I've read two Bill Bryson books in the last three weeks -- "A Brief History of Nearly Everything" and "I'm a Stranger Here Myself." Both were excellent with the former was far more educational and the latter being a bit more entertaining. Right now I'm reading Augusten Burroughs's "Running With Scissors." Critics say it's the best memoir since David Eggers's "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius." I'm not so sure about that but so far it's been pretty funny. Before Bryson I read Chaim Potok's "The Chosen" for the first time and enjoyed it so much that I bought "My Name is Asher Lev." That's on deck. Cheers, Tom In a message dated 7/29/03 1:43:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time, bvergara@sfsu.edu writes:
Summer's almost done and there's no summer reading list thread yet? =) What are you Zornlisters reading?
David Keenan's "England's Hidden Reverse" (on Current 93, Coil and Nurse With Wound, among others) just arrived the other day and it's on my bedside table next to a pile of issues of Mike Carey's comic "Lucifer" (probably the best of the "Sandman" spinoffs, if not sometimes as good).
(I see Keenan also has a book on My Bloody Valentine's "Loveless" -- http://www.continuumbooks.com/series_details.cgi?sid=311&ssid=FCU862K3I86CU8 8HE7R01H -- anyone read anything from this series yet?)
Anyone else have any recommendations? I'd rather read something else than catch up on the last two Harry Potter books...
Later, Ben http://www.thewilyfilipino.com
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If you want to read something really funny, Salvador DalÃ's "Diary of a Genius" is the deal. A lovely work full of anecdotes with figures like André Breton, Paul Eluard, Luis Buñuel, Sigmund Freud or GarcÃa Lorca, his seasoning in NYC, flies, sex and the art of deffecation, among many other obsessions. The level of surrealism and escathology is hilarious, and despite the ortography corrections Dalà needed, the man had unexpected skills for literature. Don't be bothered by the surrealistic tone of these memoirs, it's entertaining and surprisingly easy-to-read. Best, Efrén del Valle n.p: Dean Elliot & His Orchestra "Zounds! What Sounds!" (Basta Music) n.r: Roberto Bolaño "Los detectives salvajes" (Anagrama) --- Samerivertwice@aol.com escribió: > I've read two Bill Bryson books in the last three
weeks -- "A Brief History of Nearly Everything" and "I'm a Stranger Here Myself." Both were excellent with the former was far more educational and the latter being a bit more entertaining. Right now I'm reading Augusten Burroughs's "Running With Scissors." Critics say it's the best memoir since David Eggers's "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius." I'm not so sure about that but so far it's been pretty funny. Before Bryson I read Chaim Potok's "The Chosen" for the first time and enjoyed it so much that I bought "My Name is Asher Lev." That's on deck.
Cheers, Tom
In a message dated 7/29/03 1:43:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time, bvergara@sfsu.edu writes:
Summer's almost done and there's no summer reading list thread yet? =) What are you Zornlisters reading?
David Keenan's "England's Hidden Reverse" (on Current 93, Coil and Nurse With Wound, among others) just arrived the other day and it's on my bedside table next to a pile of issues of Mike Carey's comic "Lucifer" (probably the best of the "Sandman" spinoffs, if not sometimes as good).
(I see Keenan also has a book on My Bloody Valentine's "Loveless" --
http://www.continuumbooks.com/series_details.cgi?sid=311&ssid=FCU862K3I86CU8
8HE7R01H -- anyone read anything from this series yet?)
Anyone else have any recommendations? I'd rather read something else than catch up on the last two Harry Potter books...
Later, Ben http://www.thewilyfilipino.com
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