What are you reading?

[littlejam]

hello,

i just read this article about 'smells like teen spirit'

lots of stuff i didn't know and found interesting
the article is pretty well written

and then at the end of the article they link the youtube music video

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/sme ... 18980.html


the mtv unplugged nirvana concert is still a favorite to watch

cheers are read well

j

[MrFigg]

Sherlock Holmes. Thrilling stuff.

[motuscott]

Nabokov short stories. What a player! Any instrument, any style

[RobC]

ReasonTalk posts. Not a reader.

[littlejam]

hello,

in answer to sherlock holmes
i have ellen raskin's 'the westing game'


here is Nabokov short stories list

i grabbed 'symbols and signs' as a pdf

he reminds me of 'rainer maria rilke'
he was a poet / short stories / did a great biography on 'rodin'


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stori ... ir_Nabokov


tolstoy's anna karenina is a 'fun read'
i've read it twice

cheers and read well
j

[MrFigg]

hello,

in answer to sherlock holmes
i have ellen raskin's 'the westing game'

Nah, original Arthur Conan Doyle. Magic.

[mcatalao]

I usually read 2 to 3 books at the same time... I like to read something trhrilling like a spy, sci-fi romance, or something more thriling a la Stephen King, something more cerebral, like a scientific book or paper, and something more light like a bd.

So currently:
Sapiens - A Brief history of mankind
- Great overall book about how human societies come to rise, how they developed, without too much complication.

Daniel Silva - House of spies
- Another Gabriel Allon adventure. TBH, i really like Daniel Silva's writting, but i think it's time to create a new hero. If you like the sorts of John Le Carré and Tom Clancy, this is a great read, but after 13 books it's getting a bit tiresome (

Asterix and Obelix - Asterix and the Griffin
- No need for presentation, right?

Cheers,
MC

[littlejam]

hello,

researching Arthur Conan Doyle pdfs

while listening to 'sweet emotion' intro guitar melody
i have it looped perfectly (mp3)
windows 7 / reason 10

i can play the loop forever

when i try to export as wave 48khz
there's a blip at the beginning that upsets me

@mcatalao

im 50 now

growing up in my teens
my dad would always comment on how i would be reading more than one book at once
my dad was a bank lawyer

i always would smash all the stories in my mind together

like being the DM in a dungeons and dragons series

cheers and read well,

j

[MrFigg]

hello,

researching Arthur Conan Doyle pdfs

while listening to 'sweet emotion' intro guitar melody
i have it looped perfectly (mp3)
windows 7 / reason 10

i can play the loop forever

when i try to export as wave 48khz
there's a blip at the beginning that upsets me

@mcatalao

im 50 now

growing up in my teens
my dad would always comment on how i would be reading more than one book at once
my dad was a bank lawyer

i always would smash all the stories in my mind together

like being the DM in a dungeons and dragons series

cheers and read well,

j

I’ve always done than with books. It’s like following 5 or 6 different series on tv at the same time.

[motuscott]

Just wanna say,
Excellent reading of the classic Blood Meridian, for free
Be afraid.

[rorystorm]

Re reading Kim Stanley Robinsons Mars trilogy. Its really good

[robussc]

I got a history of the New Romantics for Christmas and I’ve been enjoying getting to understand the early years. I got into it right around 1979/80 with things like Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet (and of course Japan).

Didn’t know that it was started by disaffected punks! Punk rock was completely awful by 1979.

[MrFigg]

Timothy Wylie book on The Process Church of the Final Judgement.

[selig]

Re reading Kim Stanley Robinsons Mars trilogy. Its really good

I’m about half way through The Ministry for the Future” and loving it - my first KSR book.
Side note - I keep misreading his name as Swiss Family Robinson….

[rorystorm]

Re reading Kim Stanley Robinsons Mars trilogy. Its really good

I’m about half way through The Ministry for the Future” and loving it - my first KSR book.
Side note - I keep misreading his name as Swiss Family Robinson….

ha, he probably gets that all the time
Ministry for the Future is his best book in ages, although quite grueling, I found. New York 2140 has some really great stuff in it too.
everything he does is good, although the Mars trilogy is probably his best. (It's worth reading just so you can see where the people that made the Expanse were like, huh, you know there's something to this...) I'd really recommend another earlier book, Icehenge which although it has a bad name is extremely interesting formally and where he first starts working out some of his politics.

and there's also this: http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/the-lucky-strike/ which apparently is his favourite thing he's written.

[Last Alternative]

Future Music magazines. Free drum samples and super amazing articles. My girlfriend got me a subscription for Christmas.

[plaamook]

Anyone read the passenger by Comack McCarthy yet?
I’ve fallen on hard times so I’m waiting for a free copy but I’m so curious I might just buy it.

[littlejam]

hello,

@plaamook:

i just got the pdf file from
oceanofpdf.com

https://oceanofpdf.com/authors/cormac-m ... -download/

the pdf download link button is at the bottom left
quick and easy

it's a 430 page book

the opening line:
"It had snowed lightly in the night and her frozen hair was
gold and crystalline and her eyes were frozen cold and hard
as stones."

cheers and eat well,

j

[littlejam]

hello,

yeah, at this point my brain is going bonkers
the same website i listed above
lets you download all sorts of pdf files to read

i just grabbed 'complete poems by emily dickinson'
and 'complete short stories by ernest hemingway'
just to see if the website checked out

there are hundreds and hundreds of authors listed

https://oceanofpdf.com/books-by-authors/


has to be one of the best resources for online 'books' pdf

it starts with numbers and then goes to 'z' in the alphabet

cheers and read well,

j

[plaamook]

Voyage To Arcturus.
Wow.
I can see why it didn't sell at the time but it's quite a ride. Sort of Alice in Wonderland meets William Blake written by David Lynch.
That guy covered so much ground in one book...sketched out so many ideas...then folded it into this insane DMT romp.
I recommend it.

[plaamook]

Just fin the passenger by cormac mcarthy.
Strange sad book.
It seemed like he started writing one book then changed his mind half way through.
The way he writes is so engrossing it’s worth it just on that but really it just left me feeling kind of low. Sad.
A bit too close to home maybe.

[motuscott]

Looking forward to the McCarthy new stuff. Think I want it in paper.