ChiefsPlanet - Books Ok for the high brow crowd what books you are reading

Jitney is one of my favorite plays. I like the way he moves from different times of day, and how he can get you to sense the lives of the characters outside the stage. When I read it I can see the city outside the stage, which is just so skilled on his part.
I'm also about to start a book called Kaufman & Co., which has plays George Kaufman wrote with Edna Ferber, Moss Hart, Ring Lardner, and Morrie Ryskind.
It has a couple of musicals, though, which I'll skip. I don't really like reading musicals. I'm planning to start with June Moon because he wrote it with Ring Lardner, and Lardner's book "You Know Me Al" is a personal favorite of mine.

I was damn good as Herman Glogauer in a production of Hart & Kaufman's Once In a Lifetime a few years back.

googlegoogle

10-25-2010 05:25 PM

Meltdown

and

Hamilton's curse.

Jenson71

10-26-2010 04:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Reaper16 (Post 7118503)

Define "small--medium sized schools." I did my undergrad at Northwest Missouri State University (enrollment in the 7,000s) because I wanted an undergrad experience where I wasn't taught by grad students.

UNI, about 12-13K, does not have grad students teaching their History, Political Science or English classes. Neither does a school like Coe, private, 2K.

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This is not true.

What is untrue about it, Hamas? There are many grad students teaching classes at small--medium sized schools?

tooge

10-26-2010 07:31 AM

Just checked out A Glorious Cause from the library. In large print version of course. Just finished A Rise to Rebellion by the same author, Jeff Shaara. Highly recommend him. Easy and compelling reading. Historically accurate.

'Hamas' Jenkins

10-26-2010 08:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Jenson71 (Post 7119894)

What is untrue about it, Hamas? There are many grad students teaching classes at small--medium sized schools?

Depending on the college, yes. It's not just something that happens at large state schools. I went to a liberal arts school of about 6K and took my freshman comp class from a grad student.

It all depends on the university, though. Schools w/ doctoral programs will often have their students teaching both freshman and sophomore level classes in a variety of disciplines.

DaKCMan AP

10-26-2010 09:07 AM

I'm currently reading Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain.

Otter

10-26-2010 10:01 AM

Your credentials for joining the high brow crowd aren't very high BNK. :D

JohninGpt

10-26-2010 10:09 AM

Just finished the entire "Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures" series by Dewey Lambdin.
If Horatio Hornblower liked to get drunk and do hookers, he would of hung out with Alan Lewrie.

RedThat

10-26-2010 10:26 AM

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Originally Posted by OnTheWarpath58 (Post 7106930)

I was supposed to read that for a class last semester, and might have gotten 30 pages into it before quitting.

lol..well you made a good choice.

Delano

10-26-2010 11:38 AM

Today's Amazon delivery includes:

Room: A Novel by Emma Donoghue
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie

I'll have the latest Wheel of Time book on November 2nd.

Frosty

10-26-2010 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Otter (Post 7120370)

Your credentials for joining the high brow crowd aren't very high BNK. :D

I'm still waiting for a low brow reading thread so that I can contribute. :)

keg in kc

11-02-2010 05:31 PM

I just picked up Towers of Midnight on the way in to work. 13 down, 1 to go.

Reaper16

11-02-2010 05:34 PM

Today: Cane - Jean Toomer

Tomorrow: Darkroom - Jill Christman

Delano

11-02-2010 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by keg in kc (Post 7140080)

I just picked up Towers of Midnight on the way in to work. 13 down, 1 to go.

Amazon's 'release day delivery' failed so far. UPS had better be en route with my ****ing WOT fix.
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keg in kc

11-02-2010 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Delano (Post 7140142)

Amazon's 'release day delivery' failed so far. UPS had better be en route with my ****ing WOT fix.
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I went to pre-order it, er, Friday maybe, and they didn't offer that release day delivery any more (I'd seen it earlier in the month), so I decided I'd just pick it up at a real world store. Luckily it's on the way to work, so no fuss, no muss.

I re-read The Gathering Storm last week, and it wasn't quite as bad as I remember (although I never thought it 'bad' so much as slightly off). The last chapter with Rand still bothers me though. It just doesn't work somehow.

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