The BOOK thread

[Gabbee]

verbalpocketplay said:

I'm reading Joan Baez's book and she's talking about the relationship which she had with Bob Dylan. She tells about all of the little things they used to talk about and one of them was what to name their child if they were ever to have one. And guess what the name was?? SHANNON !!!

That sounds sweeeeet, I love Joan Baez!!
So, is it a good read?

[verbalpocketplay]

Yeah it's a good read, i found out alot i didn't know about her (going into it i didn't know much anwyays ) but i've got a couple of her albums and she has one of the MOST beautiful voices i've eve heard.

but i'm a decent Dylan fan and that's pretty much why i bought the book. but reading it you see why Joan wasn't as big as Dylan ever was even though she sold millions and millions of records. Dylan was never really concerned with what was going on in the 60's and 70's. he wrote songs about vietnam and civil rights simply because it sold him records, it was good song material, he never really did anything about it. Joan was the pure pacifist (well maybe not pure, but 50 times more than any musician we will ever see), she cared what was going on in other countries, world hunger, poverty,war....she went the first ten or so years of her career literally giving her money away.

you find out stuff like that....and you find out she had a bisexual relationship with this chick when she was like 21

[verbalpocketplay]

alright, i'm the last person i'd ever thought would be writing on the book thread.....b'cause i don't read

but i read scar tissue, by anthony keidis today, and i'm calling it now....the man will be dead in ten years..... the whole book is about him him fighting his battle with drugs......him doing a bunch of blow and then taking an ass of heroin to come down from it....

the music is just a side project for him, it allowed him to get money for more dope. and i really don't know that much about rhcp, i have mothers milk and one hot minute, by the way, and of course i bought californication (their most knowable piece) when i was about 13.............that was almost 8 years ago! and this book came out like two years ago!

keidis is amost in his mid 40's and he's shootin herioin like it's his job. it's so balatant the man will be history soon. the most he had been sober was 5 and a half years, the book came out while he was barely four years sober.....it seems like the book was almost a ploy to get more money(duh...). the man will probably be dead soon and this book will be a slap in the face.

i hope i'm wrong.... we all know another beautiful singer who was an outstanding drug addict, but this man is.........crazy.

[azrael]

his dad was a big drug dealer in LA in the 80s apparently, like father like son...

[Gabbee]

karen said:

Has anyone read A Million Little Pieces by James Frey? It has had a lot of attention lately with the whole Oprah thing. I thought it had some other underlying "controveries" you could say... So, what did you think?

Hey Bee and Bums, I just got back from the library and I got that book.. Havent started reading it yet, but it sounds very interesting.. Thanks for the tip!

[Gabbee]

verbalpocketplay said:

Yeah it's a good read, i found out alot i didn't know about her (going into it i didn't know much anwyays ) but i've got a couple of her albums and she has one of the MOST beautiful voices i've eve heard.

but i'm a decent Dylan fan and that's pretty much why i bought the book. but reading it you see why Joan wasn't as big as Dylan ever was even though she sold millions and millions of records. Dylan was never really concerned with what was going on in the 60's and 70's. he wrote songs about vietnam and civil rights simply because it sold him records, it was good song material, he never really did anything about it. Joan was the pure pacifist (well maybe not pure, but 50 times more than any musician we will ever see), she cared what was going on in other countries, world hunger, poverty,war....she went the first ten or so years of her career literally giving her money away.

you find out stuff like that....and you find out she had a bisexual relationship with this chick when she was like 21

Oooh, that sounds great! Next on my list! Thanks!!!

