had any contact with each other. The Pretenders weren't a punk band, yet so much of the book is really about her circulating around the punk scene without having a band of her own. She's from Akron, yet her circle is in London. And then Lemmy comes in and gets highlighted for a chapter. On the whole, a worthwhile read.

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[the harp unstrung]

...and his middle name was "Joy"...what could be more appropriate than that?!?

 

[slobake]

 

[TOOL460002]

Ministry: The Lost Gospels According to Al Jourgensen. Crazy life that guy has lived. I had to put down my massive history of the Pacific Ocean book as it was dragging a little bit. The Ministry book has mostly been read in a couple sittings. It reads really fast. Highly recommended.