Brian Ferry - As Time Goes By

             Ibrahim Ferrer - Buena Vista Social Club Presents Ibrahim Ferrer

The Fifties    by David Halberstam

                                                           The Final Days : The Classic, Behind-the-Scenes Account of Richard Nixon's Dramatic Last Days in the White House

                                                        by Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein

George MacDonald FRASER: Flashman

MacDonald Fraser wrote a series of books following the rise, fall and sidestep of the lovable misogynist, blackguard, cheater, liar, adulterer and above all coward 19th Century Englishman named Harry Flashman. The reader is offered an humorous account of London Society and the British military.

Flashman: From the Flashman Papers, 1839-1842

  Flashman at the Charge A terrific novel! Where else (in your reading) can you have a rip-roaring good time, yet be encouraged to learn more about the (ludicrous) Crimean War and the Russian expansion into Central Asia? And how Flashman survives the charge of the Light Brigade...

Flashman and the Mountain of Light :From the Flashman Papers, 1845-46 

Sir Harry Flashman is back in India, where his saga began. This time, our hero is sent by Her Majesty's Secret Service to spy on the corrupt court of Lahore, on India's Northwest Frontier. Flashy's most challenging exploit yet is as politically shrewd and thoroughly lewd as ever.
For the literati this book's theme is the corrupting influence of power and the difference between heros and villains. For the rest of us, Flashy gives us a good laugh.

Flashman's Lady In this adventure, Harry is the victim of someone's lust and deviltry for a change--in the form of Suleiman Usman, a half-breed pirate who kidnaps Mrs. Flashman (bugger!) halfway around the world, leading to an epic chase involving a half-mad white rajah and a maniacal Malagasay queen. Fraser's witty prose and flawless research are irresistible.

Flashman in the Great Game One of literature's most delightful rakes is back in another tale of rollicking adventure and tantalizing seduction. The plucky Flashman's latest escapades are sure to entertain devotees as well as attract new aficionados.

Sci-Fi

      

"In the twenty-first century, humanity and various artificial life-forms coexist. The heritagists (humans) on earth and the loonie moldies (plastic-based beings) on the moon are both extremists, and each denies the ultimate worth of the other, but for the most part, humans and moldies live in relative peace, at least in Santa Cruz, where Terri and Tre Dietz run a motel with their moldie friends, Monique and Xlotl. . . But no plot summary can do justice to Rucker's apocalyptically cheerful world. Suffice it to say that the loonies try to liberate their moldie siblings on earth, the heritagists try to rid earth of moldies, and everyone tries to control the Perplexing Poultry and the Tessellation Equations to gain power over the other life-forms. Disaster always looms and is occasionally skirted by Rucker's all-too-human (regardless of species) characters. Wacky action gets you tangled in Rucker's yarn, but the brilliance with which he plays with ideas keeps you reading." (Dennis Winters, Booklist)

   The FOURTH DIMENSION: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universe by Rudy Rucker

This book is very informative and educational and will provide insights into higher dimensional spaces not only to the layman, but to researchers hoping to get a better feel for the subject. A well-written book about what a 4D Universe would be like, and delves a bit into Einsteinian spacetime.

A Friend of the Earth by T.C. Boyle

Southern California, 2025. Boyle's dystopia: a dark mockery of environmentalists.

Best authors of the 20th Century

          DARIO FO      1997 Nobel Prize winner

                   Dario Fo's Plays: 1

                   Dario Fo's Plays: 2

                    The Tricks of the Trade

                   The Pope and the Witch

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Movies

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (DVD)

 Johnny Depp, Benicio del Toro
Director: Terry Gilliam

           The Frisco Kid

Starring: Gene Wilder, Harrison Ford
Director: Robert Aldrich

              VHS - NTSC format
              Color, HiFi Sound, Digital Sound, NTSC

A sweetly innocent Polish rabbi (Gene Wilder) travels through 1850's America, and forms an uneasy alliance with an inept outlaw bank robber (Harrison Ford). There are few movies that can give you a chuckle when your in a rut and put you in a better mood when your happy - this movie is one of them.

 

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