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Pappawas1975
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Well done BB.....! Congratulations......Im like 500 pages into Weaveworld at the moment, so I know how you felt - its like the damn thing is never
ending sometimes.....
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Ha! Yeah, there was always a coupla points where I just had it with the fantasy crap...
Now I've started wrestling through Ted Gioia's History Of Jazz, for college... It's the third time I have to read it, but I haven't actually read it
yet. It's boring...
Class was nice last Thursday. We got to listen to Sun Ra.
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Sun Ra is always good to listen to....
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Currently reading -
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That title is what I seem to be doing trying to pronounce the author's name. 
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ooh, BTW... Just started reading The Hobbit. Nice little book.
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Keep meaning to read The Hobbit....We have an old copy bumming around the house somewhere......have just started this however.....
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And? How's that?
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Sorry, what I meant to say was that I am about to start it ( on my next work shift )....So, dont know yet!
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Oh Ok... Can't get through Ted Gioia... recalled why I didn't read it the two times before...
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Ive done that before. Its like you think, well, Ill give it another shot, only to find that you were probably right in the first place! I should give
Finnegans Wake another try, come to think of it....
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That's a nice book, though indeed at times ununderstandable... Kinda like Dostoyevski's Memoires from a Basement.
No wait. That is entirely incomprehensible.
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I think weve discussed this before? Id heard sooo many blinding reviews and recommendations, and sat down to read it, and really didnt know what the
fuck was going on........!!!I should have been more patient possibly....
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Then again, maybe those reviewers didn't get the book, either...
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Well, there is that possibility I suppose.......
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How was that Choke-book by the way? It looks interesting...
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Side Note: I have now entered the Sheik Yerbouti status! Innit wonderful!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Gojira1975
Sorry, what I meant to say was that I am about to start it ( on my next work shift )....So, dont know yet! |
finished it and it was very good.....I think you may have to have at least a slight interest in football though, which I do, and it was an enjoyable
book.....
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BBP
Now I've started wrestling through Ted Gioia's History Of Jazz, for college... It's the third time I have to read it, but I haven't actually read it
yet. It's boring... |
I'd hate to say it but Gioia's book sucks.. always a bad sign when authors manage to make an interesting subject boring. Alyn Shipton's "New History
of Jazz" is much better, more interesting and more enjoyable. Of course as a huge jazz fan, I'm pretty biased. It really helps to know the records and
artists they are writing about.
Hey kids! Do you hear that sound? . . . Freaks will be coming from miles around!
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Well I used to be a soccer fan, but it's very much diminished now... though I do support PSV Eindhoven strongly. Not that I know who is in it...
Still on Hobbit, hope to finish it tomorrow... Nice book, really.
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