What are you reading???

[QMO]

Originally Posted by Maine-iac

...[tan] Did you know that Woodhouse wrote the lyrics for the song "Just My Bill" from the musical "Showboat"? I really don't know why, since he didn't write lyrics for the other tunes in the show, but he did do "Bill". [/tan]

I didn't know that, and I've never seen "Showboat" but I did know that he wrote musical comedys.

[SparkleActuary]

Dark Genius of Wallstreet

[Patience]

Originally Posted by QMO

I heard first that it was an economics allegory (yellow brick road = gold standard, etc.) then heard it interpreted as a political statement, and since have heard that it was just a fun story, nothing more. Since there is no deeper meaning in any of his other books, it doesn't seem likely that there really is deeper meaning in Wizard.

looking at Wiki, it does seem like it is more theory than fact

[Maine-iac]

Finished "Mary Barton". Interesting. The topic was certainly serious enough (relationships between the working class and the ownership class in a manufacturing town), but the language was much simpler and more natural than that of the typical Victorian era novel despite the use of dialect. Shorter as well (not a short novel, per se, but a short Victorian novel.) Gaskell obviously tried to be evenhanded in her treatment of both sides of the issues, and for the most part succeeded, I think. Definitely worth reading.

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Taking a break with some light mysteries. Just finished Susan Witting Albert's "The Tale of Cuckoo Brow Woods" and starting Ellen Byerrum's "Killer Hair"

[Keef]

Just finished Batman: The Long Halloween

Now on Michael Mann

[QMO]

• Some book by someone that I don't remember, on the computer, from a CD that came from the library with a book I checked out, which CD officially encouraged copying all I wanted.
• Galactic Diplomat by Keith Laumer
• Gold and Silver, Silver and Gold that my 8-year-old checked out of the library. It's a book of stories (fact, myth and outright fiction) of treasure hunting.
• Various episodes of the BOFH (from bofh.ntk.net and The Register)
• And some Snide Remarks columns by Eric D. Snider. One good one is here.

And the Outpost, of course.

[yankeetripper]

To Say Nothing of the Dog - Connie Willis

[Alto Reed on a Tenor Sax]

Update:

I finally started "Infinite Jest." I am about 300 pages in. I like it. It's pretty dense. Reminds me of Pynchon, only you can actually understand it.

More updates to follow!

[yoyo]

Asimov's Foundation trilogy

[QMO]

Originally Posted by yoyo

Asimov's Foundation trilogy

One of my favorites.