What Books Have You Bought Recently?

[Linbro]

Originally Posted by bleakshaun

20p at Cancer Research UK
Blame Paperbacks From Hell

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I read 'The Possessors' earlier this year and thought it was bloody fantastic.

[MrBarlow]

Picked up these in a second hand book shop in St. Andrews

[Demoncrat]

A little light reading ...

Arthur Koestler - The Sleepwalkers. Penguin pb. 50p.

[Demoncrat]

Harrumph.

The Unbelievable Truth. HB £1.

See that Would I Lie To You?
Well, it's betterer on the radio where it's called this

[Prince_Vajda]

Arrived today.

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[Demdike@Cult Labs]

A lovely second hand hardback of American music journalist Michael Walker's What You Want is in the Limo, bought from an Amazon marketplace seller for £4.15 delivered.

An epic joyride through three history-making tours in 1973 that defined rock and roll superstardom—the money, the access, the excess—forevermore.

The Who’s Quadrophenia. Led Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy. Alice Cooper’s Billion Dollar Babies. These three unprecedented tours—and the albums that inspired them—were the most ambitious of these artists’ careers, and they forever changed the landscape of rock and roll: the economics, the privileges, and the very essence of the concert experience. On these juggernauts, rock gods—and their entourages—were born, along with unimaginable overindulgence and the legendary flameouts. Tour buses were traded for private jets, arenas replaced theaters, and performances transmogrified into over-the-top, operatic spectacles. As the sixties ended and the seventies began, an altogether more cynical era took hold: peace, love, and understanding gave way to sex, drugs, and rock and roll.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demoncrat

Harrumph.

The Unbelievable Truth. HB £1.

See that Would I Lie To You?
Well, it's betterer on the radio where it's called this

I've listened to quite a few series of it on Audible and it's funny and actually quite informative.

[trebor8273]

Some kindle books.


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[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Rock-And-Roll's Legendary Neighborhood - By Michael Walker.

In the late sixties and early seventies, an impromptu collection of musicians colonized a eucalyptus-scented canyon deep in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles and melded folk, rock, and savvy American pop into a sound that conquered the world as thoroughly as the songs of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones had before them. Thirty years later, the music made in Laurel Canyon continues to pour from radios, iPods, and concert stages around the world. During the canyon's golden era, the musicians who lived and worked there scored dozens of landmark hits, from "California Dreamin'" to "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" to "It's Too Late," selling tens of millions of records and resetting the thermostat of pop culture.

In Laurel Canyon, veteran journalist Michael Walker tells the inside story of this unprecedented gathering of some of the baby boom's leading musical lights--including Joni Mitchell; Jim Morrison; Crosby, Stills, and Nash; John Mayall; the Mamas and the Papas; Carole King; the Eagles; and Frank Zappa, to name just a few--who turned Los Angeles into the music capital of the world and forever changed the way popular music is recorded, marketed, and consumed.

[Demoncrat]

Ahem. 5 for £1

Dear Boy large pb
Making Of The Great Rock n Roll Swindle pb
Penguin Book Of Modern Humour pb
Big Hairy Almanackers pb
Batman '93 annual. DC so tis old strips etc ...