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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    rarghrargh-brownstar wrote:
    i should be done Madame Bovary soon. sometime after i have grandkids. :p

    don't say that.
    i have to read it for uni this semester and you make it sound dull and boring.
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  • elmer
    elmer Posts: 1,683
    catefrances wrote:
    don't say that.
    i have to read it for uni this semester and you make it sound dull and boring.
    Ive read it and its not so bad just needs to be consumed in mighty , meaty chunks........if you not familiar with reading classics its certainly not the place to start
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    Cosa Nostra - History of Sicilian Mafia by John Dickie

    next up is

    El Diego - Maradona's biography
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • elmer
    elmer Posts: 1,683
    dunkman1974 wrote:
    Cosa Nostra - History of Sicilian Mafia by John Dickie

    next up is

    El Diego - Maradona's biography
    ......Ive got the Cosa Nostra waiting patiently for me on the shelf, would be interesting to read the maradona biog
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    elmer wrote:
    ......Ive got the Cosa Nostra waiting patiently for me on the shelf, would be interesting to read the maradona biog


    cosy nostril is good stuff... but like most history tinged reads, i get a bit confused with names and town names, etc... thats probably just me though... its a great read and the author doesnt romanticise the mafia..

    i look forward to the El Diego... :)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • burton-x
    burton-x Posts: 6
    jaygreen12 wrote:
    American Psycho and Layer Cake.
    I will probably go and find Layer Cake, I loved the Movie but I know from DaVinci code that the movies are normally not HALF as good as the actual books themselves. I started reading Fight Club but had to give it back and I dont own a library card so that's on hold at the moment.
    I only own my mind, I am mine...
  • elmer
    elmer Posts: 1,683
    dunkman1974 wrote:
    cosy nostril is good stuff... but like most history tinged reads, i get a bit confused with names and town names, etc... thats probably just me though... its a great read and the author doesnt romanticise the mafia..

    i look forward to the El Diego... :)
    Ive got another as yet unread called Midnight in Sicily by Peter Robb which I think also deals with more general culture and food but is still based on the mob and two Leonardo Sciascia novels. Im planning to hit all of em one after the other when the time comes...........where is Ecosse?
  • elmer
    elmer Posts: 1,683
    jaygreen12 wrote:
    American Psycho and Layer Cake.
    american psycho is an amazing book, are funny and disturbing meant to go together?
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    elmer wrote:
    Ive got another as yet unread called Midnight in Sicily by Peter Robb which I think also deals with more general culture and food but is still based on the mob and two Leonardo Sciascia novels. Im planning to hit all of em one after the other when the time comes...........where is Ecosse?

    i'll look at the Sciascia novels... thanks :)

    Ecosse, its french for Scotland... it makes me sound windswept and interesting... as opposed to beige ... just me being silly as usual :)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,378
    Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. So far so good. I just finished Arc of Justice by Kevin Boyle that was excellent. I wrote a review in the Moving Train forum.
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    elmer wrote:
    american psycho is an amazing book, are funny and disturbing meant to go together?

    have you read ellis' lunar park?
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  • soapyrows
    soapyrows Posts: 235
    Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall-Smith

    - so good!!!!!!!!!!
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    i know someday you'll have a beautiful life,
    i HOPE you'll be a star,
    in somebody elses sky, but why, why, why can't it be, why can't it be mine?!
  • IndianSummer
    IndianSummer Posts: 854
    the monk who sold his ferrari - robin sharma
    I have faced it, A life wasted...

    Take my hand, my child of love
    Come step inside my tears
    Swim the magic ocean,
    I've been crying all these years
  • elmer
    elmer Posts: 1,683
    catefrances wrote:
    have you read ellis' lunar park?
    no, have you? that is his most recent right? Ive read glamorama and rules of attraction which were a giggle tho glamorama didnt seem to make much sense towards the end.............Id recommend michel houellebecq(atomised,platform,whatever) for anyone who enjoys ellis, their in a similar satirical vein(w graphic sex) but I think with better plots.......................is ellis gay? not that it matters but it had occured to me that he likes to nibble both sides of the biscuit
  • stonesgstring
    stonesgstring Posts: 4,613
    Girl With a Pearl Earring currently.

    Bought the film, couldn't get into it so I thought I'd try reading the book first. I really like it.
    20/04/06 ~ 23/08/06 ~ 09/09/06

    14/09/06, 16/09/06, 17/09/06, 19/09/06, 20/09/06 ~ The Stone lookalike leg of the 2006 tour

    18/06/07 - Amazing, just amazing

    04/07/06 ~Proud to be part of the AIC Astoria Crew~

    Rockin' out to Creadles
  • surfanddestroy
    surfanddestroy Posts: 2,786
    Jonathan Kellerman, The Butcher's Theatre
    Astoria 20/04/06, Leeds 25/08/06, Prague 22/09/06, Wembley 18/06/07,
    Dusseldorf 21/06/07, Manchester 17/08/09, London 18/08/09, LA 06/10/09, LA 07/10/09.

    Ain't gonna be any middle anymore.
  • stonesgstring
    stonesgstring Posts: 4,613
    surfanddestroy wrote:
    Jonathan Kellerman, The Butcher's Theatre

    Ooh I like his books. :D
    20/04/06 ~ 23/08/06 ~ 09/09/06

    14/09/06, 16/09/06, 17/09/06, 19/09/06, 20/09/06 ~ The Stone lookalike leg of the 2006 tour

    18/06/07 - Amazing, just amazing

    04/07/06 ~Proud to be part of the AIC Astoria Crew~

    Rockin' out to Creadles
  • surfanddestroy
    surfanddestroy Posts: 2,786
    stonesgstring wrote:
    Ooh I like his books. :D

    Yeah I have read a few of them and they are really good.
    Astoria 20/04/06, Leeds 25/08/06, Prague 22/09/06, Wembley 18/06/07,
    Dusseldorf 21/06/07, Manchester 17/08/09, London 18/08/09, LA 06/10/09, LA 07/10/09.

    Ain't gonna be any middle anymore.
  • releaselauren
    releaselauren Posts: 384
    I finished "Clay's Quilt" by Silas House and started "Coal Tattoo" last night. A couple weeks ago someone posted about starting a book club and "Coal Tattoo" was chosen but that thread has since died. Oh well, good read so far.
    "you shall be released" ~ EV
  • zelda4ever
    zelda4ever Posts: 138
    a jim morrison autobiography "no one gets out here alive"
    -Let's just say i was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. Thats all it was:just curiosity.

    Jim Morrison
    Los Angeles, 1969

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