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Post by jhar26 on Dec 26, 2009 14:26:50 GMT -5
 Well, you guys know I'm a tennis fan.  |
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Post by erik on Dec 26, 2009 18:13:11 GMT -5
I am a fairly voracious reader, and at this particular time, these are my reading pleasures...   |
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Post by egoodstein on Dec 26, 2009 22:29:10 GMT -5
I'm always reading it seems-- often several books at once (trading off). At the moment, just two though: rereading excellent history of the Hellenenic era, 'Alexander to Actium' by Peter Green (I read several years ago)-- a lot to digest but really well-written and often entertaining too as he's witty as well as learned  . Really kind of history of the Mediteranean area c323 BC-c30BC. Also fun mystery by Brit author Anne Purser, 'Sorrow on a Sunday'-- part of a series she has of 'Lois Meade,' who runs a housekeeping company & detective on the side-- fun, easy to read stuff. Ed |
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Post by robertaxel on Jan 9, 2010 19:20:31 GMT -5
The Road to Dallas.. the latest attempt to unravel the greatest mystery of the 20th century.. the JFK assassination
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Post by erik on Jan 9, 2010 20:11:51 GMT -5
Quote by robertaxel:
And if there were ever an event that needed the truth to be bought out, especially for our nation, it is most certainly that one (IMHO).
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Post by jhar26 on Jan 10, 2010 5:55:54 GMT -5
I'm a sucker for biographies.  |
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Post by egoodstein on Jan 10, 2010 12:20:42 GMT -5
That Ginger one sounds cool-- I'll check it out . Ed |
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Post by erik on Jan 13, 2010 9:50:53 GMT -5
 A lot has been written about Gram Parsons, much of it quite fulsome, since his death in 1973, but Chris Hillman says the truth isn't quite as rosy as the myth (then again, it never is), which is why he and author John Einarson collaborated on this book. It makes for a very fascinating read, though it doesn't paint GP all that well (not that it was supposed to). |
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Post by jhar26 on Feb 15, 2010 17:14:55 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Feb 15, 2010 19:51:22 GMT -5
 Alive, Piers Paul Read's gripping book about the true-life 1972 saga that occurred in the Andes in which the survivors of a plane crash had to endure ten weeks of totally unimaginable horror. Not of the faint of heart to read, because their means of survival was as extreme as is possible. |
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Post by erik on May 11, 2015 19:57:21 GMT -5
 Paul Seydor, one of the greatest authorities on all things to do with the legendary, cantankerous director Sam Peckinpah, takes a penetrating look at the tumultuous history of the director's final Western, the incredibly problematic but always compelling 1973 film PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID--from the real life Old West legend itself, to an early script of Peckinpah's that was based on a book itself loosely based on that legend, and then to the tortured film that eventually came about. It is an essential book on this singular film, perhaps the darkest and most tragic Western in Hollywood history. |
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Post by egoodstein on May 12, 2015 22:34:13 GMT -5
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. Really kind of history of the Mediteranean
