What are you reading right now? - Music Banter Music Banter

Go Back   Music Banter > Community Center > Media
Register Blogging Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read
Welcome to Music Banter Forum! Make sure to register - it's free and very quick! You have to register before you can post and participate in our discussions with over 70,000 other registered members. After you create your free account, you will be able to customize many options, you will have the full access to over 1,100,000 posts.

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 01-05-2009, 06:29 AM   #1001 (permalink)
Later on...
 
FireInCairo's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 1,235
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Fruitonica View Post
After christmas I've built up a small to read pile.

Iron Council - China Mieville
Heaven's Net is Wide - Lian Hearn
Olympos - Dan Simmons
Shogun - James Clevell



Shogun is well worth a read!
Check out musashi by eji yoshikawa if you want something more authentic
__________________
O G MUDBONE: Only You can prevent forest fires.
FireInCairo is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-05-2009, 10:23 PM   #1002 (permalink)
Pale and Wan
 
Fruitonica's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Aus
Posts: 917
Default

Actually I'd already had my eye on Musashi, my brother has a copy and the cover looked really interesting.
Fruitonica is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-07-2009, 09:20 AM   #1003 (permalink)
Music Addict
 
mr. goth glam's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Waverly, VA.
Posts: 406
Default

Desolation Angels-Jack Kerouac
The Outlander-Gil Adamson
The Rum Diary-Hunter S. Thompson
The Portable Dorothy Parker-Dorothy Parker
__________________
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c84/barnaclelapse/petty2.jpg
mr. goth glam is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-07-2009, 03:15 PM   #1004 (permalink)
Groupie
 
Disorder's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: England.
Posts: 2
Default

The Rum Diary is ****ing awesome.

I'm reading Les Liasions Dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons), by Laclos. S'allright.
__________________
I'm watching you, I watch it all, I take no pity from your friends.
Who is right and who can tell and who gives a damn right now.
Disorder is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-07-2009, 08:12 PM   #1005 (permalink)
****ER OF HOLES
 
Terrible Lizard's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Butt****, Nebraska
Posts: 1,211
Default

Lord of Light - Roger Zelzany
__________________
“YOU ARE SCUM SLUT.”
-John Martyn
Terrible Lizard is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-07-2009, 08:18 PM   #1006 (permalink)
Reformed Jackass
 
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 3,964
Default

My second cousin just recommended that to me.
ProggyMan is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-07-2009, 08:20 PM   #1007 (permalink)
****ER OF HOLES
 
Terrible Lizard's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Butt****, Nebraska
Posts: 1,211
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by ProggyMan View Post
My second cousin just recommended that to me.
Your cousin knows his ****, it's fascinating, epic and funny.
__________________
“YOU ARE SCUM SLUT.”
-John Martyn
Terrible Lizard is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-08-2009, 12:54 AM   #1008 (permalink)
Forever young
 
4ZZZ's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Brisbane
Posts: 608
Default

I no longer read fiction, I prefer history nowadays, but if I was to re-read a Sci-Fi book from my youth Lord of Light by Zelzany would be the one.



I have got into 2 books that came over Xmas.

Rubicon by Tom Holland. A book on the Roman republic.

Rome Or Death: The Obsessions of General Garibaldi by Daniel Pick. The Story of Garibaldi's obsession with diverting the Tiber.

I have also picked up a book in a 2nd hand sale called View Of Sussex by Ben Darby. A bit battered but the pics alone make me want to go back and visit that fair county.
4ZZZ is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-09-2009, 01:07 AM   #1009 (permalink)
Unrepentant Ass-Mod
 
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Pennsylvania
Posts: 3,921
Default

The Penal Colony by Franz Kafka. Shaping up to be much better than all the other Kafka I've read yet...
__________________
first.am
lucifer_sam is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-10-2009, 09:44 AM   #1010 (permalink)
Groupie
 
VoidIfRemoved's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: North Hampshire
Posts: 14
Default

Can't recommend yet as I'm not far enough in, but I'm reading Les Miserables by Victor Hugo to see how it differs to the musical, which is probably the only opera I can get on with.
__________________
"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung"
VOLTAIRE
VoidIfRemoved is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Similar Threads



© 2003-2024 Advameg, Inc.