What are you reading?

[JereFuzz]

there was a Penguin Books Nietzsche translation i tried to read back in the 1970s that was like that. after i had to stop and look up a word for the third time in the introduction--and i have a pretty large vocabulary--i said "fuck off, Penguin." my friend Dan commented "i didn't know penguins had that large of a vocabulary."

Ever read Schopenhauer? His ideas were basically borrowed by Niet and reimagined in more cryptic language. Schopenhauer’s ideas of the will were Darwinist before Darwin was ever on the scene. His essays « On the suffering of the world » and « The vanity of existence » are incisive, morose, and funny at the same time.

[coldbrightsunlight]

Yeah Miéville goes too far with the obtuse vocabulary sometimes.

Iron Council is still, on the whole, wonderful though imo

[Achtane]

Do you guys know of any cool coffee table books related to weird music/gear/cars?
The last great one I got was about Bosozoku motorcycles.

[MrNovember]

Do you guys know of any cool coffee table books related to weird music/gear/cars?
The last great one I got was about Bosozoku motorcycles.

Push Turn Move or Patch and Tweak?

Maybe, How Music Works by David Byrne?

[oscillateur]

Do you guys know of any cool coffee table books related to weird music/gear/cars?
The last great one I got was about Bosozoku motorcycles.

Instrument is a great one. Not huge but not expensive either
https://www.amazon.com/Instrument-Pat-G ... 0811874745

"Instruments tell stories through their appearance as much as through their sound.

Pat Graham's photographs capture the intimate relationship between musician and instrument told by the signs of wear of fingers on frets or keys, chips, scratches, and modifications by the artists who have played, beaten on, bled over, and made them their own.

For more than ten years, Graham has been documenting these amazing instruments and collecting stories about them from musicians on the road, in clubs, and at home, including members of The Smiths, Sonic Youth, The Flaming Lips, R.E.M., New Order, Wire, Fugazi, Built to Spill, Band of Horses, Modest Mouse, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and many more. His gritty and beautiful images reveal the physical nature of music."

[Achtane]

Word. Thanks for the suggestions. It's as a Christmas gift for my dad, so I dunno how into the modular ones he would be, but I gave him How Music Works once and he loved that. Instrument does look really good.

[lordgalvar]

There is that tonebender book by 11publishing. Freaking expensive though ($100 after shipping).

There are some really nice ford gt books about the LeMans races and one on the experimental stuff Kar Kraft was doing for Ford. The Kar Kraft one is pretty cool actually (by a former employee and goes into the history or racing a bit to frame the R&d process).

Charlie Henry - Kar-Kraft: Race Cars, Prototypes and Muscle Cars of Ford's Specialty Vehicle Activity Program

Ford GT: How Ford Silenced the Critics, Humbled Ferrari and Conquered Le Mans

Go Like Hell is another good book (not much of a coffee table book)

There was a Moog book too...Analog Days I think but I haven't read it

This one might be cool - The San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde

Maybe - Vintage Synthesizers: Pioneering Designers, Groundbreaking Instruments, Collecting Tips, Mutants of Technology

[boneslygrifter]

I was plowing through Wheel of Time until I hit book ten and it basically turned focus onto Perrin and Faile, my two least-favorite characters. Haven't picked it up in over a week. I'll eventually slog through it because I've heard it picks back up again but man its hard to stay interested right now.

[odontophobia]

I was plowing through Wheel of Time until I hit book ten and it basically turned focus onto Perrin and Faile, my two least-favorite characters. Haven't picked it up in over a week. I'll eventually slog through it because I've heard it picks back up again but man its hard to stay interested right now.

If you made it through the Aes Sedai arcs then this should pickup reasonably well for you. I feel like the books before it focusing more on Egwene, the black ajah and the Amyrlin seat get a little tough to get through. Definitely a weak point for Jordan.

[coupleonapkins]

Word. Thanks for the suggestions. It's as a Christmas gift for my dad, so I dunno how into the modular ones he would be, but I gave him How Music Works once and he loved that. Instrument does look really good.

Instrument is one of my all time faves, inasmuch as if I ever see a copy in a bookstore, I buy it on principle & give it to a friend, everytime! Pat Graham is always great, though.

Each holiday season (aka coffee table book season), I always parse through what Phaidon or Taschen have released throughout the year, and am always in awe of what they publish, in scale, form & content.

[JereFuzz]

FINALLY finished Revenge of Geography and I highly recommend it ... I am now reading:

Brave New World Revisited
Prisoners of Geography
Dune: Butlerian Jihad
and other stuff

[dubkitty]

right now i have Trainspotting out from the library, which i'm quite enjoying. the junkie black humor is right up my street. IMO it's not really a novel, though, rather a collection of short stories. i also have NeuroTribes by Steve Silberman, a science writer and psychedelic music lover i follow on Twitter. it's a history-and-advocacy work on the history of the autism diagnosis. i'm a bit leery, only because Dr. Asperger of Syndrome fame did his initial research in 1930s Germany before the Nazis shipped folks with autism to "hospitals" where they were killed, and i figure that's gonna be rather depressing.

[MrNovember]

Just started Mona Lisa Overdrive. I didn't end up liking Count Zero as much as Necromancer. Still a good story, I just really don't like how each chapter focuses on a different character. I haven't been reading enough for a book like that; every time I got to a new chapter I had to go back and skim some of the previous chapter with that character to remember what was going on.

Also, I got the Beastie Boys book, A Secret History of Twin Peaks, and the Three Body Problem for Christmas. So I'm pretty set for reading for awhile.

[oscillateur]

Currently reading "Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street". Pretty good so far, and it fits with my basic understanding that people making money playing with the stock market (and manipulating it) are basically parasites, and often sociopaths too.

Planned after that (in any order) :
Gnomon, by Nick Harkaway
Origamy, by Rachel Armstrong
The Smoke, by Simon Ings

All of this is based on 2018 recommendations by Warren Ellis, from his newsletter...

[odontophobia]

Just finished The Core. Last book in Peter V Brett’s Demon Cycle. Enjoyable read. Think I’m starting the Nightangel trilogy by Brent Weeks.