What Are You Reading? Part Deux

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danie

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Started John Irving’s Last Night in Twisted River and have put it to the side for a bit. The story is nice, but his constant repetition of names and descriptions was driving me crazy.

Read The Buried Book which probably should have been. Buried, I mean. Not very good.

Started The Goldfinch, and it’s very good so far.
 

fljoe0

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Lou Reed: A Life - Anthony DeCurtis

Magnificent. When I read biographies about my favorite musicians, I'm more interested in reading about the music they made than their personal life. I like to know the circumstances around the making of their albums and about the songs. Most biographies that I've read about my favorite musicians skim over the music and spend more time on the personal life. Anthony DeCurtis (a long time music writer and critic for Rolling Stone) does a beautiful job of exploring Lou's music in depth while giving a riveting account of Lou's life. Lou was uncompromising about his music and could be a colossal a*hole at times. DeCurtis writes about the good Lou and the bad Lou without being judgemental. The main theme of each chapter is a particular album (sometimes two). DeCurtis tells about Lou's life along with the album that Lou was making at the time. By doing this, the reader is able to line up what's going on in Lou's life at the time with the songs on the album. As you learn by reading the book, almost all of Lou's songs were about things going on in his life. Decurtis also gives his critique on all of the major songs from each album. This is the biography that Lou deserves, not the one sided hit job that Victor Brockis wrote a few years ago.
 

AchtungBaby

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The Lost by Jack Ketchum. One of his longer novels, with more fleshed-out characters. I stopped reading him a few years ago as all he seemed to write anymore was novels about terribly abused and/or tortured women. This one is different and quite good.
I have this one coming in the mail. Glad to hear it’s a good read!
 

osnafrank

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LOVE that one so much! I hope you’ll read it soon and let me know your thoughts.

This was nice to read.

The Birdman was really good. I enjoyed the Characters (Essex was a real cool Guy) and the Story also.
It wasn`t unduly lenghtened like Wolf, that made this Book much more thrilling.
And it wasn`t so predictable, like wolf was partly.
 

cat in a bag

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I just finished The Lion by Nelson DeMille a few days ago and moved right on to The Panther. I enjoy Nelson DeMille and these have been in my tbr pile for too long! And also finished Real Murders by Charlaine Harris, nice, easy read, the first in the Aurora Teagarden series.

Also reading The Roses of May by Dot Hutchison. I really liked her The Butterfly Garden book. This one is the second in a trilogy and loosely connected to the first. I am liking it ok but think The Butterfly Garden was better.