Jazzfanz Bookclub

[Duck Rodgers]

I'm going to check it out next time I go to the library. A prison escape novel sounds good right about now.

 

[Archie Moses]

The movie adaptation of Papillon is also awesome … Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman.

I started watching the movie but I had to turn it off a quarter way through. It was ruining the book.

 

[VINYLONE]

I need to read more...

 

[TroutBum]

I need to read more...

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

 

[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]