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  • stargirl69stargirl69 Posts: 6,387
    I have just got Neil Peart's new book Far and Away at the Rush concert tonight and began reading that on the journey home.
    “There should be a place where only the things you want to happen, happen”
  • MayDay10MayDay10 Posts: 11,749
    Night Shift - Stephen King.
  • smarcheesmarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    Shadowrise - Book 3 of an epic story called Shadowmarch by Tad Williams

    who is a great fantasy writer
    1998 ~ Barrie
    2003 ~ Toronto
    2005 ~ London, Toronto
    2006 ~ Toronto
    2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
    2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
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    2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
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  • iamicaiamica Chicago Posts: 2,628
    I'm reading Wuthering Heights right now...I gotta hand it to those 19th century writers, I may not like all of their books, but they sure are page turners.
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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,388
    Adrian C. Lewis, THE VORTEX OF INDIAN FEVERS. Intense, thought provoking, masterful poetry.
    "Pretty cookies, heart squares all around, yeah!"
    -Eddie Vedder, "Smile"

    "Try to not spook the horse."
    -Neil Young













  • Newch91Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    iamica wrote:
    I'm reading Wuthering Heights right now...I gotta hand it to those 19th century writers, I may not like all of their books, but they sure are page turners.
    The worst 19th century book I read was Jane Eyre for high school. That wasn't my strongest second marking period my sophomore year.
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  • Cradles Broken GlassCradles Broken Glass Posts: 1,409
    I just finished Bloodroot, which I loved. I'm currently reading "You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train" by the great Howard Zinn. I'm also probably going to start Jane Eyre, it's a classic that I never got around to.
    Hearts and thoughts they fade....
    fade away...

    I am at peace with my lust.....for Eddie.
  • Cradles Broken GlassCradles Broken Glass Posts: 1,409
    iamica wrote:
    I'm reading Wuthering Heights right now...I gotta hand it to those 19th century writers, I may not like all of their books, but they sure are page turners.


    Wuthering Heights is my #1 favorite book. Heathcliff is that ultimate "bad boy" with a sensitive side. ;) I turned the pages as fast as I could and when I was finished I started it over.
    Hearts and thoughts they fade....
    fade away...

    I am at peace with my lust.....for Eddie.
  • aNiMaLaNiMaL Posts: 7,117
    edited May 2011
    BamaPJFan wrote:
    I just finished Sammy Hagar's autobiography where he exposes the foolish antics that took place while he was in Van Halen, as well as his life before and after Van Halen. I actually went to one of Sammy's book signings and he was the nicest, coolest dude. It's a shame that Ed and Al are lunatics and wasted many years of making great rock music. I'm a huge Sammy fan, by the way.

    Sammy wrote about the tour that he and Roth did back in 2002 and how Roth was a complete wreck during the tour and only played his old Van Halen covers, while Sammy played a few VH songs, but also did his solo work and Montrose tunes. Sammy mentioned how his merchandise outsold Roth's merch on that tour by 4 to 1. Sammy also found it amusing how Roth would never come on stage with Sammy to do any collaborations after Sammy had asked Roth over and over to do this.

    * Sammy gives Eddie Vedder some quick props in the book. He also mentions Scott Weiland and how Weiland refused to let David Lee Roth come on stage to jam with Velvet Revolver at the Rock Hall of Fame ceremonies a few years ago when VH was inducted. (Only Sammy and Mike showed up to speak on behalf of VH that night because of how dysfunctional the brothers and Roth were behaving.)
    I have to read this book!! I love a good rock and roll book, am a huge VH fan, and a big Sammy Hagar fan, and i was at The Gorge in 2002 for the Sammy/Dave concert and walked away from it with WAAAY more respect for Sammy than when I went in. Going to the show i was more excited about Dave being there, but he made such an ass of himself, and gave no props to VH at all, just played all VH music. Sammy on the other hand, played music from his entire career, and told a cool story about writing music with Eddie. Very classy guy that Sammy Hagar is.

