I'vebeen doing a bit of reading over the holidays. My picks are:
"We Owe you Nothing: Punk Planet, the collected Interviews" Punk Planet was a punk rock magazine that went on during the 90's, and this is reprints of the best of their interviews. Some very interesting (Ian MacKaye, Henry Rollins, Greg Ginn, Thurston Moore, plus some I hadnt heard of who were really interesting, a graphic designer called Art Chantry, bands I have heard of but never heard (Sleater-Kinney, Jawbreaker) and industry people: independent record distributors, Steve Albini the producer) Obviously you have to have some interest in the subject matter, but it is worth reading. Plus its something you can read a bit of at a time because the interviews are all self contained. Good in holiday mode.
"Paris: After the Liberation" by Antony Beevor and Artemis Cooper. I've read a few of Beevor's books (his "Stalingrad" is brilliant, as is "Berlin") these are history books, but very readable, he was in the military and is now an historian. Paris is written with his wife, who is also a published author, and because her family were there, they have some great personal archive material. The immediate Post war focus is good, too, and it goes a long way to explaining some aspects of European history in the latter half of the 20th Century. I also have (but have not yet read) Beevor's book about the Spanish Civil war.
And on the motorbike side, I am reading that MotoGP Technology book by Neil Spalding. Worth buying just for the pics. Its about the 990cc era in MotoGP.
Ive got a book about China to read next too.
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Originally Posted by ynot slow
). A surprisingly good read, although having suffered from mentalness myself, I found some of it a bit harrowing.
It was the first of thousands of painful and horrible deaths.
theres a movie of the Time Travellers wife coming out this year as well.
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