An energetically paced, happily improbable tale of a down-on-his-luck rock star, the out of the way places his agent sends him to play in and the gloriously odd people he encounters along the way. Yes, it's the Graham Parker of Howlin' Wind and other classic records.
THe Wheel of Time series - good fantasy. Though a long long series, doesnt really get boring if u give a long enough break between each book.
Triangle, by Katherine Weber. A new novel about the Triangle Shirtwaist fire. Really interesting, should be nominated for the National Book award or a Pulitzer. If the "your favorite novel from the last ten years" thread pops up again, I'll have to add this to my list.
I finished that last week and quite enjoyed it. Just started: Special Topics In Calamity Physics I'm liking it so far. It has tinges of a John Irving novel but with a female protagonist and a more modern pop-culture, literary tinged tone.
The author is a law school professor of mine. This started off as a CFR roundtable and she turned it into a book.
I usually don't read two books, but there was a 3 for 2 special at Borders about a month ago. I got two, my wife got the third. The first book is Devils Teeth I'm a shark lover and I can't put the book down. I am only on page 124, but it's awesome so far. http://www.devilsteeth.net/ The second book is The Basque history of the World A great read if you want to know ever little detail about the Basque. http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780140298512,00.html
This 1935 novel could be Karl Rove's playbook - it is eerily familiar and should be better known. http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2005/12/18/public_enemy/
I'm reading How Soccer Explains the World by Franklin Foer It's pretty interesting. They discuss various countries and issues relating somewhat to the polics and involving soccer as well. I'm onlt through a couple chapters so far, but they have gone through how the Hooligans from Red Star Belgrade became a fighting faction of the Serbs and took control of a club and bullied everyone into losing to them so they could play in Europe. The second chapter has been about the Celtic / Rangers history and the violence behind it as well as a lot of the history. So far pretty good.
Just finished it. Very interesting memoir of a long be-gone era in Greenwich Village, mostly back in the day when it was cheap to live there.
Agreed that it's a good read. He doesn't prove his thesis, but instead demonstrates that civic, regional, sectarian, and racial rivalries are key to the success of soccer.
"New Hope for the Dead" by Charles Willeford. The only Hoke Mosely novel I hadn't read yet. It's just as droll and well-written as the others.
Hunters of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. I'm a Frank Herbert nut but also a purist so this book (and the other BH/KJA Dune prequels) is really a struggle; nevertheless, I simply couldn't ignore the idea that Herbert the Elder actually wrote the outline for this one, so I'm giving it a shot. Next on the list, when it becomes available at the library, is The Looming Tower: al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright.
Just finished this. Just starting this... And I'm just reading around in this, and finding it really, really interesting
that picture in the top right corner looks like the Cryptkeeper from Tales from the Crypt... i guess he has been around for a while...