Read any good books lately?

oxfan · **Posted:** Mon Aug 06, 2012 7:25 pm

Just finished "The Affair" by Lee Child. Warning, his books are addictive.

mike07502 · **Joined:** Sat Aug 20, 2011 3:47 pm **Posts:** 748

Man get anything by Charles Bukowsky.

azuki88 · **Joined:** Thu Aug 02, 2012 6:39 am **Posts:** 15

Nice book, i still like it

slidewaysracing · **Posted:** Mon Aug 06, 2012 11:06 pm

Off The Wall At Callahan's by Spider Robinson - enjoyable light, humor-tinged reading; I'm re-reading the series

The Wrecking Crew by Kent Hartman - interesting, but more vignettes than a flowing story

The Music Lesson by Victor Wooten - very interesting!

Guitar Zero: The New Musician and the Science of Learning by Gary Marcus - practice AND talent are helpful

This Is Your Brain On Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel Levitin - heavy going, but interesting nonetheless. Wish the ebook version came with the songs he referenced included

BassettsAllSorts · **Joined:** Fri Mar 02, 2012 12:19 pm **Posts:** 142

oxfan wrote:

Just finished "The Affair" by Lee Child. Warning, his books are addictive.

They are indeed, I stumbled on a Reacher book a couple of years ago at the airport when I was heading to Spain and I have been going through them in order recently.

I'm up to The Enemy and I love the books.

Reacher is a great character and I have to say I was pretty upset when I saw that Tom Cruise was playing the role in the upcoming film. That's not dissing Tom Cruise but from reading the books it just doesn't add up.

The trailer does virtually the opposite of everything Reacher does (Except beat up loads of people). I'll probably skip it

Tom

LeftyBlues · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:20 am **Posts:** 122

Ditto on Lee Child! Hadn't read anything by John Grisham in ages but "Calico Joe" is a must for anyone who likes baseball. If this doesn't end up as a movie I'll be amazed.

somebizarredude · **Posted:** Tue Aug 07, 2012 7:08 am

"Understanding Digital Signal Processing" by Richard Lyons

and i started "Fundamentals of Statistical Signal Processing" by Steven M. Kay, yesterday

I know boring blah blah blah :roll:

Toronado · **Joined:** Tue Apr 07, 2009 7:05 pm **Posts:** 2333

I've just come from finishing the entire Harry Potter series. (Yes, finally)

I was extremely impressed with the entire thing, and plan never to watch the movies as I know they'd just skew my images of what I've read. That and I can't see how they could be as good, anyway.

Hats off to J.K Rowling, truly.

ollyclam · **Posted:** Tue Aug 07, 2012 7:59 am

I tried reading a few of the wacky later posts in the GC thread below, soon gave up though. Wouldnt advise it.

ozrv · **Posted:** Tue Aug 07, 2012 8:01 am

Lots...

Tip for ya all...No doubt most would have read it....If not Buy Pappillion and read it instantly!!....

Gorgon · **Posted:** Tue Aug 07, 2012 8:03 am

Reading Gerald Weber's first three books on amp maintenance/repair. Don't have his fourth one, yet :lol:

Ceri · **Posted:** Tue Aug 07, 2012 8:10 am

ozrv wrote:

Tip for ya all...No doubt most would have read it....If not Buy Pappillion and read it instantly!!....

Yikes! I just finished reading Gang of One, by Gary Mulgrew. Strongly recommended - but that's quite enough prison horrors for me for the time being!

I also recently read Siege, by Helen Dunmore. The siege of Leningrad during the Second World War, told from the civilians' point of view. Heavy going, but a powerful read. She has a follow up novel about some of the same characters called Betrayal, set during the grim scariness of post-WWII Communist Russia. I'll be moving on to that - just as soon as I've got my strength up!

Cheers - C

ozrv · **Posted:** Tue Aug 07, 2012 8:29 am

Ceri wrote:

ozrv wrote:

Tip for ya all...No doubt most would have read it....If not Buy Pappillion and read it instantly!!....

Yikes! I just finished reading Gang of One, by Gary Mulgrew. Strongly recommended - but that's quite enough prison horrors for me for the time being!

I also recently read Siege, by Helen Dunmore. The siege of Leningrad during the Second World War, told from the civilians' point of view. Heavy going, but a powerful read. She has a follow up novel about some of the same characters called Betrayal, set during the grim scariness of post-WWII Communist Russia. I'll be moving on to that - just as soon as I've got my strength up!

Cheers - C

Hotel Kerobokan!... Great quick read......Bali's a medievil twisted place huh..... even today........It's our summer holiday destination...beautiful island it really is huh.........Magical beyond belief..............

Tochai · **Posted:** Tue Aug 07, 2012 9:14 am

I finally finished "Only Revolutions" by Mark Z. Danielewski. Its about two perpetual 16 year olds on a road trip across america between 1863 and 2063. Its written as a mixture of fractured poetry and stream of consciousness, so sometimes its hard to know exactly what's going on. I'd recommend it for a fan of Post-modernism.

Here's an exert from Wikipedia on the layout, because its quite important;

Quote:

Only Revolutions is printed in such a way that both covers appear to be the front of the book. The side with the green cover is the story as told by Sam, and the side with the gold cover is the story as told by Hailey. Every page contains upside-down text in the bottom margin, which is actually later pages of the opposite volume. For example, the first page of Hailey's story contains the last several lines of Sam's story, apparently upside down. When you reach that page while reading Sam's story, those lines will appear to be the only right-side-up text on the page.

The first letter of each 8 page "section" is larger and bold when compared to the other letters. When the reader puts the single letters together from Hailey's side they spell out "Sam and Hailey and Sam and Hailey..." etc. When read from Sam's side, they spell out "Hailey and Sam and Hailey and Sam..." etc.

Each half-page contains exactly 90 words. When both stories are combined, the words add together for a total of 180 words per page, perhaps to symbolize the 180 degrees the reader must turn the book to read the opposite volume.[original research?] Also, with both pages open, the full word count is 360, essentially making a revolution (360 degrees) with every open page.

The publisher recommends the reading of eight pages from one story, then the other, and so on

I also read "The Perks of Being A Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky, which is an early '90s coming of age story. I really enjoyed it, but it might be a bit "young" for the majority of posters here.

ozrv · **Posted:** Tue Aug 07, 2012 9:22 am

I tried james joyce stream of conciousness......Wow...Verbal Diareaha... :lol:

Subjective.....No doubt literature study's would beg to differ......

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