What book are you reading?

[Benno]

invitation to a beheading- nabokov
city of saints and madmen- Vandermeer
Tender Buttons- Stein

[body-of-an-american]

ill probably sound stupid but romeo and juliet

[Insert Witty Username Her]

ill probably sound stupid but romeo and juliet

voluntarily?
and no, it makes you sound far far too smart. its abnormal.

[Sandyfromvancouver]

ill probably sound stupid but romeo and juliet

Shh. I love Shakespeare. And in performance, too. I very much liked the film version with Leonardo Di Caprio.

[philipchevron]

ill probably sound stupid but romeo and juliet

I love that play and it's more often badly performed than well. Ask yourself why Romeo is so bowled over by Rosaline early in the play and yet is so easily fickle when Juliet trolls along. Are these people for real or just in love with love?

[DzM]

ill probably sound stupid but romeo and juliet

I love that play and it's more often badly performed than well. Ask yourself why Romeo is so bowled over by Rosaline early in the play and yet is so easily fickle when Juliet trolls along. Are these people for real or just in love with love?

There was this one version of it that I hated in High School (and am still not real fond of) but was forced to watch (and sometimes even participate in) over and over. The Montagues and Capulets were called The Sharks and The Jets, and without warning they kept breaking into song-and-dance. For some reason one group also had a lot of bad fake tans.

"Gee, Officer Krupke..."

[body-of-an-american]

ill probably sound stupid but romeo and juliet

voluntarily?
and no, it makes you sound far far too smart. its abnormal.

yes voluntarily. I read once about 2 years ago for school and i liked it but the teacher ruined it so im reading it again.
I also like much ado about nothing but i dont know any more than those two.

[philipchevron]

ill probably sound stupid but romeo and juliet

I love that play and it's more often badly performed than well. Ask yourself why Romeo is so bowled over by Rosaline early in the play and yet is so easily fickle when Juliet trolls along. Are these people for real or just in love with love?

There was this one version of it that I hated in High School (and am still not real fond of) but was forced to watch (and sometimes even participate in) over and over. The Montagues and Capulets were called The Sharks and The Jets, and without warning they kept breaking into song-and-dance. For some reason one group also had a lot of bad fake tans.

"Gee, Officer Krupke..."

Coulda been worse. When "East Side Story" - as it was then called - was first mooted in the late 1940s, it was the Irish and the Jews.

[Mike M]

I'm currently (re-)reading The Path to Freedom, a collection of writings by Michael Collins. I read it about ten years ago, and wanted to see if it still struck me the same way after tacking a few more years of experience onto my life. I have to say that it does...the man was exceedingly intelligent, with a clear, concise idea of what it would take to reestablish an Irish nation.

I've also just finished re-reading Bobby Sands' Writings From Prison. Whether you agree with the man's politics or not, I don't think that you could help but be moved by his conviction and strength of character. And to know that every word you are reading was written in utterly inhuman conditions and had to be smuggled out to ever see the light of day, it's even more amazing. It certainly serves to bring any personal "trials" into stark perspective...nothing seems quite so bad when compared to the sort of life that he describes.

[Clash Cadillac]

Today Senator Tom Daschle was back here in his home town of Aberdeen, South Dakota signing copies of his book Critical: What We Can Do About The Health-Care Crisis. I picked up a couple of copies and chatted with him about his recent appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Also, his lovely mother was in attendance who as it turns out used to run around with my grandparents back in the day. Can't say this book will get read anytime soon as I am still working on 4 other books at this time:

In Search Of The Craic: One Man's Pub Crawl Through Irish Music Colin Irwin
Musicophilia Oliver Sacks
The Lost Theatres of Dublin Philip Ryan
The First Five Henry Rollins

[Sandyfromvancouver]

Kennedy's Brain, by Henning Mankell. Superb.

Clash, is Lost Theatres of Dublin by our Philip Ryan aka Chevron? Also, what are Daschle's views on health care? Big question on both sides of the border.

[Christine]

Kennedy's Brain, by Henning Mankell. Superb.

A while ago I went through a Mankell phase - highly addictive. There is a Swedish made Wallander series which for some reason they never show here (UK) but it seems a new project will have Kenneth Branagh as Wallander. I'm looking forward to that one!
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/a84207/b ... ctive.html

[Clash Cadillac]

Kennedy's Brain, by Henning Mankell. Superb.

Clash, is Lost Theatres of Dublin by our Philip Ryan aka Chevron? Also, what are Daschle's views on health care? Big question on both sides of the border.

Philip Ryan was Philip Chevron's father. See this thread http://www.pogues.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=7034#p112889

I have not started Daschle's book however I know he wants to create a Federal Reserve Board for Health Care.

[Sandyfromvancouver]

Chronicle of a Death Foretold. Love in the Time of Cholera. Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Wow.

[KathleenwithaK]

The Secrets of a Fire King by Kim Edwards