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What are you currently reading?
#400re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 6/16/08 at 1:36pm
George Cukor: A Double Life
It's a pretty good bio about the gentleman director.
balletandbroadway
Featured Actor Joined: 8/3/06
#401re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 6/17/08 at 12:03amI'm re-reading "Slaughterhouse Five" by Kurt Vonnegut.
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it."-- Ferris Bueller's Day Off
#402re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 6/17/08 at 12:20am
Blood and Gold by Anne Rice.
It's abysmal. It's not the funny kind of abysmal either...
#403re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 6/17/08 at 4:37pmI finished Atonement today at lunch. What a beautifully written book. I now am anxious to read McEwan's Booker Prize-winning Amsterdam.
"I am open, and I am willing,
For to be hopeless would seem so strange.
It dishonors those who go before us,
So lift me up to the light of change."
Holly Near
#404re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 6/17/08 at 4:38pm"Marley And Me" and "The God Delusion"
Omg how freakin HAlarious is Clinton Kelly from WNTW????
#405re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 6/17/08 at 6:52pmDBillyP, Atonement is such a great book. I grew to love it more on my second reading. I would definitely recommend 'Amsterdam' although it seems to be one of those love it or hate it books. 'On Chesil Beach' is also a great little novella, it has a similar premise to Atonement, lighter in tone but with the same themes of quiet, irrevocable, devestation that McEwan seems to so love to explore.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#406re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 6/17/08 at 7:38pm
Playing For Pizza - John Grisham
After this, I will dive into the Charles Strouse book.
Poster Emeritus
#407re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 6/17/08 at 8:57pmSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
"You have two kinds of shows on Broadway – revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for The Lion King a year in advance, and essentially a family... pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is – a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar.... I don't think the theatre will die per se, but it's never going to be what it was.... It's a tourist attraction." Stephen Sondheim
#408re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 6/17/08 at 9:57pmThanks Revolutionary. I will pick up both of them. Next on my list, however, is Hero by Perry Moore about a teenaged, gay superhero. A vacation read.
"I am open, and I am willing,
For to be hopeless would seem so strange.
It dishonors those who go before us,
So lift me up to the light of change."
Holly Near
#409re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 6/17/08 at 10:22pm
I just finished "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier. I know it's a classic, but I truly didn't think it was that good. It wasn't bad; it was just okay.
I know you.
I know you.
I know you.
broadwaybaby086
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/06
#410re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 6/17/08 at 11:18pmI'm reading "Suite Francaise" by Irene Nemirovsky and Theresa Rebeck's "Complete Plays: 1989-1998."
"I'll cut you, Tracee Beazer!!!!
...Just kidding. I'd never cut anyone." -Tina Maddigan, 9/30/06, WS stage door
Avatar: JULIE "EFFING" WHITE, 2007 TONY WINNER. Thank God. I'm thinking about legally changing my name to Lizzie Curry...
Avatar: JULIE "EFFING" WHITE, 2007 TONY WINNER. Thank God. I'm thinking about legally changing my name to Lizzie Curry...
#411re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 6/17/08 at 11:22pm
^ I didn't really enjoy Suite Francaise, I found it very hard to get into
I am just starting to read Shopgirl by Steve Martin and I'm loving it so far
broadwaybaby086
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/06
#412re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 6/17/08 at 11:24pm
I am reading it very slowly. I have my moments of interest.
I couldn't/can't get into Atonement as much as I really would like to. Unfortunate because I loved the film, and imagine that the book is better.
"I'll cut you, Tracee Beazer!!!!
...Just kidding. I'd never cut anyone." -Tina Maddigan, 9/30/06, WS stage door
Avatar: JULIE "EFFING" WHITE, 2007 TONY WINNER. Thank God. I'm thinking about legally changing my name to Lizzie Curry...
Avatar: JULIE "EFFING" WHITE, 2007 TONY WINNER. Thank God. I'm thinking about legally changing my name to Lizzie Curry...
#413re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 6/17/08 at 11:33pm
In the middle of three things right now...
But Darling, I'm Your Auntie Mame by Richard Tyler Jordan, which covers all things Mame Dennis. Which is really interesting...I love the book Auntie Mame, and it's been years since I've seen seen either the play or the musical (though I did just get a soundboard of the '83 revival -- Angie sounds amazing!)...the whole Mame story just proves that they don't make 'em like they used to.
Darling, You Were Wonderful by Harvey Sabinson (great book and way too long out of print -- he was David Merrick's press agent. Great theatrical anecdotes, it reads like one of Peter Filichia's columns: reverential, funny, and honest.)
and I just received When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris.
<---- You can see the crazy in her eyes. ;-)
strelimyn
Stand-by Joined: 9/17/06
#414re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 6/19/08 at 1:31amCurrently, The Wonderful and Surprising History of Sweeney Todd by Robert L. Mack subsequently subsequently with Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince for the 135th time.
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#415re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 6/19/08 at 2:09amI'm reading Desperation. Absolutely love it.
#416re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 6/19/08 at 2:39am
I haven't started reading them yet, but me summer reading list:
For History- Nothing Like it in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad (Stephen Ambrose)
For English- Into the Wild (Jon Krakauer)
The World is Flat (Thomas Friedman)
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
I'd also like to pick up The Devil in the White City, which I started but never finished. I'd also like to read Ragtime.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
#417re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 6/19/08 at 10:00amI never had to read Brave New World in school (it seems like for dystopian literature, you read Huxley or Orwell but usually not both), but I read it a few months ago and loved it. I kind of wished that I had been reading it for a class so that there'd be an opportunity to really discuss and analyze it.
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#418re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 6/19/08 at 10:52am
we definitely didn't read *anything* dystopian in High School...unless you want to count Kafka's Metamorphisis
I'm currently reading:
The Making of the Wizard of Oz: Movie Magic and Studio Power and the Miracle of Production 1060 by AlJean Harmetz...the special 50th Anniversary edition with new color pictures that I'd never seen before.
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#419re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 6/19/08 at 11:25amI'm about to start "My Personal Best" and "The Bean Trees."
"I saw Pavarotti play Rodolfo on stage and with his girth I thought he was about to eat the whole table at the Cafe Momus." - Dollypop
#420re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 6/27/08 at 3:03pmThe God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
#421re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 6/27/08 at 4:54pmOld School by Tobias Wolff and On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
LePetiteFromage
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
#424re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: 7/2/08 at 6:26pmI'm about 30 pages from the end of Life of Pi by Yann Martel. It's apparently one of those books you either love or you hate. I'm loving it. I'm finding it fascinating. I keep forgetting it's fiction.
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