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by Grant Brisbee on Jun 26, 2008 12:36 PM PDT
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1. We could talk about Zito! All things Zito! Is he back? Did he leave? Can he sustain this? Was this start just a fluky outlier? Zito! All things Zito! His velocity was up! No, it was the same! Wait, it was the improved control! The different arm angle! Today’s topic of discussion: All things Zito! How can he be fixed? What’s broken? Can he be fixed? Let’s study his mechanics! Let’s study the organizational options! Let’s study the mechanics of the organization! Let’s organize the study of his mechanics! Let’s mechanize the organization of this study, shall we? All things Zito!
or…
2. We haven’t had an Open Reading Thread in a while. Not on the main page, at least. Heck, the game starts in a couple of hours, so you can get your baseball fix then. What have you been reading lately? I just finished The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, which was dee-lightful, and I’ve just started on Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. The author’s use of similes is like a dark red cicada emerging from its pupa stage to begin the latent machinations it was born asunder to do no other way about.
I’m trying to alternate between fiction and non-fiction, and I’m always looking for tips on what to read. Open reading thread.
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I have recently been getting...
my nerdy fantasy novel read on.
The Lies of Locke Lamora is an unbelievably good novel. Its sequel, Red Seas Under Red Skies is a notch below but remains eminently readable.
Flossing a dead horse
I've heard good things about "The Lies of Locke Lamora"
Only 895 games until the end of Zito's contract
World War Z FTW!
By Mel Brooks’ son Max Brooks (a former SNL writer)
Down in Front Meat!
by homerdrew415 on Jun 26, 2008 3:14 PM PDT up reply actions
If I Never Get Back is also a fantastic baseball time travel book (with S.F. Chron & Giants tie in).
Down in Front Meat!
by homerdrew415 on Jun 26, 2008 3:18 PM PDT up reply actions
The last two books I finished were And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave (yeah, I’m a raving fangirl, w/e, w/e) and All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy. I liked both of them quite a bit, especially the former. It’s a bit overwritten but damn, it was fun to read. And all sorts of depravity! The movie of All the Pretty Horses was horrible (my dad taped it off the tv and was like, “Hey, we just read this, we should watch the movie!) and took out everything that made the book interesting.
I’m in the middle of Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen but I’m kind of disappointed by it. I can’t really get into it. It’s not very long so I’ll probably finish it, but still. I’m trying to decide what to read next. Actually, I wanted to start reading some Faulkner, anyone know a good place to start?
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I’m one of the weird people that actually like reading Faulkner. I hope you enjoy reading long ass sentences!
I like his work in short stories, maybe pick up a collection if you’re into that sort of thing. A Rose for Emily is awesome and one of my favorites. As for his novels, I’ve always liked As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury.
He’s not for everyone but his stories are generally engaging enough to me and it’s an interesting look into the environment of the south.
Thanks! The Cave novel was actually compared to some of Faulkner’s stuff (and it’s got some long-ass sentences in it), which is what sort of sparked my sudden interest.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
Yeah, maybe see if you pick up a couple of short stories to see if you can dig his style, but if you’re already readinglongasssentences™ it might not bother you too much.
it was something of a Faulkner ripoff
..but really, pretty different.
Me, I’d read Flannery O’Connor first, but I do like Faulkner.
+1
I’d start with As I Lay Dying. Great novelist.
Seriously, it seems like a two sided issue with Faulkner readers.
BROCK BOND LIKES HIS MARTINIS PUNCHED IN THE FACE, NOT STIRRED.
by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Jun 26, 2008 2:00 PM PDT up reply actions
agree
As I Lay Dying is indeed a great way to start on W.F. It has the mulitple perspectives but without the difficult ‘voices’ found in many of his other works that like to switch up the POV (a la the mentally disabled child in The Sound and The Fury). Once you’ve got a few under your belt, I recommend Absalom, Absalom as the feather in one’s Faulkner cap.
Kevin Correia: MLB's best fifth starter on a last place team
by VidaWantsYourCar on Jun 26, 2008 12:59 PM PDT up reply actions
I never made it through Beautiful Losers. You should give up, too.
yeah, well, the whole world stinks, francine -- so get used to it!
