BOOKS THREAD

Just finished Pillars of the Earth and I am ever drained. What a magnificent book. Just stunning.

I feel like my heart was ripped out multiple times throughout. One thing I love about the book is all of the intricacy into how they built cathedrals and castles and all of that, as well as the detail paid to the Catholic Church. I learned a lot, but yet it was still just a stunning story.

Follet does an astounding job introducing characters and expanding on them.

I've always been a fast reader, but I have not read nearly as much as I did in college. This was one of those book's you truly can't put down. It's 1,000 pages long and I read it in less than a week.

I would definitely recommend it to anyone.

Also, I heard he wrote a sequel, set 200 years later. Has anyone read it?

 

I'm reading "Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul" by Karen Abbott. It's all well-researched, but written almost as a novel. It flows so well. It's about the Everleigh Club, the most famous brothel in America at the turn of the 20th century. It's really entertaining, really well written and thoroughly enjoyable.

 

I'm waiting for the paperback edition, which comes out in October.

I liked Pillars of the Earth well enough; I didn't love it as much as you.

But I am looking forward to World Without End, which is the name of the sequel.

 

Damn, I have to wait until October for the paperback? That sucks. Maybe I'll find the money to get the hardback, though I don't like to read hardback books.

I will say, my only problem with The Pillars of the Earth, was how the same tribulations kept happening over and over, just under a different name. Then again, that is how life seems to work.

 

Read the rest of Mosley, too.

Mosley rules.

 

That was a fantastic, and quick, read.

 

I third the emotion

 

Just finished Live From New York, the oral history of Saturday Night Live that came out a few years back. I was a huge fan in its early, glory years and a lot of those stories brought back some great memories. Regardless of the shitfest it has turned into over the years reading this gives you a pretty good look into the creative process and how hard it is to churn that thing out every week.

Best story: the writer confronted with Milton Berle's legendary hammer.

 

Did anybody mention Water for Elephants on this thread?

I am in the middle of reading this book and I wanted to see what somebody else thought.

 

Just read a book called "The Last Town on Earth" by Thomas Mullen -- it's fiction set in pacific northwest during WWI flu outbreak, and a small logging town quarantines itself against the virus. great book.

 

Pope Dirk --

New one that might be up your dirt road.



http://www.brothersjudd.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/1656/Nixonland%3A%20T.htm

 

If it wasn't for some cash flow probs, I would have picked it up. The reviews sound great. I've always meant to pick up 1964 -- have you read either one?