What book are you reading?

[old barney greyheron]

The Road, by Cormac McCarthy...it's real fuckin' bleak! I have to finish it now, but christ..it's depressing me.

[Zuzana]

The Road, by Cormac McCarthy...it's real fuckin' bleak! I have to finish it now, but christ..it's depressing me.

Absolutely bleak and absolutely great! Don't give up reading, and start storing some canned food in your cellar and turning the place into a bunker... just in case.

[Heather]

Have just spent a happy half hour in Waterstones. I should keep away from that place. I nearly always end up buying every book in the shop. Anyway here's what I bought today:

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Bertolt Brecht
This is the next one I go to see at the Liverpool Playhouse. I bought it because I want to get acquainted with the play before I go, although I do know what it's about because I've read about it on line.

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
Tis a Pity She's A Whore, John Ford
Both these plays have been performed at the everymanplayhouse but I've not seen either of them.

How plays work, David Elgar
Hopefully more helpful and inspirational reading towards my future career as a playwright.

[Sarah Louise Young]

No More Sad Refrains- biography of Sandy Denny,life was never dull when Ms.Denny was alive!

[Frances]

Bertolt Brecht

Tis a Pity She's A Whore, John Ford

I only own Threepenny, Chalk Circle and Saint Joan but buy any vintage copy I come across in used book stores.

Started reading a library copy of 'Tis Pity way back, which I clearly didn't finish, not recalling the major theme of the play. Rather like not recalling the plot of The Goat, Or Who Is Silvia? or Equus. Will finish it now, though.
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/ford/john/pity/index.html


Beginning The World According to Garp: Irving, picked up off the free library cart and a 25c copy of A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court: Twain.
Irving's The Hotel New Hampshire was favorite back in the day.

[cagliostro]

I just saw the movie version of The Hotel New Hampshire the other day, which reminded me just how good the book was. It was a fine movie, but suffers from being an adaptation.

[Frances]

I just saw the movie version of The Hotel New Hampshire the other day, which reminded me just how good the book was. It was a fine movie, but suffers from being an adaptation.

I remember renting that with a friend whose Mother was horrified at our (my) choice when we brought it back. It was when you still had to look for the Beta or VHS sticker. Since my Mommy didn't care what we watched or read, as long as we knew how, I found that quite bizarre. It is a very interesting movie.

[Low D]

I just saw the movie version of The Hotel New Hampshire the other day, which reminded me just how good the book was. It was a fine movie, but suffers from being an adaptation.

I remember renting that with a friend whose Mother was horrified at our (my) choice when we brought it back. It was when you still had to look for the Beta or VHS sticker. Since my Mommy didn't care what we watched or read, as long as we knew how, I found that quite bizarre. It is a very interesting movie.

Yeah, I saw it at an age that some would probably consider "too young" for that sort of thing. But my mother was a big john Irving fan, and smart enough to know it's not smut if there's a story.

(As Tom Leher sang: To be smut it must be ut - terly without readeeming sociali mportance!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pva35TFiBfI

Anyway, she was on the ball 'cause I shortly became a fan and read a pile of his books.

[Frances]

Yeah, I saw it at an age that some would probably consider "too young" for that sort of thing.

Same here for The Tin Drum. Still an all time favorite, actually.

I didn't realize that Seth Green played Egg in Hotel. Or that it was directed by Tony Richardson. Also didn't know that Berry Gordy fired Richardson off Mahogany:
one of the campest movies ever made, and one we watched religously growing up. Anthony Perkins rules.

I want to watch Richardsons' Look Back In Anger, The Entertainer and The Lonliness of the Long Distance Runner now. I loved Tom Courtenay in The Dresser.

[kmurray105]

The Road, by Cormac McCarthy...it's real fuckin' bleak! I have to finish it now, but christ..it's depressing me.

Absolutely bleak and absolutely great! Don't give up reading, and start storing some canned food in your cellar and turning the place into a bunker... just in case.

that book haunted me for weeks after and I still think about it occasionally; several years later.

[cagliostro]

I didn't realize that Seth Green played Egg in Hotel.

Yeah, I practically did a double-take when I realized it was him. And I didn't remember Paul McCrane as Frank until I started watching it again. And again, it rekindled my love for Susie the Bear, as she was sexy in the movie, though not so much in the book. Bad miscast there with Nastassja Kinski in staying true to the book, but as a horny teenager when I first saw it, I loved it.
Amanda Plummer's character in that movie always makes me sad too.

[philipchevron]

See You At The Hall: Boston's Golden Era of Irish Music and Dance by Susan Gedutis (Northeastern University Press, 2004)

Buffoonery and Easy Sentiment: Popular Irish Plays in the Decade prior to the Opening of the Abbey Theatre by Christopher Fitz-Simon (Carysfort, 2011)

[Frances]

I didn't realize that Seth Green played Egg in Hotel.

Yeah, I practically did a double-take when I realized it was him. And I didn't remember Paul McCrane as Frank until I started watching it again. And again, it rekindled my love for Susie the Bear, as she was sexy in the movie, though not so much in the book. Bad miscast there with Nastassja Kinski in staying true to the book, but as a horny teenager when I first saw it, I loved it.
Amanda Plummer's character in that movie always makes me sad too.

Now I'm gonna have to reread the book. Plummer was partners with the fascist guy who got with Frannie? And she got with Lowe who was getting with the bear and Frannie. Frank is gay and pissed at the family? Egg dies? The dog dies... Vienna? I really need to reread it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibUBoYL_6vk&feature=related

[FAY]

SMART ASS: The Music Journalism of Joel Selvin (California Rock & Roll)

Excellent read.

Highly recommended for anyone into the the San Francisco Bay Area music scene between the 60s-current.

[philipchevron]

Imagining Ireland in the Poems and Plays of WB Yeats by Anthony Bradley (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)