what are you reading?

[Thor]

Heard on the radio this morning:

DJ: "We got a prize for caller number 9 who has the punchline of this joke:

10 years ago, Mother Teresa passed away and went to
Heaven, and when she got there she noticed that Princess
Di's halo was twice the size of hers. She got a bit miffed and
asked St Peter 'How come since I dedicated my whole life to
helping the poor in Calcutta, my halo isn't as least as big
as that celebrity's halo?'

St. Peter replied, '________________________'.

Contestant: 'That's not a halo, that's a steering wheel!' "

Ta-boom.

Hey, guy's got a shot for tix to the Patriots vs. Chargers game.

Back to your regularly scheduled thread ...

 

[Fassa Albrecht]

I'm reading this......

Vergil's Aeneid, translated by a former Professor of my university, Professor David West. I actually met him at a guest lecture he did on the Aeneid.....he is a fantastic speaker!

 

[Vorago]

Heard on the radio this morning:

DJ: "We got a prize for caller number 9 who has the punchline of this joke:

10 years ago, Mother Teresa passed away and went to
Heaven, and when she got there she noticed that Princess
Di's halo was twice the size of hers. She got a bit miffed and
asked St Peter 'How come since I dedicated my whole life to
helping the poor in Calcutta, my halo isn't as least as big
as that celebrity's halo?'

St. Peter replied, '________________________'.

Contestant: 'That's not a halo, that's a steering wheel!' "

Ta-boom.

Hey, guy's got a shot for tix to the Patriots vs. Chargers game.

Back to your regularly scheduled thread ...

 

[BartmanPDX]

It's called "Motherless Brooklyn," and it's about a petty thug with Tourette's trying to figure out who killed his boss/mentor.

Seeing the world through the eyes of the main character with Tourette's is fascinating. He has many of the same tics, etc. that my autistic daughter presents. It's also a mystery book, and the intertwining of the story with the main character's daily struggle is fascinating.

The author seems to have some real insight into the relatively rare condition.

 

[Juneau]

Currently re-reading Imajica by Clive Barker

Just finished Chi Running by Danny Dryer

 

[Yvon]

I just start this one 2 days ago:

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[theNoseBleedKid]

Reading 'The Plague', but I hate Camus and his excuse for writing, if this wasn't for school I wouldn't touch itif you paid me!

 

[sensible68]

the power and the glory.

I got a job lot of graham greene novels from a deceased great-aunt. some of them are ok, most are about alcoholic ex-pats with religious issues. This one is particularly dreary. I assume it was so he could have something to talk to aldous huxley about.

 

[sensible68]

Reading 'The Plague', but I hate Camus and his excuse for writing, if this wasn't for school I wouldn't touch itif you paid me!

even 'the oustsider'? that's a really good read. and the inspiration for a classic post-punk track.

 

[louieeadg]

I'm reading "The Brewmaster's Table" by Garret Oliver.

 

[Vorago]

Ehm, what's with the lettersize?

 

[louieeadg]

Ehm, what's with the lettersize?

What lettersize?

 

[Thor]

Just finished this one, excellent read, rather noir.

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Just started this one. Never read any of his stuff,
but he has a cool name.

Picked this up as well for the next book.

 

[mike_v_s]

I stopped reading East of Eden when my first child was born. I haven't had the patience since. The main problem is that I have trouble taking the only free hour or so I have each night to read rather than hang out with my wife. Alone. Mike

 

[StanFan]

Lately, I tend to jump around between books, sometimes resulting in books i've started not being completely finished. The last book I finished reading was Giant Steps, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's autobiography. It's from 1983 so there is probably an updated one somewhere.

 

[Musiclogic]

At this point in time.

 

[louieeadg]

TalkBass.

 

[cdef]

The Mighty Music Box, by Thomas A. DeLong, about the history of American radio entertainment.

Understanding Causality, by Jean Piaget.

Joey Collects, by "Joey" and Dave Fisher. Sleazy autobiography of a hitman.

Just finished Bob Dylan's Chronicles, vol. 1.

 

[Vorago]

The Missing Link (The wisdom of the Bones I think it is in English) by Walker and Shipman, about the search for human fossils; Austrolapithecae, Homo Erectus, etc. Both their own findings as the history of the field are covered.

When I picked it up for free in the library I expected it to be extremely boring (maybe because most of the books I'm reading atm are rather dry linguistic papers, specialised scientific literature etc) but in fact it's extremely well written and very interesting (to me).


Other things; The Symbolic Species by Deacon, Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language by Dunbar, Iconicity in Syntax by Haiman (ed), Lingua ex Machina by Bickerton & Calvin, Approaches to Language Evolution by Givón et al (I think) and an introduction to Antropological Linguistics.

First, second and fourth book could be interesting for a layman, the others...well

 

[ryco]

Just finished "Blood and Thunder" - Hampton Sides about US weatern expansion
now rereading "Incident at Exeter" - John Fuller, a 60s UFO book
next up either "Roomful of Mirrors" - Chas Cross or "Whitewash I & II " - Harold Weisburg