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Plutarch's "Lives" Book 1

About to start working my way through Wheelocks Latin.

Currently, this one:



I read his first book recently (Your Brain on Music), and before I completed it I already had to start in on the second (The World In Six Songs). Both are well written – not too academic, yet not too “dumbed down” either.

To me, the subject matter is fascinating, even more-so given the author’s perspective as research academic and high-end music producer. Highly recommended.



http://www.yourbrainonmusic.com/

http://www.sixsongs.net/

Good question -- I am curious to see the responses of others.

the elephant wrote:Today I purchased a "true crime" biography that is engrossing from the very beginning. But it is not for everyone. It is very graphic and violent. The story of this man's life is fascinating in a very morbid way, but the first few scenes are so awful that I might not make it through this book.

Elephant, have you seen this?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0347228/

I'm interested what your take on the book is once you finish; I've been semi-intrigued by this guy for some time, but haven't read the book yet.

the elephant wrote:Come on. Share. What are you currently engrossed with right now?

Eat The Rich, by P.J. O'Rourke
Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
Creative Destruction, by Tyler Cowen
Tender is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
i never metaphor i didn't like, by Mardy Grothe

My attention span is so short that I have to keep at least 5 books going simultaneously so I can move back and forth between them.

Just read George Orwell's Animal Farm in one day.
Also:
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara

Good stuff.

the elephant wrote:

JB wrote:Elephant, have you seen this?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0347228/

From the book:
"We called him "the Ice Man" because he froze some of his victims, kept them in an icebox he had for a while, then put them out so we could not tell when the murder actually took place, you see."

Paul Smith
Investigator with the New Jersey Organized Crime and Racketeering Bureau

He would freeze some of his victims for something like two years!

You may come across some similar facts in the book as this:

"Kuklinski once failed to let one of his victims properly thaw before disposing of the body on a warm summer's night, and the coroner found chunks of ice in the corpse's heart."

Yikes...

PWtuba wrote: The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara

I try to read that at least once a year. I see something new each time. Incredible book.

I'm re-reading both The Pelican Brief (John Grisham) and Clear and Present Danger (Tom Clancy). I'm saving the new Mercedes Lackey book for my airplane ride. I just finished Terror at Beslan (John Guiduk).

I finally bought Song and Wind, so I've been reading that.

Doug@GT wrote:

PWtuba wrote: The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara

I try to read that at least once a year. I see something new each time. Incredible book.

Actually, what's really cool is walking the battlefield at Gettysburg with your copy of Killer Angels in hand.

bloke wrote:not much...


bloke "heading to Charlotte Tuesday (after Monday night quintet recital) with truck/trailer to pick up a specific type/year/condition car I've been looking for - and at the right price...and will not be reading while driving the truck"

Alright, this gearhead wants to know what you bought.

Well...first of all:

The Complete Woodwind Repair Manual By Reg Thorp...
Ferree's Tools catalog-http://www.ferreestools.com/
Allied's Tool catalog...Couldn't find their website...

OldsRecording wrote:

Doug@GT wrote:

PWtuba wrote: The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara

I try to read that at least once a year. I see something new each time. Incredible book.

Actually, what's really cool is walking the battlefield at Gettysburg with your copy of Killer Angels in hand.

I went to Virignia for the weekend last week, knowing that I was going to be visiting Gettysburg... and yet I forgot to bring my copy with me. I felt like an idiot. It would have been really nice to have those maps to look at, etc.

Just finished The Cosmic Serpent.

MA

Herodatus - The Persian Wars (when in house)
Margaret Atwood - Wilderness Tips (when sitting in tree stand hoping a deer walks by)

& thinking about rereading 'The World According to Garp' for the millionth time, hands down my favorite novel

Stephen Fry in America, The Rest is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century, and Valery Gergiev and The Kirov.

ZNC Dandy wrote:The Rest is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century

Ah yes, I recently read this as well.

The Rest is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century, Alex Ross

http://www.therestisnoise.com/2004/05/what_is_this.html

Strongly, strongly recommended. I wish this book had been around when I was studying music history – and also that the prof then had read it too!

Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism; finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in general non-fiction; shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize; one of the New York Times's 10 Best Books of 2007; also on best-of-the-year lists in the Washington Post, the LA Times, New York, Time, The Economist, Slate, and Newsweek. A New York Times, LA Times, and Boston Globe bestseller.

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