[CanadianMaestro]

Stupendously delicious and informative.
 

 

 

[mutabor]

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[DLeeWebb]

 

[CanadianMaestro]

 

[HAWKEYE7]

Re-reading for the unteenth time my favorite novel by my favorite author, regardless of genre,
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny.
Everytime I run out of new stuff to read I fall back and re-read my all time favorites.

 

[PalJoey]

Just having another re-read through the always-magnificent 'Molesworth' trilogy. 
 
Next up on the reading list after that is Naples '44 by the brilliant Norman Lewis. As a description, I can't really top the official blurb, so here it is: 
Norman Lewis arrived in war-torn Naples as an intelligence officer in 1944. The starving population had devoured all the tropical fish in the aquarium, respectable women had been driven to prostitution and the black market was king.
Lewis found little to admire in his fellow soldiers, but gained sustenance from the extraordinary vivacity of the Italians around him - the lawyer who earned his living by bringing a touch of Roman class to funerals, the gynaecologist who specialised in the restoration of lost virginity and the widowed housewife who timed her British lover against the clock..

 

[PalJoey]

  Just having another re-read through the always-magnificent 'Molesworth' trilogy. 
 
Next up on the reading list after that is Naples '44 by the brilliant Norman Lewis. As a description, I can't really top the official blurb, so here it is: 
Norman Lewis arrived in war-torn Naples as an intelligence officer in 1944. The starving population had devoured all the tropical fish in the aquarium, respectable women had been driven to prostitution and the black market was king.
Lewis found little to admire in his fellow soldiers, but gained sustenance from the extraordinary vivacity of the Italians around him - the lawyer who earned his living by bringing a touch of Roman class to funerals, the gynaecologist who specialised in the restoration of lost virginity and the widowed housewife who timed her British lover against the clock..

Following Danny Baker's interview with David Hepworth on BBC Radio 5 this morning, Naples '44 has been bumped down one place in my reading list in favour of the latter's 1971 - Rock's Golden Year, which goes, month by month, through the year that more or less invented the modern rock star, the celebrity lifestyle, the image, the albums and so much else that endured for so long.

 

[CanadianMaestro]

 

[DLeeWebb]

 

[CanadianMaestro]

 

[metalsonata]

Just Finished:
 
Toilers of the Sea (1866), translated into English by James Hogarth
Thoroughly enjoyable, reminiscent in its way of Moby Dick, where most of its pleasures come from its tangents. Admittedly does wear on a little bit in its last fourth--Hugo was an excellent writer so he could get away with it to some degree, but I probably could have ultimately done without 10-15 page descriptions of stormy weather. Taken as a whole though, it's rather spellbinding stuff.
 
What's Next:
 
The Complete Works of the Pearl Poet (1993, 2007 revision); poems written in the 14th century
 
Looking forward to it!

 

[CanadianMaestro]

 

[PalJoey]

Unsurprisingly, Naples '44 is superb. You'd expect little less from a writer of Norman Lewis' reputation.

 

[CanadianMaestro]

 

[BobG55]