What are you currently reading?
 

Our very tall Pukka got me thinking.

In between examinations of the electrical schematics of my car (grrr!) I've been reading 'Over There with the Australians' by R. Hugh Knyvett.

(dryly) They weren't very PC back then.

What are you reading?

Pete

God's Harvard

Fin told me to. :o

Still haven't finished the John Adams Biography. Recent personal events have distracted me. But, now the vintage audio room/study is nearly completed. I picked up a nice chair from the Savation Army today. And I'm going lamp shopping tomorrow. Soon, I'll snuggle up with the book, put on some tunes, pour some Dr. McGillicuttys Vanilla Schnapps and resume reading.

Dave

That's a heck of a plan. Sounds wonderful!

Noone, does that mean Jesus is a legacy? :D

Pete

"Life" by Keith Richards. I'm really enjoying it. Keef is brutally honest and shows a human side most of us are probably unaware that he had. Recommended.

BTW, Patti Smith is going to be in downtown DC tomorrow giving a talk and doing a book signing at the National Portrait Gallery. Her autobiography is supposed to be very good. In fact, it recently won some big literary award.

Keith Richards still has some of that left? :p

Pete

As I said on another thread, "Ned's First Reader"

There was a time when it was considered to be required reading, a fact long lost on the current crop of eggheads.

It's not often that I'm able to elevate my snoot at all of you intellectuals, and a chance I'll not miss.

Chas

Oops, posted it in the wrong thread;

Margaret Atwood "The Year of the Flood"".

Sarah Palin - America by Heart.:D

Actually, I'm catching up on a lot of back issues of the New Yorker. It has some really good short stories.

Regards,

D-Ray

New Yorker, huh?

Seems to be a popular rag amongst the barrister class!!!

Chas

Might be good for a laugh..........I hear it was ghost written.:p

Dave

Actually it has been recommended by writing teachers as an example of excellent writing technique - and the antitheses of normal legal writing. The reason I have been reading it is that my brother, who is a New Yorker, gave us a gift subscription a few years ago.

Regards,

D-Ray

I read that for the first book Sarah wanted to write it herself and the publisher refused so she had to acquiesce to get the cash.

Can you find that link? It would be a hoot, if it's true.

Dave

OK, do you feel the need to puke. If so, read this.

Regards,

D-Ray

you calling me a liar?:rolleyes:

That is what I read at the time, it was so "rational" that I remembered it. ;)

Aug. 16

SP calls on an urgent matter. Someone has told her that Rachel Maddow is a lesbo. "Is this true, Lynn?"

"I'm afraid so," I say.

I hear her gulp her energy drink. "Wait a second," she says. "Do her bosses know?"

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Just for giggles, we YouTube her sportscaster clips. That hair!

"And to think," SP says, "I once dreamed of blowing Keith Olbermann."

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He's screaming and gesturing with his beer when Piper pads in from the TV room, rubbing her eyes.

"Glenn Beck's crying again," she says. "Why is he always crying, Mommy?"

SP gathers her into a hug. "He's crying because it hurts to love your country so much."

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The women is an idiot.

"Glenn Beck's crying again," she says. "Why is he always crying, Mommy?"

SP gathers her into a hug. "He's crying because it hurts to love your country so much."

I'm gonna hafta remember that line.

I like it!!!

Chas

Could have been worse, she could have had Ann Coulter write the book.

No. I'm just asking if you still have the article to share.
Geez, Noone, take it easy.

Dave

Fancies herself an agent of the Almighty himself does she?

...."against the cruel voices who seek to damn us for our prosperity, for the simple crime of having been born on the right side of God.

Aug. 13

OK. Major hangover."

Yeah, on "the right side of God".....with a "major hangover". May she burn in hell for that.


""And to think," SP says, "I once dreamed of blowing Keith Olbermann."

I think I'm going to be sick.

Aug. 15

SP on polls: "A person with God on her side is always in the majority.""

God, guns and blowjobs...............Interesting. WWJD, Hmmmm.....?

Where does one even begin with all of the warped shit in that article?

"Magic Negro"? People wanting her to sign photos of mutilated fetuses?

If this is the America that that crazy bitch has in mind...................

Dave

P.s. When are all of these people who think the GOP is so "biblical" going to wake up and smell the hypocracy?
How many decades have to pass before we realize that these people are about as "christian" as Beelzebub
himself? Abortion? Bullshit. They had their chance and blew it. And I think it was no accident, I think it's just
a valuable vote-getting tool. Just like their faux religious beliefs.

Now are you beginning to see why I say there are no conservatives in the GOP?

Come on Pukka, you have to be pulling our legs.

Aren't you???

Chas

I assume you aren't.

Therefore, I'll take you a man of your word.

Chas

The last book I read was Dick and Jane.

You know what Pukka, I just spend a great deal of time trying to send you a PM, only to find out that you refuse to take them.

And I was as polite as pie.

You Sir, are an enigma.

Let your hair down, you're in the trenches when you frequent this form.

The King of Bugtussell,

Chas

That's next on muh list, once I polish off "Ned's First Reader"!!!

Believe it or not, I actually have better things to do than dickin' around with you mucks. At least of awhile.

Adios amigos,

Chas

Something warm and cozy.
 

Is your reading lamp a violet wand?

Chas

Nobody asked why Pukka was 'very tall' darn it.

My dad used to say, 'he's a poet and don't know it, he's a longfellow'.

"great rivers of literature and learning that I have yet to course." Very excellent, great rivers. I like it.

Pete

Next I' m reading "Das Capital", then maybe "Communist Manifesto" followed by "Mein Kampf".
Anyone know where I can get a copy of Maos "Little Red Book"?

Dave

Only in my dreams~~~~~~~~~~

Pukka - Send me some of what you're smoking. ;)

You've dashed any hopes that I may have had of coming off as a quasi-intellectual.:cool:

Actually Leonard Cohen told a bunch of us at a Mensa meeting that highly intelligent people really do not appreciate poetry. :rolleyes:

Then there's hope for me yet. The closest I get to poetry is Bob Dylan.

I'll admit to having been bored to tears every time Jim Lehrer brought Robert Pinsky, the US Poet Laureate in the late 1990's, on his show to read something. There's just some sort of overbearing world-weariness thing going on whenever a poet recites a poem.:o

There once was a girl from Kilkenny....

:) Highbow stuff! lol

I only know 1 poem, I had to memorize it for school, started 'Hither, art thou wave? Hither, as if a thief wert thou?' Ended, 'to wash away the slime, of the muddy banks of time.' Wordsworth, Longfellow, I almost recall. School is fading fast.

Pete

I bet she knew the one from Nantucket.:cool:

Poetry is one of those cultural things that I'd like to say that I enjoyed, but I just can't. Same goes for opera. I've been to several operas and was bored to tears.

I just can't do opera either. On the rare occasion I MUST I'm always waiting for this lady.

Pete

There once was a girl from Nantucket,
who crossed the sea in a bucket....

Pete

Pukka, you say there was a woman from Kilkenny a lot nicer than I do :D

It's a snowy mess here, has been with just a little break for a week, but there is one beautiful thing reserved for cold climes - the blue mornings. I love it.

Pete