Me too....Didn't know this existed, going to have to check it out.
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What are you reading Chapter 4
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Yup, that one is a tough read. Have your read Tolkien's short stories. "Leaf By Niggle" is my favorite. It is the story of a man who worked his whole life on one painting. Some people say Tolkien may have been making a statement about his writing.
Also like "Farmer Giles of Ham."
Someone on TB here pointed me to this book.Didn't know this existed, going to have to check it out.
As both an English major AND a huge Tolkien fan, yes - it's tough. It's essentially a history book for Middle Earth, but told in narrative form. I love it, but it's not a light read by any stretch.
Worst horror story I've ever read!
HORRIBLE!! Couldn't sleep all night....
Shudder at the very thought!! YIKES!!
HORRIBLE!! Couldn't sleep all night....
Shudder at the very thought!! YIKES!!
Robert Harris - The Second Sleep
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Cannot recommend this highly enough.....
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https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Long-Room-PETER-TINNISWOOD/dp/0099266202
.....https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Long-Room-PETER-TINNISWOOD/dp/0099266202
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The [Dodgy] Business of Popular Music - Simon Napier-Bell
Covees the business from the beginning about song rights, publishing, songwriters, and performers from classical, through jazz, through rhythm and blues, rock, up to today with didital downloads and bedroom studios, YouTube, etc.
Napier-Bell was an early 60s British artist manager with bands like The Yardbirds and Dusty Springfield. Explains all about touring, promoting, getting ripped off, more inside tales of band fun. Tells the deals bands and writers received, and of course, how bands end up paying for the manufacture, promotion, distribution, etc before seeing any real profit and what crappy deals in which bands really find themselves. Also tells how the major labels acquired the minors, and then started eating up each others, to the state of collapse they face today.
I worked for a famous retail record chain as a warehouseman in the mid 80s-early 90s and watched as the the 6 majors CEMA, CBS, MCA, POLGRAM, RCA, and WEA bought indies and then started getting bought out by entertainment companies and consolidating.
Napier-Bell writes really well. Very interesting read - tons of info in every facet imaginible, yet told in a very readable manner. Flows right along. One could read this book 3 or 4 times and learn something new with each reading.
The [Dodgy] Business of Popular Music - Simon Napier-Bell
Covees the business from the beginning about song rights, publishing, songwriters, and performers from classical, through jazz, through rhythm and blues, rock, up to today with didital downloads and bedroom studios, YouTube, etc.
Napier-Bell was an early 60s British artist manager with bands like The Yardbirds and Dusty Springfield. Explains all about touring, promoting, getting ripped off, more inside tales of band fun. Tells the deals bands and writers received, and of course, how bands end up paying for the manufacture, promotion, distribution, etc before seeing any real profit and what crappy deals in which bands really find themselves. Also tells how the major labels acquired the minors, and then started eating up each others, to the state of collapse they face today.
I worked for a famous retail record chain as a warehouseman in the mid 80s-early 90s and watched as the the 6 majors CEMA, CBS, MCA, POLGRAM, RCA, and WEA bought indies and then started getting bought out by entertainment companies and consolidating.
Napier-Bell writes really well. Very interesting read - tons of info in every facet imaginible, yet told in a very readable manner. Flows right along. One could read this book 3 or 4 times and learn something new with each reading.
That's a bummer. I'm working my way through the Stephen King library. I just finished The Regulators, next up is The Green Mile.
That sounds like a daunting project!
I've read a fair bit of his work and am about 50/50 in liking it.
Under The Dome, 11/22/63, Cell, Joyland and the Bill Hodges trilogy are ones I enjoyed a lot, not really a fan of the more supernatural stuff.
For me, it's the characters that he creates. Even in the supernatural stuff, he paints such great characters. I would suggest the Dark Tower series. It's a long one, but it's worth the read.
