Jazzfanz Bookclub

[sirkickyass]

I recently read the entire Anastasia Krupnick series by Lois Lowry.

It's kids literature, but it's exceptionally good children's literature that, in many ways, probably wouldn't be publishable today.

 

[VINYLONE]

Don't they have a Q&A with the cover-girl at the front of your Hustler?

I dont read Hustler. Bro.

 

[bigb]

Just finished Driven

I waited a long time to read it. I found it a very good read. Quite interesting, IMO.

 

[VINYLONE]

I finally finished reading Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. That book was a doozy.

Anyway, I have a subscription to Vanity Fair and Esquire...those two magazines keep me busy...as well as find Robert D. Kaplan articles on the web.

 

[Duck Rodgers]

I've read a few since last month, but this is the one that stood out and I ended up buying on Amazon just barely:

I love Thomas Sowell when he is in scathing mode. 100/10. Read it.

 

[moevillini]

I recently read the entire Anastasia Krupnick series by Lois Lowry.

It's kids literature, but it's exceptionally good children's literature that, in many ways, probably wouldn't be publishable today.

I think one of the best books ever written is Number the Stars by Lois Lowry. Children's literature, but so well written that adults can enjoy it.


in a similar vein, I just finished The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, it's about a young girl in Nazi Germany, c. 1940. I think technically it's listed as "Young Adult Fiction" and it's won all sorts of literary awards, in a variety of categories including many for children and young adults.

It's an amazingly well-crafted story.

 

[Gyp Rosetti]

I think one of the best books ever written is Number the Stars by Lois Lowry. Children's literature, but so well written that adults can enjoy it.


in a similar vein, I just finished The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, it's about a young girl in Nazi Germany, c. 1940. I think technically it's listed as "Young Adult Fiction" and it's won all sorts of literary awards, in a variety of categories including many for children and young adults.

It's an amazingly well-crafted story.

Lowry's great! I teach The Giver which is freakin' tight.

 

[Boondocksaint27]

 

[LogGrad98]

Last weekend I read War and Peace (Tolstoy). Well on Saturday, Sunday I was busy. Monday I had the day off work so I read Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoyevsky). Russian tri-fecta ftw.

 

[Stickler]

Last weekend I read War and Peace (Tolstoy). Well on Saturday, Sunday I was busy. Monday I had the day off work so I read Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoyevsky). Russian tri-fecta ftw.

Were these the comic book adaptations?

 

[sirkickyass]

Last weekend I read War and Peace (Tolstoy).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGHmpuCDLsQ

 

[Stickler]

The Reagan Diaries? Just kill everyone now. It.... The Best of Times...? Jesus. It gets worse.

I want this farce of a civilization to end. I'm ready for the zombie apocalypse. Please let it happen.

 

[Stickler]

The last book I read was "Double Duty, Dual Identity: Raised in an Alcoholic Family and Food Addicted," by Claudia Black.

 

[Archie Moses]

 

[TroutBum]

Last weekend I read War and Peace (Tolstoy). Well on Saturday, Sunday I was busy. Monday I had the day off work so I read Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoyevsky). Russian tri-fecta ftw.

You read a 1,000+ epic novel in one day, and then another 1,000+ pages of two other books the next day? Either you're full of dump, or we should start calling your Raymond.




Ten minutes to Wapner.

 

[balli]

I'm currently reading Lolita. On a whim, I actually read a hundred pages worth or so of kindle app The Brothers Karamazov last week, but I put it on the back-burner in exchange for the aforementioned Lolita; which is okay as I know The Brothers Karamazov like the back of my hand and I'd never previously read any Nabokov.

The last book I finished was David Foster Wallace's Consider The Lobster. Which was good. As an aside, I have not read Infinite Jest and I generally have a dim opinion of reading contemporary literary fiction.

 

[moevillini]

I loved Lolita. Disturbing story, but a great read.

 

[VINYLONE]

we should start calling your Raymond.

Is this new slang. Please advise.

 

[TroutBum]

Is this new slang. Please advise.

I thought the whole, "10 minutes to Wapner" kind of cleared that up. I forgot who I was dealing with.

 

[UB]

Last weekend I read War and Peace (Tolstoy). Well on Saturday, Sunday I was busy. Monday I had the day off work so I read Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoyevsky). Russian tri-fecta ftw.

I'm reading "The Master and Margarita," by Russian novelist Mikhail Bulgakov. It's a tough read, but it's getting pretty wild.