March 22, 200521 yr Just wanted to see what everybody was reading here on Soxtalk & get some suggestions for books to check out: Right now I'm reading -- "Hey Rube" - Hunter S. Thompson "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" - Hunter S. Thompson (again...this book is f***ing great) "The Trials of Lenny Bruce" - Ronald Collins & David Skover "How to Talk Dirty & Influence People" - Lenny Bruce "Songs of the Doomed" - Hunter S. Thompson "Kingdom of Fear" - Hunter S. Thompson
March 22, 200521 yr I just finished "The Bookseller of Kabul" by Asne Seierstad. Compelling, sometimes depressing, and darkly funny. Before that it was "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides. Read about the exploits of a greek-american hermaphrodite and her incestuous family tree. I didn't realize I was doing it til page 50. By the way, this is the same guy who wrote "The Virgin Suicides." Again, a book that grabs you and doesn't let you go. I'm starting "The Wayward Bus" by John Steinbeck today.
March 22, 200521 yr Computational Psycholinguistics (Dijkstra & de Smedt) Blackwell Handbook of Sensation and Perception (Goldstein) The Neurocognition of Language (Brown & Hagoort) Modularity and the motor theory of speech perception (Mattingly) The heart of Christianity (Borg) The man who mistook his wife for a hat (Sacks) As you can tell, I am the life of the party. Blech.
March 22, 200521 yr I'm not what you would call a "reader", that is to say you could count the number of books I've read in my life that weren't forced upon me in school on you fingers. That being said I just finished re-reading(so count your index finger twice) Jay Mohr's book "Gasping for Airtime: Two Years in the Trenches of Saturday Night Live" It's a good book(to me, see above "not a reader" part again) It's also an easy read -- always a plus -- I never realized how hard it must be to break into SNL let alone get any attention. If you're a hardcore SNL fan and like to read insider stuff about the past, then I reccomend a read of this one.
March 23, 200521 yr Papa Bear (The Life and Legacy of George Halas) - Jeff Davis Moneyball - Michael Lewis Benjamin Franklin - Walter Isaacson Virus X (Tracking the New Killer Plaques) - Frank Ryan M.D. Venona (Decoding Soviet Espionage in America) - John Earl Hayes & Harvey Klehr The Temple and the Lodge - Michael Baigent & Richard Leigh
March 23, 200521 yr QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ Mar 22, 2005 -> 09:10 AM) The man who mistook his wife for a hat (Sacks) You are going to enjoy that one. Some really fascinating stories; all true.
March 23, 200521 yr reading a whole bunch for school right now Rumour of War - Phil Caputo A Vietcong Memoir - Truong Nhu Tang Globalization Unmasked - James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer The Commanding Heights - Daniel Yergin Just finised Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh
March 23, 200521 yr QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Mar 22, 2005 -> 02:03 AM) Just wanted to see what everybody was reading here on Soxtalk & get some suggestions for books to check out: Right now I'm reading -- "Hey Rube" - Hunter S. Thompson "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" - Hunter S. Thompson (again...this book is f***ing great) "The Trials of Lenny Bruce" - Ronald Collins & David Skover "How to Talk Dirty & Influence People" - Lenny Bruce "Songs of the Doomed" - Hunter S. Thompson "Kingdom of Fear" - Hunter S. Thompson Not a big Thompson fan? EDIT-Ah f*** I've been beat. Damn you 2k5. Edited March 23, 200521 yr by WHarris1
March 23, 200521 yr I'm about to attempt a book for the first time in like 7-8 years. Last Season-Phil Jackson
March 23, 200521 yr Author QUOTE(flippedoutpunk @ Mar 22, 2005 -> 07:26 PM) Black Hawk Down - Mark Bowden Fun fact about "Black Hawk Down" book and movie -- one of the character's name was changed because he is currently in prison for being a sex offender.
March 23, 200521 yr I just finished a fascinating book called "Teaching from the deep end." It's about how teaching in urban areas differs so much from teaching in all other areas. Urban education as a whole is quite an intriguing topic. A great read for everyone interested in the education world.
March 23, 200521 yr -One With Nineveh: Politics, Consumption, and the Human Future by Paul R. and Anne H. Ehrlich -America (The Book) by the daily show -Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov -Cinnamon Toast Crunch Box by Wendell -Descartes' Error by Antonio Damasio
March 23, 200521 yr QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Mar 22, 2005 -> 07:41 PM) Fun fact about "Black Hawk Down" book and movie -- one of the character's name was changed because he is currently in prison for being a sex offender. you mean sex offenders cant join the rangers? Damn!! :banghead
March 23, 200521 yr Just finished Tom Wolfe's "I Am Charlotte Simmons" and into Bob Dylans "Chronicles Vol. 1"
March 23, 200521 yr Working on: The DaVinci Code Finished recently: Secret Weapons of the Cold War by Bill Yenne and Disclosure by Michael Crighton ( One book that the movie actually did a good job of representing ) On the subject. Has anyone read that new Crighton novel dealing with global warming? I'm interested to see if it's as good as people say it is.
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