What are you reading Chapter 4

[fnordlyone]

Death Comes For The Archbishop-- Willa Cather

 

[slobake]

 

[the harp unstrung]

Fact is, I know most all of the stories told here...I’ve been a ‘student’ of Negro League Baseball for a long time...but some of the photos of teams and memorabilia are Killer!
This is a Great book.

Thanks, Bulldog!

 

[Paulabass]

What I will be reading- On Friday I'm going to a book signing of "the Horseshoe Tavern'.
Canada's most famous bar needs a good book, but I'll be specially interested because during the whole first punk era, which was the 'Shoe's rennaisance, I did FOH there. It will be interesting to see what the author has to say, and compare it with my memories, as I was there 7 nights a week, and I mixed the who's who of punk.
It was crazy times, so I'm sure each of us will have a different perception of what went on, including the famous riot that closed the place.

 

[Jeff Scott]

The exhibition catalog for this show that ended last weekend,

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[Oddly]

Mister Hanks is just as good short story writer as he is an actor!
Nice simple stories, well told.

 

[Justinvs]

Mister Hanks is just as good short story writer as he is an actor!
Nice simple stories, well told.
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I had no idea he was a writer.

 

[Oddly]

I had no idea he was a writer.

I believe this is his first book.

 

[mpdd]

the history of graphic design
a critical guide

 

[slobake]

 

[the harp unstrung]

 

[Deleted member 264575]

The Maze Runner series by James Dashner. As usual, much better than the movies (which I liked).

 

[gjohnson441496]

Fire and Fury

 

[GrapeBass]

Willin': The Story of Little Feat!!

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[Oddly]

I've just started on this one...

 

[rtslinger]

The Story of Jack the Ripper - A Paradox 1998 book R.A. Patterson

 

[Tom Bomb]

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A hundred years ago, a series of terrible murders was committed in the village of Morbing Vyle. Now the place lies hidden behind a forest of burned-out blackened trees, and people in neighbouring towns prefer to forget it ever existed.


But Martin Smythe rediscovers it, following an old signpost and a hidden path. All that remains is a vicarage and a vast building site.


Eccentric characters inhabit the vicarage: Mr Quode, Melestrina Quode and their son, Baby Panker; Mr Caulkiss and his wife, Craylene; and Mr Scrab, kept outside in the back garden. They make Martin welcome - but there's a price to pay.


Ignorant of his own danger, Martin investigates. What strange religious belief drives these people to try and build the largest church in the world? If they're so religious, why is Mr Caulkiss obsessed with mechanical inventions, why is Mr Quode obsessed with gourmet cuisine? Martin is sure that the mysterious Vicar is at the bottom of it all.


Then he discovers that he is no longer free to leave . . .



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[Thornton Davis]

I'm half way through Keith Richards book "Life". Anita Pallenberg just gave Keef his first BJ after she dumped Brian Jones. Should get a bit more interesting from here.

TD

 

[Tom Bomb]

Bending the rules a bit but here's something called The Final Take: Bowie in the Studio, if you're interested. It's a candid, fictionalized account of the world of Bowie, in the form of a radio play, leading in to the release of Black Star.

 

[Tom Bomb]

This one's been shelved for ages—picked it up eons ago, out of a bargain bin. I think it's time to give it a better thumbing through…

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Interesting article here, eggs me on,

[…]
''The ordinary man is no fool: he knows he can't be Arnold Schwarzenegger. Nonetheless, the culture reshapes his most basic sense of manhood by telling him as much as it tells the celebrity that masculinity is something to drape over the body, not draw from inner resources; that it is personal, not societal; that manhood is displayed, not demonstrated.''

If men are being turned inside out by an expensive, soul-destroying myth, why aren't they at least protesting? According to Faludi, it's partly because, as with the discontented housewives in Betty Friedan's ''Feminine Mystique,'' their problem has not yet been named. (Faludi's naming it.) And it's because their very masculinity gets in the way of their being able to see what's happening to them. A man is programmed to believe that he must be in control at all times, that he must master his universe. Since men ''are mythologized as the ones who make things happen,'' Faludi asks, ''how can they begin to analyze what is happening to them?'' […]

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"We raise boys to live in a world in which they are either winners or losers, grandiose or shame-filled, … perpetrators or victims. Society shows little mercy for men if they fail in the performance of their role. But the price of that performance is an inward sickness."
Terry Real

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