The Sound and the Fury
I had to read The Sound and the Fury for my senior thesis. Dense book, had to read it twice just to understand it, but actually worthwhile in the end. Cool book. I started Absalom, Absalom once, but couldn’t finish the first chapter. Definitely would recommend S&F.
Absalom, Absalom...
...is tough sledding, absolutely; it’s all about a huge payoff in the end, where there’s a fantastic, straightforward-rendered scene that had me hollering at the book as though I was seated in a movie theatre in Times Square for a midnight screening. Great stuff. It took me a few times/years to get used to the early chapters. I finally took a Faulkner enthusiast’s advice and just went with it, and didn’t worry if I was understanding every sentence (all four of them)—just consider the first part all about atmosphere and emotion and looking back in anger. And then…woot! woot!
Kevin Correia: MLB's best fifth starter on a last place team
by VidaWantsYourCar on Jun 26, 2008 7:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Reading a volume of Philip K Dick short stories. I’m also few chapters into Misquoting Jesus. And I’m reading bits and pieces of the 2008 Hardball Times Annual.
OT...
Do you have any plans to do a post with the new 3D pitch F/X stuff, xanthan?
Flossing a dead horse
You know, I just got to see the new Gameday app last night during the Giants game. I haven’t had much of a chance to check it out, but the new visual stuff is really interesting. The ability to change views is really cool.
Hopefully I can do some stuff with it, though I need to study it and see if it’s within my grasp.
that annual
is very very very good
BROCK BOND LIKES HIS MARTINIS PUNCHED IN THE FACE, NOT STIRRED.
by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Jun 26, 2008 2:00 PM PDT up reply actions
+1 on the Annual
I read in cover to cover as soon as I got it. Can’t wait until next years.
Eugeniooooooo!!!!
by FairweatherFan on Jun 26, 2008 2:40 PM PDT up reply actions
a couple of each recently...
Non-Fiction: “Where I Was From” by Joan Didion…some intriguing takes on the development and evolution of California. I can usually take or leave Didion, but the history she incorporates is very interesting, and her perspective as a daughter of the Central Valley to a New York writer offers a thoughtful spin on all of it.
Fiction: “Forgetfulness” by Ward Just…probably the most ponderous and passive book you’ll read on post-9/11 America, but ultimately a rather satisfying change of pace. The fact it takes place in France from the perspective of an American ex-pat is your first clue that it’s not your typical naval gazing (though gaze it does).
Kevin Correia: MLB's best fifth starter on a last place team
by VidaWantsYourCar on Jun 26, 2008 12:53 PM PDT reply actions
Oh...
That does read as rather non-commital. Sorry. Yes, I would recommend them.
Kevin Correia: MLB's best fifth starter on a last place team
by VidaWantsYourCar on Jun 26, 2008 7:02 PM PDT up reply actions
I agree on Didion. Her essays on place are my favorite, though I really didn’t like Slouching Toward Bethlehem (the essay).
by RougeGorrila on Jun 26, 2008 4:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Since I am only teaching 3 hours a week at the moment, I actually have time to read
I started my reading up again by picking up the Studs Terkel reader. Oral history is fantastic. And whatever Terkel does (ask the right questions, find the right people, who knows) the oral histories in his books are always fantastic. They are even more fantasticer than typical oral history. They are always interesting.
Only 895 games until the end of Zito's contract
This is totally off-topic
But I’ve got a question and this is the right crowd to ask, and I don’t want to start a whole fanpost to ask a pretty easy question.
Has anyone listened to KNBR online and if so about how long is it delayed compared to the real broadcast?
Don't know about compared to the real broadcast
But it can even vary computer to computer. Two of us were sitting in offices next door to eachother and my feed was coming in 10 seconds earlier than the other one.
Let's bring the...
Yeah, but in general its within 1 minute of the regular broadcast
Down in Front Meat!
by homerdrew415 on Jun 26, 2008 3:16 PM PDT up reply actions
I finished The Yiddish Policeman’s Union a while back (which is now winning awards based on the Michael Chabon name, if you ask me). It’s good, and very enjoyable to read, but uneven and just a liiiiiiiiiiittle bit racist (not in a Jewy way, though, so don’t jump on me for that… and I’d actually love to be proven wrong, but I’m not sure what he could have been trying to do with these moments…). That said, I look forward the Coen’s film adaptation.
