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OT: What's the last book you read?
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 4:32 am
by jb61264
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.
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 5:40 am
by smutek
Last one I read was probably "The Night Manager" by john LeCarre. I'm a huge LeCarre fan.
Currently reading Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins (for the 2nd time), Hegemony or Survival by Noam Chomsky, and last but not least, (a real thriller) the Adobe Print Publishing Guide.
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 5:44 am
by sweetjesus
The Mixerman Diaries hardcover edition.
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 5:47 am
by dmacintyre
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy.
D.
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 5:51 am
by njh
who killed kurt cobain
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Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 5:55 am
by chewy
Live 6 PDF manual.
An adventure of mystery and intrigue.
~chewy
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 6:00 am
by continuous
Just started up Count Zero by William Gibson again. Second time around loop.
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 6:15 am
by ethios4
Last books read :
Ruminations - KRS-ONE - read at night (Thoughts on race, politics, hiphop, and thought by one of hiphop's founding, and most profound, activists)
Hegemony or Survival - Noam Chomsky - read in the morning (Mind-blowing, and depressing, study of imperialist actions by the US. Excellent!!)
SAS Survival Handbook - John Wiseman - read on the pot (How to survive in any environment with very little to go on. Excellent!)
Currently reading :
The Act of Marriage - Tim LaHaye - night (A Christian perspective on sex within a marital relationship. Surprisingly good)
The Owners Manual for the Brain - Pierce Howard - day (Practical applications of neuropsychology. Very informative and practical)
Noodles, Nitwits, and Numskulls - Maria Leach - on the pot (A silly collection of universal jokes and riddles from around the world)
I'd highly recommend :
Silence - John Cage (Helps to break down pre-conceptions about sound/music, may change the way you hear forever!!)
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon (Incredible novel - hard to explain, but my favorite work of fiction)
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Very organic and beautiful Colombian novel dealing with humanity and human nature)
Finnegan's Wake - James Joyce (Incredible literary fun! A river of puns in 17 languages telling an archetypal dream tale!)
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 6:16 am
by djmyke
powerbook =)
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 6:21 am
by continuous
ethios4 wrote:
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon (Incredible novel - hard to explain, but my favorite work of fiction)
So...hard...to....read...getting...lost...again. How do you do it?
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 6:30 am
by ethios4
I had 2 months in Greece with almost nothing else to do relax and read. Also, I let go of trying to understand everything I was reading. Parts of it had me feeling really confused, but I just kept reading and soon got to parts that had me feeling there are great and wonderful mysteries in the world that lie just at the edge of our perception.
I got a companion guide to it after I read it and realized there is far more to that book than I got out of it, but what I did pick up affected me for years
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 6:38 am
by continuous
ethios4 wrote: but I just kept reading and soon got to parts that had me feeling there are great and wonderful mysteries in the world that lie just at the edge of our perception.
wow..... I've had others express similar experiences which makes me want to "get into it all the more". I've taken to opening it randomly and reading parts.
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 7:18 am
by Mike Goodwin
Make Money with your Studio
HAL-Leonard, auther is Tom Volinchak. A good read.
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 7:28 am
by AdamJay
Children of Dune and then God Emperor of Dune shortly after.
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 7:35 am
by minimal
Bass Culture
historty of jamaican music