- Am just finishing Lew Puller's "Fortunate Son," a autobiography by a Vietnam vet who had both his legs blown off. Clear-eyed, straight-ahead prose. There are fascinating accounts of battle and the war experience, but a lot more in the book, too.
- Plug for a friend's Web site (that I help her with): Here's an interview with Jake Lamar, a Paris-based American writer of romans noirs.
The What Are You Reading? Thread, v. 2.0
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Glad to hear it! Mitchell was short listed for the Mann-Booker again this year, but that's as far as he got. Bastards.Barabajagal wrote:I'd like to thank this thread for turning me on to David Mitchell (Black Swan Green) and Neil Gaiman.
I'm eight chapters into Jonathan Letham's autobiographical The Fortress of Solitude. While he's a great writer, I'm finding this very difficult and tense---it definitely feels lived. Of course, this is a good thing, just daunting.
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That sounds like a good one. I'd be interested to hear your full appraisal when you've completed it.Tim wrote:I just started reading 'An American Insurrection: James Meredith and the Battle of Oxford'
This is about the 1962 Ole Miss riots and the inside story on how James Meredith became the first black man admitted into the University of Mississippi.
A great read so far, I cant put it down.
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I recently finished reading Steven Johnson's Everything Bad is Good for You.

I don't know that I would call it a "review", but I talk about it on my blog:
http://gigantico.squarespace.com/
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Right now I'm about half way through Kevin Kelly's Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World.

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I recently finished reading Steven Johnson's Everything Bad is Good for You.

I don't know that I would call it a "review", but I talk about it on my blog:
http://gigantico.squarespace.com/
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Right now I'm about half way through Kevin Kelly's Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World.

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