Re: o.t. READING

["Jon Southwood" <jsouthwood@gmail.com>]

All of my recent reading comes from three authors: Kurt Vonnegut, Orson Scott Card, and Neil Gaiman.

In chronological order of my reading them:
KV, _Hocus Pocus_ (not his best, but still interesting, funny, and bizarre)
NG, _Fragile Things_ (collection of short stories and poems by one of my favorite contemporary authors)
KV, _Slaughterhouse Five_ (a classic I'd never read and felt was time to visit...wonderful! what was I thinking all those years?!)
NG, _Stardust_ (reread this light novelette in anticipation of the theatrical release...still haven't seen the movie)
OSC, _Ender's Game_ (reread this because I jikust needed to read it again...incredibly compelling, creative, and original)
NG, _American Gods_ (currently re-reading this...great concept, and wonderful execution...answers the question: what happens to the old-world gods when their people cross the ocean and eventually stop believing in them?)

Oh, I almost forgot, I just got three books from Mick Goodrich (aka Mr Goodchord): Vols 1 and 2 of his Almanac of Guitar Voice-Leading and his Factorial Rhythms. The title of the Almanac is misleading--it really is a much more general collection of voice-leading information that would interesting to anyone working with diatonic materials, not just guitarists. In fact, there isn't a single chord grid or fingering indication in the entire book. There's a lot that is fairly obvious if you've worked long enough with tonal materials, but it's one helluva resource tome, and there are certainly some fresh things to learn from it. _Factorial Rhythms_ actually reminds me a lot of a message on rhythm that Rick Walker sent a year or two ago. A very interesting collection of rhythmic resources.

Cheers,
Jon Southwood

On 8/22/07, Nemoguitt@aol.com <Nemoguitt@aol.com > wrote:

what has everyone been reading of late? a wonderful book that i finished a bit ago "CLOUD ATLAS" by  david mitchel, i highly recommend, (mr peters, i think you would really enjoy this).....i'm reading now "SACRED GAMES" by vikram chandra, a story of an indian detective in bombay, great insite into indian culture.....i'm waiting for the fifth book by george r.r. martin in his A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE series, sort of an adult sword and sorcery story, some neat ideas in this group of books.....i can not remember who wrote it but "THE STORY OF PI" was a delight.....nothing heavy but all fun stuff.....add to this, a re-reading of all my equipment manuals.....someone wrote last week that true happiness can begin after killing one's t.v., i'm ready, the so called entertainement is sad and the news and weather is overwhelmingly depressing (wtf is going on?????).....i always get a great reading list when this question is asked so thnaks in advance.....michael



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