What are you currently reading?

[Lopez]

Poisoned Heart: I Married Dee Dee Ramone by Vera Ramone King. Mildly interesting account of life with Dee Dee and his wife of 17 years Vera. I would be more interesting if she supplied more information about Dee Dee as a Ramone, but I guess that's not the crux of the book. We all know he was a drug addict, and she has to drill that in on every page. She's a rather poor writer, too, who didn't get a good copyedit.

I recently read Johnny Ramones' autobiography, Commando. That is better written but is still kind of all over the place. He acknowledges that he was a tyrant in the band.

The best Ramones book I've read yet, and there are a lot of them out there, is that by Joey's brother Mickey Leigh I Slept with Joey Ramone, which I mentioned on the previous page. Beside drinking and drugging, he had debilitating obsessive compulsive disorder. Sometimes it would take him an hour just to cross a street.

All three books give good accounts of the awful time they had with Phil Spector producing their record End of the Century. Talk about your lunatics.

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Just started:

Fiction - Preston & Child: Blue Labyrinth
Nonfiction - David McCullough: The Wright Brothers

[spellbound]

Harbor by John Ajvide Lindqvist

[walt]

The Dawn Of Indian Music In The West by Peter Lavezzoli.This came highly recommended by several people whose opinions i value.

[markwoll]

Readme by Neal Stephenson

[SteveSly]

Poisoned Heart: I Married Dee Dee Ramone

All three books give good accounts of the awful time they had with Phil Spector producing their record End of the Century. Talk about your lunatics.

I have read several books with chapters about people’s experiences working with Spector and yea the dude appears to have been a nut case in just about every account. Brilliant, but a nut case just the same.

[Scott Bails]

Formula to solve Agatha Christie's mysteries discovered.

[spellbound]

Finished Harbor, and recommend it to any horror fiction fans.

Now reading Paradise Sky, a new one from Joe R. Lansdale. Also started Sick In The Head by Judd Apatow. Turns out to be a series of his interviews of comedians. I'll see it it holds my interest.

[wideopenears]

The Dawn Of Indian Music In The West by Peter Lavezzoli.This came highly recommended by several people whose opinions i value.

Gotta read this. Let me know how it is when you finish it!

[bob_32_116]

I read The Man in the High Castle years ago, Yves, on someone's recommendation. If I remember correctly, you've outlined the basic story. I found it not to be an easy book to read; I think because there's not a lot of action. I'll have to give it another try.

I thought the same. I'm a great lover of SF and I do like me some "alternate universe" themes, but I found the book rather plodding, almost up until the very end. I had to keep reminding myself that it was set in an alternate reality - otherwise it could have been just another rather boring story of political intrigue.

I'm currently reading "Revelation Space" by Alastair Reynolds, after this author was recommended by a number of PE members. I'm struggling a bit with it actually. It seems like a series of mini-adventures that are barely connected with one another, and I'm hoping the threads come together later on and build to some sort of climax.

[bob_32_116]

I have read several books with chapters about people’s experiences working with Spector and yea the dude appears to have been a nut case in just about every account. Brilliant, but a nut case just the same.

Considering what happened later regarding Spector, it seems the Ramones were lucky to get out of those sessions alive - though ironically Spector, even though he has been "put away", managed to outlive all of them.

Joe Meek, best known for the instrumental hit "Telstar", but also a highly successful producer, also went somewhat bonkers, killing his landlady before turning the gun on himself. Is there a correlation between musical production genius and psychopathic behaviour? Worthy of a research paper.

[rickawakeman]

Just finished "Perdido Street Station" by China Mieville (as I was taking a break from my recent obsession with classic High Fantasy), loved it and was about to read his "The Scar" when I picked up the new Robin Hobb "Fool's Assassin" at B&N, then realized I had yet to read the second Fitz/Fool trilogy, so just started "Fool's Errand".

[Lopez]

Just this morning on the trolley to work, I finished Providence Noir, an anthology of mystery and mysteryish stories set in my home town of Providence, RI. Fun stuff, especially since I could visualize all the places mentioned in the stories.

Now I'm on to Moondog: The Viking of 6th Avenue, by Robert Scotto, a biography of the eccentric composer. I met him once in New York in 1971. Interesting guy.

[interbellum]

Just finished reading Jess Walter's "The Zero". I noticed the original book is from 2006, but it was just recently translated into Dutch.

Any suggestion what I should read next? "Citizen Vince" perhaps?

[wideopenears]

Reading the Jack Bruce bio....."Jack Bruce: Composing Himself."

Good stuff.

[No Pride]

I'm almost but not quite ashamed to admit that I just finished yet another Stephen King book, "Mr. Mercedes." Another winner, it was great! Even had a good ending!

Part of me wishes to branch out and read novelists I'm not familiar with, the other part wants to stick with writers I have a lot of faith in (and there's not a ton of them). Some (like Baldacci and Hiaasen) really pulled me in at first, but after a while, their stories got too similar. King is really good at changing it up and switching genres imo; Mr. Mercedes had no supernatural elements, for example. Mostly, I think he just writes great, convincing characters and this last one was no exception. Apparently, it's the first of a trilogy; the second one, "Finders Keepers" is next and the third has yet to be. I liked the protagonists in this last one so much that I'll probably continue on.

[Firth]

The Wright Brothers - David McCulough

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The Wright Brothers - David McCulough

Just finished this one last week. Incredible the short shrift afforded them at the time by our government and those pinheads w/the Smithsonian.

[Lopez]

Part of me wishes to branch out and read novelists I'm not familiar with

Try Joe R. Lansdale. He's done science fiction, horror, weird western, caper, crime, all with a fair amount of humor, and he writes well. If you are familiar with the movies Bubba Hotep and Jonah Hex, that's Joe hisownself.

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Just starting Dave Barry's Insane City

[Rune Blackwings]

Agderposten articles

[Kuyjac]

Robin Hobb Tawny Man part 3 Fool's Fate.


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[PeterG]

The Children of Willesden Lane.

[Yves]

Robin Hobb Tawny Man part 3 Fool's Fate.


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I'm just finishing up the original Farseer Trilogy and I have the Tawny Man trilogy queued up to dive into right after. This is one of the best high fantasy series I have ever read...and I've read a few!

[Rune Blackwings]

interesting....apparently one of the ad banners on the digital version is one that detects where you have visited and runs an ad graphic from that site. So, here's all this Norwegian language ads and news...with an American Cheap Joe's Art Stuff ad in the middle of it....