What book are you reading now?

One of my faves, too. I read it a few times, saw the old movie with Gregory Peck 2x, find myself thinking about it frequently.

"The moors last sigh"
and
"GEB - Godel Escher Bach"

Right now I'm reading Ishmael by Daniel Quinn. It's pretty interesting; it's about a gorilla who is teaching a man how to 'save the world.' Basically discusses how the modern way of life is destroying the environment and what needs to be done to put things back into the natural order. There are two types of people on the planet in this book, "Takers" or agriculturalists (us) and "Leavers" or those backwoods and 'uncivilized people' (in our minds).

Anger Management for Dummies by W. Doyle Gentry, PhD.

Synopsis: a whole book full of ways you can keep form getting angry when you dont want to be angry. Its usefulness to me is that i can recognize and understand other people anger. I dont agree with the author's "never get angry" philosophy.

Book Score: 8

Recommend: Highly

Because this sorta fits in to here, I absolutely hated Love in the Time of Cholera.

I have a penpal in England that sends me books; we are both into solving murder mysteries and piecing together events. I just sent him the history of New Orleans burial system; and he just sent me the A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers by Harold Schechter and David Everitt. I wonder if I will get dirty looks if I take it to the beauty shop today?

It's one of the most readable of Hem's books, I think.
You know most of it was written in the 1920s, stored in a trunk in the basement of the Ritz Hotel, and thought lost during the Second World War. Ol' Hem only got it back in the 1950s, I believe.
He touched it up before his death, and then Mary Hemingway extensively edited it. Some say she botched it a bit, removing, among other things, a lengthy apology to his first wife, Hadley, who's fairly central in the book.
Yeah, Ah luvs me my ol' Hem.
I think it was his last truly good book.
The rest are sometimes interesting but very self-indulgent.

TKMB was a good little book, dc. Did you ever see the movie?
For you, I recommend Purple Cow by Seth Godin, it's a bovine's page turner.

I'm reading Philip Roth's American Pastoral. Actually, I had to put it down for quite a while, but not because it wasn't enjoyable.
It's one of Roth's Nathan Zukerman books, and it tells the story of Swede Levov, a gifted and charistmatic high school athlete who goes on to live what from the outside appears quite a good life, but there are complications no one knows about, and a fatal day when everything is turned on its head.
Roth's fluency is amazing.
I remember one scene where Zukerman attends a high school reunion. Everyone is in their seventies, and when Roth gives flashbacks of their lives and recounts their stories of their more recent pasts, the use of detail is just amazing.
I wish Canadian writers had as much will to just plain entertain.
Most of them are a little straight-laced, like they're writing in Sunday School.

Really? I liked it... it does get a bit tedious, but I enjoyed the exploration of love in all it's forms. Marquez's prose is wonderful and although it's not my favorite by him, but I still liked it.

I've never seen the moovie. Oooh! Purple cow I must read it!

I might rent it... but the movies don't usually live up to the book. Images that I create in my head are different to what is shown on film. I think books are able to get into the character's heads, wheras that is harder to do so in movies.

Nothing too high-brow, I'm afraid.

I've just begun James Herbert's Sepulchre but haven't yet delved far enough to discover anything that the synopsis did not already tell me.
Pablos Neruda's The Captain's Verses is on my nightstand and I try to read a page every night before falling asleep. It makes the separation from my loved one easier.

I'm reading Orson Scott Card - Seventh Son. It's a great book. Fantasy, but not too much. No Orcs and Goblins and stuff, but just a touch of magic.

The movie of TKAM is different from the book ... there's so much in the book that you couldn't put it all in the movie ... but if you can suspend judgment long enough to watch the movie, I think it's a timeless chestnut of a film.

Usually have several books going at once.

Presently reading 'Barcelona' by Robert Hughes. Also in progress 'Skin, a Natural History', by Nina J. Jablonsky.

On hand but not yet started:

'John Salter, Mariner', by William Tibbets Salter, MCM. (the subject was my 7x great uncle)

Recently finished:

'In Exile from the Land of the Snows, the first full account of the Dalai Lama and Tibet since the Chinese conquest', John F. Avedon (1984).

'Diversity in the Rain Forest' Terborgh (Scientific American)

'Travels in Alaska' by John Muir.

'Blanc de Chine, the great Porcelain of De Hua', Robert H. blumenfeld.

'Pioneer in Tibet, the Life and Perils of Dr. Albert Shelton', Douglas A. Wissing.

I have on order:

'The Open Road, the Global Journey of the 14th Dalai Lama', by Pico Iyer.

'The Austrian Court in the Nineteenth Century', sir Horace Rumbold.

'Portrait of a Dalai Lama, the Life and Times of the Great Thirteenth, by sir Charles Bell. (1946) He was the political representative of the Raj in Sikkim, Bhutan and Lhasa between 1901 and 1920, it is coming from Delhi.

Aren't they great, N_S?
I've pretty much stopped reading poetry, but those ones I could pick up happily.
You know why you're seperated ... she can't stand lil' peeps who cna't sepell.

seperation iz mi akillease