I have this habit of not reading just one book at a time.

HUGE fan of the Dark Tower series by Stephen King. I am re-reading book Four (Wizard and the Glass) before book five comes out.

Also, I am reading Julius Caesar's 'Conquest of Gaul', and I just finished 'Eaters of the Dead' (the movie 'The 13th Warrior' is based off this book, which is based loosely off of Beowulf).

Readaholic here. Hence why I work for a publishing company I suppose.

It's been sitting in my "men's library"( come on we all read in THERE) for a while,
120 DAYS OF SODOM by Marquis de Sade.

Stephen King's The Stand.

Larspeart: Actually its the wife who's the big SK fan. This is only the 4th SK I've read (Talisman, Green Mile and Girl who loved Tom Gordon). Has an SK character ever drank absinthe?

Mr. Green Genes

The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL, written by Ken Henderson.

Oh Jack, you wild and crazy man...

Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause, a pretty good look at how Jefferson set in course the Civil War.

Just finished reading "Alfred Jarry: The Man With the Axe". In the middle of reading "Deep Blues" (a history of the Delta/Chicago Blues), "People Funny Boy" (bio of Lee 'Scratch' Perry) & "Faith In Time: The Life of Jimmy Scott". Next up is "Our Man in Havana" by Graham Greene. I suppose I'll get around to actually reading "Absinthe: A Sip of Seduction" at some point, although I think its appeal will end up being more visual than anything else...

I'm about half way thorugh 'Absinthe: A Myth Always Green'. I will probably go back to re-reading some Hemingway after I finish this. I think I still have a copy of 'The Sun Also Rises' somewhere.

I read that last year...thoroughly enjoyed it.

Honestly, while I can't prove it, I have to believe one of them has. I'm one of those people who are just WAY too into the Dark tower series.

almost to the middle of The Sexual Life of Catherine M.

eh, it's ok so far.

Trippy, Rimmy: I just started 'Our Man in Havana' on the subway this morning. I'm only ten pages into it, but it seems pretty good so far. Vacuum cleaners and rum.

And I'm about halfway through a book called 'Paradise Alley,' by some Kevin Baker somebody. Well written historical melodrama set in NYC during the Civil War. Good but not great.

Just okay? Darn! I had heard it was steamy. She was a TOTAL smart-slut. There wasn't a thing she didn't do. A local radio show interviewed her, and it was 'odd' to say the least.

i'm guessing that if i read it in french (which would be difficult not knowing french) it would be a better read for me.

it just seems a bit dry to me, and i was HOPING it was going to be steamier than it is.

just because she does "everything" doesn't mean it sounds interesting. if that makes ANY sense. just my 2 cents.

I know what you mean. I went to the red-light district in Bangkok once, a couple of years ago. That night, I saw strippers do things with parts of their bodies that I never would have imagined, much less thought humanly possible. But for all of the novelty of the various floor shows I saw, none of it made me want to sleep with any of the dancers/performers/pussy magicians. Hell, I don't think I even got a woody the whole time. Moral of the story: sometimes less is more.

I agree. You know what they say..."Over-exposure kills the boner!"

Yup, I totally agree. I have seen some amazing acts done with strange body parts, but most of it doesn't appeal to me.

It seems CG and I had the same hope for her book. Glad I got yer reveiw. I was tempted to go and buy it. Also, I think you are right. I'll bet a fair amount was lost in the translation. It always comes back dry.

Use a lubricant!

I was waiting to see who would jump on that 1st.

Good old Rimmy!

YMMV

Abuse Your Illusions: The Disinformation Guide to Media Mirages and Establishment Lies

The venerable (not venereal) Unix Network Programming by Richard Stevens

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down - an interesting book about a Hmong girl with epilepsy, and how american doctors try to treat her.

I, Robot - Asimov <-- very good!

Right now it's:
When I was Five I Killed Myself-- Howard Buten (Catcher in the rye-ish).
Geek Love--(I think Carnivale got some ideas from this amazing book).
Amphigorey Also--Edward Gorey

Jim Goad's "The Redneck Manifesto", I've read it a few times already but it just seems to be more humorous each time. Just finished reading Sagan's "The Demon-Haunted World" for the fifth time, probably my favorite book.

Hitler's U-Boat War ,The Hunters 1939-1942.
The Destruction of Convoy PQ 17
Absinthe, A Myth Always Green

Anything A Horse Can Do, The Story of The Helicopter c. 1944

The Man On The Flying Trapeze. excellent bio of W.C. Fields

Last Sunday's New York Times.
This month's Esquire.
400-650 posts per day from you jackasses, along w/assorted PMs, IMs and e-mails.
C'mon, how 'bouts ya pays me to do it?

'Sip of...'

Ass?

Small change got rained on Guv'nah, I'd pay ya but the Cros and Dink have to be included in the twilight coup deville's. Pour me a cab.

But they don't love you fucks like I do.

And we love our Mayor

Everybody be lovin' everybody since we got together here.
It's fuckin' great!

You're right LL!

It's sort of like when a storm blows into town and uproots all the trees and tears things down, all the neighbors come out to be neighborly...

I wish I could read.

I've definitely noticed a "lighter" atmosphere here than in the old lounge. Everyone seems so happy and friendly and eager to help each other.

DG

Lend me 50 bucks.

I'll only ask for $20...

Do a little dance or something at least.

...

I have that same issue.

I'm on The Theory of Poker by Sklansky at the moment...then on to Noble House by James Clavell.

Any poker fans around here?

Depends on the her.

And I prefers my hers w/out Depends.

All this 'green fairy' talk made me thing of the scottish term 'sidhe' (meaning 'The fairy host') which I picked up from the Katherine Kurts 'The Adept' series... so after digging through the bookshelves... I am rereading the series.

I also special ordered the Princess of Paranoias Book 'Sip of Seduction'... its interesting. So far there is alot of deadspace with little to no useful info... perfect example is the Aleister Crowley bio... absinthe isnt mentioned till the last paragraph and even then its barely even enough to bother. She could have skipped the total history of the man and simply focused on the absinthe part. Frankly her writing is just bland in alot of areas.

Nothing new or useful... except that german inhale techniqe. I think I would rather have an absinthe enema. Might be more effective!

Go post that at ABG, someone will do it.

Recently finished:

The Scar
by China Mieville

The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
by Slavomir Rawicz

Up next:

We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance
by David Howarth


I often go in themed phases, sometimes bizarre ones:
Biographies of mathematicians
Factual war escape stories
Booker prize books
etc

'hegemony or survival' - noam chomsky

I loved that book! I've had the notion that Carnivale is a slow, diluted union of Geek Love and the Gospel Singer.

Current reads are Nausea (Sartre) and Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco).

I've been meaning to pick up something by Chomsky. Do you recommend your current read, Satchmo?

Sartre.
Smells like life between pancakes.

surely...

it's his most recent work, current and relevant (though you'll find his older works still very relevant as well)

i'm only two chapters in... subject of the book is america's recent move to unilateral action and global hegemony... and how it may relate to the imminent and rapid demise of our species...

i'd really recommend anything he's written, also his audio and video if you run across them...

also in a similar vein (aka WAKE THE FUCK UP AND LOOK AT WHAT IS GOING ON) i'd recommend the project censored books... most recent being 'censored 2004' a compendium of the biggest (in the opinion of the editors) underreported stories of the year...
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sancho