read any good books lately...

Finished Miles Davis biography now halfway through Don Quixote (for the second time).
Miles biography is worth the read - especially if one Is able to look through one's fingers when the man turns ūber-contradictory....which he does quite a lot.

emigre80 wrote: Raff wrote: I haven't read the book yet,  but - as a lifelong reader - I can tell that a lot of painstaking research went into it, as well as genuine interest for the subject. Kudos, Terri! I am in awe of people who are able to produce something as accomplished as a full-fledged book. Though I have written a lot of essays (some of which have been published), I have never thought of writing a book.   thanks. I didn't find it a chore, surprisingly - I enjoy writing and the subject never got dull.   Why not put all your essays together and publish the compilation?  That way you have already written a book

They are on different topics, and also in different languages. Additionally, I don't think anyone would be particularly interested in reading them.

Thank you, I really appreciate it. We'll see... I am no George Orwell, unfortunately. At the moment, I don't even remember how many essays I have written. The past few years haven't been exactly kind to my self-esteem.

^ oh she's got talent Terri...

I'll definitely let you know what I think on the book. Just finished up locating and marking all the Luftwaffe airfields in Moldavia in 1941 so now I can relax. That was my goal for the day haha

About to head back to the couch and back to your book, armed with a huge slice of Raspberry Tart drowned in milk and with Billie Holiday in the CD player.

Umm umm.. life is good.

I always have at least 8 books in play, but the one getting my most attention at this point in time:

I finished "Salem's Lot" a few days ago... it didn't take long It was quite scary even translated, the only bad things I noticed about it were a few literal translations of English expressions to Portuguese that didn't make sense. I did return to the store where I bought it and they now had it in English and from what I read it seemed very different, especially the dialogs that give more personality to the characters. I might read it again "properly" someday.

I also found and bought Arthur C. Clarke's "2001: A Space Odyssey" and George Orwell's "1984" in English and I started reading the former. I really enjoyed the movie a few years ago but the book answers a lot of questions I had. On the other hand, the movie gives visual aid to the book. I think it's interesting his prediction of reading news instantly with a tablet and this quotation is truer than ever nowadays: "The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry or depressing its contents seemed to be"

Finnforest wrote: King Only wrote: I've just started reading One Train Later, Andy Summers autobiography. Cool!  Thanks for posting, I have to look into this one

Indeed. 
This was a fascinating book about the Jones era of the Stones.  Certainly a more sympathetic portrait that the Richards book which pretty much erases Brian from their legacy altogether.  I can see that Brian was a pain in the rump in many ways but he did bring something interesting to the 60s Stones and was treated quite poorly. 

Starting HERZOG by Saul Bellow.