BOOKS THREAD

It takes me weeks to get through books. I don't know how one can blaze through it for research purposes.

 

This book was only 256 pages, so that helped. It definitely takes me a lot longer to get through others.

 

Just as an aside, wasn't Pappy Van Winkle the preferred bourbon of the "big baby albino head" on Justified.

 

Just read Perfidia, the first in Ellroy's new L.A. Quartet prequel. Halfway through The Storm, the second and most recent one.

Find they read like Ellroy parodies. Just more style than substance. Don't think I will finish The Storm.

 

I had no idea Ellroy was still around. By all accounts he's an absolutely crazy asshole.

I've tried with him but there always seems to be a "look at me writing!" quality I couldn't get past.

 

It's gotten worse - I was a fan. He does seem to be a massive douche.

 

Missy Marston "Bad Ideas"

Just read this. Easy read, but I'm intimately familiar with the root story. Can read it in a day.

What is that roof story? Just a man trying to jump a rocket Lincoln a mile through the air.

 

I work with a guy from Morrisburg, Ontario. I had never heard about this. Incredible.

 

After watching In and Of Itself, I really wanted to read this book, and while it goes over some of the same material covered in the show, it goes into a lot more detail. I wanted to savor this, so I would use it as a reward. Get an article turned in. Read a couple of chapters. Grade one stack of papers. Read a little more. So it took me a while to finish it, but it was worth the wait.

Joe Bob says check it out.

 

After burning out on Ellroy I've picked up Elmore Leonard. I may have read Glitz a million years ago.

Nice easy reads, I can pop through three or so a week. Borrowing e books from the library is an amazing convenience.

Particularly enjoyed Killshot, Road Dogs and The Bounty Hunters so far.

 

I'm still working my way through the Travis McGee series.
I just finished The Dreadful Lemon Sky.
It was great (as are they all).

 

If any band could be said to have had a lead bassist it was The Who (listen to Live at Leeds or Quadrophenia) but The Ox, a newish bio of John Entwistle by Paul Rees (whose Robert Plant bio is definitely worth a read) with the cooperation of Entwistle's first wife and son, does little to examine how he developed the style that made him so revered and so integral to the sound of The Who. Instead it's largely a story of the usual rock star decadence and debauchery, along with the usual women, drugs and alcohol issues Entwistle was a compulsive shopper who owned a fleet of cars even though he didn't know how to drive. Certainly worth a read for fans of the band as it does a really good job of detailing the raging dysfunction of The Who both on and off stage.