What Are You Reading

[sixsexsix]

The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer. I found it in a box on the side of the road.

 

[vonwotan]

Continuing chronologically through Evelyn Waugh's novels I have just started Scoop.

 

[Chiliarches]

Just finished Benjamin Franklin's autobiography. Currently reading Homage to Catalonia.

 

[John Boyer]

Just finished Benjamin Franklin's autobiography. Currently reading Homage to Catalonia.

Dear Mr. Chiliarches,

Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography and Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl would be my choices for inclusion in every man's library. :eusa_clap Franklins' Thirteen Virtues for cultivating character are nearly unmatched. I try to read both of these books about every year.

John

 

[Aorta]

'Gentleman: A Timless Fashion' by Bernhard Roetzel, and am waiting for Amazon to deliver 'A History of Men's Fashion: What The Well-Dressed Man Is Wearing' by Nicholas Storey.

With luck, my wardrobe will improve as a result of both!

My roommate owns the German version of 'Gentleman: A Timeless Fashion', I gave it to him as a present. It's an interesting read, isn't it? Roetzel also wrote a book about female fashion, but I heard it's not as good as the one for men, so I'm still hesitating to buy it.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Sat up half the night reading a 1974 hardcover collection of "The Gumps," the pioneering continuity comic strip by Sidney Smith -- the impossibly melodramatic but remarkably gripping adventures of Andy, Min, Chester, rich Uncle Bim, and the sinister goateed villain Townsend Zander. More words-per-panel than any comic strip before or since, it's a strip you *read* rather than just look at, and suffers terribly when reduced in size for reprints. Smith wasn't a very good artist -- Andy Gump may have been the most unpleasant-looking character ever to disfigure the comic pages -- but he knew how to tell a story as well as anyone who has ever worked in the medium.

 

[BinkieBaumont]

"Pocket Books"

"they look so practical (and collectible!), but do they really fit into ones pocket? anyone know the dimensions of the Books, WIKI has some info but no dimensions?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_Books The Link

 

[Darhling]

Why, Darhling, I never would have figured you for Zombie Lit!

Uhm, I liked the cover?? No, I got it because it had gotten a lot of good reviews, besides, I hope Mr. Darcy dies in this version (it is pride and prejudice and zombies, I wrote the wrong title before)!! I really want to read the second book in the 'Glassbooks of the dream eaters' though. The first was really good and fastpaced, never a dull moment in an otherwise very long book!

 

[Corto]

Continuing chronologically through Evelyn Waugh's novels I have just started Scoop.

I thought Scoop was hilarious. One of his best in my opinion.

I'm currently reading several books but the one I'm making the most headway in is James Basset's Harm's Way. Great WWII Navy novel. (The movie was excellent too, with superb performances by John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Burgess Meredith and Patricia Neal.)

 

[Lorrel Mae]

Pocket books...

Oh my gosh! I picked up a bunch of those recently! I don't have any of Mr. Stanley's at home right now, but Mr. Runyon's measures 4 1/4" x 6 3/8". (A Graphic Book, paperback)

If that helps!


Sandi

 

[skyvue]

I just finished Trav S.D.'s very enjoyable history of vaudeville, No Applause--Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous, which is now available as a bargain book. I recommend it.

I'm now a few pages into Paula Uruburu's American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the Century. So far, so good.

 

[Barchetta52]

Rereading "John Dillinger" by Dary Matera.

Just finished "The Santa Claus Robbery", a thorough account of the 12/23/1927 First National Bank of Cisco (TX) by four men, one dressed as Santa Claus. (Don't have the book with me and can't remember the author. If anybody's interested I'll get it when I get home.)

My granddad lived in the area at the time so I knew about the robbery, but I didn't know about the manhunt and ultimate disposition of the criminals. Absolutely fascinating and terrifying.

 

[jimbothewan]

Rereading my James Ellroy collection

Have started with Ellroy's "White Jazz" Scary in certain basic areas. Has anybody any idea who, if anyone at all the character of Pete Bondurant may have been based on?

 

[Harp]

Daniel Mendelsohn's The Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy.
---a long overdue study of Cavafy, which delves inside the poet's
troubled personality in Alexandria, Egypt circa 1900-20.

also,
The Philosophy of Fighting; Morals and Motives of The Modern Warrior
by K. Vargo of Black Belt magazine.
...a rehash of the lash. :whip:
and, last but not least:
Sports Illustrated's College Football Review.

...and I doubt Army will beat Navy this year

 

[AmateisGal]

Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear. Set in London in 1929.

 

[Erik]

I'm currently delving into Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurtry. It is excellent.

 

[MsStabby]

Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs

John Lydon's biography of sorts.

 

[Nighthawk]

Stranger in a Strange Land. Original version.

 

[Wally_Hood]

Just finishing To Kill a Mockingbird. Had read it for the first time about twenty-five years ago, mostly because of the movie. Now enjoying with sort of fresh appreciation.

 

[BinkieBaumont]

"The Legend of Lord Snooty"

"Tales of Daring Do, Dastardly Deeds, and Cunning Stunts, Cartoon capers from the last 6o years of the "Beano"