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BOOKS THREAD

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Moderator1, Apr 22, 2005.

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  1. Huggy

    Huggy Well-Known Member

    Just finished Eric Clapton's autoboigraphy. I've been a big fan for years and was really looking forward to it but I think this one should be subtitled, "Slowhand meets Dr. Phil".

    Pages and pages detailing his disastrous relationships and substance abuse and near the end how great family life is or how he loves fishing and hunting etc. All of this has its place I guess but not at the expense of the music that made him famous. The Layla album, for instance, the absolute masterwork of his career, is dusted in a handful of paragraphs. Disgraceful.
     
    Huggy, Nov 25, 2008
    #2509
  2. CUinthenewsroom

    CUinthenewsroom Member

    The NY Times has posted the list of 100 notable books from 2008. Some good ones on there for sure.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/books/review/100Notable-t.html?em
     
    CUinthenewsroom, Nov 30, 2008
    #2510
  3. HC

    HC Well-Known Member

    Great read.
     
    HC, Nov 30, 2008
    #2511
  4. Beaker

    Beaker Active Member

    Just finished that myself. His analysis of the psychiatric examinations and how they were used in court seemed especially spot-on.
     
    Beaker, Dec 1, 2008
    #2512
  5. Dyno

    Dyno Well-Known Member

    I also recently read and enjoyed "Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba." (It's on that NY Times list that was posted). It made me a)wish I could have gone to Cuba pre-Castro and b)want rum drinks.
     
    Dyno, Dec 1, 2008
    #2513
  6. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    I haven't read that in years. Does it still hold up well?
     
    The Big Ragu, Dec 3, 2008
    #2514
  7. Webster

    Webster Well-Known Member

    I'm about two-thirds of the way through Lush Life. A great read.
     
    Webster, Dec 3, 2008
    #2515
  8. STLIrish

    STLIrish Active Member

    The Forever War
    by Dexter Filkins
    Read it.
     
    STLIrish, Dec 3, 2008
    #2516
  9. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    I'm halfway through Jeff Pearlman's "Boys Will Be Boys", about the 1990's Cowboys Dynasty. Fabulously reported. Makes me want to read his book about the '86 Mets next, and put it this way -- books about the Cowboys and Mets would usually be behind War and Peace in Russian on my reading list.
     
    playthrough, Dec 3, 2008
    #2517
  10. Webster

    Webster Well-Known Member

    I just finished "Boys Will Be Boys" last week, and while it really was well reported, I didn't love the writing. Can't put my finger on why, but I didn't like it as much as I thought that I would.
     
    Webster, Dec 3, 2008
    #2518
  11. J.T. Pinch

    J.T. Pinch New Member

    Andrew Poole's "The Galloping Ghost" on Red Grange and Larry Felser's "The Birth of the New NFL" were more interesting to me than "Boys Will Be Boys". Felser covered the AFL for a Buffalo newspaper and his book chronicles how the merger came about between the ALF & NFL and the people involved. Some great Al Davis, Hank Stram, Lombardi, Rosenbloom, etc. stories in this well told story, which concludes with Stram's Chiefs SB IV upset.
     
    J.T. Pinch, Dec 4, 2008
    #2519
  12. kokane_muthashed

    kokane_muthashed Active Member

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    kokane_muthashed, Dec 10, 2008
    #2520
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