what are you reading?

[ElBajista]

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[ChiliPepper]

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[BassManPatsFan]

 

[cdef]

Currently, The Cosmology of Giordano Bruno, by Paul-Henri Michel.

Next up: Seventy Years a Showman, by "Lord" George Sanger.

 

[Vorago]

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What is it about?

 

[msquared]

-The Deadly Embrace: Hitler, Stalin, and the Naxi-Soviet Pact 1939-1941 by Anthony Read and David Fisher
-Eon by Greg Bear

 

[ryco]

Just finished: "Inside Out: Personal History of PF" - Nick Mason
C-, pass. Writes about as well as he plays drums. Like the band though.

Now rereading - "Saucerful of Secrets: PF Odyssey" -
Way better. Read in the mid 90s, wanted to compare.

Next up. Got "The Heroin Diaries: Sixx & Crue" - N. Sixx for Christmas.
Not so sure I want to read it. Love Frank as a person, hate Crue and who hasn't seen this movie *yawn*.

I've been reading a lot lately. Maybe take a break. Bought the "Now and Then: Hist of Seattle" series I -III off of eBay - light reading & pix. Guess I'll do these.

 

[Brendan]

Have recently read:

Gregory Benford's Timescape
William Gibson's Difference Engine

About to read:
Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver

 

[crkempton]

Recently Finished:

Bourne Identity

Bourne Supremacy

Currently Reading:

Bourne Ultimatum

 

[Yvon]

Recently Finished:

Bourne Identity

Bourne Supremacy

Currently Reading:

Bourne Ultimatum

I am reading them right now.

I don't have much time to read right now so I might finished them in a few weeks

 

[Ívar Þórólfsson]

I have been reading these books, I've just finished with them so I need to get some more.

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I'm guessing you can see where my interests lie...

 

[Vorago]

I love climbing books!


I take it you've read Touching the void by Joe Simpson?

 

[Ívar Þórólfsson]

I love climbing books!


I take it you've read Touching the void by Joe Simpson?

Oh yes, read the book, saw the movie, didn't get the t-shirt though

Excellent book!

I just finished ordering five more books from amazon

"The Crystal Horizon: Everest - The First Solo Ascent"
"All 14 Eight-thousanders"
"Everest: Expedition to the Ultimate"
All three by Rheinhold Messner

Then I also got
"K2: Triumph and Tragedy"
and
"The Last Step: The American Ascent of K2"

 

[Vorago]

I've read a couple of Messner books as well, one about different ascents, then one about the Annapura (where he lost his brother iirc?) and a third one I forgot about.

I also read The Shining Mountain by Boardman, a carreer book by Chris Bonnington, a book by a Dutch climber about the first dutch ascent of the Everest, ehm...there's more I think.

Look behind the ranges by Hamish McInnes was excellent as well, about his hikes across the world.

Those books really stimulated my enthousiasm for hiking I have to say.

 

[Ívar Þórólfsson]

I've read a couple of Messner books as well, one about different ascents, then one about the Annapura (where he lost his brother iirc?) and a third one I forgot about.

I also read The Shining Mountain by Boardman, a carreer book by Chris Bonnington, a book by a Dutch climber about the first dutch ascent of the Everest, ehm...there's more I think.

Look behind the ranges by Hamish McInnes was excellent as well, about his hikes across the world.

Those books really stimulated my enthousiasm for hiking I have to say.

Yeah, these books really spike your interest in hiking.
Although I must say that the books about the +8000m mountains really deter me from ever thinking about undertaking such a task. It's just so difficult, not to mention dangerous. I hike/climb to enjoy nature, not to torture myself

 

[KeithBMI]

Stephen Colbert's "I Am America (And So Can You!)"

 

[Jiggybass]

Lord of the Flies. Again. Love that book.

 

[lokolp]

Im reading the Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.

 

[Lazylion]

Clapton's autobiography. Next, Colbert's book. Got 'em for Christmas.

 

[Bard2dbone]

"I Hate Myself And Want To Die : the 52 most depressing songs you've ever heard" by Tom Reynolds

This is the funniest thing I've seen in months. He basically just reviews 52 recordings of depressing songs. Each time there is an intro section, then a description of the song, then an explanation why it's so depressing. Doesn't sound like much, does it? So then why are my sides actually sore from laughing?

One section is about songs that were okay...until someone covered them that shouldn't have. Some of those were depressing to begin with, but not THIS depressing. For example Harry Nilsson's 'Without You' is a beautiful, albeit downer song. But when Mariah Carey decided to remake it, it turned into a great reason to slash your wrists. "It's a heartbreaking composition, especially when you consider how its composers both left this life bankrupt and humiliated. (Pete Ham and Tom Evans, of Badfinger, each comitted suicide by hanging themselves several years apart.)All this is lost on Mariah, who basically uses the song for skeet shooting. While the Nilsson version has him holding the pitch of each note like a taut wire, Mariah employs her faux-gospel technique of toying with the melody like she'e dangling a string in front of a cat."

Okay, it's not as funny when I write it.

How about the desription of having to see, at this point anyone perform 'Send In The Clowns'? "After a modulation into the bridge, she slithers off of the piano to attack the song's thespian references with zombie relish. 'Making my entrance again with my usual flaaaair'. she bellows, flailing her arms like Helen Keller fighting off an anaconda, but, alas 'no one is there.'

How about the unbridled vitriol he has for Carol Bayer Sager?

Somebody read this. It's funny.

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