What Books Are We Reading?

[Sifu Ben]

I read Motley Crue's Autobiography a few years back and I'm really interested in reading Ozzy's. Anybody read either of them?

I've read The Dirt, fascinating read. Very interesting to see that Nikki, who comes across in interviews as the reasonable, intelligent one is a complete headcase, whereas Tommy is a sensitive soul from a very stable background.

[Attica!]

I read Motley Crue's Autobiography a few years back and I'm really interested in reading Ozzy's. Anybody read either of them?

I've read The Dirt, fascinating read. Very interesting to see that Nikki, who comes across in interviews as the reasonable, intelligent one is a complete headcase, whereas Tommy is a sensitive soul from a very stable background.

I know, like him being so paranoid that he shot at his own reflection in the mirror haha. I love the bit about where they walk out of Whiskey a GoGo (I think) and Randy Rhoads was hung upside down from a tree by his feet haha

[MrBump]

I read Motley Crue's Autobiography a few years back and I'm really interested in reading Ozzy's. Anybody read either of them?

I've read The Dirt, fascinating read. Very interesting to see that Nikki, who comes across in interviews as the reasonable, intelligent one is a complete headcase, whereas Tommy is a sensitive soul from a very stable background.

I read the Ozzy one.  It's good, kinda what you might expect, but a good read none the less.

[Modular1]

I thought 'the dirt' made them all (apart from mick mars, poor bloke) come across as a bunch of knobbers. They have a really over inflated image of their own importance to the rock world. It's only books like this that keep them in the public view. They killed their own career with their actions regarding that Moscow(?) event. They should really have faded from view after their 3rd record.

[Modular1]

Keith Richards biog 'Life' was an amusing and enjoyable read although it gets a lot less interesting once it gets to the 80s (didn't most things regarding rock music... Awaits backlash lol)

The Mick Wall Led Zeppelin biog was ok too (omitting the dull flashback bits)

[Sifu Ben]

Currently reading The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie, really enjoying it.

[nfe]

I find very little time to read fiction nowadays but I've a few things sitting that I'm picking at. Have sci-fi classic Lord Of Light started and also Gods Behaving Badly, which is a comedy about the Olympians who've lost much of their power because no one believes in them living in modern day London doing jobs related to their ancient roles. Appolo is a TV psychic, Aphrodite is a sex-line worker and Dionysus is a drunken DJ, for instance. Pap but good fun. There's a film in the works with Christopher Walken as Zeus and Sharon Stone as Aphrodite.

[Philly Q]

Have sci-fi classic Lord Of Light started

Roger Zelazny?  I like some of his books, especially the Amber series.

[nfe]

Yup. Then I'm going to hit some Alfred Bester stuff. I will fit fiction into the holidays. I will, I WILL!

[davidflower7782]

Currently cruising though Descartes Mistake, Antonio Damasio (whom furthermore has the many awesome pompadour you've ever seen, the guy rules) since the non-fiction, on the off potential I might possibly understand something, and also The Judging Eye, R. Scott Bakker, to actively avoid learning anything.

[MDV]

David, excellent choices, both great books. But you may wish to read the title of Descartes Error again (love that book, one of a very small handful that changed how I think about thinking).

[Tellboy]

On Christmas list is Riding Shotgun by Gerry McAvoy (35 years on the road with Rory Gallagher and Nine Below Zero)

Superb book. Be prepared to have some of your fears about Rory confirmed though (if they haven't been already, that is). I've read it several times now, the story's told with love, but it's a bit more open about Rory's problems than the offical line on it all.

Yep ... it was a fascinating read.

[Loomer]

I find very little time to read fiction nowadays but I've a few things sitting that I'm picking at. Have sci-fi classic Lord Of Light started and also Gods Behaving Badly, which is a comedy about the Olympians who've lost much of their power because no one believes in them living in modern day London doing jobs related to their ancient roles. Appolo is a TV psychic, Aphrodite is a sex-line worker and Dionysus is a drunken DJ, for instance. Pap but good fun. There's a film in the works with Christopher Walken as Zeus and Sharon Stone as Aphrodite.

Apropos of washed-up deities, I'm probably gonna start my second run through Neil Gaiman's "American Gods" soon.

[Ian Price]

Currently trying to read the abridged version of The Gulag Archipelago. I am finding it quite difficult at the moment and haven't picked it up in the last week.

Anyone else read it or a variant of it?

[dgg3jab]

Skydog - the Duane Allman biography.
Escaping the Delta - Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues