thomas_sullivan Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 like one commenter indicated above, after reading for my job (almost) 8 hours a day, reading at home is actually a chore. That said, I cant seem to stop picking up Robert Frank's, "The Americans"..........and not just for the images. That whole idea of travelling the country, long term, with a cam is starting to fascinate me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wingell Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 Great thread! Can you imagine what Carl Hiassen would do with our Florida members?!!! We need more blue-tongued voles. Jamie: As I recollect--this was 40 years ago!--Model's class was pretty straightforward: get out and shoot, come back and we'll talk. I'd like to think some of it stuck. I took another course with Joe Breitenbach, a German photographer on the staff of Life. The New School was--is--a treasure. Raymond: Thanks for the reminder about Simon Winchester--I love his work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuck Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 Charles Fayette Taylor - <I>The Internal Combustion Engine in Theory and Practice, Vol. 1 and 2</i><P> Graham Robson - <I>Cosworth</i><P> Don DeLillo - <I>Americana</i><P> David Foster Wallace - <I>Infinite Jest</i><P> Douglas R. Hofstadter - <I>G�del, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid</I><P> Anton Szandor Lavey - <I>Satanic Bible</i> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travis1 Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 Burgundy--R.Gibson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jorge Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 I see that a large portion of the repliers missed the <i>"<b><u>photo</u></b> bookwise"</i> part of Lee's question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_neuthaler Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 EUROPEAN LITERATURE IN THE LATIN MIDDLE AGES, ERNST ROBERT CURTIUS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul t Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 FWIW, Photo book = Germaine Krull, Avantgarde als Ebenteuer (available at a bargain price from the Serpentine Gallery in London right now)<p> Just bought a friend Photo Nomad, great photos, shame about the typos, and the text running over the photos. <p> Non-fiction = Rembrandt by Simon Scharma, and Gibbon's Decline and Fall Of The Roman Empire and about to start Colossus by Niall ferguson. Recently finished Atomised and Mystery Of the Black Dog.... Currently reading and enjoying seeing Jay's posts antagonise people, whether or not he has a certificate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew n.bra hrefhttp Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 <em>I see that a large portion of the repliers missed the "photo bookwise" part of Lee's question</em><p> Ah well, if you are going to be that pedantic, then who in the hell <u>reads</u> a book full of photographs?...<p> :?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuart_richardson Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 George, Invitation to a Beheading is probably my favorite novel of all time. Are you enjoying it?? Nabokov is a master of absurdity, not to mention the English language...I am trying to make my way through the original Russian version right now, but as a second language, I get a bit less of the beauty and nuance of the language than I do in his English version. <P> Anyway: Photo book: Ansel Adams, the Negative. My first time through the series. It is excellent. <P> Non-photo book: One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Marquez <P> Academic works: A bunch on Shinto, Buddhist and Christian relations in Meiji Japan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_bedell Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 Ian wrote: for fiction, i have been reading haruki murakami: 'wind up bird chronicle', which restored my faith in modern literature, and now 'norwegian wood' and 'wild sheep chase' - i can't recommend him highly enough. Haruki Murakami is AWESOME. You've read some good ones. Try Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World next. ;-) Not all Murakami is surreal, but if you're in that mood after you've finished all his stuff, also try Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges, The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro, The Trial by Franz Kafka, and The Bridegroom was a Dog by Yoko Tawada. And to answer the question Lee asked, I'm currently reading a two-volume Congressional Quarterly thing about Watergate. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samuel_dilworth Posted July 25, 2004 Share Posted July 25, 2004 Jay, If the "Leica: Witness to a Century" book you refer to is the recent one by Alessandro Pasi, I would be grateful if you could tell me about the reproduction values of that book. For example, I happen to know it contains a colour photo of two men (father and son?) in conversation at a caf頴able, with light streaming down from above. How large is this photograph in the book, and how good is the print quality? I am thinking of buying this book, but would like to know how good the photos are before doing so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olivier_reichenbach Posted July 25, 2004 Share Posted July 25, 2004 Karim, I appreciate your effort in explaining but, as you probably suspected, I couldn't finish reading the three lines because I fell asleep before and my head violently hurt my desk. Thanks anyway ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uhooru Posted July 25, 2004 Share Posted July 25, 2004 Gary, if you havn't already read it another powerful book on that conflict is Stalingrad the Faithful Siege. It is mostly text, but there is some amazing photographs in it as well. Its by Antony Bevor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
__jon__ Posted July 25, 2004 Share Posted July 25, 2004 >Ian wrote: >for fiction, i have been reading haruki murakami: 'wind up bird chronicle', which restored my faith in modern literature, and now 'norwegian wood' and 'wild sheep chase' - i can't recommend him highly enough. >Haruki Murakami is AWESOME. You've read some good ones. Try Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World next. ;-) >Not all Murakami is surreal, but if you're in that mood after you've finished all his stuff, also try Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges, The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro, The Trial by Franz Kafka, and The Bridegroom was a Dog by Yoko Tawada. Yeah, Murakami is on my list next. "Labyrinths" is very good--but go for the gold and pick up Borges' "Collected Fictions". Just finished Orwell's "1984". Very appropriate for this day and age. Also reading Naomi Kline's "No Logo". Sick, very sick. Two weeks ago it was "The Corporation". There is a documentary out on it by the same filmaker that did "Manufacturing Consent". Hmmm, I need some fiction... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karim Ghantous Posted July 25, 2004 Share Posted July 25, 2004 Jon wrote: "Hmmm, I need some fiction..." If you haven't read Jurassic Park yet, I seriously recommend it. It is not a crappy throw-away excuse for a movie deal. It is much much more absorbing than the film which is based on it. Disclosure is also a good read, but a bit lighter. Olivier, just for you: ipchains -A input -s 127.0.0.1 -p icmp -j DENY :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy_aitken Posted July 26, 2004 Share Posted July 26, 2004 "Frontier Justice: weapons of mass destruction and the bushwhacking of America" by Scott Ritter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nesrani Posted July 26, 2004 Share Posted July 26, 2004 Rabiger's extraordinary books on directing, not much else at the moment. I spend more time watching and rewatching films than reading these days. Another type of reading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christian hilmersen www. Posted July 27, 2004 Share Posted July 27, 2004 Norwegian wood - does the book have any connection with the<a href="http://www.norwegianwood.no/">Norwegian Woord festival</a>? Or is the other way around - that the festival is named after the book? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christian hilmersen www. Posted July 27, 2004 Share Posted July 27, 2004 Never mind - I've got it...it's from a Beatles song....well, the Beatles never was my thing really.....(and not the festival either). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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