What are you reading now, playas?

Grifterwithafunnylittleha
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FAB (Fucking Awesome Book)

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The Motel Life, Willy Vlautin

I got to tell ya, I've been putting off reading this book for quite some time for no other reason than I was reading other things and kept putting it off. It's been on my radar for quite some time but you know how it goes ... Other books appear in the way :-)

I read it today, and the story is all things life. So much not said, and all the things said in between. Well spun, Willy. I love the book's voice. Not a word is wasted.

Throughout the book, I never had the glaring thought, "There's a device."

I read the devices. They are there. Yet they are natural oral history and story-telling family history things. Excellent read.

Love,
Grifter

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Just finished the Hobbit (maybe 10th time, getting ready for movie), now reading "A Man in my Basement" by Walter Mosley.

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Can't believe it's been 5 years since I started this thread --
Right Now I am reading "A Death in the Family" by James Agee

poetic wonderment

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Sea Wolves by Jack London and waiting on my Woody Guthrie autobiography to arrive. Damn Amazon...taking forever to get here.

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im reading Post Office (C. Bukowski). Its awesome book;)

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Kill Decision- Daniel Suarez
Excellent book!

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Mountain Madness-The story of climber Scot Fisher.

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I am reading The Twilight Saga book. How great it is!

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Post by half-n-half »

Vogue & Vanity Fair September issues.

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I just checked out It's So Easy, & Other Lies; by Duff McKagen. I'm only about a chapter and half in, so far so good.

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Post by BoogieMan »

trailrider wrote:
ScottZeagle wrote:Finished the Gregg Allman biography "My Cross to Bear" recently.

Good read!
Read the excerpt in Rolling Stone. Might get that one next.
Read that one as well. It is weird though. It feels like he mentioned Dickey 20 times throughout the book, which is weird considering how he has worked together with the guy for 20 years. And there is very little details of how ABB records were made.

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ScottZeagle wrote:Finished the Gregg Allman biography "My Cross to Bear" recently.

Good read!
Read the excerpt in Rolling Stone. Might get that one next.

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Satan is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers. Great read.

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Finished the Gregg Allman biography "My Cross to Bear" recently.

Good read!

Grifterwithafunnylittleha
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Books for your Pony

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"Blind But Now I See: The Biography of Music Legend Doc Watson"

by Kent Gustavson, PhD ... Wonderful, maybe because I lived around there and was blind to anything in 1989 onwards. Wishful thoughts about how I could uh been.

Also, Appetite for Self Destruction ... it was okay with some interesting points along the way about mp3s and what not, but overall it was a gossip mag.

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Grifter

p.s. My baby can see

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