Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: What Do You Read?

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Posted by William Leland III (Member # 1400) on 11-21-2002, 04:49 PM:

As projectionist we do have time to kill. And the best way I kill time is by reading a book. I'm curious what do other projectionist read while waiting for the last movie to drop.

I am currently reading Allan Dean Foster : Phylogenesis.

What are some books you have read or can recommend. What I recommend is George R.R Martin : Game of Thrones .

Posted by Ian Price (Member # 14) on 11-21-2002, 04:57 PM:

I am currently reading Sue Grafton's Q Is for Quarry .

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 11-21-2002, 05:30 PM:

I am reading Sue Grafton's Z is for ZZZZzzzz

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 11-21-2002, 05:45 PM:

I never have time to read novels since I'm a owner/manager, but in my office I have the usual Boxoffice, Film Journal, Premeire and Entertainment Weekly magazines, and one indispensible book: Roger Ebert's Bigger Little Movie Glossary. Anyone who likes movies should read this and prepare to fall down laughing.

Posted by Darren Briggs (Member # 1071) on 11-21-2002, 05:50 PM:

Im reading the book, 24 Hour Party People by Tony Wilson , there was a film made from this book which is about the rise and fall of Factory records her in the UK, who made bands like NEW ORDER. Not sure if you fellas in the USA will get to see this film?

Good reading anyway, funny and interesting.

Darren

Posted by Daniel Boisson (Member # 1027) on 11-21-2002, 07:03 PM:

over last summer, i used to make stupid little programs on my laptop in visual basic.......I also read the magazine Scientific American, and Tom Clancy's Bear and The Dragon.

Posted by Joe Beres (Member # 678) on 11-21-2002, 08:12 PM:

Unfortunately, I don't have too much time to read in the booth, but I try to read when I can. At the moment, I am reading Running WIth Scissors by Augusten Burroughs and Our Band Could be Your Life by Michael Azerrad.

I recently finished The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster, and I would recommend it for some leisurely reading.

Posted by Dennis Benjamin (Member # 1137) on 11-21-2002, 08:21 PM:

The last two books I have read were on Business Planning. I wish I had time to read novels. My favorite authors are Terry Brooks and Piers Anthony.

Posted by Jacob Huber (Member # 1138) on 11-21-2002, 08:49 PM:

Some of the books I've read in the booth over the past year:
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
1984 - George Orwell
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Big Trouble - Dave Barry
Why I'm Not A Christian - Bertrand Russel
Fight Club, Choke, Survivor, Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk

I am currently reading Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk

Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 11-21-2002, 09:09 PM:

I love epic reading. Right now I am reading through the Hornblower series. 9 novels by C.S. Forester (who also wrote the script for African Queen) about the life of fictional character Horatio Hornblower, who served in the Royal Navy during the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, rising from Midshipman to Admiral.
I also like true crime and so I am reading "The Cases That Haunt Us" by former FBI profiler John Douglas.

Posted by Mark Ogden (Member # 43) on 11-21-2002, 10:33 PM:

Jacob, if you got all the way thru Atlas Shrugged, my hat is off to you, and I'll spare you the joke about letting Ayn Rand go to your head.

I just finished Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation, an excellent book about the dark side of the fast food industry. Its description of working in the Colorado slaughterhouses (and what's really in a fast food burger) will put you off your Whoppers, lemee tell ya. Frightning stuff. Before that: Peter Biskind's Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, a great book about film making in the late sixties and seventies, a movie going era that's close to my heart, I remember running many of the titles mentioned to packed houses. This was towards the end of the single screen era, just as multi's were becomming all the rage, the early days of Lucas, Spielberg, Scorsese, Coppola, et. al. Them was the days.

Posted by David Favel (Member # 1125) on 11-21-2002, 10:36 PM:

Re-reading Alfred Besters "Tiger Tiger" plus a few business books

Posted by Dennis Benjamin (Member # 1137) on 11-21-2002, 11:39 PM:

Hey! I have read all of Ayn Rand's stuff. I never let any of it get to my head. Well, maybe I did. I wrote a thesis on her back in the day. I discovered her writings after listening to RUSH back in the day..... But that is a whole other story.......

Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 11-21-2002, 11:46 PM:

I mostly read newspapers, magazines, etc. One of my favorite books of the last year or so is "King of Cannes" by Stephen Walker. It's a great look at how the film industry really works and is quite funny.

Posted by Paul G. Thompson (Member # 655) on 11-21-2002, 11:57 PM:

In my booths, I read technical literature, but that is about it under most circumstances.

