OT: What's the last book you read?

brightonalex · Post by **brightonalex** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 10:44 am

The History of Jazz, by Ted Gioia. Its quite hard going I am only on page 3. It starts almost with the cavemen.

dataspore · Post by **dataspore** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 11:02 am

some recent reads i'd recommend

pattern recognition by william gibson
the baroque cycle by neal stephenson
wind-up bird chronicle by harakumi
pandaemonium by humphrey jennings

some non-fiction boat-type books
by chappelle, oughtred, herreshoff, bolger
for inspiration/instruction for my
boatbuilding project

found an interesting pamphlet which is an
exerpt from the diary of an indentured servant
to the hudson's bay company, on vancouver
island, in the mid 1800s named robert melrose.

here's a sample

JULY
We. 26 Lecture on the duty and advantage of Prayer, by William
Veitch.
Th. 27 Mail came in.
Fr. 28 Four Sheep killed and divided. John Instant whole D.
James Downie 1/2 D.
Sa. 29 Yankee Scow arrived with sheep and cattle from Nisqually.
James Wilson whole D.
Su. 30 Turnips thinned.

by the way, "D" stands for drunk

muscleandhate · Post by **muscleandhate** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 11:10 am

I read an excellent novel by Haruki Murakami called Norwegian Wood. I thought it was going to be chick book, but it turned out to be one of the best novels I've read. I was reading Bill Bryson's Notes From a Small Island, but I found his smugness increasingly difficult to bear, hence I've not taken to it awfully well. Next book I'm going to read is Confederation of Dummies, which I'm told, is very good.

dataspore · Post by **dataspore** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 11:19 am

muscleandhate wrote:I read an excellent novel by Haruki Murakami called Norwegian Wood. I thought it was going to be chick book, but it turned out to be one of the best novels I've read. I was reading Bill Bryson's Notes From a Small Island, but I found his smugness increasingly difficult to bear, hence I've not taken to it awfully well. Next book I'm going to read is Confederation of Dummies, which I'm told, is very good.

do you mean confederation of dunces by john kennedy toole?
one of my favourite all time reads. can't believe i forgot it!

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 12:21 pm

"A Feast for Crows" - George RR Martin
LOTR (again) - duh
"Phantom" - Terry Goodkind

polyslax · Post by **polyslax** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 1:05 pm

Just finishing up "Jaco", as in Pastorius.

A tragic tale of bass, drugs and madness.

jamesp · Post by **jamesp** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 2:25 pm

Reading 'North to the Night' by Alvah Simon
and just finished:
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

hoffman2k · Post by **hoffman2k** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 2:45 pm

Tarekith wrote: LOTR (again) - duh

Yeah. There's a whole other movie in those books.

It's another one of those books i cant read again too soon though.
The end will hardly come as a surprise

If you're ever looking for something on the matrix...
Check out "The age of spiritual machines" by Ray Kurzweil.
I think the idea came from that book.

Austen Powers · Post by **Austen Powers** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 3:12 pm

The life and times of Winnie The Pooh. I highly recommend it.

It talks about how his addiction to honey was a gateway to crack and heroin and how he had to sell his arsehole to support his habit. A fascinating but sad tale of the hedonism in our times.

dataspore · Post by **dataspore** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 3:26 pm

Austen Powers wrote:The life and times of Winnie The Pooh. I highly recommend it.

It talks about how his addiction to honey was a gateway to crack and heroin and how he had to sell his arsehole to support his habit. A fascinating but sad tale of the hedonism in our times.

yeah, it's almost as on-point as this post

kennerb · Post by **kennerb** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 4:18 pm

The last book that I read was
1421: The Year China Discovered America
http://www.1421.tv/

It was a great read that seemed pretty undisputible by the time I got to the end. There are some great photo's as well.

jb61264 · Post by **jb61264** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 5:52 pm

Tarekith wrote:LOTR (again) - duh

Have you read The Silmarillion yet?

djadonis206 · Post by **djadonis206** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 6:14 pm

Trainspotting - by Irvine Welsh (again)
Where do we go from here - Martin Luther King

before that all of Irvine Welsh's books over and over and over again - Filth, Porno, Pig, The Acid House, Ecstasy, Marabou Stork Nightmares and Glue (I like Glue)

over and over and over again since 1996

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but currently currently I'm reading some book about FUNCTIONS, INEQUALITIES and the such

ethios4 · Post by **ethios4** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 6:19 pm

jb61264 wrote:
Tarekith wrote:LOTR (again) - duh
Have you read The Silmarillion yet?

The Silmarillion is my favorite of the Middle Earth books. The whole LOTR story takes up only a few pages in the vast scope of The Silmarillion! Truly epic - there are a hundred books/movies just waiting to come to life in there. Reading that made me appreciate how cohesive and deep the Middle Earth world Tolkein created is.

STRATEGY_510 · Post by **STRATEGY_510** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 6:27 pm

jb61264 wrote:I know, I know...with all the music everyone is creating with Live 6 now...who has time to read?

I just finished a book by Ernest Gaines called "A Lesson Before Dying" and just wondered what books others on the forum have most recently finished.

Live 5 Power
A bunch of Marvel Comics

that is all...

STRATEGY

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