What book are you reading?

[Rev. Rye]

It's been a while since I read 2001. I actually lent it to somebody who never gave it back, but I seem to remember him explaining a lot more though. For example what the monolith actually was (or was doing) and what happens at the end. Whereas in the movie you end up with that LSD light show and then does he live out the rest of his life there or does he rapidly age, it's kind of fun that it's really open to interpretation. Speaking of 2001, the blu-ray is awesome. I dunno if there was a widescreen DVD version, but I know with some (all?) of Kubricks' movies the blu-ray was the first wide screen version, Full Metal Jacket for sure anyway. I had 2001 on VHS and it was pretty faded. But on the blu ray some of the panoramic shots are just amazing, almost like watching Planet Earth - even HAL thinks so. In fact he wants to sing you a song about it...

Yes, there have been widescreen versions of 2001 on DVD. And for the record, it was only Kubrick's last three films that didn't get a widescreen release on home video (I actually own the original Widescreen version of A Clockwork Orange, one of my favourite films). That said, I heard he actually preferred fullscreen for those three films. Well, nobody's perfect.

Back to books, I'm finishing More Information than You Require, and will soon go on and read The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian (The first volume of three in the collected Robert Howard Conan edition.)

[tsbelle]

I'm currently reading a primer on feminism called "Sisterhood Interrupted." It's pretty interesting so far, and I'm learning a lot considering I don't know much if anything about the feminist movement.

[thesummerqueen]

Last night the comment was made that there were far too many books in our house. We have a crammed 5 shelf bookshelf, more spilling out onto the coffee tables... a stack of them in my bathroom... a stack on the stairs to be taken up...several more stacks at the top of the stairs to be put away...shelves in my room...my roommate's mantle piece... her bathroom... the attic... her closets... You know how it goes.

So someone sent me this link:

http://bookshelfporn.com/

I figured anyone else who had a 'book problem' would enjoy it.

[Watson]

I've been reading a lot of that one book lately, what do they call it again...? Oh yeah! The Bible

Pretty good read.

[thesummerqueen]

I started reading it too, but only as a side reference to "Paradise Lost" - and by extension a rereading of the "His Dark Materials" trilogy. The latter is far more interesting.

[Watson]

Oh you! I love all books equally!(excluding anything Stephenie Meyer has ever written...)

Paradise Lost, I've heard that's a really good one, too.

[thesummerqueen]

Oh! And this is especially for my cooking goddess Shell:

Having spent a good deal of time in the kitchen on Sunday performing the heavenly alchemy of melding spices and herbs with vinegars and oils, I would like to recommend a seductive and sumptuous book by Isabelle Allende - Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses

It's a tongue-in-cheek look at the role food plays with our romantic sides, with loads of fun information about anything that was considered an aphrodisiac in ancient and modern times. It has recipes, artwork, snippets from food related poetry from around the world, folkloric stories involving food and scents, and much commentary in Allende's incomparable style.

My copy is dog-eared and marked from re-reading, but like a favored wine or coffee it never fails to bring pleasure.

[Edwardo Piet]

[...]Pretty good read. [the bible]

I thought the Bible also teaches that lying is wrong?

[everythingafter]

John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights

I've got real problems.

[Edwardo Piet]

I am currently reading fuck all as I can't concentrate on anything much right now.

However, I would like to own a new book called I Am A Strange Loop which sounds interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_a_Strange_Loop