I’m reading Little, Big now, and it seeme like I’ve been reading it forever (that would be because I have been). It seems like no matter how much I’m enjoying this book, I just have no problems leaving it on the table. Here’s to finishing it by ‘09! I think I’ve finished 5 or 6 other books since I started Little, Big. It’s extremely enjoyable, but also extremely put-downable.
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
Funny, I've been reading Big Little
It’s a cute story of things that are big, versus things that are little (Ladies are big, ladybugs are little). My daughter loves it!
I hope that’s not the same book you’re reading!
"He called the sh** POOP!" -- Adam Sandler
Of course, I meant Coenses’.
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Jun 26, 2008 7:03 PM PDT up reply actions
I just started One Up on Wall Street by Peter Lynch.
I’ll let you know how effective it is, when I am either filthy rich or homeless.
Anagram of "Giants pitcher Matt Cain" = TRAGIC MAN, ISN'T PATHETIC
by Stuttering John Tamargo on Jun 26, 2008 1:08 PM PDT reply actions
ugh, Lynch
Try ‘Reminiscences of a Stock Operator’ and Graham and Dodd’s ‘Security Analysis’ instead.
I already have Reminiscences. That will be read next.
Anagram of "Giants pitcher Matt Cain" = TRAGIC MAN, ISN'T PATHETIC
by Stuttering John Tamargo on Jun 26, 2008 1:25 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m trying not to tear through the latest David Sedaris offering, catching a story here and there in order to savor it. In its place, I have John Dean’s Blind Ambition, his 1976 Watergate memoir, coupled with that old David McCullough’s Truman/ In the latter I am fifty pages in, and Harry Truman is still fifty years from being born. Sheesh, get to droppin’ A-bombs already.
yeah, well, the whole world stinks, francine -- so get used to it!
I just finished The Histories by Herodotus.
Spoiler alert: The Greeks win!
Trent Kline: Decentish. Also, my website is called ChatterBalks Dot Com and on it I make jokes about things.
OT – just got back from a sushi restaurant that offers a Natto maki.
I didn’t order it.
you can't block the Bocock
Cormac McCarthy
Nobody kills off more innocent donkeys than McCarthy. Nobody.
I’m about to start The Third Domain: The Untold Story of Archaea and the Future of Biotechnology. Recommended for all extremophilephiles. You know who you are.
Disfrute Los Gigantes every day at www.leftymalo.com
I have an hour+ commute to work in the morning, I’m here all day, and have an hour+ commute home. Then I spend the evening playing with my daughter before we put her to bed. When I do get the chance to read, it’s mostly amazing stories written by Microsoft! Or else I’m reading something by the great Sandra Boynton, along the lines of “But Not the Hippopotamus” or “The Belly Button Book.” When it gets late enough, I’m going to play video games or watch TV, and let my brain shut down for the night.
In fairness, I do read a good bit of crap on McCoveyChronicles.com. More than I should…
"He called the sh** POOP!" -- Adam Sandler
I just finished Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper by Fuchsia Dunlop, one of the better foriegner in China memoirs. I’m about halfway through Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely - the experiments are interesting enough but Ariely’s writing style is very bland. I’ve come to expect better from economics popularizations.
Every week or so I read the Baseball Prospectus Annual section on who our opponents are.
you can't block the Bocock
Harry Potter?
Rereading it for the 100th time. Other than that, nothing much
Jesse English: He is BAAAAAACCCCCKKKK!
There’s somebody in the complex I work in who has a custome license plate on their car that reads HRCRUX7.
I couldn’t believe it took me 2 months of looking at it to figure out what it meant.
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Jun 26, 2008 2:45 PM PDT up reply actions
I am still looking at it trying to figure out what it meant
I am enforcing a Harry Potter ban in my life.
Eugeniooooooo!!!!
by FairweatherFan on Jun 26, 2008 2:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Now reading Eric Puchner’s “Music through the Floor” short story compilation. So far, I LOVE two stories and the rest have been pretty good. “Animals Here Below” and “Essay # 3: Leda and the Swan” were both truly excellent, though.
Idolizing Robb Nen since 2002...
by Smoke on the Water on Jun 26, 2008 1:51 PM PDT reply actions
Currently Reading:
The Second City Almanac of Improvisation – Improv is kinda my thing and this is like the New Testament for Improvers.
Takeover – it’s by my favorite journalist, Charlie Savage, and details exactly how the Bush administration has returned imperial presidency and incredibly power to the executive branch. It’s scary as hell and rather sickening.
Cat’s Cradle – I’m in a Vonnegut phase sort of. i don’t know, he’s funny as hell and i read Slaughterhouse five while working the polls on election day so I figured i should keep going until i no longer find it interesting.
Up Next:
When You Are Engulfed in Flames – David Sedaris
Collected works of Eugene O’Neill
Improvisation for the Theatre – Viola Spolin ( the Old Testament of improv)
The Naked and the Dead – Norman Mailer
Just finished reading:
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan. Another read on the election day. It’s very very good. Not quite as good as Atonement but still spectacular. McEwan is one of the most gifted linguists around.
BROCK BOND LIKES HIS MARTINIS PUNCHED IN THE FACE, NOT STIRRED.
by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Jun 26, 2008 2:09 PM PDT reply actions
I’ve been in a Vonnegut phase since I was twelve! It’s fun, isn’t it?
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I find myself
disagreeing with some of his political views and ideas expressed in the book but he’s so damn funny and poignant that I can’t help but read more.
BROCK BOND LIKES HIS MARTINIS PUNCHED IN THE FACE, NOT STIRRED.
by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Jun 26, 2008 2:23 PM PDT up reply actions
When I was 18
I was laid up in bed for 6 weeks due to a car accident. At that time I was introduced to Vonnegut and read his entire catalog excepting some of the more obscure stuff.
As an impressionable youth, I really got into it. Being more set in my ways now I find myself scoffing at some of his political views, etc.
Still a great author.
Eugeniooooooo!!!!
by FairweatherFan on Jun 26, 2008 2:47 PM PDT up reply actions
have not
read Enduring Love yet.
Black Dogs, Amsterdam, Saturday and the Cement Garden are all that i’ve read since we read Atonement in my 12 AP class.
BROCK BOND LIKES HIS MARTINIS PUNCHED IN THE FACE, NOT STIRRED.
by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Jun 26, 2008 4:16 PM PDT up reply actions
In January, I finally started in on the John Peel ‘autobiography’ (he died halfway through writing it, so his wife and kids picked up the slack and collected his notes and remembered anecdotes to fill out the rest). Then work and school and Giants baseball intervened, and I haven’t gotten back to it. It had some interesting stuff in it, though, like how Peel met JFK in Dallas a few years before Kennedy’s assassination. Hoping to read it during what’s left of this summer.
Eagerly awaiting Crazy Crab Bobblehead Night on 7/18.
Hmm, I don't have much time lately.
Currently: Into the Wild, interesting, easy, short.
Last: Shit, I totally forget. Before that was War & Peace. It was something else similarly herculean. Oh yeah, Rise and fall of the Third Reich. AWESOME book if you are into that kinda thing (and even if you arent most likely). Slightly tolstoyish in it’s life story of 200 different people aspect – but this time they are nonfiction.
Next: Grapes of Wrath. I think I read it in school, but I don’t remember at all.
Eugeniooooooo!!!!
I’ve got Rise and the Fall of the 3rd Reich on my bookshelf. I’ve been meaning to read it for years, maybe I’ll attempt it next.
I hope you've got a mind for detail
Because he doesn’t spare any of it.
It is much more of a political analysis than anything else, which Is why I think it would appeal to people who aren’t necessarily WWII buff’s.
Some very interesting parallels between the world then and the world today.
Eugeniooooooo!!!!
by FairweatherFan on Jun 26, 2008 2:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh yeah
(I really liked this book, can you tell)
It also illustrates how Hiter’s Mien Kampf should be a must read for anyone interested in starting a grass roots political movement. No other in modern history has been more rapidly successful or genius. If you can get away from the fanatical hatred for a minority group thing, Hiter was absolutely fucking brilliant in the way he organized people and united them. Unparalled in history IMO.
Eugeniooooooo!!!!
by FairweatherFan on Jun 26, 2008 2:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Rise and Fall
took me a year. I really don’t know how i finished it. I liked it a lot though and would reccomend if you’re retired or without something to do for like 2 months straight.
Mein Kampf was also interesting and really creepy. I read for pages and pages and I’d notice all the genius things and then there’d always be this little bit of crazy to refocus on the fact that the guy was a complete lunatic.
