I'll read anything that interests me I've just started reading Bob Dylan's autobiography, Bob Dylan: Chronicles Volume One, for the second time. (Last time was two years ago.) The last book I read was Animal Farm by George Orwell. Excellent book. Before that was Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga by Hunter Thompson, which followed Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, also by Thompson. I've got a growing collection of coffee table-type books on music gear. I'm a guitarist and so I love reading about that stuff. I have a huge hardcover book called The Stratocaster Chronicles about the Fender Stratocaster, Electric Guitars: The Illustrated Encyclopedia, which is a huge guide of just about every guitar ever made with tons of photos of them...very rare guitars and big sections on Fender and Gibson. Next one I want to get is about the Grateful Dead's equipment, they had some amazing techs that built custom amps and custom guitars with all sorts of pioneering technology.
i just started rising up and rising down by william t. vollmann, a condensed history of violence. very good. i wish i had the 7 volume set
So is that like military history? Because I'm enthralled in that kinda junk. What happened to the good ol' days of hacking each other to pieces in a field?
haha no kidding. it seems to be more about the political aspect that fuels violence. he has just the history of this, but also talks about, for instance, when military violence is justified, weighs consequences, that kind of thing. i wanted to read it all today but i was called in to work. dammit.
G. R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones is a pretty good set to read, also a book called Raptor(don't know the author as I read it in county) It's a semi true account of the Ostrogoths(one in particular) But my favorite series is definately The Dark Tower series. The Last book in the series (Dark Tower) is very profound. I couldn't put it down. Edit: Rasta, if you like the historical military and ancient stuff like that, I would suggest Raptor, but it's like 900 pages, FYI
i read a decent amount. i used to a lot more before i got to college/started working more. i'm reading "positively american" by chuck schumer (senator from new york) it's about the democrats and the possibility of them taking over in 2008, but how they have to portray a solid platform and really come through on promises. before that i read "fiasco: the military misadventure in iraq" by thomas ricks. not sure what i'll be reading next, though i want to learn more about the counterinsurgency in algeria that the french were fighting in early 50s. now if only our government/military strategists were reading up on other counterinsurgency campaigns in the past we wouldn't be in the fuck-up of a "war on terrorism" we are in now.
anything by the good doctor of course, thats hunter s. thompson i just read heat by Bill Buford, im a cook so it had me so interested also, the chef anthony bourdain is an excellent writer, both fiction and non. some of his best books are The Bobby Gold Stories and Gone Bamboo, both of which are fiction. but feature much of his own personal experience in the kitchen underworld (drugs, mafia, violence and sex) and as for his nonfiction- A cooks tour and Kitchen Confidential, both good whether ur a cook or not
3 of my favorite novels right now: 1. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy 2. The Dogfighter, Marc Bojanowski and I guess Rule of the Bone by Russell Banks to fit one in that is completly about weed.