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What books are you reading?
mouser:
Finished the well-reviewed auto-biography of Keith Richards from the Rolling Stones. Pretty entertaining.
http://www.amazon.com/Life-Keith-Richards/dp/031603441X
40hz:
@Mouser - if you enjoyed that, check out fellow Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood's: Ronnie: The Autobiography
What books are you reading?
Fascinating guy. And one of the best known underrated guitarists out there.
Here's the opening
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But even more fascinating is Levon Helm's personal (and band) autobiography. (In case anybody's wondering, Levon was most well known as the drummer and a vocalist for The Band.) Check out This Wheel's on Fire: Levon Helm and the Story of the Band
What books are you reading?
It's not only interesting from a musical perspective. It's also fascinating because he illuminates a period in American history where the South was transitioning from it's agricultural heritage into the 'something else' we know it as today. Levon was there for the dawn of Rock & Roll. Recommended!
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panzer:
How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes uses illustration, humor, and accessible storytelling to explain complex topics of economic growth and monetary systems:
http://freedom-school.com/money/how-an-economy-grows.pdf
40hz:
Just finished re-reading Hermann Melville's Moby-Dick. Totally engrossing story that, for some reason, seems to get better and better the older I get. What can that mean? :tellme: ;D
rjbull:
Just started:
Mandarin Gate by Eliot Pattison, seventh in his 'Inspector Shan' series of thrillers set in present-day Tibet, detailing the Chinese cultural genocide of Tibetan Buddhist culture, the very monks oppressed fugitives in their own country.
Just finished:
Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovich. Great fun, though a bit of a deus ex machina ending (rather literally). This is the fifth in Aaronovich's series of 'Peter Grant' thrillers, the first being Rivers of London. Up-to-the-minute police procedurals - except that the viewpoint detective constable (of mixed race) is also England's most recently recruited wizard... Somehow it all works.
Just finished:
Prayer by Philip Kerr. Kerr is better known for the excellent though grim 'Bernie Gunther' series of thrillers, but this is a stand-alone novel. It's an unpleasant, uncomfortable book that picks out examples of God's wrath from the Bible to postulate God as a kind of Manichaean monster, with a frequently Stalinist contempt for human life. Theists, especially Christians, you have been warned.
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