Whacha reading?

[kintarou]

One ____ at a time, my man. One ____ at a time.

add some ____ francis and it'll be a tripple banger!

[Thebunnyhauntsme]

For no particularly good reason, I'm reading 'Compositional Theory in the Eighteenth Century' by Joel Lester. So far, I'm most of the way through the first chapter (a bit of a slog, but still well written), which is a discussion on the pre-Baroque approach of Zarlino and the post-Zarlinian harmonic foundationists.

The only real issue with the book is that I don't know the first thing about music, so it's a bit tricky (I remember being told that 'Every Good Boy Deserves Fruit' in my Primary School music class, but have no idea what that actually signifies any more). That's the problem with running out of books and buying whatever is in English at the local BookOff...

[Thebunnyhauntsme]

Willliam Shatner is a god to me. When I was abandoned by my parents, all I had to look after me was the television...and TJ Hooker was the sun in my sky. One day, I hope to save up enough money to buy the DVDs of 'Boston Legal'.

On a sidenote, has anyone ever actually [i]read[i] the 'TekWar' novels? I've met people who claim to have seen them, but nobody who has ever actually opened one.

True about the Joel Lester book, by the way. If all else fails, it has absorbent pages.

[kintarou]

One day, I hope to save up enough money to buy the DVDs of 'Boston Legal'.

if you can wait a couple more years i might be able to sell you mine.

'Denny; Denny Crane.'

[Thebunnyhauntsme]

Ah...I see 'The Shatmeister' has touched you as well. 'Denny Crane' indeed!

As a sort of side dish to Lester's lengthy tome on compositional theory (currently, I am thrilling to the exploits of Alexander Malcolm, a Scotsman who published a treatise on harmony in 1721 and battled wild tigers in his spare time...or did I dream that last part?), I have been struggling through Neal Stephenson's baroque novel - in both senses of the phrase - 'The System of the World'.

This is the third volume in a very dull series about an alchemical encounter between Newton and Leibniz, There are pirates, but they are philosophical ones. For some reason that I cannot fathom, I got through - somehow - the previous two books in the series, and am bogged down in the third. Lester is, sadly, light relief by comparison.

For the love of God, can anyone send me some more Andy McNab?

[Thebunnyhauntsme]

Nice!

Does it have lesbian Nazi bondage mistresses in it?

I only ask because the book on music theory does.

[Thebunnyhauntsme]

No...because it is historical record.

Wikipedia throws up the amazing facts that Sven is still alive and might well have been a real Nazi.

I smugly assumed it was a British guy writing under a pseudonym but it seems that Sven may have been the real deal.

Yes...I was just reading the Wikipedia entry on the guy as well. Blimey...a bit dodgy, methinks.

[Thebunnyhauntsme]

All of this reminds me of the worst novel I think I have ever actually read. It was by some nutter called Patrick Robinson and called 'USS Seawolf'. It read like the work of the lovechild of Ann Coulter and Jinseinosensei...

[Thebunnyhauntsme]

Well, the current Pope was a Nazi and I'd like to see him churn out stuff like this...

The wimpy Newpope (TM) claims to have deserted, if memory serves. Not only was he a Nazi, he was a quitting Nazi.

Still yes, he should write about his experiences. Imagine if the Catholics of the world united under the slogan 'Gebet macht frei'...

[Thebunnyhauntsme]

You went to a good school. Almost none of my fellow students could read, but that's progressive education for you.

When I was at school, the novels of Eric Van Lustbader had a brief vogue, due, largely, to the prevalence of violent sex scenes.

[SilvanoD]

I am currently reading "Dance, Dance, Dance" by Murakami.

But my mind keep wandering back to "A wild sheep chase" which I loved, too much. And there is a question lingering in my mind...

Does anyone know the japanese word for Sheepless?

[Thebunnyhauntsme]

Hitsuji ga inai...

...but that's a phrase, not a word.

[kintarou]

Hitsuji ga inai...

...but that's a phrase, not a word.

if you're going to go for a phrase why stop there?

羊、羊、どこにいるか羊？

[Super Grover]

Recently I read Spanish Fly by Will Ferguson. It is the story of the escapades of three con artists in the late 1930s - 1940s. Well-written and quite fast-paced. A nice "plane book." Loosely based on fact.

[kintarou]

Has anyone read 'God Is Not Great' by Hitchens, or 'Assualt On Reason' by Gore?

[speedboat]

No, but I have just finished Samurai Commanders by Stephern Turnbull.