BROCK BOND LIKES HIS MARTINIS PUNCHED IN THE FACE, NOT STIRRED.
by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Jun 26, 2008 4:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah -
It’s odd how reading the first half of Rise and Fall you find yourself rooting for Hiter and the Germans.
It isn’t until the second half that all of the really ugly stuff starts to come to light and you find yourself switching sides.
Eugeniooooooo!!!!
by FairweatherFan on Jun 26, 2008 5:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Rise and Fall of the 3rd Reich
is very good.
I still have not read Mein Kampf. I know that I should. And part of me wants to. But it’s difficult for me because I don’t really want to delve into the mind of somebody like Hitler.
Only 895 games until the end of Zito's contract
Oh man… that makes me happy on at least five different levels.
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Jun 26, 2008 10:45 PM PDT up reply actions
lollerskates
Trent Kline: Decentish. Also, my website is called ChatterBalks Dot Com and on it I make jokes about things.
Yes, Yes, very funny
But mostly I’m just stoked that, after 10 months, I finally got a reply from Grant himself! I have been acknowledged!
Only 893 games until the end of Zito's contract
The key was talking about Hitler. I got my first Grant comment on a Hitler reference, too. Grant’s a big fanboy.
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Jun 28, 2008 3:50 AM PDT up reply actions
If I had realized it was your comment, I would have e-mailed Goofus and told him to put up the picture.
by Grant Brisbee on Jun 29, 2008 1:41 AM PDT up reply actions
THAT’S ANOTHER REPLY
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Jun 29, 2008 1:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Ha
So I’ve got confirmation now. Well, the joke’s on you, pal. I won’t reply to any of YOUR posts. See how you like it.
Only 891 games until the end of Zito's contract
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey. It’s been a few years. Always makes me feel young again and wanting to protest something.
"Keep America Beautiful, Grow a Beard, Take a Bath, Burn a Billboard."
just finished:
“Here, There and Everywhere” by the beatles engineer Geoff Emerick. Emerick went on to become one of the great producer/engineers of all time. A fun, fast read with lots of dishy anecdotes about all four beatles and george martin.
Summary:
John: moody, snarky and too HIGH to know what was going on…
George: prone to f-ing up his parts, sniveling, whiny and aloof…
Ringo: bored, unfriendly and often didn’t show up
Paul: friendly, kind, apologetic and an unparalleled musical genius…
it was nice to read a positive account of paul’s role in the beatles. so many bios make him out to be the bad guy.
Up Next? Desert Solitaire, edward abbey ( i just got back from Lake Powell)
"ever so cynical yet whimsical giants related signature"
by The Gene Hackman on Jun 26, 2008 2:47 PM PDT reply actions
The Age of Influence by Alan Greenspan
It’s a very interesting read, if you’re into business/economic-type stuff. The first half of the 500+ page (small print) book relives Greenspan’s interactions with the presidents he has worked under. The last half is pure economic theory and has been very difficult to get through, but I’m almost there.
Proud pappa of....STEVE HOLM!!
Pulpy Summer Reading
I’m heading into Follet’s “Pillars of the Earth,” because I can’t resist novels set in 12th century England about architecture and cathedrals and masons named Tom. But that’s just me. Fifty pages in, though, it’s a pretty good read. No mention of flying buttresses. Yet. And then, more Chabon (“Gentlemen of the Road”).
"Mow bwiefings?" "More briefings."
I just finished A World Without End, the sequel to Pillars of the Earth. It was very entertaining. A worthy follow up to one of my favorite books.
Speed, defense... and an almost fanatical devotion to getting picked off.
the latest palahniuk...
was just like the last 5… uneven and kinda gross. i’m still a fan (some of the short stories in haunted were brilliant) but when the story is about 3 out of 600 guys waiting to participate in the largest gang-bang ever and they are just disgusting people it’s kinda hard to relate.
i also recently finished no country for old men (just an easy, gripping read) and am starting on omnivore’s dilemma.
Dodgers fans eat their young.
This morning, I finished Flight From Neveryon by Samuel R. Delany. It’s the third book in a series of four – they combine swords-and-sorcery, graphic gay sex, postmodernism, political commentary, and literary criticism. They sort of define the pharase “not for everyone,” but I’m fan.
I’ve also recently read Snow by Orhan Pamuk, which deals with the secular/religious conflict in Turkey, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, and The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke. All good stuff.