Posted by Lionel Fouillen (Member # 1475) on 11-22-2002, 04:24 AM:

Not working in a booth, but when I have time to read at work, I'm reading cinema-related stuff on internet websites, or computer-related magazines. I'm also reading the last edition of "ColdFusion MX" by Ben Forta, and also "IBM and the Holocaust" by Edwin Black. I don't read fiction a lot (last time was a novel by Amélie Nothomb).

I started reading "Atlas Shrugged" too in 1999 but still haven't finished. Actually the first order I placed on Amazon.Com since the book is out of print in Europe. Hey, this thing really works! They said I'd get the book in 3 days. I got it after only 2 and a half days [thumbsup]

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 11-22-2002, 06:54 AM:

Recent bedtime reading includes...

Non-fiction:

Film Copyright in the European Union by Pascal Kamina (as exciting as it sounds!)
Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh
The Lost Victory - British Dreams, British Realities, 1945-51 by Correlli Barnett.

...and in the shit lit category

A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
The Death of Grass by John Christopher
and Matto regiert by Friedrich Glauser, but am seriously struggling with the German.

Posted by Oscar Neundorfer (Member # 458) on 11-22-2002, 09:28 AM:

If Atlas Shrugged doesn't make you seriously think, nothing will. I read it MANY years ago.

My current preference is crime/psychological novels from authors like Jonathan Kellerman, Steven White, John Sandford, Iris Johannsen, James Patterson, and so on.

Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 11-22-2002, 10:05 AM:

I tend to read all the books by one author at a time and then on to the next
just finished most of John le Carres books (smiley people, the spy who came in from the cold)
Alexander kents Bolitho serries

Posted by Sam Hunter (Member # 1119) on 11-22-2002, 03:51 PM:

I like science fiction, spy novels, Tom Clancy novels, any submarine or miltary theme based novel.I Haven't picked up a good book in a while. bout due for one though I guess. I can usually finish a book in about two or three days. Wont get no sleep but I can do it.

Posted by Jacob Huber (Member # 1138) on 11-23-2002, 12:20 AM:

Atlas Shrugged took me the good part of 3 months to finish, with a lot of the reading done at home. This definitely got me thinking, and has gotten me into business all the more (local theatres beware).

Posted by Gordon Hedges III (Member # 863) on 11-23-2002, 04:03 AM:

When I started as an employee, I was trying to finish THE STAND by Stephen King. The complete & uncut edition. Once I finished, my manager introduced me to the NECROSCOPE series by Brian Lumley. I could not wait until the next part of the series came out. I was so hooked. Parapsychology/Vampire Horror/Sci-Fi all in one.

But as a manager/projectionist all I really read in the booth are manuals, film publications and weekly movie gross reports (i.e. MovieLine International). My resolution for the upcoming year is to read more often. And by reading the posts here, I just might get some good ideas to fulfill that resolution. [Smile]

For those interested in Brian Lumley here is a link to his site Brian Lumley [thumbsup]

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 11-23-2002, 05:04 AM:

Since I am illiterate, I do not read in the booth. Instead I play GameBoy Advance videogames. It is rare that a good game comes out for this system, but Castlevania kept me entertained between thread-ups and platter failures for awhile and now I am attempting to be entertained by Metroid Fusion, though it is nowhere near as good as Castlevania.

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 11-23-2002, 06:18 AM:

Mainly books on technical subjects, or about famous people that invented big things that either changed the course of history, or or made a big impact on out daily lives, books on air crash investigations, etc. I usually only get to read in my spare time on service trips. Some favorite books are........

"The Making Of The Atomic Bomb" by Richard Rhodes (Pulitzer Prize Winner)and a most amazing book!

"Dark Sun" Also by Rhodes. About building the Hydrogen Bomb

"Distant Vision", The Story of Philo Farnsworth

"Zworykin, Pioneer Of Television"

"The Mystery Of Flight 427" by Bill Adair

Any books on old steam engines, trains, Airplanes, or their inventors, books on favorite directors, and cinematographers, etc.

I also collect old books on anything technical.

And of course Film-Tech!

Mark @ CLACO

Posted by Michael Barry (Member # 237) on 11-23-2002, 09:18 AM:

I NEVER read in the booth, obviously. That would be naughty! [Smile]

I am currently finishing Dostoyevsky's 'Notes From Underground' and have recently started Richard Matheson's 'I Am Legend' (which was made into the movie 'The Omega Man' with Charlton Heston).

I started a thread about 'Fast Food Nation' a while back, which was the last book I finished. Mark (Ogden), did you read it as a result of that thread, or did you already have it?

Posted by Ken Layton (Member # 133) on 11-23-2002, 09:26 PM:

HUSTLER magazine! [sex]

Posted by Ray Brown (Member # 1449) on 11-23-2002, 09:55 PM:

quote:
HUSTLER magazine!

I prefer the "articles" in Playboy. [eyes]