What are you reading?

[VaderDave]



Great book, I read it for the first time a couple of months ago.

I really enjoyed it.

 

[Geoffrey Firmin]

Day's that I'll Remember Spending Time with John Lennon & Yoko Ono by Jonathan Cott

 

[lawyerdad]

Jim Crace - The Devil's Larder.

 

[Mr Melanzane]

anyone recommend a book on the Grand Tour?

 

[imatlas]

Baedeker.

 

[Mr Melanzane]

Baedeker.

bit more specific? I know they did guides on Italy and parts but Im talking about commentary/analysis/stories and so on, not the towns visited, which I am familiar with. Do/did B do this?

 

[johnny deep]

Reading articles about fashion...

 

[i10casual]



Reading articles about fashion...

What articles? From which publication? I've grown tired of Esquire's Black Books. The pieces are too out of my reach and the articles to elementary.

 

[upthewazzu]

The Jungle, Upton Sinclair.

It's about the most depressing book I've ever read, hard to finish actually.

 

[j944]

Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell. Navy Seal story. Great read.

 

[Mariooo]



anyone recommend a book on the Grand Tour?

which one of the three?

sorry couldn't resist..



perhaps the german wikipedia version gives you some ideas as it's more informative than the english site...

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Tour


you could take a look at the travel diaries from the likes of Goethe, Hesse, Montaigne etc..... that's what I would do

 

[life_interrupts]

Love is a Mix Tape, by Rob Sheffield. An ode to his first marriage, becoming a widow, and the role of music in the beginning, middle and end of his relationship.

 

[Mr Melanzane]

On Bullfighting - A.L. Kennedy

 

[Geoffrey Firmin]

The Quarry: Iain Banks last novel, sigh such a great voice will be sadly missed loved his Sci Fi work.

 

[feinschmecker]

"Cocaine is a brilliant black comedy that belongs on the same shelf as Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies and Dawn Powell’s The Wicked Pavilion." - Jay McInerney, author of Bright Lights, Big City and Brightness Falls

Cocaine by Pitigrilli - now available over the counter