mrcancelled wrote: Tue Dec 09, 2025 12:41 pm just started Les Misérables... I'll follow up with my thoughts in about five to six years.

It actually goes by pretty quickly, IIRC.

enframed wrote: Tue Dec 09, 2025 12:53 pm

mrcancelled wrote: Tue Dec 09, 2025 12:41 pm just started Les Misérables... I'll follow up with my thoughts in about five to six years.

It actually goes by pretty quickly, IIRC.

That's good to hear. Yeah I'm only about twenty pages in but I'm enjoying it a lot so far.

The Hospital Ship by Martin Bax.

mrcancelled wrote: Tue Dec 09, 2025 12:41 pm just started Les Misérables... I'll follow up with my thoughts in about five to six years.

Incredible novel, I reread it during the pandemic. I agree that it is a quick read and will suck you in.

I was in Paris last month and visited Hugo's former apartment (more like a house unto itself). It's a free entry museum and where he wrote a portion of Les Mis.

NC

I started reading Lamy of Santa Fe by Paul Horgan, but the book started falling apart. It’s probably the first paperback edition. Chips of binding glue falling out of the spine, sections of the book coming apart…it’s become a real pain in the ass to read, and it leaves a mess of glue chips wherever I open it up. I’ll resume reading it when I can get a library copy. I had no idea I’d be so interested in the life of a 19th century French-American priest.

About to finish Ray by Barry Hannah. Weird book. Not sure what to say about it.

Next in the queue is The Bayou Trilogy by Daniel Woodrell. I’m pretty sure it’s the only Woodrell book I haven’t read. He passed away a couple of weeks ago. RIP, king.

For music nerds, Ken Scott’s book is wonderful. He engineered or produced recordings like the White Album, glam Bowie, etc. lots of Abbey Road and Olympic lore. Lots of gear info peppered throughout, but Abbey Road recording engineers weren’t trained to be tech heads - that was left for the technical staff.

Hates Neve, loves Fairchild stuff. Super picky about monitoring and figured out that the reason a lot of reggae records recorded at Compass Point sounded like that at least in part because the monitoring was shit and had a low end rolloff. He’s an old school producer through and through, but the way he talks about recording drums isn’t unlike our own house favorite at times.

Not as bitchy as Geoff Emerick’s book, but still has some fun info - like he never really got paid for Ziggy Stardust - wonderful read. I was running errands this morning just completely immersed in the thing.

Has me reconsidering certain records he did which I previously hated… Supertramp, a lot of fusion stuff I am generally way iffy on - it turns out Birds of Fire does fucking rock.

Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov.

AdamN wrote: Thu Dec 18, 2025 4:37 pm

mrcancelled wrote: Tue Dec 09, 2025 12:41 pm just started Les Misérables... I'll follow up with my thoughts in about five to six years.

Incredible novel, I reread it during the pandemic. I agree that it is a quick read and will suck you in.

I was in Paris last month and visited Hugo's former apartment (more like a house unto itself). It's a free entry museum and where he wrote a portion of Les Mis.

NC

That's so cool! Yeah I'm hooked, a few hundred pages have gone by in no time. And I may be the only person left in the world that this was news to, but what an incredible writer. Planning on reading Hunchback after this.

Owen wrote: Thu Dec 25, 2025 3:37 pm

That reminds me that I need to procure this one with haste: