the reading list is growing…..
You know I often ramble on about the collapse of music sales as people stop buying CDs, and of course the first to suffer there are the music retailers - farewell Tower Records for instance - but it’s amazing to me that book stores still abound given the fact that I never set foot in them any longer - all my purchases are through Amazon. Anyway, I discovered this weekend as I worked on restoring my motorhome (another story, to be continued) that the mailman/woman/person has been dropping books off at an alarming rate. Here’s the list of my unread pile that accumulated during May, without review of course:
Teenage: The Creation Of Youth Culture by Jon Savage
Falling Man by Don DeLillo
Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder by David Weinberger
House Of Meetings by Martin Amis
Rough Crossings by Simon Schama
The God Delusion by Richard Hawkins
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
Al Qaeda And What It Means To Be Modern by John Gray
Perhaps at Sasquatch next weekend I can catch up on some reading….
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May 22nd, 2007 at 1:10 pm
Jon Savage is at it again, eh? Interesting. Thanks for the tip!
May 22nd, 2007 at 8:50 pm
yes, what was the last one? oh yes England’s Dreaming, that was a great book. Looking forward to reading the new one…
May 23rd, 2007 at 9:31 am
I wish Savage would do England’s Dreaming, The Post-Punk Years and give some of the same attention to detail of the later careers of Wire, BAD and BAD II, tons of other notables including a certain band named Gang Of Four…
Then again, is there a definitive Gang Of Four book out? I know a writer who’d be interested in working on a project such as that –cough–cough—. Ahem. Yes, hello.
:-)
August 1st, 2007 at 8:14 am
[...] You know I often ramble on about the collapse of music sales as people stop buying CDs, and of course the first to suffer there are the music retailers — farewell Tower Records for instance — but it’s amazing to me that bookstores still abound given the fact that I never set foot in them any longer — all my purchases are through Amazon. Anyway, I discovered this weekend as I worked on restoring my motorhome (another story, to be continued) that the mailman/woman/person has been dropping books off at an alarming rate. Here’s the list of my unread pile that accumulated during May, without review, of course: [...]
November 28th, 2007 at 9:40 am
[...] You know I often ramble on about the collapse of music sales as people stop buying CDs, and of course the first to suffer there are the music retailers — farewell Tower Records for instance — but it’s amazing to me that bookstores still abound given the fact that I never set foot in them any longer — all my purchases are through Amazon. Anyway, I discovered this weekend as I worked on restoring my motorhome (another story, to be continued) that the mailman/woman/person has been dropping books off at an alarming rate. Here’s the list of my unread pile that accumulated during May, without review, of course: [...]