Admit it, people, some of you enjoy a good read! So, what's keeping you busy these days.
I'm thinking Bernie would like this one, I'm just finishing up, "Great Irish Tales of Horror."
Can't go wrong with Lovecraft, man, he's top notch.
I am more into biographies and autobiographies, altough the last one I read 'Scar Tissue' by Anthony Kiedis, I thought was boring. Surely there are only so many times a man can fall off the wagon and keep getting back on it?
Maybe I should go with evilfretmelter and stick with The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett you can't go wrong there.
Taking a sci-fi twist with Hal Clement's "Iceworld."
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I've heard it's a good book.
Not exactly reading it at the moment but I have just bought The Encyclopedia of Popular Music 1,500 pages of information.
Sure I will find it more than useful, propping a door open or something!
Just read Lollipop Shoes by Joanne Harris. Was my wife's book, it's the follow up to Chocolat, it's full of magic and descriptioons of fantastic chocolates. I like chocolate almost as much as beer!
Stephen King's latest next
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great horror stories in here!
Reading a great one, now, a true book, too. It's called
"American Shaolin." This fellow, Matthew Polly drops out of Princeton U after 2 years. His dream is to study Zen Buddhism and Kung Fu. So, what does he do? He ups and goes into the mountains of China, to the Shaolin Temple itself and immerses himself in that culture. Polly stayed there for two years and the book beautifully chronicles his physical development as well as beautiful
human development, too.
Recently, a photographer caught up with him and Polly throws a jumping side kick in the middle of NYC's Times Square. Look at the height he gets and how perfectly straight that friggin' kick is!
Being the eternal joker he is, this is all Polly would say about that kick:
"Many people come up to me and ask what tips I have for them when they are doing a kung fu photoshoot in a suit in the middle of Times Square. Until Saturday I didn't know quite what to tell them except to say that my brother is on the police force and they should leave me alone.
But thanks to The Times of London and their wonderful photographer, Shahar Azram, I now have some advice.
First it is very important when performing flying kicks in a suit that you wear the knee-length dress socks. Sure, they are less comfortable, but no one wants to see your pasty white calves. Second, always apply a little hair gel. It gets windy out there on Broadway and 44th, especially if your flying kicks are, like mine, fast as lightning. Third, unbutton the top button. Otherwise the suit bunches up and it makes it look like you've got a gut.
Hope that helps."
I have just renewed my membership at my local library as I have (a lot of) time off work at the moment. After 20 minutes looking around the book shelves, I had to drag myself away! With the following books in hand:
Thud! by Terry Pratchett, unashamed fantasy, always enjoyed these Disc World stories and hope to pick up where I left off.
The Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Casteneda, have heard about this book, but never read it, so we will see!
Hokkaido Highway Blues by Will Ferguson, a travelogue about hitchhiking in Japan, a country I hope to visit one day.