What Book Are You Currently Reading?

[SteveB]

Watched the DVD Telstar last night. Hmm. There was a quote about the 1990s film version of Titanic which said: There were 1400 stories on this boat, and this was the lousiest to pick.

I'm afraid Telstar suffers something of a similar fate. It can't seem to make its mind up which story it wants to tell: Joe Meek the paranoid Artist. Joe Meek the incompetent business man. Joe Meek's life as a public-toilet-visting homosexual. Joe Meek the pioneering recording genius.  The film itself is well-made and periodic, and certainly worth a watch, but just seems a bit directionless. Oh Well, perhaps a second view at some stage will enlighten more.

Am going to be dipping into the book below, to see what Eric has to say for himself?

[tony]

Just started Charles Hamm, Yesterdays: Popular song in America, today.
It's a big story as he tells it.

[chapperz66]

I'm about halfway through "Defiance" - the biography of the Bielski partisans in Belorussia.  Grim reading but inspiring.  It will take me weeks to finish - the Sunday Times normally lasts me until Thursday....

[SteveB]

...the Sunday Times normally lasts me until Thursday...

C66 - Yep, but it's usually a darned good read. I mean, the amount of fashion tips from Style that you can pass on to any GF is incredible!!! 

[tafka]

the podx3 manual.
and anything  by Anthony Beevor

TJ.

[chapperz66]

TJ - haven't read the pod manual but my last read was "D-Day" by Beevor.  Quite how he researches something like that is incredible.

Steve - I tend to speed through the Style section - unless there's an article on lingerie of course (oops - perhaps I've said too much).  Forgive my ignorance - what's a GF?

Paul

[SteveB]

...what's a GF?

C66 - A GirlFriend, usu long-suffering. 

[chapperz66]

Steve - ah! GF - the penny drops....

I haven't got one of those.  (I've been married 23 years - its beginning to look like it might last.....)

Paul

[Greeny]

Peter Aykroyd's fascinating new history of Venice. It really is outstanding - especially if you love Venice, lol

[Migs]

Red Square Blues - A beginners guide to the decline and fall of the Soviet Union by Kim Traill.

My sister gave it to me because she knows the author and thinks she would make a good partner for me.  I did a bit of travelling around Eastern Europe around 1992 and the book is just how I remember it.