What book are you reading?

**Thu Sep 24, 2009 1:46 pm**

"Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris. Funniest man since John Kennedy Toole.

**Thu Sep 24, 2009 2:17 pm**

I've just finished my first set of collected Rimbaud poems. He was okay. I liked how high he raised the stakes on every single matter, lovely histrionics and proper over the top. Even though it might not scale quite the same heights as Baudelaire's (for me) I think there's something less affected about his stuff than his immediate predecessor. Arthur's got a bit more dirt between his fingernails somehow.

And a revelation that's probably news only to me, James Fearnley's baffled farewell to the Pogues, 'Drunken Boat', was based almost entirely round a Rimbaud poem.

**Tue Oct 06, 2009 9:18 pm**

Stones In His Pockets/A Night In November, two plays by Marie Jones, received with my OU coursework.

Read most of the first play so far, finding it interesting reading.

**Tue Oct 06, 2009 10:39 pm**

Orwell in Spain, containing Homage to Catalonia, by George Orwell...

**Tue Oct 06, 2009 11:15 pm**

Irish Theater In America: Essays on Irish Theatrical Diaspora edited by John P. Harrington (Syracuse University Press)

Dublin 1916: The Siege Of The GPO Claire Wills (Profile)

The Life and After-Life of P. H. Pearse Edited by Roisin Higgins/Regina Ui Chollatain (Irish Academic Press)

**Thu Oct 08, 2009 3:26 am**

Sportin' Life wrote:"Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris. Funniest man since John Kennedy Toole.

He is wunderbar!
I always seem to miss his readings. He's in my town around Halloween a lot.
Saw his sis in NYC though. So funny.

The Ignatius J. Reilly statue in New Orleans looks awesome. If one is into molesting statues.

**Fri Oct 09, 2009 3:02 pm**

Billie wrote:Orwell in Spain, containing Homage to Catalonia, by George Orwell...

I found Homage to Catalonia very interesting, seeing as Orwell was frequently used as a MacCarthy era anti-communist boogieman because of aminal farm and 1984, that he actually fought for the 'reds' in Spain. Its also a far superior work than for whom the bell tolls, which demonises the anarchist movement as dangerous and undisciplined when Hemmingway was only in spain as a mere reporter, wereas Orwell actually took part in the war.

I also found the siege of the GPO interesting as it sheds light on the troubles in ireland in the 20's and 70's, having just read the website Spinwatch's report on how British propganda was used to paint the Irish rebellions as secterian affairs, Siege of the GPO mentions that "there were always some that argued that the rising was a sectarian, violent putsch by an unelected group against an elected government."

**Sat Oct 10, 2009 7:13 pm**

Churchill,Hitler,and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World

2008 by Patrick J. Buchanan

**Mon Oct 12, 2009 11:10 pm**

Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts.

I'm not a big novel-reader, and in any case where I live it's not often that I come across anything worth reading, but I'd recommend this one.

**Tue Oct 13, 2009 2:35 am**

Just ordered this today:

**Tue Oct 13, 2009 10:53 am**

Clash Cadillac wrote:Just ordered this today:

Let us know if it's any cop, Clash, that's an area that I find interesting.

**Tue Oct 13, 2009 1:52 pm**

Clash Cadillac wrote:Just ordered this today:

Wow, that looks interesting! I'll have to see if I can get my hands on a copy...

**Tue Oct 13, 2009 5:51 pm**

Smerker wrote:
Clash Cadillac wrote:Just ordered this today:

Let us know if it's any cop, Clash, that's an area that I find interesting.

Not sure what "cop" means, but I can tell you a friend of mine read it and highly recommended it.

**Wed Oct 14, 2009 6:05 pm**

The Day Lady Died
FRANK O'HARA

Watership Down

**Wed Oct 14, 2009 6:39 pm**

Just "listened" to Dan Brown The Lost Symbol,, thanks to the free download on the audible website,,,however being a thick geordie the ending bollocked me

Oh well back to the Dark Tower

What book are you reading?

Re: What book are you reading?

Re: What book are you reading?

Re: What book are you reading?

Re: What book are you reading?

Re: What book are you reading?

Re: What book are you reading?

Re: What book are you reading?

Re: What book are you reading?

Re: What book are you reading?

Re: What book are you reading?

Re: What book are you reading?

Re: What book are you reading?

Re: What book are you reading?

Re: What poem/book are you reading?

Re: What book are you reading?

Who is online