What Are You Reading ?

[FrankieLee]

NEIL YOUNG "waging heavy peace:a hippie dream"

got this one three weeks ago when released, finished it last night...
Neil's autobiography....
easy to read,reads more like 'his thoughts' than a proper bio book(bit like a journal)....
discussing everything from relationships with artists,romance,his love of trains(toy trains...he part owns 'lionel trains),music,drugs,his love of old cars,the environmentally friendly car he is designing...
his hatred for modern music ie:itunes,cds, and their compressed feel
youtube and ebay also get a mention or two
his thoughts on "r+r hall of fame"(why has Linda Ronstadt not been inducted?)
life in general,his health concerns(polio,epilepsy,annurysm's) and...
his thoughts about reforming Crazy Horse(which has now been done)

all up, a pretty good book from one of rock and roll's true survivors who still lives the "hippie dream"

4/5

I'm going to buy this and read it when I'm finished Bob Dylan's Chronicles.

[Music Head]

A little light reading. Wifey persuaded me to give it a shot. Had not read anything by him, but I did enjoy the film adaptation of The Notebook. How could you not like that? The tears only hurt for a short time. Another love story here with some thriller elements included. Wife runs away from her abusive husband to start a new life in a far away North Carolina coastal community. Falls for some dude raising two kids on his own after his wife has passed away. The tossed hubby refuses to accept defeat and tracks her down. She kills the bastard. They live happily ever after, the end. Oh yeah, there's a ghost in it.

Grade - B

next up - The Age Of Turbulence by Alan Greenspan

[Music Head]

^^
another in the strange coincidence category
finished this, posted it and told the wife
that would make a decent movie
watching tv last night and a promo for the movie comes on
coming out next month at a theater near you

[PennyLane]

I am reading Free Will by Sam Harris. So far it is more of what I already know, but I hear he is a brilliant writer with very original ideas so I can't wait to see the spark.

[CRAZY-HORSE]

i am currently halfway through this autobiography by one of my musical idols...
so far we are up to around 1970 and the releaes of "live at leeds" album(sublime live album IMO)...
the book spent a bit of time on the concept,recording period of the rock opera "tommy", quite a few antidotes of early tours with Keith Moon's antics on and off stage, plenty of 'sex and drugs and rock and roll',especially the latter two from Pete, Keith,John and Roger made up for the sex though by the sounds of it LMAO!
very good read so far, i didnt realise that Uncle Pete as i call him was a really introverted kinda guy until now,guess it takes all types to become rock and roll icons

so far 4/5 or B+

[kerry]

I am currently reading The Hobbit...again. I love it

Have been away from just about everything doing that writing thing again... it becomes pretty much all consuming, but its out and I am delighted with it!!!!

[PennyLane]

I finished "Free Will" and now I am onto this...

[CRAZY-HORSE]

PETE TOWNSHEND "who i am"

okay....just finished Pete's autobiography...very good book, better than Neil Young's one IMO

lots of stuff from his childhood, early Who days, lots from the so-called "classic" Who period of 1968-1972ish...
drugs,alcohol problems,marital/relationship problems, and overcoming those problems, his off stage relationships with the other Who members,Keith Moon's passing, busting up hotel rooms etc etc...its everything i thought it would be, great read from start to finish, and a good insight into the 'workaholic' that he still is up until the book was finished

4/5 a must for any fan of The Who and rock and roll from the 1960s/70s

[Jerome]

Thx CK - gonna give this one a whirl. Sounds good.

[Jerome]

I am reading Free Will by Sam Harris. So far it is more of what I already know, but I hear he is a brilliant writer with very original ideas so I can't wait to see the spark.

If you like really descriptive writing try Peter Hoeg's 'Tales of the Night'. 12 short stories that all take place on the same night in different parts of the world. Wish I could create music the same way this guy creates books. Fascinating writer.