Allen Ginsberg

 

The Ginsberg biography I ordered arrived, but the spine was sun-damaged, so I made a new cover.

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Some books I've read 59

One Two Three Four by Craig Brown

A great book about The Beatles, very entertaining, and also about the world around The Beatles, and how they, really, changed it.

Beatles '66 by Steve Turner

I started listening to Beatles music, especially Revolver, so I decided to re-read this book, about what the Beatles did that year, and how they went from being pop singers to... artists.

Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now by Barry Miles 

It's hard to stop. I read the Philip Norman biography some time ago, but Barry Miles was an actual friend of McCartney, and spent years interviewing him, so the book should, maybe, be as close to an autobiography we will get. But there are just twenty pages, an afterword, about what happens after Beatles breaks up. And possibly, Miles should have split the book in two: a biography about McCartney, and then a memoir about his time knowing him and working for apple. 

Behold The Man by Michael Moorcock

A man travels back in time to meet Jesus, and yes, you can guess where this is going.

Lazy Days by Erlend Loe 

A Norwegian couple and their kids rent an apartment in Germany for a month. The book has the Loe touch, but maybe doesn't reach the highs of...

Naive. Super. by Erlend Loe

I read this in French some years ago, but wanted to read it in English as well. His breakthrough in Norway, and in Europe as well, I would think. A reflection of its time, maybe, for good or for bad.

Ernest Hemingway: The Search for Courage by Keith Ferrell

It's a Hemingway biography, so I had to read it, but it's pretty superficial and doesn't bring anything new. This edition is from 2014, but the book was written in the 80's. As always with Hem bios, the last 50 pages are quite depressing.

Currently reading:

My Life With Dylan Thomas: Double Drink Story by Caitlin Thomas

Shakespeare n'a jamais fait ça by Charles Bukowski

Noah Van Sciver

 

Happy birthday, Bill Watterson!

 

RIP, John Romita Sr

 

Some books I've read 58

All of the Marvels by Douglas Wolk

A bit disappointing, I would say. But maybe, it's just me, that for the most part am not that interested in what happened after the mid eighties. Spider-Man being an example. I never read the clone saga, and then the stuff after that, One More Day and so on, sounds even worse.

Children of Dune by Frank Herbert 

It's okay. A bit slow, maybe. But a masterpiece compared to...

God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert

O boy, where to begin... did the writer fall on his head? The story takes place thousands of years after the previous book. Paul's son, Leto, is now half human, half worm, and... he likes to talk. A lot. Basically it's him lecturing about something the whole book, and the other persons around going, -That's interesting, please tell us more. 500 pages of this. I, somehow, finished the book, but I am now beginning to doubt I will read the two last books in the series.

Color of Money by Walter Tevis 

Not bad. But it's a month or two since I read it, and I already don't remember much.

The Hemingway Hoax by Joe Haldeman 

Before Everything Everywhere All At Once, there was... this book. A man decides to fake the Hemingway stories that Hadley lost on the train in Gare de Lyon. Agents of time and space try to stop him, first in this universe, then the next. Pretty fun as an exercise, does it stick the landing? Maybe, maybe not.

Raymond Carver: An Oral Biography by Sam Halpert

It's an oral biography, but not in strict chronological order, which is usually the case in this sort of books. So you get a bit lost in the story of Carver's life, especially since he and his family moved around a lot. But this book makes me want to re-read his short stories.

The Art of Alice and Martin Provensen

Great collection of illustrations from their whole career. Would have loved to see more from their travel sketchbooks.