What Are You Reading Now?

[lynn cates]

What were you expecting?

Hello Tom.

"I have no interest in reading Shakespeare."

Oh, dear. That's heresy. Expect a visit from the Spanish Inquisition.

Cheers.
LC

[Simon Wood]

Hi Tom,

"While I have no interest in reading Shakespeare, I find that I love reading about him."

Check this out. I think you may like it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PaliLAQT8k

Regards,

Simon

[jason_c]

Hi Adam,

Pretty much anything they make you read in high school. I always had to do the reading out loud in English class, usually Shakespeare. This is because I was the one who could phonetically render the words with no problem. But that didn't mean I understood a word of what I was saying. While I have no interest in reading Shakespeare, I find that I love reading about him. Odd, isn't it? The authorship question fascinates me to no end and the parallels between it and Ripperology are striking.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

Im the very same. I almost never read him but the authorship question interests me. Im reading a biography of Shakespeare at the moment. As I'd imagined, its basically an account of his times rather than a detailed(how much life detail can you obtain from a Will and a couple of court cases?) account of the man.

[The Good Michael]

Must admit that I still pick up Wodehouse now and then. I especially like the Gold bat and his other schoolboy stories.

Mike

[Wolf Vanderlinden]

While I have no interest in reading Shakespeare, I find that I love reading about him. Odd, isn't it? The authorship question fascinates me to no end and the parallels between it and Ripperology are striking.

I’ve noticed that too. There’s the same capacity for deception, illogic and fantasy.

I’ve just started Bill James’ Popular Crime, Reflections on the Celebration of Violence (it’s not bad). I’m also reading Richard Palmisano’s Ghosts, An Investigation Into a True Canadian Haunting (anything by Palmisano, a Toronto based paranormal investigator, is worth checking out. This one is fairly disturbing). And, finally, for a change of pace, I’m also reading P. G. Woodehouse’s The Little Nugget (not one of his better efforts but fun all the same).

Wolf.

[Tom_Wescott]

Hi Adam,

Pretty much anything they make you read in high school. I always had to do the reading out loud in English class, usually Shakespeare. This is because I was the one who could phonetically render the words with no problem. But that didn't mean I understood a word of what I was saying. While I have no interest in reading Shakespeare, I find that I love reading about him. Odd, isn't it? The authorship question fascinates me to no end and the parallels between it and Ripperology are striking.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[DVV]

Tom, what do you regard as "pretentious old literature"?
Adam.

Latin poetry must enter the category.

[The Good Michael]

Tom,

Drood is really good if plodding at times, but that's Simmons for you. I liked Matthew Pearl's version of the Drood concept, but I think this will be better by the end which is still 250 pages away!

Mike

[Adam Went]

Is "Drood" short for "Mystery of Edwin Drood" of have I missed something?

Tom, what do you regard as "pretentious old literature"?

Cheers,
Adam.

[Tom_Wescott]

Hi Good Michael. Glad to see I'm not the only one who's reading good stuff and not just pretentious old 'literature'. I own the Lincoln Vampire Hunter book, but haven't read it yet. Let me know how 'Drood' is as well.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[Steve S]

Read The Zombie & Lincoln ones.....There is also a "Mr.Darcy,Vampire"...

[The Good Michael]

Currently reading: Drood, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Doc holiday, a Family Portrait, and Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter... oh and The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortora.

Mike

[Steve S]

True.....The Viet Minh did it!

[DVV]

A good thriller, Steve, though lacking suspense.

[Steve S]

"The Last Valley" about the siege of Dien Ben Phu....