Books

sweetcell wrote:

Starsky wrote:
I do feel lately that seeing as I ain’t getting younger and time might be limited I really need to pick up the pace reading wise or not going to get to a lot of books I want to read.

interesting… i would pick up my concert-going.  there will be plenty of time to read once we're too old to go to shows.

never, I fully intend to take advantage of the prime seating handicapped people get when I'm in my 80s!

Miki Berenyi (from Lush) has a new book out that is dynamite. Can't put it down.

Speaking of early 70's turds, I'm reading Led Zeppelin:The Biography, by Bob Spitz. What a serious bag of dicks they were. This reviewer summarizes it well.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/led-zeppelin-biography/2021/12/01/1b8b314a-3669-11ec-9bc4-86107e7b0ab1_story.html

Also, this sounds rough, though possibly great. I'll have to see it out.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/parenting/2022/10/17/nick-cave-faith-hope-carnage/

I am so burnt out on classic rock…..I just can’t stomach anything about it anymore

I just finished Deborah Curtis’ autobiography about Ian…. Now reading the Joy Division oral biography and a book of essays by Donald Fagen of Steely Dan.

Also just started a book - House of Dolls- from 1956 written by a Holocaust survivor. This book is where Joy Division got their name from…

I am reading

Evil A Primer, by William Hart.  It is excellent, because it blends amusing relatable content that most readers can easily absorb, while also showing you just how fucked, we really are, as inhabitants on this purgatory manifesto planet.

When you die, you will be shocked.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/oct/23/salman-rushdie-has-lost-sight-in-one-eye-and-use-of-one-hand-says-agent

Outraged, ashamed and embarrassed.

I totally disagree that nothing could have been done. Have a guard next to him while event was happening.

Starsky wrote: Have a guard next to him while event was happening.

It was his wish to not be flanked by guards, there were police officers very close.  It happened so quick that I think most were in shock as it was happening
From the reporting of what actually happened, I am shocked that he is still even alive with that many stabs to the head, neck and abdomen

I get outraged, but ashamed and embarrassed?

Cracking open volume 2.

Oopsie

Simon and Schuster is issuing refunds for the $600 “hand-signed” edition of Bob Dylan’s new book after it turned out his autograph was a “penned replica.”

Oh no…I bought copies for my friends to give away during the holidays

Another famous leftie

More admiration for a board favorite… anyone read it yet?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cn6cY1mhIOc/?igshid=NjcyZGVjMzk=

Not yet….definitely on my list but sort of saving it for a time of real suffering. Maybe it will give me some comfort then….


Flea is so great. I just love his enthusiasm.

Starsky wrote:
Not yet….definitely on my list but sort of saving it for a time of real suffering. Maybe it will give me some comfort then….


Flea is so great. I just love his enthusiasm.

Indeed… a great human (in a bad band)

Black Sabbath Bassist Geezer Butler to Release Autobiography in June
The book, titled Into the Void: From Birth to Black—and Beyond, arrives June 6th

should be an interesting read…

I found this at my local library in the freebie area and am reading it….so far it’s pretty promising

My favorite book. Always blows my mind.

Here ya go Hutch…..

https://www.nbc.com/late-night-with-seth-meyers/video/lucinda-williams-wrote-her-entire-memoir-by-hand/NBCE542597737

Cock wrote:
My favorite book. Always blows my mind.

One of my favorite authors, not sure which book is my favorite, read most of his