What are you reading now, playas?

elliegurl · Joined: 23 Apr 2005 Posts: 1290

i resisted responding to this because of the title, hate white people using black talk, but yes i need to lighten up a little...been reading books like crazy. just finished rereading the lovely bones and starting divasadero by michael ondataaje, i hope i spelled his name right.
i love reading in summer!
ellie
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lewhoney · Joined: 07 Aug 2004 Posts: 379

Who you calling white?
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gdavis5446 · Joined: 26 Mar 2004 Posts: 4167 Location: Tampa, FL

What about when black people try and talk white? I am guilty!

sturgeongeneral · Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 4:31 pm Post subject:

a friend just loaned me 'blue highways' by william least heat-moon. the author shares his experiences while traveling the backroads of america and his sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on a map only because some cartographer has a blank space to fill". places like why, arizona; whynot mississippi; and remote, oregon.
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Tokyo Fan · Joined: 31 Mar 2006 Posts: 1106

sturgeongeneral · Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 6:50 pm Post subject:

i have always been drawn to books and movies involving road trips and journeys. when i was young it was a vicarious method to experience other places without the expense and the time. now that i am able to undertake the actual roadtrips i find the experience to be both cathartic and disambiguating. when traveling one is not defined by their future or their past but simply of the moment. i like that.
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Tokyo Fan · Joined: 31 Mar 2006 Posts: 1106

Tokyo Fan · Joined: 31 Mar 2006 Posts: 1106

"The Complete Polysyllabic Spree" by Nick Hornby. The blurb says "This is not a book of reviews. This is not a book that sneers at other books. This is a book about reading- about enjoying books wherever and however you find them." I look forward to beginning this tonight.

Tokyo Fan · Joined: 31 Mar 2006 Posts: 1106

The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan. As The New York Times Book Review says "thoughtful, engrossing...you're not likely to get a better explanation of exactly where food comes from."

No shit (no pun intended!). I will never touch a chicken nugget again. The book is divided into four sections. The first section is on corn, how U.S. government policy has pushed that since the "70's until it makes up a huge percentage of what the American public eats ("Corn Walking").

Second section, where I am at now, is on organics. Eye opening as well. Pretty amazing what can happen when you simply redefine (or corrupt or blur or whatever) a word.

It sure ain't our grandfather's pastoral farms anymore...but we probably all knew that.

Highly recommended.

farrarfan1 · Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 9:41 am Post subject:

Duma Key, Stephen King's newest.
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sturgeongeneral · Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 10:28 am Post subject:

reading two at the moment:

"the nine: inside the secret world of the supreme court": jeffrey toobin; fascinating read about the personalities deciding the highest law in the land

"the undertaking: life studies from the dismal trade": thomas lynch;
an insightful read from an undertaker who also happens to be a poet
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trailrider · Joined: 20 Sep 2004 Posts: 515 Location: Alameda, CA

History of the Blues: The Roots, The Music, The People by Francis Davis - A little high-brow and sociological so far, but an interesting analysis of the progression of the form from the Delta and into widespread popularity.

A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe - sort of on hold because it's too big to lug around in my messenger bag and I do all of my reading on the ferry to work now that we have an infant in the house.

Duma Key by Stephen King - Taking it with me to Jamaica as my vacation book, so, technically, I'm not reading it yet.
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calexico · Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Posts: 23440 Location: Terrigen Mists

I got three Bukowskis lined up:

Post Office
Factotum
Women.

Still have yet to get the King book.
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Hank Snow · Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 11:25 am Post subject:

Just finished The Power and the Glory by Greene.
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ScottZeagle · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 1440 Location: Tampa Bay, FL

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy....

Just a few pages into it at this point. It was actually recomended to me by Ben Nichols of Lucero. Je told me that it affected him so much, he had wrote a half dozen songs based on it and would probably record an acoustic EP of those songs...

I figure that if any book can have that affect on a guy, I should probably check it out.

Smile

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