The "what are you reading?" thread.

HorseyBoy · Post by **HorseyBoy** » Fri Dec 06, 2013 12:06 am

^ The only other guy I can think of who wrote with a similar force (and who admired Hemingway and was admired by Hemingway in return) was Nelson Algren. Love his stuff. "The Man with the Golden Arm" is probably his best-known book (and it's fucking amazing) but I really like "Somebody in Boots", which he kinda re-wrote later on as "A Walk on the Wild Side" (and Lou Reed made famous in song). This is also really cool:

Post by **Ina82** » Wed Jan 15, 2014 10:18 am

Atlas Shrugged. Didn't want to pay over $25 and downloaded one from Amazon, but apparently couldn't open it on my reader and had to download MOBI to EPUB converter. So, it was a long way but I'm happy that I finally made it because the book is really great.

HorseyBoy · Post by **HorseyBoy** » Sat Jan 25, 2014 11:46 pm

Just finished "The Brotherhood of the Grape" (thanks for the heads-up, Captain!) and really enjoyed it. For some reason it reminded me of Don Carpenter, one of my favourite writers, so I started reading "Hard Rain Falling", his first book, again. Fucking great stuff.

Some good info on it here:

http://www.nybooks.com/books/imprints/c ... n-falling/

And the Pelecanos intro is here:

http://therumpus.net/2009/11/an-importa ... n-falling/

Carpenter wrote a lot of screenplays, too, including "Payday", where Rip Torn plays an updated version of Hank Williams. One of the best "musician on the road" movies I've ever seen.

resynthesis · Post by **resynthesis** » Sun Jan 26, 2014 12:53 am

I'm reading Les Gommes by Alain Robbe-Grillet. He's another who did a lot of film work as well as novels.

anemochore · Post by **anemochore** » Tue Nov 18, 2014 3:22 am

The Story Behind Jimi Hendrix's "All Along the Watchtower"

http://www.covermesongs.com/2014/03/the ... tower.html

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sluttyindian · Post by **sluttyindian** » Tue Nov 18, 2014 11:54 pm

Waking up, Sam Harris.

An excellent read if you are interested in secular spirituality.

anemochore · Post by **anemochore** » Fri Nov 21, 2014 8:24 pm

‘BEATLES ELECTRONIQUES’: THE BEATLES WARPED BEYOND RECOGNITION, 1969

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http://dangerousminds.net/comments/beat ... les_warped

innerflight · Post by **innerflight** » Sun Jul 05, 2015 2:07 pm

Just read this on holiday, Peter Hook is funny as fuck in places, great insight

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edkoppel · Post by **edkoppel** » Sun Jul 05, 2015 5:43 pm

half way through this, and it's insane!

1bottlerocket · Post by **1bottlerocket** » Sun Jul 05, 2015 8:01 pm

I am re-reading a book I enjoyed a lot, Guns, Germs, and Steel

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