What Are You Reading

[flat-top]

Based on our own Mysterious Mose's enthusiastic recommendations, I picked up a copy of "You Can't Win" by Jack Black.
Well, I'm not even half way through it and it's already shaping up to be one of my favorite reads ever.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/19...&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938631&pf_rd_i=507846

 

[AmateisGal]

The Crimson Rooms by Katherine McMahon. Set in London after WW1.

 

[Black Dahlia]

I'm just finishing up 'The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle' by Russell Miller. A good biography, fascinating.

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[LandGirl1980]

I am currently ploughing through "The Lost Life of Eva Braun" by Angela Lambert. Very interesting read. Although I do get a few odd looks on the train, as Hitler is on the front cover.

 

[Wally_Hood]

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, by Donald Miller, a Christian writer. Recommended by a colleague. Intriguing title, but not as epic as the numbers in the title might suggest: it's about looking at your life as though you were writing a book or film script. What sort of story are you writing? Devotional, in its way.

 

[martinsantos]

Just found a translation of Factotum; starting to read it right now! tks!

Martin

Factotum I like; and Hollywood is a blast (even more so if one has worked there and knows the players).

 

[slc]

I'm enjoying reading Blondie Volume 1 by Chic Young.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/1600107400/ref=dp_image_z_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books

Blondie and Dagwood, 1930-1933, were very different characters from the ones I've been following in the newspaper comics all my life. It's very interesting to see how they got started.

 

[MsStabby]

Mother London by Michael Moorcock.

 

[AnnabelleLee]

I am incapable of reading a single book at once, and am therefore in the midst of Lolita by Nabokov, A Coney Island of the Mind by Ferlinghetti, and the short story "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman by Harlan Ellison.


...rather an odd assortment of stuff, now that I see it all strung together.

Great thread! I love seeing what other people are reading.

 

[martinsantos]

"Phantom lady", by Cornell Woolrich.

 

[RetroPat]

Recently finished "D is for Deadbeat" by Sue Grafton. I'm now reading "Surrender the Pink" by Carrie Fisher.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Just read Look Magazine from October 1958. Fantastic!

 

[eveready]

"World War Z" by Max Brooks

 

[Aristaeus]

Flying Tiger
Chennualt of China.
By Robert Lee Scott, jr.
The Berkley Publishing Corp
1959.

 

[S_M_Cumberworth]

I tend to jump around frequently, but I'm currently reading some H. P. Lovecraft stories. I find some of them to be rather fantastic, while others are rather dreadful.

 

[Berlin]

I am reading a book written by a close friend of Nicole Brown, murdered by O.J Simpson.
Well, it still hasn't been proven and it probably will never be, and I know that it's 'innocent until proven guilty', but I have always been convinced that he was the killer, and this book makes that idea only gets stronger.

 

[Black Dahlia]

Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters - Marilyn Monroe
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[Miss Golightly]

Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters - Marilyn Monroe
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What are you making of it BD? I read it a few weeks ago and I think it gave a great insight into Marilyn. On the whole though I found it very sad and poignant - particularly when she was describing her time at Payne Whitney - I thought it was really sad when she was describing being carried naked face down up to the floor above and how at least the staff had the decency to carry her face down.

She really got such a raw deal so many times during her life but somehow she still shone regardless....

 

[Harp]

I am reading a book written by a close friend of Nicole Brown, murdered by O.J Simpson.
Well, it still hasn't been proven and it probably will never be, and I know that it's 'innocent until proven guilty'....

"The nose of a mob is its imagination.
By this, at any time, it can be quietly led."

Edgar Allan Poe

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

The Day They Stole the Mona Lisa
by Seymour V. Reit
(New York: Summit Books, 1981)

Ths story of the 1911 theft of the famed Mona Lisa from the Louvre in Paris by an Italian carpenter and house-painter named Vincenzo Perugia. Hidden in the false bottom of Perugia's trunk, Da Vinci's masterpiece remained missing for two years despite the efforts of police in several countries. In December 1913 the Mona Lisa resurfaced in Florence, Italy when Perugia attempted to sell it to the Uffizi Museum.