chris77
Dee @ Think so, but I am not sure which ones. Will probably buy them one day to complete the collection though. If they're like the Tiffany Aching series then I am in no rush. They're still well written but lack the depth of his other "grownup" books. The Science of the Discword books are also brilliant.
Conrad
singemonkey wrote
Stratisfear wrote
Yeah, it's great - I have some qualms with trying to create analogies between social phenomena and physics...
Yeah. Cos then suddenly the fact that you like unicorns can be described as "quantum." :?
Don't you just hate how soft science authors abuse that word to sell books?
lindsmuse
'Children's Writers' Artists' Yearbook 2010. Trying to break into the market as a cartoon illustrator. Pratchett all the way. I'm an audiobook freak. Have listened to hundreds of books an walkman or MP3 player in a moonbag strapped to me while i do more boring stuff - housework and such. Lord of the RIngs was 54 hours long .... Love magic realism. Latin American writers ... could go on for days with this!
dee
chris77 wrote
Dee @ Think so, but I am not sure which ones. Will probably buy them one day to complete the collection though. If they're like the Tiffany Aching series then I am in no rush. They're still well written but lack the depth of his other "grownup" books. The Science of the Discword books are also brilliant.
Yeah, like I said, they are good, but not exactly thought provoking! ?
I forgot to mention, I like graphic novels as well. Authors like Masamune Shirow, Alan Moore and Frank Miller.
singemonkey
dee wrote
Yeah, like I said, they are good, but not exactly thought provoking! ?
I forgot to mention, I like graphic novels as well. Authors like Masamune Shirow, Alan Moore and Frank Miller.
I've had quite a few thoughts provoked by Terry. ? Even if they are very light reading, it's hardly mindless stuff.
noelle
currently reading cats cradle... good book.
Conrad
singemonkey wrote
dee wrote
Yeah, like I said, they are good, but not exactly thought provoking! ?
I forgot to mention, I like graphic novels as well. Authors like Masamune Shirow, Alan Moore and Frank Miller.
I've had quite a few thoughts provoked by Terry. ? Even if they are very light reading, it's hardly mindless stuff.
Yes me too. Terry always makes me think and laugh alot.
Bob-Dubery
I am busy with an interesting book written by one-time Nashville session player Gene "Lanky" Legpoole. It's entitled Beware the Emperor (he's Buck Naked).
At first glance you could be forgiven for thinking that Legpoole is some kind of charismatic preacher running a deprogramming scheme for young people who have fallen into the clutches of cult religion. In fact that's close to what he is, though he keeps any religious affiliations he has out of things and his "deprogramming" amounts to keeping 'em away from what they've been sucked into, laying off the sermonising, exposing them to something that actually offers a bigger, more profound thrill and waiting for the inevitable to happen.
Yep! This is a book about "cult music", or music that people take up without really listening to it, because of the image attached to it or because, as Legpoole puts it "some other fool with more ego than brains who gets no attention from the women folk and so tries to create an image of mystery and rebellion has whispered in their young, impressionable ears."
He recommends Chet Atkins, Bill Frissell and Hank Garland as "antidotes" (his word) to the likes of Satriani and Guthrie Govan He allows that Vai "has a teensy bit more substance to him and reasonable technique" but observes that "there's a reason why they got Vai to provide the licks that represented the dark side in that movie whilst Ry Cooder represented the good side of the force. And there's a reason why the good side won out."
It takes a little tracking down because Legpoole is viewed as something of a fifth columnist by many in the music industry. He's even tougher on Jacko, Britney, Christina and the boybands than he is on "the musical equivalent of steroid loaded weight lifters" (EG Vai and co). However it's worth the effort - a very interesting and enjoyable read.
Manfred-Klose
I went shopping for some new t-shirts yesterday in the hope of finding some new shirts i like, well what useally happens i end up coming home with a CD instead, but lucky i found 2 awesome shirts, on my way out i went searching for some CD's and almost bought a Ozzy album, but i stopped myself from spending anymore money, so i went out and did some window shopping at the book store, went to the music section and found a really good read so i bought it, so much for saving money ? the mind is a very persuasive thing.
the book i bought was:
"Crack the song writing code" by Clive Ridgeway(local guy from cape town)
ISBN 978-1-920285-02-9
Started reading the first 3 chapters, and i cant put the book down.
