Book recommendations...
Posted by: Voltaire on 13 June 2009
The previous thread 'what book are you reading' has been closed but may I please recommend this book...?
I am not even going to spoil it with a spoiler...well worth a read imho and I read a lot.
I am not even going to spoil it with a spoiler...well worth a read imho and I read a lot.
quote:Originally posted by Huwge:
Enjoyed these recently
I find Rushdie to be both brilliant and borish in equal measures depending on the novel. I love 'Shalimar the Clown' and 'Midnights Children' but couldn't take too 'The Ground Beneath Her Feet' or 'The Enchantress of Florence'.
I really recommend 'Step across this line-collected non-fiction 1992-2002'.
not my usual genre of reading - but I am finding this hard to put down...
This is a very good and interesting read. A real insight to life as a musician. Recommended.
Some nice weekend reading
Since the early 1980s, David Byrne has been riding a bicycle as his principal means of transportation in New York City. A few years later he discovered folding bikes, and starting taking them with him on music tour overseas, and experienced a sense of liberation as he pedaled around many of the world's principal cities. The point of view from his bike seat has given Byrne a panoramic window on urban life over the last thirty years as he has cycled round cities such as London, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Istanbul, Manila, New York, and San Francisco. From music and the visual arts, to globalisation, politics, the nature of creative work, fashion and art, this book gives the reader an incredible insight into what Byrne is seeing and thinking as he pedals around these cities. Filled with intimate photographs, incredible musical stories and a powerful ecological message, this is a enchanting celebration of bike riding - of the rewards of seeing the world at bike level.
Since the early 1980s, David Byrne has been riding a bicycle as his principal means of transportation in New York City. A few years later he discovered folding bikes, and starting taking them with him on music tour overseas, and experienced a sense of liberation as he pedaled around many of the world's principal cities. The point of view from his bike seat has given Byrne a panoramic window on urban life over the last thirty years as he has cycled round cities such as London, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Istanbul, Manila, New York, and San Francisco. From music and the visual arts, to globalisation, politics, the nature of creative work, fashion and art, this book gives the reader an incredible insight into what Byrne is seeing and thinking as he pedals around these cities. Filled with intimate photographs, incredible musical stories and a powerful ecological message, this is a enchanting celebration of bike riding - of the rewards of seeing the world at bike level.
I wish I had entitled this thread 'What book are you currently reading' because I have been reading...
...and I think it is a good read, but not a good piece of literature. I am not complaining; not every piece of writing can be seminal, it is what it is, an enjoyable diversion to be enjoyed and forgotten, hence my discomfort in listing it under this thread's title.
...and I think it is a good read, but not a good piece of literature. I am not complaining; not every piece of writing can be seminal, it is what it is, an enjoyable diversion to be enjoyed and forgotten, hence my discomfort in listing it under this thread's title.
quote:Originally posted by Lontano:
Some nice weekend reading
I mentioned this book to my sister who has subsequently purchased it and wants to thank you.
I have just enjoyed reading...
...which is the sequel to 'The witches of Eastwick'.
I really like John Updike, I can't think of any other living male author who can give such a genuine insight into some aspects of the female perspective.
Fans of the original film might be confused by some of the plot references that were in the book but not the film, but overall this sequel is a great read. Updike knows how to keep you turning the page. For that alone he deserves to be a success.
...which is the sequel to 'The witches of Eastwick'.
I really like John Updike, I can't think of any other living male author who can give such a genuine insight into some aspects of the female perspective.
Fans of the original film might be confused by some of the plot references that were in the book but not the film, but overall this sequel is a great read. Updike knows how to keep you turning the page. For that alone he deserves to be a success.
Changing the subject quickly, I am currently reading...
quote:Weaving the Web: The Past, Present and Future of the World Wide Web by its Inventor
Another poetry choice from me but a corker!
It includes the seminal work...
It includes the seminal work...
quote:Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action ...
Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.
An inspiring read
