What are you reading?

[rowjimmy]

I just read the 33¹/₃ book on "A Live One" by Walter Holland.
It's fucking great.

[mopper_smurf]

I just read the 33¹/₃ book on "A Live One" by Walter Holland.
It's fucking great.

Indeed. On a par with Joe Harvard's book on The Velvet Underground & Nico and Philip Shaw's Horses.


Next one for me in this series: Bitches Brew.

[mistercharlie]

I've just finished my re-read of the Song of Ice and Fire series. Come on G.R.R.M, finish the next book already, and then instantly get started on the next one so we can read it in another ten years.  :roll:

Ready Player One



A great read for fans of sci-fi, 80s pop culture, computers, video games and dorks in general.

Read that in May.  Great story. Great references.

Read it last year. Great book.
Soon to be a motion picture.

Didn't realize it was getting the film treatment.  Looks like Spielberg is slated to direct it per IMDb.

I go this book in Loot Crate awhile back. I read the opening chapter but then forgot about it. I think I'll grab it off the shelf and give it a read through.

[VDB]

Started Ready Player One on audio book in the car this weekend. So far so good.

Also a friend left the 33 1/3 ALO here recently so I'm looking forward to taking my time returning that to him.

[VDB]

Started reading ALO last night. It is, indeed, super.

[Mr. Natural]

THE VIRGIN SUICIDES - Jeffrey Eugenides  (1993)



God damn.
I think this is my favorite book now. I saw the movie in the theater and liked it alot. Last month, I saw its soundtrack at the library, which brought me back.
So good.

[cactusfan]

I just read the 33¹/₃ book on "A Live One" by Walter Holland.
It's fucking great.

Indeed. On a par with Joe Harvard's book on The Velvet Underground & Nico and Philip Shaw's Horses.


Next one for me in this series: Bitches Brew.

Wow. The ALO book really is excellent. Wanky writing of that sort if hard to pull off, but he does a great job. Anyone read his book on fall '97? I might have to check that one out too.

Before that I read the Bitches Brew book. It was okay. Seems better suited for those who are only vaguely familiar with Miles and with the album. This author's wanky writing often feels forced, and though he's knowledgeable and loves the music, I didn't get much insight from it.

Haven't read any others in the series. And other really good ones people have sampled?

[rowjimmy]

I just read the 33¹/₃ book on "A Live One" by Walter Holland.
It's fucking great.

Indeed. On a par with Joe Harvard's book on The Velvet Underground & Nico and Philip Shaw's Horses.


Next one for me in this series: Bitches Brew.

Wow. The ALO book really is excellent. Wanky writing of that sort if hard to pull off, but he does a great job. Anyone read his book on fall '97? I might have to check that one out too.

Before that I read the Bitches Brew book. It was okay. Seems better suited for those who are only vaguely familiar with Miles and with the album. This author's wanky writing often feels forced, and though he's knowledgeable and loves the music, I didn't get much insight from it.

Haven't read any others in the series. And other really good ones people have sampled?

I haven't read Wally's Fall '97 book but he does talk kind of the way he writes. Check out his recent appearance on HFPod.

[sunrisevt]

Re-reading this, after inhaling it back in May. This guy's 5th novel.

I may have crowed about him before--can't say enough good things about this guy's work. He's a literary child of Toni Morrison & Robert Frost.

[cactusfan]

I just read the 33¹/₃ book on "A Live One" by Walter Holland.
It's fucking great.

Indeed. On a par with Joe Harvard's book on The Velvet Underground & Nico and Philip Shaw's Horses.


Next one for me in this series: Bitches Brew.

Wow. The ALO book really is excellent. Wanky writing of that sort if hard to pull off, but he does a great job. Anyone read his book on fall '97? I might have to check that one out too.

Before that I read the Bitches Brew book. It was okay. Seems better suited for those who are only vaguely familiar with Miles and with the album. This author's wanky writing often feels forced, and though he's knowledgeable and loves the music, I didn't get much insight from it.

Haven't read any others in the series. And other really good ones people have sampled?

I haven't read Wally's Fall '97 book but he does talk kind of the way he writes. Check out his recent appearance on HFPod.

i tried the Fall '97 book. it's borderline unreadable. it's just a bunch of childish bullshit, mostly cribbed from his own interweb posts, with little coherent discussion of the music, plus a lot of bitching about songs he hates. don't play this guy Sand or Bug, i guess.

he clearly got older, upped his writing game, and actually gave a shit for the 33 1/3 book.

[mehead]

Starting this today.

[Mr. Natural]

DANCING WITH THE DEAD - Rosie McGee



First surprise (good) - The book is primarily text. Not a whole lotta news, but it takes you to a time & place, when it works well.
2nd surprise (not so good) - The photos, which were the selling point when this came out as an eBook last summer and which I was really looking forward to, are fucking photocopied black&whites in the print edition.


ALMOST INTERESTING - David Spade



I don't think I've ever read a book and heard the author's voice speaking in my head so clearly. Plenty of laugh-out-loud moments, too. He's harsher on himself than anybody else; and it's hilarious. Plus, he's got some great celebrity stories from before he was famous.

[GBL]

Started reading the goldfinch, because birdman told me too

[PIE-GUY]

Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America
by Jesse Jarnow

I woke up at about 4:30 this morning unable to sleep (it happens) and saw the email from Amazon that this was ready to read in ebook form. I had preordered it.

I'm one chapter in and it's really good.

[rowjimmy]

Got the hardcopy last week and I'm about to finish it. Dude covers so much ground- some very familiar, some completely foreign to me- it's amazing.
I'm really enjoying the book and am looking forward to interviewing him for HFPod.