What are you currently reading?

[Leo Lakio]

Re: What are you currently reading?

My music kick continues - just finished "The Music Lesson" by bassist Victor Wooten, just started Oliver Sacks' "Musicphilia" (while waiting to not be picked for a jury today).

[memorylane]

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Waiter Rant by Steve Dublanica and then I am gonna skim thru the Idiots Guide to Dreams because I keep dreaming/foretelling the deaths of family members and that my ex husband and I reunite.

[Leo Lakio]

Re: What are you currently reading?

My music kick continues - just finished "The Music Lesson" by bassist Victor Wooten, just started Oliver Sacks' "Musicphilia" (while waiting to not be picked for a jury today).

Finished Sacks yesterday, started "Practicing: A Musician's Return to Music" by Glenn Kurtz today.

[salmoned]

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Just finished 'Deep Ancestry' by Spencer Wells - a mixed bag, not really worthwhile. It wasn't properly reviewed for errors of fact, reasoning and/or wording.

[salmoned]

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The Active Side of Infinity, but I'll probably end up reading all the Carlos Castaneda books again.

If you're going to bother, try 'Casteneda's Journey' by Richard DeMille for some perspective.

[leashlaws]

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"Eating My Words" by Mimi Sheraton former critic for the New York Times.
A fascinating read

[surlygirly]

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SOG- The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam by John L. Plaster.

Swiped it from a Marine buddy's house. It was either that, porn, or Tom Clancy. Luckily, I chose correctly!

[surlygirly]

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It wasn't properly reviewed for errors of fact, reasoning and/or wording.

I really hate that. It totally ruins the book you're trying to read. Aren't editors supposed to be doing something to earn a paycheck?? If I can catch gramatical errors in a first reading of a book, than they should definitely be able to after reading it multiple times. I speed-read, so when I read a book for the first time, I tend to read it incredibly fast, then if it was worthwhile, I'll go back and reread it again at a slower pace. I know I'm weird....

[Kaonohi]

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Hear ye! Hear ye! Step right up! Its the Hawaiian Threads Book Club Thread.

MIDDLESEX, by Jeffery Eugenides

Another reason I have not gone into writing as a career, because this guy writes some AWESOME prose!

[salmoned]

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I really hate that. It totally ruins the book you're trying to read. Aren't editors supposed to be doing something to earn a paycheck?? If I can catch gramatical errors in a first reading of a book, than they should definitely be able to after reading it multiple times. I speed-read, so when I read a book for the first time, I tend to read it incredibly fast, then if it was worthwhile, I'll go back and reread it again at a slower pace. I know I'm weird....

Well, I wasn't exactly referring to grammer, but rather actual meaning. For instance, in the context of discussing the genetic 'Adam' & the genetic 'Eve', the phrase "earliest common ancestor" is used instead of the proper "most recent common ancestor." The two phrases have entirely different meanings. As well, the author speculates that we 'won out' over Neandertals because we were smarter, yet presents no evidence whatsoever and disregards the fact that Neandertals had a larger brain capacity. This sort of loose thinking can hardly benefit any reader, but rather reinforces the familiar fallacy that we're here because we're better (or fitter) and that evolution infers direction [towards more complexity, intelligence, etc.] and those concepts just aren't true.

[salmoned]

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Oops, double post.

[Honoruru]

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Finally finished 2666 by Roberto Bolano last weekend. It was an odyssey to say the least, but well worth it.

I’m now into Fahrenheit 451, the classic sci-fi novel by Ray Bradbury. I first read it in the 60s.

[Leo Lakio]

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http://www.hawaiithreads.com/showthread.php?t=16393

[cyleet99]

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Oh, hey, Leo! Great minds think alike.
Here is the post about what is currently in hand at our home.

[Leo Lakio]

Re: What are you currently reading?

"Braving the Elements", a history of American weather, by David Laskin.