Best books you have read in the last 12 months?

[ggaspar]

Journey to the End of Night  by Louis-Ferdinand Celine. 

The Goldfinch did not impress me btw

[JohnS]

3 hours ago, irratebass said:

@JohnS I too am a musician bio fanatic, tell me some of your favorite, and I'll do the same.

My favourites include...

• Before I Get Old: The Story of The Who by Dave Marsh 

• The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions by Mark Lewisohn

• Look, Listen, Vibrate, Smile by Domenic Priore

• You Never Give Me Your Money by Peter Doggett 

• Here, There and Everywhere by Geoff Emerick

• Life by Keith Richards

• Chronicles, Volume One by Bob Dylan

[Ken Gargett]

8 minutes ago, JohnS said:

My favourites include...

• Before I Get Old: The Story of The Who by Dave Marsh 

• The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions by Mark Lewisohn

• Look, Listen, Vibrate, Smile by Domenic Priore

• You Never Give Me Your Money by Peter Doggett 

• Here, There and Everywhere by Geoff Emerick

• Life by Keith Richards

• Chronicles, Volume One by Bob Dylan

chronicles, i loved. friends who are big music bio readers love richards' book. but were very disappointed by neil young's.

dave marsh must make a habit of such books. he did one on bruce. i have it but yet to read it.

[JohnS]

That Dave Marsh one I read in the 90s. I haven't read it in years since, but it was objective and unbiased.

[Smokin Joe]

47 minutes ago, ggaspar said:

Journey to the End of Night  by Louis-Ferdinand Celine. 

The Goldfinch did not impress me btw

Where did it miss for you?

[TheBaron]

• Undeniable, by Bill Nye
• Unstoppable, by Bill Nye
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, by Malcolm Gladwell

Each one brilliant in its own way.

[irratebass]

My favourites include...

• Before I Get Old: The Story of The Who by Dave Marsh 

• The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions by Mark Lewisohn

• Look, Listen, Vibrate, Smile by Domenic Priore

• You Never Give Me Your Money by Peter Doggett 

• Here, There and Everywhere by Geoff Emerick

• Life by Keith Richards

• Chronicles, Volume One by Bob Dylan

I've added a few to my goodreads list, per your suggestions.

Here are some of my faves :

Black Tooth Grin: The High Life, Good Times, And Tragic End Of "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott

Louder Than Hell : The Definitive Oral History Of Metal

Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History Of Grunge

I'm With The Band: Confessions Of A Groupie

The Dirt: Confessions Of The World's Most Notorious Rock Band

I'm The Man: The Story Of That Guy From Anthrax

Dancing With Myself (Billy Idol)

Face The Music: A Life Exposed (Paul Stanley of Kiss)

Red: My Uncensored Life In Rock (Sammy Hagar)

White Line Fever: The Autobiography (Lemmy Kilmister)

Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir

The Long Hard Road Out Of Hell (Marilyn Manson)

Slash

The Heroin Diaries : A Year In The Life Of Shattered Rock Star

Get In The Van: On The Road With Black Flag

I Am Ozzy

Cash (Johnny Cash)

Light My Fire (Ray Manzarek)

Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs (Johnny Rotten)

Riders On The Storm: My life With Jim Morrison And The Doors (John Densmore)

No One Here Gets Out Alive

Life (Keith Richards)




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[HoyoFan]

Slightly departure from fiction but I would highly recommend Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss. An amazing capture of the rituals, routines, inspiration and stories of the top performers in the world

[tomhsu]

I've added a few to my goodreads list, per your suggestions.

Here are some of my faves :

Black Tooth Grin: The High Life, Good Times, And Tragic End Of "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott

Louder Than Hell : The Definitive Oral History Of Metal

Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History Of Grunge

I'm With The Band: Confessions Of A Groupie

The Dirt: Confessions Of The World's Most Notorious Rock Band

I'm The Man: The Story Of That Guy From Anthrax

Dancing With Myself (Billy Idol)

Face The Music: A Life Exposed (Paul Stanley of Kiss)

Red: My Uncensored Life In Rock (Sammy Hagar)

White Line Fever: The Autobiography (Lemmy Kilmister)

Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir

The Long Hard Road Out Of Hell (Marilyn Manson)

Slash

The Heroin Diaries : A Year In The Life Of Shattered Rock Star

Get In The Van: On The Road With Black Flag

I Am Ozzy

Cash (Johnny Cash)

Light My Fire (Ray Manzarek)

Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs (Johnny Rotten)

Riders On The Storm: My life With Jim Morrison And The Doors (John Densmore)

No One Here Gets Out Alive

Life (Keith Richards)




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Wow, this is quite some heavy metal reading! Love it and copied into my amazon wish list.

