What are you currently reading?

[Bedfordblue]

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Just got Commander in Cheat read the first chapter this morning, very entertaining.

Essentially a former Sports Illustrated writer on his experiences playing golf with Trump and what an utter merchant and cheat he is.

Fascinating stuff.

 

[Kurt.]

Mario Puzo’s The Fortunate Pilgrim. Mentioned it on here to someone the other day so searched out my copy.

 

[Daytripper]

All You Need Is Love, The End of the Beatles

 

[BrisbaneToffee]

I'm currently reading a reminder letter from Specsavers saying my eye test is overdue. I hate that. It just reminds me of how the mighty fall as they age. Still, they may have a point. This bad eyesight isn't entirely down to copious amounts of masturbation.

More germane to the thread, I'm reading "Jacques Vaché and the Roots of Surrealism including Vaché's War Letters & Other Writings" by Franklin Rosemont.

Well, I'm trying to read it. I got Covid last October and I've found it hard to concentrate on reading, and now I've lost the habit. I'll read a couple of paragraphs and then just blank when I try to recall what I read. Not really helpful when reading.

Anyway, Vaché served in WWI with the French Army, was wounded, and while in hospital met a medical orderly by the name of André Breton. Breton was so fascinated by this character that he became his acolyte--until death by an opium overdose became his thing (intentional or unintentional, no one can be really sure). Breton later founded the the Surrealism movement.

What is fascinating to me, is the parallels between this and the Beat movement. Both were founded by people and what they wrote (and the way they wrote it, i.e. André Breton and Jack Kerouac), but both writers were influenced by individuals (Vaché and Neal Cassady) that were recognised, not by what they wrote (minuscule in comparison), but how they acted in life, their attitude to life, and their attitude to art. Fascinating stuff for some--well, it beats pants-pissing

TL;DR
(a) Don't get me started on books, and
(b) I'm off to Specsavers

 

[wandyr79]

Sharpe's Enemy

 

[Rita_Poon]

germane;

relevant to a subject under consideration.

 

[Eggs]

…i’m not an avid book reader but like to read on holiday. In another thread @TrailerTrash recommended ‘Endurance’ by Alfred Lansing, about Shackleton’s ‘incredible journey’. I think it’s an amazing story (I might well have already read it some years ago) but I’ve bought it and look forward to reading it in a few weeks time.

 

[ste d' indica]

Origional thread is locked so @mods please reopen an merge if preferred.

Just got Commander in Cheat read the first chapter this morning, very entertaining.

Essentially a former Sports Illustrated writer on his experiences playing golf with Trump and what an utter merchant and cheat he is.

Fascinating stuff.

Just recently this on my list actually.

Sam Neill's autobiography, and 'The Bourbon Bible'.

 

[magicjuan]

Just started Karahan Tepe by Andrew Collins about an alleged older site near Gobekli Tepe.
However I'm being distracted by 'Get in' (the inside story of labour under Starmer) by Patrick Maguire. Driven by my disdain for 'labour'.

 

[COYBL25]

All or Nothing - Michael Wolff.

Trumps fight back from losing the presidency, to his eventual re election.

Fascinating and frightening in equal measure.

 

[Bedfordblue]

I'm currently reading a reminder letter from Specsavers saying my eye test is overdue. I hate that. It just reminds me of how the mighty fall as they age. Still, they may have a point. This bad eyesight isn't entirely down to copious amounts of masturbation.

More germane to the thread, I'm reading "Jacques Vaché and the Roots of Surrealism including Vaché's War Letters & Other Writings" by Franklin Rosemont.

Well, I'm trying to read it. I got Covid last October and I've found it hard to concentrate on reading, and now I've lost the habit. I'll read a couple of paragraphs and then just blank when I try to recall what I read. Not really helpful when reading.

Anyway, Vaché served in WWI with the French Army, was wounded, and while in hospital met a medical orderly by the name of André Breton. Breton was so fascinated by this character that he became his acolyte--until death by an opium overdose became his thing (intentional or unintentional, no one can be really sure). Breton later founded the the Surrealism movement.

What is fascinating to me, is the parallels between this and the Beat movement. Both were founded by people and what they wrote (and the way they wrote it, i.e. André Breton and Jack Kerouac), but both writers were influenced by individuals (Vaché and Neal Cassady) that were recognised, not by what they wrote (minuscule in comparison), but how they acted in life, their attitude to life, and their attitude to art. Fascinating stuff for some--well, it beats pants-pissing

TL;DR
(a) Don't get me started on books, and
(b) I'm off to Specsavers

This is the transfer thread mate.

 

[Walter Ego]

What am I currently listening to? Only the best band that ever came out of this city.

 

[Efcjake]

Bought these for when my little one will be able to read. Had to beg for each one of these as kid and was very happy to be able to get the entire box set. These will make for some interesting bed time stories.

 

[Armaghtoffee]

 

[Tony Hibbert's Wife]

Always have two: one in my bag for the commute and one for bed time.

In my work bag is Sense & Sensibility. Pretty good so far. Classic Austen writing style and themes and a decent story. In bed I'm reading The Forever War by Joe Haldeman which is a dystopian Sci-Fi book from 1974 about a bloke conscripted into the army to fight an intergalactic war with a broadly unknown enemy light years from earth. It's very readable although he does shoehorn in his dim opinions on homosexuality, which is pretty grim. The past is a different country, as they say.

I've picked up a second hand copy of A Room With A View for 50p to read on my commute next, but have nothing lined up for bedtime reading. Suggestions welcome.