Books

[Fat Freddy]

Stan Lee and the Rise & Fall of the American Comic Book by Jordan Raphael & Tom Spurgeon

[Fat Freddy]

Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes & Trends of the '70s and '80s by Gael F. Cooper and Brian Bellmont

[kourosofsteel3]

Stan Lee and the Rise & Fall of the American Comic Book by Jordan Raphael & Tom Spurgeon

 

 

Any good? I 'd love to get it as a part of my ingrowing interest in American literature.

[Fat Freddy]

 

Stan Lee and the Rise & Fall of the American Comic Book by Jordan Raphael & Tom Spurgeon

 

 

Any good? I 'd love to get it as a part of my ingrowing interest in American literature.

 

 

Yes, very interesting stuff. Stan's a unique character.

[Fat Freddy]

Just started:

 

Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life as a Ramone by Marky Ramone

 

on deck:

 

Underneath It All by Traci Lords

[kourosofsteel3]

 

 

Stan Lee and the Rise & Fall of the American Comic Book by Jordan Raphael & Tom Spurgeon

 

 

Any good? I 'd love to get it as a part of my ingrowing interest in American literature.

 

 

Yes, very interesting stuff. Stan's a unique character.

 

 

 

Thanx, in the "would buy list" from book depository.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Fat Freddy]

Comic Wars: How Two Tycoons Battled Over the Marvel Comics Empire ... and Both Lost! by Dan Raviv

[Fat Freddy]

Just finished:
Anti-Rock: The Opposition to Rock N Roll by Linda Martin

Just started:
VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV's First Wave by Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter and Martha Quinn

[Thomas/Coastline]

Yngwie Malmsteen - Relentless

 

I liked "As Above, So Below" by Anders Tegnér better. That book is highly recommended.

 

[Thomas/Coastline]

Konspiration Olof Palme - Gunnar Wall. About the Palme murder.

[Fat Freddy]

Just finished:
The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry by Legs McNeil

 

Just started:
Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream by Steven Watts

[Geoff]

Just finished:

The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry by Legs McNeil

 

 

This one any good, Keef?

[Fat Freddy]

 

Just finished:

The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry by Legs McNeil

 

 

This one any good, Keef?

 

I enjoyed it. It's a long read but very entertaining, with quotes from just about everybody who was anybody. There were some very interesting stories about how debauched the porn industry was during the 70s, and how deeply organized crime was embedded in it..

[Dark]

Steven Tyler: Does the noise in my head bother you

 

What a crazy read! it reads like someone with ADHD on coke wrote it

[phaffas]

Currently reading:

James Rollins - Sandstorm

 

Warwick Todd - up in the blockhole

 

David Thorne - Ill go home then its warm and has chairs

[phaffas]

Mack The Life - the autobiography of comedian Lee Mack. Here's a tip - DON'T read this one on the train to work

Love Lee Mack - that could be good

[Gibbo]

 

Mack The Life - the autobiography of comedian Lee Mack. Here's a tip - DON'T read this one on the train to work

Love Lee Mack - that could be good

 

 

It IS - far better than I was expecting ... the only trouble was, I read some of it in his voice ... which just made it even funnier!

[Dark]

Corey Taylor - A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Heaven (Or How I Made Peace With The Paranormal And Stigmatized Zealots & Cynics In The Process)

 

A truly WTF read!

[Dark]

Corey Taylor - You're Making Me Hate You: A Cantankerous Look at the Common Misconception That Humans Have Any Common Sense Left

 

I'm about half way through and so far it's utter garbage so i don't think i'm going to finish it

[kourosofsteel3]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[kourosofsteel3]

My stomach is in knots!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Fat Freddy]

Currently:

 

Reckless: My Life as a Pretender by Chrissie Hynde

 

On Deck:

 

Snakes! Guillotines! Electric Chairs! My Adventures in the Alice Cooper Group by Dennis Dunaway

[Dead Planet]

Jack McDevitt - Chindi

[Gibbo]

Clockwork Angels - Kevin J. Anderson/Neil Peart

[kourosofsteel3]

Read this in an afternoon session last week, and I'm still thinking of it. Witty, funny and sorrowful. Hi ho! I still don't understand, despite the pain he had to endure from the loss of his beloved sister, why the author rated it with D in a self assessment of his works which was published later. Hi ho! Lonesome no more!

 

 

 

 

 

This is a great and entertaining book from a science enthusiast with minimal scientific background, but with great communicative skills of science. Surely there are some omissions,for example the absence of George Gamow / Feynman from the history of the development of the bing bang theory and various mistakes in some of the analogies used, but I don't care as long as there is a ton of anecdotal and detailed stuff from the history of science which makes the reading of this book entertaining( some stuff from Einstein/Hubble/ Eddington bios is hilarious) and sine qua non for readers with interest in the history of Physical Science.