I’ve been on a bit of a Michael Chabon kick lately. I read The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay this spring and just finished The Yiddish Policeman’s Union. Both are great, a little pulpy and YPU is a little more readable, but not too serious on the surface. Great summer reads and hard to put down both.
Speaking of Chabon...
...the last book I finished was Summerland, which I enjoyed. Nominally a kids’ book, but how can you not like a book in which baseball and giants both figure prominently?
All-Father Watch: 1.05 ERA, 7 saves, 0.87 WHIP, 34 Ks in 34 1/3 IP
Chabon gave a fantastic reading at my program last June. it’s from an upcoming book of essays that should hit the shelves in a year or two. His essay gave me chills. The good kind.
by RougeGorrila on Jun 26, 2008 4:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Rereading "Lolita"
I’m just gonna say: that is one incredible novel.
Bengie: Like an Aurilia kidney stone, slow-moving and tough to get out.
beautifully written for sure.
it sure was creepy when a kid in my aestheticism class said it described the “good kind of pedophilia” though.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
lolita is one of the funniest books ever written
a fine book indeed
"ever so cynical yet whimsical giants related signature"
by The Gene Hackman on Jun 26, 2008 4:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Amazing that Nabokov so few novels that were any good, considering his massive talent. That one is stellar, though. Also, Pale Fire.
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Jun 26, 2008 5:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Joseph Heller Syndrome
Is it better to have one of the greatest novels of all-time, or five of the best novels of your generation?
by Grant Brisbee on Jun 26, 2008 9:13 PM PDT up reply actions
A good companion
Check out “Reading Lolita in Tehran” by Azir Nafisi; an interesting look at Tehran University after the Revolution, and a compelling analogy between Humbert and the Ayatollah.
Kevin Correia: MLB's best fifth starter on a last place team
by VidaWantsYourCar on Jun 26, 2008 7:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Currently reading: The Stand – never read a Steven King book before. Enjoying it so far.
Recently Finished:
A World Without End – sequel to Pillars of the Earth. Historical Novel set in a town in England during the 14th century.
You Suck: A Love Story by Christopher Moore – hilarious story about vampires in San Francisco.
A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore – a new father is given the job of collecting souls in San Francisco.
Speed, defense... and an almost fanatical devotion to getting picked off.
I haven't had a lot of reading time....
But I just read Skin Deep, by Kathleen Cross, which I really enjoyed.
I’m working through the Federalist Papers, yes, just for the fun of it, and a bit ago I read Practical Magic, by Alice Hoffman. Anything by Alice Hoffman I tend to like.
It’s funny, you’d think working in a bookstore you’d have time to read…
Currently reading:
Love in the time of Cholera
The Best of Edward Abbey
some ecology text
Next up:
John Adams, David McCollough
In defense of food, Michael Pollan
Just finished:
Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
the complete green letters, by Stanford
Mythology, by edith hamilton
The world without us, Alan wiesman
Confederates in the attic, I don’t remember
Water for Elephants, I don’t remember
I highly recommend Cloud Atlas. A unique and phenomenal writing style, surrounded by a encouraging message. Mitchell takes 6 shorter interlinking stories, over the span of a couple hundred years and with vastly different genres (sci-fi, to historical, to crime mystery, to a post- apocolyptic Hawaii etc.) and makes a great tale.
I will point out
That two of the books on your list my Girlfriend just read. Love&Cholera and WFE.
Just sayin… ;)
Eugeniooooooo!!!!
by FairweatherFan on Jun 26, 2008 5:14 PM PDT up reply actions
I was on my honeymoon
and ran out of books to read, so I borrowed those from my wife.
Go ahead say it…
LMAO
That is much funnier than my original implication.
Eugeniooooooo!!!!
by FairweatherFan on Jun 26, 2008 8:38 PM PDT up reply actions
So you’re saying that CTGiant is your girlfriend?
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Jun 26, 2008 7:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Just light reading during the baseball season.
Just finished:
Rain of Gold – Víctor E. Villaseñor, nonfiction
Sailing to Byzanthium – Robert Silverburg, sci-fi short stories
Currently -
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress – Robert A. Heinlein – sci-fi
Chaos: Making of a New Science – James Gleick – ok, maybe not so light but its re-read.
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