Originally Posted By JenniBarra >>I went to a concert by Dave Barry's band some years back. (Pearson plays bass.) A very, very good and silly time was had by all.<< Actually, that was how Pearson and Barry prefaced the presentation, by discussing how they had initially come to meet each other through the band.
Originally Posted By ecdc I'm trying to read more literature these days. Almost all of my reading in the past can be boiled down to two genres: non-fiction history and fiction page-turners. So my reading has essentially been about gathering information or turning the page as quickly as I can to find out what happens next - lots of Michael Crichton, Stephen King, Dan Brown, J.K. Rowling, etc. It's made me realize that, as frequently as I do actually read, I don't savor reading. I don't know how to sit back and relax immerse myself in an authors prose and let the overall feel of a book creep over me. I read Lost Symbol in two days and that's about par for the course. So now I'm reading Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (loved The Road). Almost done and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. Next up is Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon. It's basically Pynchon-lite, and I'm using it as a warm-up act before I tackle Gravity's Rainbow. Then I hope to get into some James Ellroy, Phillip Roth, and Don DeLillo.
Originally Posted By WDWdreamin Voyage de la terre a la lune Jules Verne So far a lot of silliness about distances and types of powder and cannons.
Originally Posted By WDWdreamin I'm Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears It's fairly interesting, about idioms in other languages.
Originally Posted By iamsally Talked to Alexbook this weekend. Reminded me of this thread. I am currently reading a collection of John Steinbeck's shore novels.
Originally Posted By iamsally That would be short novels. But I think shore novels is apropos for Steinbeck, right?
Originally Posted By seafairy1622 Prairie Tale Melissa Gilbert It's good so far. Little house on the prairie was my favorite show when I was a kid.
Originally Posted By Tinkeroon <<To Kill a Mockingbird I know, it's unbelievable that I've reached adulthood and never read it, but I was a slacker in school so there you have it.>> <<I just finished reading To kill a Mocking bird for the first time, and it was great.>> Autopia Deb and dizkid...I, too, am reading To Kill a Mockingbird and am loving it. I find it somewhat embarrassing that I have never read it before this. It was required reading for so many but somehow I never had those teachers. Too bad...I know I would have loved it way back then even! I have also never seen the movie...guess I'll have to check that out as well.
Originally Posted By Mary Poppins Our grandmothers, ourselves. About the immigrant experience in the 20th century.
Originally Posted By alexbook "Devil May Care: The New James Bond Novel" by "Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming" I guess this is what happens when the marketing department gets its hands on the title page.
Originally Posted By DAR I'm making my way through the Walking Dead it's a comic book series about people trying to survive a zombie apocalypse. It's a great story. I'm on the first trade but loved so much I bought the second and third.
Originally Posted By WDWdreamin Middlemarch by George Eliot I did not enjoy "De la terre a la lune" par Jules Verne much. My interest in "I'm Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears" is waning too.
Originally Posted By alexbook I just got hold of an advance copy of Jasper Fforde's next book. It's called "Shades of Grey," and it's not part of either of his series. I started it last night, and it's very confusing, but in a good way. ;-) >>It began with my father's not wanting to see the Last Rabbit, and ended up with my being eaten by a carnivorous plant. It wasn't really what I'd planned for myself--I'd hoped to marry into the Oxbloods and join their dynastic string empire. But that was four days ago, before I'd met Jane, retrieved the Caravaggio or explore High Saffron. So instead of enjoying aspirations of Chromatic advancement, I was wholly immersed within the digestive soup of a yateveo tree. It was all frightfully inconvenient.<<
Originally Posted By alexbook >>I did not enjoy "De la terre a la lune" par Jules Verne much.<< Sorry to hear that. I read it in junior high and loved it. You're making me wonder what I'd think of it now. Hmmm...
Originally Posted By Longhorn12 Reading 3 things right now. "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" by Friedrich Nietzsche. "The Great Shark Hunt" by Hunter S. Thompson. For class "Stranger and Friend" by Hortense Powdermaker. Enjoying all of them. (The first 2 for the 3-4th time)