Maybe another interesting one: Anthony Keadis' Scar Tissue


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[ErikB]

Everland by Rebecca Hunt


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[Engineer99]

Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet...amazing storytelling and detail.

[Boosted]

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

This is my girlfriends favorite book, and I finally got around to reading it. What am awesome, funny book. Best book I've read in a long time.

[SirVantes]

All That Man Is by David Szalay.  

And to forget city living for a while:  H Is For Hawk by Helen MacDonald, The Old Ways by Robert MacFarlane.

[Ken Gargett]

28 minutes ago, Engineer99 said:

Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet...amazing storytelling and detail.

agreed. a cracker.

the sequel is okay but it seemed to me that it was just the entire plot of the first rehashed umpteen years later. bit like how that new star wars was a rehash of the very first one. i've read book 1 of the century trilogy - not bad. not as good as pillars, but worth it.

[Ken Gargett]

8 minutes ago, Boosted said:

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

This is my girlfriends favorite book, and I finally got around to reading it. What am awesome, funny book. Best book I've read in a long time.

also agreed. one of my all time faves. read it a number of times and lent it to many people. most also love it. not all. i think i have read almost all of moore's works. this is my pick.

[planetary]

Hard science fiction with at least two big ideas.  Flashbacks to the Cultural Revolution in China, with the main story taking place in the very near future.  Very nice, overall.  First of a trilogy, which is now available in English.  I'm going to keep reading.

[PatrickEwing]

One of Us (Anders Breivik): Horrible events, book expertly done. 

Travels with Charley. Entertaining, need to read/reread more Steinbeck  

A River Runs Through It. Wish McLean had written more.

Currently working on the 42nd Parallel by dos Passos and The Hidden Life of Trees

 

[KRunch61]

An American Plague by Jim Murphy. Chronicles the outbreak of yellow fever in Philadelphia in 1793. Fascinating!

[Colt45]

Currently reading -

Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar by Tom Holland.

Ancient Rome is nothing to aspire to.....

[Ken Gargett]

8 minutes ago, Colt45 said:

Currently reading -

Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar by Tom Holland.

Ancient Rome is nothing to aspire to.....

ta for that, colt. have added it to the amazon shopping list for next time - plus a few others of his.

recently finished Robert Harris's Cicero trilogy - granted fiction, but based on all the writings of Cicero. thoroughly enjoyed them and definitely a worthwhile read (loved 1 and 2 but by 3, although it is worth reading, i did feel that perhaps he could have squeezed this into two books, not three). ceasar comes across as anything but the glorious hero. more an ego-maniacal whack job who would have been better off stabbed a good few years earlier.

[JoeyGunz]

 

Read this over the Easter break, a little heart wrenching but if you're a mans man it's a good read to give you perspective on life.

[Jimmy_jack]

Left of Bang:USMC Combat Hunter Program. Very good book about reading your environment and those inside of it. You always want to be left of bang. 

[SirVantes]

On 4/17/2017 at 8:45 AM, Colt45 said:

Currently reading -

Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar by Tom Holland.

Ancient Rome is nothing to aspire to.....

 

On 4/17/2017 at 8:56 AM, Ken Gargett said:

ta for that, colt. have added it to the amazon shopping list for next time - plus a few others of his.

recently finished Robert Harris's Cicero trilogy - granted fiction, but based on all the writings of Cicero. thoroughly enjoyed them and definitely a worthwhile read (loved 1 and 2 but by 3, although it is worth reading, i did feel that perhaps he could have squeezed this into two books, not three). ceasar comes across as anything but the glorious hero. more an ego-maniacal whack job who would have been better off stabbed a good few years earlier.

Of Tom Holland's works, I think his best is Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic. He really brought Caesar, Cicero and the power politics of the era to life.

For a broader tour of ancient Rome, Mary Beard's SPQR is thoroughly enjoyable.

[David88]

4 minutes ago, SirVantes said:

 

Of Tom Holland's works, I think his best is Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic. He really brought Caesar, Cicero and the power politics of the era to life.

For a broader tour of ancient Rome, Mary Beard's SPQR is thoroughly enjoyable.

I can second Mary Beard's SPQR. I thought it was very well done and was detailed enough despite being a more general history. 

[Colt45]

On 4/16/2017 at 8:56 PM, Ken Gargett said:

ceasar comes across as anything but the glorious hero. more an ego-maniacal whack job

Seems to have been a prerequisite for the job! Will look into the trilogy.

1 hour ago, SirVantes said:

Of Tom Holland's works, I think his best is Rubicon:

I'll probably read Rubicon when I've finished Dynasty.