Books: high-brow, low-brow, and in between

Anyone have a Bauderlaire biography they can recommend? I want to reread Flowers of Evil, but want to do some background first.
 
doghouse said:
Holy cow, Harper Lee putting out a second novel!
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the manuscript was lost since the mid 50's?

hopefully she gets a big advance so she can afford a new hairdresser.
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Currently I'm nearing the end of The Hobbit and already starting the newest Halo novel, Broken Circle. I'm glad I found this thread.
 
I'm glad this thread exists and I can talk about books with someone.
My circle of friends sucks, don't read anything for as long as I can remember.
 
I know, some people are great if you just give them a chance; others are fucking dopes. Actually two days ago I was shooting stock photos of some local construction, then saw an older gentleman in a big Russian fur hat with a handsome looking dog and ended up walking around the bay with him & the dog, just snapping some photos and shooting the shit. It was refreshing.
 
Arnathor said:
I know, some people are great if you just give them a chance; others are fucking dopes. Actually two days ago I was shooting stock photos of some local construction, then saw an older gentleman in a big Russian fur hat with a handsome looking dog and ended up walking around the bay with him & the dog, just snapping some photos and shooting the shit. It was refreshing.
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You can never go wrong with old guys in big hats. Or dogs.
 
JimmyRustler said:
Check out Spilled Milk, it's an online Amazon book. I'm the defense attorney by a fictitious name. (Also changes my gender at one point, probably due to poetic license).
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So you DID change your gender then, I was curious about the bikini - clad selfies you sent.

...currently about 140 pages into Camus' the Plague. It's a bit dense and I'm sure I'm missing important stuff, but whatevs.
 
MFDoom said:
So you DID change your gender then, I was curious about the bikini - clad selfies you sent.

...currently about 140 pages into Camus' the Plague. It's a bit dense and I'm sure I'm missing important stuff, but whatevs.
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Haven't read the Plague in a few years but really liked it even without delving deep into its themes
 
FINALLY finished my last book. Jesus what a slog that was.

Anyone been keeping up to date with the sci-fi/fantasy/mystery genre? Any good newer releases?
 
Arnathor said:
I know, some people are great if you just give them a chance; others are fucking dopes. Actually two days ago I was shooting stock photos of some local construction, then saw an older gentleman in a big Russian fur hat with a handsome looking dog and ended up walking around the bay with him & the dog, just snapping some photos and shooting the shit. It was refreshing.
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So. You've met thruth - whats he REALLY like?
 
In other news I finished the Plague (great book, excellent finish), and started on Dash Hammett's Thin Man novellas. Fun but not quite feeling the screenplay shortcuts.
 
I am knee deep in Peter Wilson's Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy, and I'm at the point of exhaustion. I was excited to finally get this as it's the first really fresh look at the source material in eons, and it is just gargantuan. I'm a fan of plenty of dry tomes, but I'm reaching burnout on this thing.
 
I'm studying David Coffin's book on Shirt Sewing.
Also onto the newest Halo novel from the Kilo-Five series: Mortal Dictata.
 
I just finished the tome on the Thirty Years War, so I loaded about 4 mindless fiction books on the kindle to zone out for awhile.
 
Just finished Scott McCloud's The Sculptor. What a fantastic fucking graphic novel. Definitely the best one I've read in years. Even made me a little teary eyed at the end.
 
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^This book is fantastic, if depressing. A search reveals that Thruth has already posted an article citing it.
It reveals the two-tiered justice system to be incredibly worse than even the cynical could imagine. Apparently if you are in the ghetto and a cop fishing expedition rolls by, you will get ticketed for "obstructing pedestrian traffic" by being on the sidewalk and carted away in a police van. Meanwhile, billion dollar corporations can flagrantly flout the law, ruining the economy, dealing with terrorists and enemy nations, and they might risk a small percentage of profits if the cowardly government gets that aggressive.
 
Just finished re-reading Burke's Limehouse Nights. One of the best reads for immersion in a specific scene ever.
 
rambo can you rename this Books. What are you reading. then the rest can be a subtitle?

No one will search on "literature" not even me
 
Local libraries (except mine atm!!) subscribe to Zinio - so its free.
 
Thanks for that Longform tip - never heard of it.

I rely a lot on Arts & Letters Daily and Aeon - for my tablet reading in bed.
 
I'd like to know of any great contemporary authors. I like space type stuff. Herbert, Asimov, Niven, OSC. I know they are all old and or dead.
 
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