What book are you reading?

**Wed Mar 07, 2007 8:37 am**

al pacino, a life on the wirw, by andrew yule

**Wed Mar 07, 2007 3:34 pm**

Niall wrote:al pacino

I'm currently reading...

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls:How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock'N'Roll Generation Saved Hollywood, Peter Biskind

Very interesting...it covers everybody.

"Coppola thought it would be easy,just wave his Oscars in front of say,Steve McQueen.But he was in for a surprise.He failed with McQueen,Pacino,Nicholson,and Redford,none of whom was eager to spend months in the jungle with Coppola."...

..."Pacino said, "I know what this is going to be like.You're gonna be up there in a helicopter telling me what to do, and I'm gonna be down there in a swamp for five months."...

..."Furious,Francis threw his Oscars out the window,until all but one lay on the sidewalk,shattered."...

**Wed Mar 07, 2007 3:54 pm**

Just finished G M Ford's Cast in Stone, the second in his PI Leo Waterman series. Very good. Next up is basketball star John Amaechi's autobiography

**Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:32 pm**

great dream of heaven
Sam Shepard

Who had a reading at the Abbey Theatre yesterday,Waah!

http://www.abbeytheatre.ie/whatson/deadhorse.html

**Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:42 pm**

George Pelecanos - The Night Gardener

**Sat Mar 10, 2007 9:23 pm**

I'm reading a book called Pig City, by Andrew Stafford. It chronicles the Brisbane (Australia) music scene from the ultra right-wing conservative poltical climate of the 60s through to now. Fantastic and fascinating read. Features go-betweens, the saints, custard, powderfinger etc. Recommend it to anyone, even if the subject matter is unfamiliar. Should be available on amazon methinks.

**Mon Mar 12, 2007 4:17 pm**

City Lights Bookstore...San Francisco, CA
http://www.citylights.com

I was just browsing through their fantastic selection.

**Mon Mar 12, 2007 4:34 pm**

Here is a list of the ten most commonly unfinished books. Sure you saw it on the news but.....

1 Vernon God Little, DBC Pierre

2 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling

3 Ulysses, James Joyce (apparently the book people buy to have to look clever!!)

4 Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis De Bernieres

5 Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell

6 The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie

7 The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho

8 War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy

9 The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy

10 Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky

**Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:08 pm**

DownInTheGround wrote:3 Ulysses, James Joyce (apparently the book people buy to have to look clever!!)

Guilty...I meant to read it before my last trip to Dublin...didn't quite work out.Though I did stay in "Buck Mulligans" house.Not that it meant anything to ignorant ol' me.

I like the 100 most banned books lists, they are crazy!

**Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:12 pm**

DownInTheGround wrote:Here is a list of the ten most commonly unfinished books.

I think I've finished four of those (of the five that I think I've started). :wink:

**Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:27 pm**

Julian Barnes not at #1? Surprising.

**Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:29 pm**

philipchevron wrote:Julian Barnes not at #1? Surprising.

Yep, I'd hold my hand up to not having finished a Julian Barnes book.

**Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:34 pm**

firehazard wrote:
philipchevron wrote:Julian Barnes not at #1? Surprising.

Yep, I'd hold my hand up to not having finished a Julian Barnes book.

I finished his PI novels, written under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh, but that's about it. I did finish Captain Corelli's Mandolin (no, I dunno why I bothered), but did bounce it off a convenient wall at the end. :wink:

Currently reading Grotesque by Japanese writer Natsuo Kirino.

**Tue Mar 13, 2007 8:39 am**

Shaz wrote:
firehazard wrote:I'd hold my hand up to not having finished a Julian Barnes book.

I finished his PI novels, written under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh

I've never tried any of those. But I've found his others basically unreadable. :wink:

Just finished Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters. Moving and disturbing account of a life outside The System and on the streets of Cambridge.

**Mon Mar 26, 2007 12:21 pm**

The Shroud of the Thwacker -Chris Elliott
The Late Shift:Letterman,Leno,&The Network Battle For The Night -Bill Carter

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