[verbalpocketplay]

yeah Joan is actually in the new Rolling Stone...twice. First by someone thanking them for not putting her on the cover when they had that 1000th issue, or something?... i don't really read rolling stone.
and then there's a picture of her like doing some tree hugging stuff. she's like living in trees or something so they won't chop them down...that sort of thing....what a hippy

[Bogo]

I've been rereading this book called Cows are freaky when they look at you.

its not really a story by one author but a collection of stories from the 60/70s era told by people from lawrence,ks.

a lot of people from that book are still around, since I grew up and live there I have friends whos parents wrote a few stories in the book.

everyone should check it out #stick#

www.amazon.com/gp/product/0922820139/sr=8-1/qid=1155152081/ref=sr_1_1/103-1934827-3069430?ie=UTF8

[azrael]

right now I'm on

The Lost Gospels - Marvin Meyer
The Gnostic Gospels - can't remember the name
Republic - Plato

that'll last me another month or so

[Ryan]

I'm reading this really weird book right now called
The Men Who Stare at Goats.

Basically the author, Jon Ronson, goes about explaining how in the early 80's there was a special task force created within the military to try and train soldiers to kill a goat by staring at it, or to walk through walls. Ronson interviews a whole bunch of people who were supposedly in the Task Force.

Although Ronson is in disbelief (like most of us) that the American military would even venture into the paranormal, he does approach his writing of the subject matter in a decently serious manner. Just hints of sarcasm here and there, which are pretty funny commentary.

Some of the facts that he lays out for the reader are in dispute, but the government does not necesarily deny that the task force existed. I haven't finished it yet, but I am enjoying it so far. Pretty funny stuff. . .

[~BEE~Happy~]

The picture on the cover is entertaining for sure!

....poor goat!

[verbalpocketplay]

bogo said:

I've been rereading this book called Cows are freaky when they look at you.

its not really a story by one author but a collection of stories from the 60/70s era told by people from lawrence,ks.

a lot of people from that book are still around, since I grew up and live there I have friends whos parents wrote a few stories in the book.

everyone should check it out #stick#

www.amazon.com/gp/product/0922820139/sr=8-1/qid=1155152081/ref=sr_1_1/103-1934827-3069430?ie=UTF8

yeah i think i am gonna check this one out, after reading the review about it....

"From Library Journal
The Kaw Valley Hemp Pickers were marijuana harvesters around Lawrence, Kansas during the 1960s and 1970s. A variety of the weed known locally as K-pot grew plentifully, nurturing a counterculture celebrated here in a foreword by William S. Burroughs and a series of oral history excerpts by Lawrence's former hippies. Their recollections focus mainly upon drugs, sex, and violence, tales and tall tales lovingly preserved to the final raunchy detail. Alternately funny and nasty, the book is a nearly perfect memento of the utter pointlessness of the era's excesses. Readers nostalgic for "that peace and love shit" will go unrewarded, but a dope harvest makes a good episode. This is marginal, though, even for the deepest regional collections.
- Robert F. Nardini, North Chichester, N.H.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc."

"cows are freaky when they look at you"
"the men who stare at goats"

i'm feeling a theme

[~BEE~Happy~]

...yea, and I'm almost finished "The Secret Life of Bees". Not sure if this fits into the theme you're feelin'.... but sort of?

[ishbell]

bobafett said:

I'm reading this really weird book right now called
The Men Who Stare at Goats.

Basically the author, Jon Ronson, goes about explaining how in the early 80's there was a special task force created within the military to try and train soldiers to kill a goat by staring at it, or to walk through walls. Ronson interviews a whole bunch of people who were supposedly in the Task Force.

Although Ronson is in disbelief (like most of us) that the American military would even venture into the paranormal, he does approach his writing of the subject matter in a decently serious manner. Just hints of sarcasm here and there, which are pretty funny commentary.

Some of the facts that he lays out for the reader are in dispute, but the government does not necesarily deny that the task force existed. I haven't finished it yet, but I am enjoying it so far. Pretty funny stuff. . .

I'd hate to be that goat!!! #outtahere# Sounds like a good book!

[ishbell]

I'm reading "The Mists of Avalon" by Marion Zimmer-Bradley it's pretty light fare compared to some of what you guys are reading but that's all my addled little brain can take right now.