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What Are People Reading?
#25re: What Are People Reading?
Posted: 11/11/07 at 9:29am"Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides. I'm also re-reading "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath.
"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#26re: What Are People Reading?
Posted: 11/11/07 at 10:43amI'm currently reading IN AN INSTANT by Bob and Lee Woodward. So far, I'm enjoying it very much.
#27re: What Are People Reading?
Posted: 11/11/07 at 11:55amNothing. My DVR has me tied up at the moment.
9/18 - Brian Stokes Mitchell, Cincy Pop's
9/28 - Death Of A Salesman, Wright State
pushdabutton
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/2/05
#28re: What Are People Reading?
Posted: 11/11/07 at 11:44pmI just finished Celebrity Detox by Rosie O'Donnell.
#29re: What Are People Reading?
Posted: 11/11/07 at 11:53pm
Someone here suggested "A Hell of a Life" by Maureen Stapleton
Got it......and she is wonderful....so many stories......
TM1162
Chorus Member Joined: 1/4/07
#30re: What Are People Reading?
Posted: 11/12/07 at 9:22am
Just started...Book of the Dead
by Patricia Cornwell
The new Dr. Kay Scarpetta novel.
MuslimBwayFan
Understudy Joined: 11/8/07
#31re: What Are People Reading?
Posted: 11/12/07 at 9:26am
Just finished Tess of the d'urbervilles by Hardy, incredible.
Also just Forster's Howard's End and am reading A Room with a View now. Also looking forward to reading Collins' Woman in White and finally reading Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities.
Some other good classics to recommend:
The tenant of Wildfell Hall - Bronte
and for boilerplate fiction fun
Anything by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child but especially books like The Cabinet of Curiosities and Brimstone, not to mention the Relic series (The movie sucked, but the book is a page turner)
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#32re: What Are People Reading?
Posted: 11/12/07 at 9:53am
Loved A HELL OF A LIFE and TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES.
Still chipping away at ANNA KARENINA here.
#33re: What Are People Reading?
Posted: 11/12/07 at 2:11pm
I recently finished comedian Bob Smith's delightful first novel, Selfish and Perverse. How can one not enjoy a book that takes as its cover quote, "It makes you laugh, it makes you horny, it makes you want to fish for salmon." (Armistead Maupin)?
I just started Reading the Bible Again for the First Time by Marcus Borg. I want to get something with import in before turning to First Person Plural while on vacation in Palm Springs over Thanksgiving. Here is a description:
In this frank, sexy, powerfully imaginative novel, Andrew W.M. Beierle, author of The Winter of Our Discotheque, takes us on an unforgettable journey into the lives of conjoined twins with vastly different desires.
To say that twin brothers Owen and Porter are close is an understatement. They’re conjoined twins who share one incredibly hot body, but have two hearts—and two model-gorgeous heads. It would be hard to believe that thoughtful and introspective Owen is related to sporty and outgoing Porter if it wasn't for the obvious. Nevertheless they've been able to pursue their interests by learning to compromise: alternating the days on which each has control over what they do. This works fine until Porter's wife discovers that Owen's gay. When Owen finally finds the man of his dreams, will this love rectangle destroy the twins' carefully constructed lives?
#34re: What Are People Reading?
Posted: 11/12/07 at 3:11pm
I suggested the Maureen Stapleton One Hell of a Life.
It should be read by everyone interested in theater--with key sections memorized!
#35re: What Are People Reading?
Posted: 11/12/07 at 3:20pm
Up from Orchard Street- Eleanor Widmer
Incredibly wonderful. Incredibly sad.
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister- Gregory Maguire
I hated Wicked (book) with every drop of my being but I've decided to give Maguire another chance. So far Confessions isn't as vauge or abstract.
Perfectly Marvelous
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/16/06
#36re: What Are People Reading?
Posted: 11/12/07 at 11:32pm
Between the Bridge and the River by Craig Ferguson.
I like it quite a lot, his writing style reflects his genuinely witty and wry personality, not to mention the bit on Andrew Lloyd Webber is hysterical.
I'm also working on The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht.
Mother Courage and Her Children as well as Tommy's Tale by Alan Cumming are on my to read list.
"Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, men recognize that the human race has been harshly treated but it has moved forward." - Les Miserables
#37re: What Are People Reading?
Posted: 11/12/07 at 11:53pmYes PJ, I am enjoying it. What a life!!!! She is sooo funny.
#38re: What Are People Reading?
Posted: 11/13/07 at 2:32am
Marvelous, Between the Bridge and the River is my favorite book!
I'm trying to find time to re-read Brave New World and A long Way down by Nick Hornby (Amazing, another one of my favorites)
But college is getting in the way, damn you studying for pointless tests, damn you necessary naps!
RentBoy86
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
#39re: What Are People Reading?
Posted: 11/13/07 at 10:10am
I know it's on Oprah's book club list, but "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy is a beautiufl book. I just got it because I'm really interested in "No Country for Old Men" which is a movie coming out based on the book, and I thought I'd read something else by the author. I haven't read much, but it's a beautifully written and easy to read book.
If you're looking for a light, quick, entertaining read, I'd suggest "Sellevision" by Augusten Burroughs. It's really good.
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