What book are you reading?

[Low D]

A couple of books that seem contradictory, but are actually complimentary:


The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be Hardcover
by J.B. Mackinnon
which is about a) how we don't even understand what "wild" means any more, b) what it would mean to really start re-creating "wilderness"


Where Do Camels Belong? The Story & Science of Invasive Species
by Ken Thompson
which turns on it's head everything you thought you knew about invasive species, concluding that - in most cases - we just need to accept it, because really they're not so bad.

[Frances]

On a related note, If you've not see it, check out the 1991 movie "Kafka" by Steven Soderbergh (with Jeremy Irons, Theresa Russell, Joel Grey, Ian Holm). I recently re-watched it and THAT, at least, held up. I liked it way more than the 1993 film of "The Trial".

Welles' version with Anthony Perkins is pleasing.
It's on SnagFilms in English and on YouTube in Italian.
Was watching bits of a doc regarding Welles' making of The Trial where film student types asked the questions, one regarding Brecht was interesting.
Welles had class.
Now there are just idiots like Bradley Cooper running around.

[Christine]

Henry Marsh, Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery.



Christmas present, and absolutely fascinating, not as gory as the title suggests but rather life-affirming. The author comes across as truly honest. Although it is clearly best not to have brain surgery. And you want to avoid an NHS hospital.

Quite tempted by Harvest.

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/m ... rsh-review

[Low D]

On a related note, If you've not see it, check out the 1991 movie "Kafka" by Steven Soderbergh (with Jeremy Irons, Theresa Russell, Joel Grey, Ian Holm). I recently re-watched it and THAT, at least, held up. I liked it way more than the 1993 film of "The Trial".

Welles' version with Anthony Perkins is pleasing.
It's on SnagFilms in English and on YouTube in Italian.
Was watching bits of a doc regarding Welles' making of The Trial where film student types asked the questions, one regarding Brecht was interesting.
Welles had class.
Now there are just idiots like Bradley Cooper running around.

Every few years i remember that Welles did a film of it, and then I forget before i seek it out and so have never managed to see it. Thanks for the reminder, I am going to try to knock that one off the list this weekend. i think we have that SnagFilms thing via our DVD player, which is apparently smart.

[Heather]

Made the mistake of going into a book clearance shop before coming home from town today. Something in the window caught my eye but that's not what I bought. I bought 2 books for £5, RRP they would have been a lot more:

Shakespeare's Local by Pete Brown.
About a pub in London that Shakepeare may have gone to and apparently 600 years later it is still there.

Picture Palaces of Liverpool by Harold Ackroyd.
Possibly the nearest thing for Liverpool to Mr C's father's book The Lost Theatres of Dublin (which I have read). Features articles on The Futurist on Lime Street, mentioned in a post last year on the Going to The Theatre thread and Hope Hall which opened in the 1830's as a place of worship and has been used as a music hall amongst other things. More recently it known as the (old) Everyman Theatre before that was pulled down to make way for the new one. Looks like a fantastic read.

I will put them with all the other books I have bought that I haven't had time to read yet as I'm way too busy and read them at some future date when I do get the time.

[old barney greyheron]

Roddy Doyle's 'The Guts'...Jimmy Rabbitte, former manager of The Commitments, is now 47..with kids, mortgage and bowel cancer..laugh out loud funny!

[NatasjaNL]

Not really a book but magazines from 1897 put together.

[firehazard]

Sinan Antoon, The Corpse Washer

The story of an ordinary Iraqi would-be who reluctantly inherits from his father the role of washing the dead according to Islamic custom and ritual. Powerful insight into the everyday life of Iraqi citizens through the horrors of the conflicts from the 1980s onwards... Translated by the author from the original Arabic. Recommended.

[old barney greyheron]

Recently read Cloud Atlas...now I understand the film much more...superb, book and film..superb I tells ya!

[Doktor Avalanche]

Just got a copy of this out of print beauty last weekend:



I'm trying not to read it too quickly...

[Clash Cadillac]

Culture Clash: Dread Meets Punk Rockers

[Doktor Avalanche]

Culture Clash: Dread Meets Punk Rockers

Well then, looks like I've got the next one lined up.

[old barney greyheron]

Recently finished Rivers Of London...was okay, but a bit nonsensical, all about a cop who's a trainee wizard.
Also re-read The Choirboys, i'd read it in my teens..brilliant, a classic!
Just started re-reading James Herbert's 'Fluke'..another I read in my teens.

[Sportin' Life]

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I almost never read books hot off the press, but this one has garnered my attention. Krakauer is indeed a talented writer.

[Low D]

I almost never read books hot off the press, but this one has garnered my attention. Krakauer is indeed a talented writer.

Heard him on CBC radio this morning, that whole prosecutor's office should be taken out & shot.

Interesting statistic I heard a while back that apparently the much-ballyhooed rates of false reporting for rape are actually no different than rates of false reporting for any other crime, but there's no crime other than rape where it is generally assumed the victim is lying, and/or it'll never be successfully prosecuted anyway so why bother?