What book are you reading?

[fluke]

Wat zijn de boeken over?

I'm an English-speaker by birth, but I've studied Dutch now for about a year and a half, so some books I can read in Dutch, if they aren't overly-complicated. Right now my favourite book in Dutch is a children's book about ducks.

I think you mean: 'Waar gaan de boeken over?'
They're mainly fictive-autobiographies (?) Where he expresses his (cynical) views on everything and everybody. Allthough since he got sued he got a bit more carefull
I think it's really great you're learning the dutch language allthough it's hard to understand why If I could ever be any help to you, just let me know.
What's the titel of the book about the ducks?

[duncan disorderly]

I am reading aClash one at the moment gradually by Pat Gilbert.

But one i can reccomend is Restraint Of Beasts by Magnus Mills. Really funny, And I hear there is a film in the making

[Clash Cadillac]

i cant find any good books to read

Try Geek Love by Katherine Dunn.

The novel is the story of a traveling circus run by Aloysius "Al" Binewski and his wife, "Crystal" Lil. When Al's circus begins to fail, the couple devise an idea to breed their own freak show, using various drugs and radioactive material to alter the genes of their children.

I read this while my wife was pregnant with our first child which added to my percerption of how twisted this book was.

I highly recommend it. Any one else read it?

[firehazard]

I am reading aClash one at the moment gradually by Pat Gilbert.

That's a good book, duncan. Thoroughly enjoyed it myself.

[georgecat]

Finished Irish Girls About Town last night.
Very good.

[Frances]

Any one else read it?

Partly.
It goes well with The Tin Drum.
Although Gunter Grass is, in my opinion, the scum of the earth... he still wrote an amazing book.

[TheIrishRover]

Wat zijn de boeken over?

I'm an English-speaker by birth, but I've studied Dutch now for about a year and a half, so some books I can read in Dutch, if they aren't overly-complicated. Right now my favourite book in Dutch is a children's book about ducks.

I think you mean: 'Waar gaan de boeken over?'
They're mainly fictive-autobiographies (?) Where he expresses his (cynical) views on everything and everybody. Allthough since he got sued he got a bit more carefull
I think it's really great you're learning the dutch language allthough it's hard to understand why If I could ever be any help to you, just let me know.
What's the titel of the book about the ducks?

De boek heet ''Leive Eendjes''. I love learning languages, and since I have many Dutch friends the first language I learnt fluently was Dutch. It's a lovely language and has been fun to learn, but it doesn't have many uses, no offence. I still love it though!

[philipchevron]

Geoff MacCormack [aka Warren Peace] STATION TO STATION (David Bowie schoolmate/backing singer tour diary 1973-1976)

Horrendous. At no point does Geoff give any indication that his boss/chum was completely out of his tree in this period. Laudable loyalty, but it remains Bowie's only really interesting period and surely enough time has now elapsed? Instead we get to hear what larks they all had.

[DzM]

"...and then Mick Jagger and Keith Richards showed up with what looked like a shopping bag full of powdered sugar. Giggling like school-girls, Keith and Mick handed out children's play shovels and said 'Dig in!'.

"It was shortly after the orgy that followed that David became convinced that The Devil was living in the deep end of his swimming pool. What was left of the 'powdered suger' was thrown into the pool as a sacrifice to The Dark One. Following that a priest was called upon to perform an exorcism. David's wife of the time swore that she saw something in the murk move, but to this day I think it was just a goldfish ODing on the bottom of the pool."


One can hope anyway.

[Shaz]

Finished The Miami Showband Massacre (Philip, you were right about the co-author's rather over-wrought tabloid style butting in a little too often). Generally, though, it was a fascinating read.

Also finished Ollie, the autobiography of soccer manager Ian Holloway. Very entertaining, with some forthright opinions and great one-liners -- and about as far away from your average soccer autobiography as it's possible to get. The co-writer obviously turned the tape recorder on, asked Ollie a question, and then let him talk.

Just about to start on Graeme Le Saux's autobiography.

[philipchevron]

I should also mention I finished Sebastian Barry's extraordinary First World War novel A Long Long Way. I don't think I have ever seen the futility and waste of war - but particularly the First World War (which in fact, we're still waging) so well rendered in Literature. If you are at all familiar with Barry's play The Steward Of Christendom, in which the late Donal McCann gave one of the performances of the last century, this novel will be especially resonant.

[Clash Cadillac]

Jim Cramer's Mad Money

also,

The American Heritage Dictionary (trying to keep up with Philip's vocabulary)

[soulfinger]

When We Were Thin - CP Lee

CP was the main man with Alberto y lost Trios Paranoias in the 70s and 80's. This is his autobiography of sorts. I loved the Berts and guess I saw them about 100 times.

CP describes how he became interested in music and says his music teacher at school played them LPs by people like Pete Seeger and got them to sing along from a publication called "Something to Sing" [Cambridge University Press 1963]. He says:

"This book, which I still possess (sorry school libarary) had songs in it like Jesse James, The Greenland Whale Fisheries and Ewan MacColl's Dirty Old Town. Whenever I listen to the Pogues' first album I'm convinced Shane MacGowan had the same songbook at his school."

I wonder..........

[Billie]

Slaughterhouse n°5 by Kurt Vonnegut just finished.
Now I'm on Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger

[The Duke of Ingmar]

Just started reading Philip Ardagh´s "Awful end" ... incredibly silly and really funny.