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[Keith Davis]

Also just finished "The Creature From Jekyll Island" about the Fed. Pretty
scary stuff. Next up in that department, "The Shock Doctrine", Naomi Klein.

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 9:37 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> recently read
> Heinrich Boell's Billiards at Half-Past Noon
> Peter Ackroyd's history of Venice
> The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan--very well written and highly recommend it
>
>
> to be read:
>
> new novella (at least in book form) by Denis Johnson called Train Dreams
> Ian Kershaw's history of the last year of ww2 in Germany called The End
> new history of the Russians in Afghanistan called Afganisty written by
> former British diplomat (his earlier book Moscow 1941 was excellent)
> down the road finally english translation of new biography of Heinrich
> Himmler by Peter Longerich (German reviewers favorably compare it to
> Kershaw's great Hitler biography); Longerich has also recently written
> a biography of Joseph Goebbels but has not been translated from German
> as of yet
> Wild Coast by John  Gimlette (about Guyana and environs) --wonderful
> travel writer, past books about Newfoundland, Paraguay were excellent
>
> Rich
>
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Stone Junction by Jim Dodge, intro by Pynchon, was good.
> > Call It Sleep by Henry Roth was good on the second try.
> > A Fan's Notes, Fred Exley, great!
> > Hotel Honolulu, Paul Theroux, a favorite.
> > Omensetter's Luck by William Gass was one of the most unusual and
> > interesting
> > books I've read.
> > Point of No Return by John Marquand, very good.
> > A literature professor friend got me hooked on James Lee Burke and
> Michael
> > Dibdin,
> > if you want to stay up late turning pages and cursing yourself for having
> > too much fun.
> > I'd put Henning Mankell on that list, too.
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Lawrence Bryan <lebryan at speakeasy.net>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> > Thinking about old books I read a long time ago, I went deep into the
> >> > nether reaches of my basement book case and came up with "October
> Light" by
> >> > Gardner. I wanted to make a film out of it, using an old black and
> white
> >> > Errol Flynn pirate movie for the insert. Don't recall much discussion
> of
> >> > Gardner's work except "Grendel".
> >>
> >> Lawrence
> >>
> >> >
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > www.innergroovemusic.com
> >
>



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