What are you reading?

[Herzeleide]

Originally Posted by Florestan

Cooool.

Finished now.

Do not read if:

1) You vulnerable to distressing and depressing things.

2) Want to know much/anything at all about Schumann's music.

3) Are wary about a nonmusician writing about a musician (apparently Schumann's Album for the Young was the first set of pieces a great composer wrote for his children).

[stephen w]

A deeply absorbing book.

A marvellous writer: I can also recommend his

[Florestan]

I have read so many Iris Murdoch novels lately, I have lost count.
The Message to the Planet
The Bell
The Black Prince
The Philosopher's Pupil
The Sandcastle
The Unicorn
A Severed Head
The Nice and the Good
The Flight from the Enchanter
(Currently reading) The Time of the Angels.

(I also read The Sea, The Sea a few years ago).

[Herzeleide]

Just finished this:



Fantastic stuff. It's really rubbed off on me. I'm now tempted to go and buy a CD of birdsong.

[Chilperich]

I recently finished Richard Wilson's rather excellent Don't Get Fooled Again (subtitled A Sceptic's Handbook) (Icon Books, 2009). I'm now making my way through Steven Lukes's Moral Relativism (Profile Books Ltd, 2008), after which I intend to move on to A. C. Grayling's Towards The Light (Bloomsbury, 2008).

[haydnguy]

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[stephen w]

Originally Posted by Chilperich

after which I intend to move on to A. C. Grayling's Towards The Light (Bloomsbury, 2008).

Amazing writer: recently read his Among The Dead Cities: Was the Allied Bombing of Civilians in WWII a Necessity or a Crime?



A prolific writer of awesomely wide interests, among his many publications being an edition of the English Civil War poet Robert Herrick, and a book about Wittgenstein. I found Among The Dead Cities really nourishing writing.

[Chilperich]

Originally Posted by stephen wainman

Amazing writer: recently read his Among The Dead Cities: Was the Allied Bombing of Civilians in WWII a Necessity or a Crime?

A prolific writer of awesomely wide interests, among his many publications being an edition of the English Civil War poet Robert Herrick, and a book about Wittgenstein. I found Among The Dead Cities really nourishing writing.

I haven't read it yet, or the book about Herrick, although I intend to. I haven't re-read his book on Wittgenstein for years, but I remember it as a bit of a demolition job.

[Herzeleide]

Just finished this:



There're things one may disagree with, but in books of this nature that's often necessary to make it interesting, which this book is.

[micrologus]