This book is a must for anyone wanting to write popular songs.
..........i already written something that could possibly be a hit song oneday, just by following the guidelines.
arjunmenon
This week's Reading material for the next year or so : Music Notation by Gardner Read - Excellent excellent book for people into notation and improving their skills (i'm a novice and my sight reading sucks big time..but this book is brilliant).
Slonimsky's Thesaurus of scales and melodic patterns - Terrifyingly brilliant book. Scared the cr@p out of me the first time i read a few pages ?
And this week's reading material : History of Worl War 2 Vol 1 - Awesome in-depth view of the first few stages of the war including the division of Czechoslovakia, Germany's pact of steel with Mussolini, Germany's non-aggression treaty with Stalin, Invasion of Poland and the Winter War / Scandinavian stage
arjunmenon
Currently reading James Clavell's Shogun...340 pages in and i'm finding it very difficult to put it down. Samurai epic based in the mid 1500s and historically quite accurate. Highly suggested for people interested in the Samurai culture.
I've got his other book Whirlwind lined up after Shogun
giggsy
Arjun Menon wrote
Currently reading James Clavell's Shogun...340 pages in and i'm finding it very difficult to put it down. Samurai epic based in the mid 1500s and historically quite accurate. Highly suggested for people interested in the Samurai culture.
I've got his other book Whirlwind lined up after Shogun
Nice one for reigniting this thread!
Busy with the third Dexter novel and the May issue of Q.
Warren
Arjun Menon wrote
Currently reading James Clavell's Shogun...340 pages in and i'm finding it very difficult to put it down. Samurai epic based in the mid 1500s and historically quite accurate. Highly suggested for people interested in the Samurai culture.
I've got his other book Whirlwind lined up after Shogun
I enjoyed Shogun very much, being very interested in the Sengoku period of Japanese history and in Samurai in particular. The ending is great. ? Enjoy!
Bob-Dubery
I'm reading Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers". It's interesting, but I'm not entirely convinced.
aja
X-rated Bob wrote
I'm reading Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers". It's interesting, but I'm not entirely convinced.
Last year a few people I know were given the book by their boss - not one of them got past the first few pages before canning it. But it sounds good in theory?
make-and-do
Just finished reading 'The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom' by Jonathan Haidt - an interesting read, part psychology, part philosophy.
Haidt takes the core principles from old writings, be it philosophical, or religious or psychology schools of thought and combines all in an attempt
to come up with some kind of postmodern relative truths - a mouthful!
And busy reading (usually read multiple books to alternate between, one fiction and one factual)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
and
This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession - Daniel J. Levitin, which I'm sure some of you here has read.
Gets quite technical but interesting so far.
BMU
Just finished Quantum by Manjit Kumar. Truly gripping narrative of the personalities involved in the development of quantum theory, mostly in small words so us dumbasses can follow.
Looking forward to: Dance With Dragons!!!! FINALLY!!!!!!
George RR Martin = Tolkien for a darker, more cynical age.
arjunmenon
Warren wrote
Arjun Menon wrote
Currently reading James Clavell's Shogun...340 pages in and i'm finding it very difficult to put it down. Samurai epic based in the mid 1500s and historically quite accurate. Highly suggested for people interested in the Samurai culture.
I've got his other book Whirlwind lined up after Shogun
I enjoyed Shogun very much, being very interested in the Sengoku period of Japanese history and in Samurai in particular. The ending is great. ? Enjoy!
? Thanks Warren. Shogun has quickly become one of my faves (even though i'm only 340 pages in).
I've been very interested in Japanese history & culture after becoming a Toshiro Mifune+ Kurosawa fanboy ?
Looking forward to getting home this evening so i can play a bit, read a bit and then put on the first of the Musashi Miyamoto trilogy.
Cheers
PS - Any other Toshiro fans on here?
DonovanB
Recently I read "Sh*t my Dad Says." It was very funny.
Now I'm busy with George Bush's biography, "Decision Points"
BobC
Richard Dawkins - The Greatest Show on Earth
Sam Harris - The Moral Landscape
Sam Harris - The End of Faith
