Summer Reading

[Michael Rees <mrees@pppmail.appliedtheory.com>]

Time to lie about and read, eh? Try on some of these which I've more-or-less
recently enjoyed...


Einstein's Dreams; Alan Lightman. A surreal little universe that explores
relativity in a way that somehow reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut.

The Complete Poems; Anne Sexton. Heavy duty stuff; includes a lot of
previously unpublished poems. If you haven't read her before, do it now.

Book of Dreams; Jack Kerouac. Notebook-style dream log kind of thing written
during and largely turned into On The Road, The Subterraneans, and The Dharma
Bums. And I thought I had some weird dreams.

Children of the Mind; Orson Scott Card. The fourth (and final?) installment in
what used to be the Ender Trilogy. Clears up a lot of questions left hanging
after the first three books, but it probably won't do a lot of good to read it
if you haven't read the first three. 

Orientations; Pierre Boulez. Translations of lectures given here and there
(mostly at Darmstadt) during the 60s, as well as some new and revised articles
from various publications. Boulez expounds his views and theories on
compostion, structure, analysis, life, the universe, and nearly everything.
(For those who don't know, Boulez is a composer, conductor, and director of
IRCAM in Paris.)


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Michael Rees  <mrees@pppmail.appliedtheory.com>
Composer &c.
                            Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order.