What are you reading right now?

[golddustwoman77]

I just finished Riders on the Storm by John Densmore (the drummer for the Doors). Now, I am reading Papa John, an autobiography by John Phillips (The Mamas and the Papas).

[darklinensuit]

Originally Posted by golddustwoman77

I just finished Riders on the Storm by John Densmore (the drummer for the Doors). Now, I am reading Papa John, an autobiography by John Phillips (The Mamas and the Papas).

About two months ago I almost special ordered Michelle Phillips's autobiography.

- Jake

[skcin]

Originally Posted by dissention

Also known as We Were the Mulvaneys. I couldn't even finish that one.

I loved that book! Figures you'd hate it - I couldn't get through Blonde.

Oates is odd for me - sometimes I read her books really fast cuz I'm really into them ( We Were The Mulvaneys, Rape: A Love Story) and other times I can't be bothered with them (Blonde, I'll Take You There) If she doesn't have me within the first 20 pages, I ditch it.

BTW, I adored The Lovely Bones. A book I don't get the hype about is The 5 People You Meet in Heaven. It's OK, I guess. But I don't get why people rave about it.

[hayley]

I've had Joyce Carol Oates' Middle Age sitting on my bookshelf for like three years waiting to get slogged through. It's so not happening. I loved Blonde, and liked We Were the Mulvaneys well enough. I do love Foxfire, though.

Right now, I am inexplicably excited for the new John Irving novel, Until I Find You, even though initial word says it's a stinker. I also unashamedly LOVE Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series, and the sixth book is going to be out in September. Yay! A Breath of Snow and Ashes.

[macmar71]

I am about half way through Phillip Margolin's Wild Justice. First time reading a book of his and I like it despite its gruesome nature of someone who seems to frame others for the murders is killing people for their organs~kidneys, heart~~ to sell on the blackmarket.

[glitter_fades]

Just finished Under The Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer. Polygamy finally gets some long overdue scrutiny by a journalist close to the situation. Krakauer rips the lid off the sorted history and current illegal practices of the Fundamentalist LDS. The members of this sect break the law openly in AZ and UT and defraud taxpayers to support their supposed constitutionally protected lifestyle. I don't know why people worry about the Taliban in Afganistan when we have religious zealots oppressing women and children right in our own backyard, and at taxpayer expense to boot! Good expose by Krakauer.

[littlecricket2]

Originally Posted by amber

I love this thread, I was just thinking about it. Last night I just got the third installment of the Anasazi mystery series I've been reading. This one is called "Bone Walker" ooo, *shiver* I love these authors. Apparently I like to read Archaeological Native American fiction.... *dork*. But at least the authors are archeologists, so the info is correct and all that. It's weird, they have this huuuuuuuge bibliography of research materials for a fiction work....

I just caught this thread and haven't gotten a chance to read everything yet, but just wanted to tell ya that I was actually on an archaeological dig in southern Utah and the site was an Anasazi community. I should post pics or something.

Oh, and I looove Jeffrey Eugenides. The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex are two of my favorite books of all time. I also love Mary Karr, who wrote two memoirs that I think are more entertaining than a lot of fiction I've read (Eugenides excepted): The Liars Club and Cherry.

The most recent book I read was The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, and I have to admit that Stevie (who names Wilde and Edgar Allen Poe as her two key poets) sparked my curiosity about Wilde (although I had seen and thoroughly enjoyed his comedy The Importance of Being Earnest at the Shakespeare Festival in Canada.) I can see his influence on Stevie's writing just from reading that one book! "I like a man with a future and a woman with a past." "He hated to be separated from that picture..." The Picture of Dorian Gray is a great book--very chilling. Not at all what I expected.

[DrummerDeanna]

I'm on to Prince Caspian on the Chronicles of Narnia...


I've decided that when I get tired of this radio journalism thing I am going to be a teacher of children's literature at a college somewhere

[littlecricket2]

Originally Posted by glitter_fades

Just finished Under The Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer. Polygamy finally gets some long overdue scrutiny by a journalist close to the situation. Krakauer rips the lid off the sorted history and current illegal practices of the Fundamentalist LDS. The members of this sect break the law openly in AZ and UT and defraud taxpayers to support their supposed constitutionally protected lifestyle. I don't know why people worry about the Taliban in Afganistan when we have religious zealots oppressing women and children right in our own backyard, and at taxpayer expense to boot! Good expose by Krakauer.

Wow, what a coincidence that this post was just above mine. When I was at archaeological field school in Utah, we saw many fundamentalist Mormons (most Mormons are not like them, I'd like to mention before going any further--I had some friends in college who were Mormon). The women wore their hair long but up in braids and always wore long dresses, and the men always dressed up in button-up shirts and khakis (that was their most casual dress). We were told by our professor and her husband about what goes on; that the man legally marries one woman, but "unofficially" marries other women and then those women, who also bear his children, go on government aid. Totally unfair.

And I will never forget a bunch of us going into town to a rural convenience store and being sized up by the men there, who never addressed the women among us directly, but asked the men with us, "are these your women?"

[amber]

Originally Posted by littlecricket2

I just caught this thread and haven't gotten a chance to read everything yet, but just wanted to tell ya that I was actually on an archaeological dig in southern Utah and the site was an Anasazi community. I should post pics or something.

Oh, and I looove Jeffrey Eugenides. The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex are two of my favorite books of all time. I also love Mary Karr, who wrote two memoirs that I think are more entertaining than a lot of fiction I've read (Eugenides excepted): The Liars Club and Cherry.

The most recent book I read was The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, and I have to admit that Stevie (who names Wilde and Edgar Allen Poe as her two key poets) sparked my curiosity about Wilde (although I had seen and thoroughly enjoyed his comedy The Importance of Being Earnest at the Shakespeare Festival in Canada.) I can see his influence on Stevie's writing just from reading that one book! "I like a man with a future and a woman with a past." "He hated to be separated from that picture..." The Picture of Dorian Gray is a great book--very chilling. Not at all what I expected.

Yes, you should. Also, now I'm reading a book about UFO's, so, if you have anything on that.... I liked the Virgin Suicides a lot, too, I should pick up middlesex. I love the Picture of Dorian Gray, too. Very good. I read it a million years ago, though, B.S. (Before Stevie ).

[mylittledemon]

Books I've read within the last 6 months that I dug:

Wicked (good)
Sideways (awesome)
His Dark Materials trilogy (fair, but overrated)
Childhood's End (good)

[DrummerDeanna]

Originally Posted by mylittledemon

Books I've read within the last 6 months that I dug:

Wicked (good)
Sideways (awesome)
His Dark Materials trilogy (fair, but overrated)
Childhood's End (good)

ugh. What the hell. A guy who reads....where are they in real life!?! None of the men I have met in the last couple of years read...and it's annoying - anyway lol...

I really liked Wicked

[mylittledemon]

Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

ugh. What the hell. A guy who reads....where are they in real life!?! None of the men I have met in the last couple of years read...and it's annoying - anyway lol...

I really liked Wicked

HA! Well I dont get to read as much as I'd like too what with playing music and full time work and all. But...I have over 200 books in my collection.

[dissention]

The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard. I love him and it's a great book.

[mylittledemon]

Originally Posted by dissention

The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard. I love him and it's a great book.

21,000 posts in two years?! how is that even possible...? I wont even be at that many posts in the yr 2020.