what are you currently reading

I have recently read "Falling Sideways" by Tom Holt & have just started Saints & Sinners.

Good books both of them -worth a read but do it in private if others get irritated at outbursts of sniggers & giggles, the writing is surreal but also makes sense - the perfect prog rockers author.

have not read Travelling Music but loved the other 2

I'm reading an italian book about the world war II russian campain, called "Centomila gavette di ghiaccio" (one hundred thousand iced cases, a reference to the number of casualties occurred). Reading the book is like see the opening scene of saving private Ryan, so realisitic and crude.

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NME and MOJO music magazines

Finished Classic Rock last week, on the last pages of Exposé mag this week and Prog-Résiste (Belgian fanzine of friends) is waiting in my mailbox in Brussels for next week. Two weeks ago I had Record Collector (Genesis on Front page and a great 15 pages on Folk-prog).

on the book front, I am trying to finish also Dream Brothers (Buckley and son) and have the Eight Miles High (folk-rock part 2) waiting for me.

On the non-musical front I have two geopolitical books half-read and waiting for an ounce of time. On the fictional side (outside of Belgo-french Bande dessinée),Hesse's Steppenwolf is its last pages and Burroughs"s Naked Feast is up next - I am shameful that I had to wait so long for those two but better late than never.

I wonder how I manage all that , the music , the girlfriend , the friends and the job!!! I spend no time with TV (ouside the odd film or news mag - max 3 hours/week) and have no kids, so that helps!

 

Progman wrote: NME and MOJO music magazines

NME is too disrespectful to prog that I consider it Tabloid press and MOJO too wide in scope(I am also sick of Beatles stones and Dylan articles twice or thrice a year).

 

I'm reading The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs. It's pretty interesting and humorous too.

go rig vedans!

The War of the Worlds.. really good book.

I hope Speilberg doesn't ruin it...

Sweetnighter wrote: The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald The Stranger - Albert Camus

Stranger is an excellent book.

sorry for the double post.



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Progman wrote: NME and MOJO music magazines

NME is too disrespectful to prog that I consider it Tabloid press and MOJO too wide in scope(I am also sick of Beatles stones and Dylan articles twice or thrice a year).

Well one of the two magazines did review some HAWKWIND records and do mention Prog from time to time. Well I guess NME is a more orientated to modern pop which i'm not keen on. So I only read them If there is an Interesting Topic for example Prog.