What are you currently reading?

[kshapero]

Either way, we know what we are talking about, yes?

 

[helen.HH]

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Arghh, Haha on Me ...My copy is ‘ie’
Well Burrough’s and or Publisher’s were clever in his spin

Anywsy You kbew I was pkayin, Yes Sanders ???

 

[Sanders McNew]

Arghh, Haha on Me ...My copy is ‘ie’
Well Burrough’s and or Publisher’s were clever in his spin

Anywsy You knew I was playin, Yes Sanders ???

Of course. 🙂 I gather his spelling was Junky but his first editors insisted on Junkie, and censored out a lot. (And he originally used William Lee as a nom de plume to protect his family from attack.) When he was big enough to insist on an unexpurgated edition, he changed it back to Junky. So we are both right.

 

[seany65]

I find John Cowell's The Interpreter can be of some help in such cases...


https://archive.org/details/interpretero_cowe_1607_00/page/n5/mode/2up

Thanks for the link, mapgraphs.

 

[Dogman]

"Lee Friedlander", the Fundacion Mapfre publication. It just came in today's mail and I've only thumbed through it. I've seen most of the photos before but some are new to me. Plus it looks like some interesting reading.

I counted this afternoon. I now own 44 books of Lee Friedlander's photography.

 

[iphoenix]

"The Girl Who Played With Fire" by Steig Larsson.

First few chapters a bit too violently sexual, but later gets into being a great mystery.

 

[Mark A. Fisher]

“See/Saw”, by Geoff Dyer
“The Sixth Extinction”, by Elizabeth Kolbert

 

[lamefrog]

Ernst Jünger: “Storm of Steel” , trans. by Michael Hoffman

 

[Sanders McNew]

“See/Saw”, by Geoff Dyer
“The Sixth Extinction”, by Elizabeth Kolbert

Dyer is wonderful! Thank you for mentioning his new book -- I just ordered a copy, thanks to you. 🙂

 

[Guest]

Conceptual Physics.

 

[shimokita]

"Gettysburg: The Last Invasion" by Allen C. Guelzo … rereading for the second time

 

[Mark A. Fisher]

Dyer is wonderful! Thank you for mentioning his new book -- I just ordered a copy, thanks to you. 🙂

I would also recommend his “But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz” and “The Ongoing Moment”, if you haven’t read them yet. Great stuff…

 

[Larry Cloetta]

Ernst Jünger: “Storm of Steel” , trans. by Michael Hoffman

One of the most amazing books I have ever read. Icily disquieting. Never read anything else quite like it.

 

[Godfrey]

Re-reading "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K Le Guin, which I do/have done every year for the past 40 years. (I actually re-read the whole six-book extended trilogy every year.)

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[konicaman]

Re-reading Nicholas Negroponte. Being Digital, and Nicholas G. Carr: The Shallows. Some 15 years between publication dates, both books dealing with how the digital lifestyle affects us. Very different perspectives though. Both books are very well written and highly recommended.

 

[Richard G]

The Nature of Explanation. Kenneth Craik.
The Hands of Pianists. Stephen Downes
A multiyear project continuing: re-reading War and Peace (very slowly).

 

[Andrea Taurisano]

Just finished Born to run, by Christopher McDougall. (It didn't exactly make me want to run more, but it helped me to run better.)

 

[shimokita]

A multiyear project continuing: re-reading War and Peace (very slowly).

I am a "one-time" reader of War and Peace... so far... wonderful book

Also enjoyed "The Last Station" by Jay Parini... the story of the final year in the life of Leo Tolstoy, told from multiple viewpoints

 

[Austintatious]

This book should be on your must read list.

"The Creature From Jekyll Island". by G. Edward Griffin

A Second Look at the Federal Reserve

It is a history of banking and money that most average folks are uninformed about.

 

[Rick Waldroup]

Re-reading Couples by John Updike. I first read it in 1968 and picked it up the other day and started reading it again.