book recommendations

Sketch · **Posted:** Fri Jan 06, 2006 10:05 am

Just read the 33-1/3 book for Endtroducing..., which was pretty ace.

On the non-music tip, Gene Wolfe's "Book of the New Sun" series is starting off really well.

Leon · **Posted:** Sat Jan 07, 2006 2:24 am

I would recomend anything by Anthony Burgess, He is my favorite author and has writen several books centered on Music.

splates · **Posted:** Sat Jan 07, 2006 2:34 am

Dumas' The Count Of Monte Cristo

Huxley's Eyeless In Gaza

just started The Unconscious Civilization by John Ralston Saul ( about corporatism being the dominant ideology in society, with democracy and individualism being relatively superficial)

shiv · **Posted:** Sat Jan 07, 2006 2:34 am

I just ordered that Sam Cooke Dream Boogie biography off Amazon. It was between that and the Bill Simmons book.

Twilightkid · **Posted:** Sat Jan 07, 2006 2:48 am

Dalen Wrote:

I'm currently reading "Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal and Grindcore" by by Albert Mudrian & John Peel. Highly entertaining, and historically informative. Reminds me of so many bands that I've heard over the years but had forgotten about.

Every metal fan should pick this up.

Albert M, is also editor of one of my mag's competitors, so i refuse to pay for it, but if i saw it used, id probably pick it up.

paper · **Posted:** Sat Jan 07, 2006 5:08 am

I just finished A Million Little Pieces which I thought was pretty good.

beachy · **Posted:** Sat Jan 07, 2006 1:42 pm

KPH Wrote:

'bout halfway through John Updike's Rabbit, Run. Not so sure I'm all that captivated. I'm switching between that and Karen Armstrong's A History of God, which I bought years ago, and never got around to reading. People are very inventive.

On deck, Roth's American Pastoral and Levon Helm's This Wheel's On Fire, which I put down for a bit a few weeks ago and keep meaning to return to.

please keep all sharp objects away while reading Rabbit Run, geeez, next to Thomas McGuane there's no one more depressing, I had to put it down because I was walking around feeling ill.

hot. wax. · **Joined:** Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:04 pm **Posts:** 251

ayah Wrote:

hot. wax. Wrote:

I don't know about books relating to music, but the following selections are pretty sweet:

J.M. Coetzee - Disgrace
Jose Saramago - Blindness
Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Memories of My Melancholy Whores

you have great taste.
i have read every single one of these.

Let's run off to the library together. 8)

Billzebub · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:26 pm **Posts:** 6459

Lined up:

Christopher Moore: Bloodsucking Fiends

Currently reading:

Bill Fitzhugh: Pest Control

Last things I've read:

Jonathan Gash: Ten Word Game
Richard Russo: Straight Man
Christopher Moore: Lust Lizard Of Melancholy Cove
Bill Fitzhugh: Fender Benders
W. Michael & Kathleen O'Neal Gear: People Of The Raven

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