    Thanks for sharing. :D
    Post edited by aNiMaL on
  • aNiMaLaNiMaL Posts: 7,117
    EmBleve wrote:
    Scar Tissue Anthony Kiedis
    Excellent read, I thought. I felt like i was high when he was high in the book, and low when he was low.
  • electronblueelectronblue WPB Florida Posts: 3,460
    just finished reading patti smith's "just kids"
    ********************************
    "Forgive every being,
    the bad feelings 
    it's just me"


  • JeanwahJeanwah Posts: 6,363
    electron blue wrote:
    just finished reading patti smith's "just kids"
    What'd ya think? I loved that book.
  • EmBleveEmBleve Posts: 3,019
    aNiMaL wrote:
    EmBleve wrote:
    Scar Tissue Anthony Kiedis
    Excellent read, I thought. I felt like i was high when he was high in the book, and low when he was low.
    I agree, it was excellent. It was much better than I thought it would be. Quite entertaining.
  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,388
    Marc Spitz Nobody Likes You, Inside the turbulent Life and Times of Green Day. An interesting, mostly well read story about the band from my first home town... I spent the first year of my life on Gilman street- of course I like these guys!
    "Pretty cookies, heart squares all around, yeah!"
    -Eddie Vedder, "Smile"

    "Try to not spook the horse."
    -Neil Young













  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    just picked up The Road by Cormack McCarthy from my local library... we'll see how it goes.
    7/2/06 - Denver, CO
    6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
    8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
    9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
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  • rriversrrivers Posts: 3,698
    PJ212 wrote:
    Bossypants - Tina Fey... pretty funny

    I read that. Laugh out loud funny!
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • rriversrrivers Posts: 3,698
    guitar59 wrote:
    cbrunelle783 wrote:
    number1PJfan wrote:
    Water for Elephants


    That's the only one of hers that's really good. Her latest, Ape House, is dreadful which is too bad b/c bonobo's are cool but the book is awful. I can't wait to see the movie of Water for Elephants.

    This is good to know. I enjoyed Water for Elephants and since Ape House is now an affordable paperback I thought I would read it...maybe not...

    I just finished The Hunger Games Trilogy and just started To Kill a Mockingbird. I decided that I would read some classics this year, interspersed with the trade fiction.

    I finished "Mockingbird" a few months ago. Really enjoyed it. Didn't remember much of it from high school. :D

    Currently halfway through "A Clash of Kings". Second book in the "Game of Thrones" series.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • PilateOfTheStormPilateOfTheStorm Posts: 4,319
    eddie vedder & pearl jam : none too fragile by martin clarke

    and also unless by carol shields (because i'm lazy & easily distracted)
  • BLACK35BLACK35 Hanover, Ontario Posts: 22,830
    Brotherhood of Warriors by Aaron Cohen

    Good read, about some kid of Israel heritage (US citizen) who went to Israel to join the special forces. He makes it to the most prestigious parts of their counter terrorism units. Crazy stuff
    2005 - London
    2009 - Toronto
    2010 - Buffalo
    2011 - Toronto 1&2
    2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
    2014 - Cincinnati, St. Louis, Detroit
    2016 - Ft. Lauderdale, Miami, Ottawa, Toronto 1
    2018 - Fenway 1&2
    2022 - Hamilton, Toronto
    2023 - Chicago 1&2
    2024 - Las Vegas 1&2
  • NastasjaNastasja Posts: 9,668
    The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls
    You can spend your time alone, re-digesting past regrets,
    Or you can come to terms and realize
    You're the only one who can't forgive yourself
  • Digital TwilightDigital Twilight Posts: 5,642
    dcfaithful wrote:
    just picked up The Road by Cormack McCarthy from my local library... we'll see how it goes.

    I love that book.

    I'm currently reading:

    Capitalism as if the world matters - Jonathon Porritt

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Capitalism-as-I ... =8-1-fkmr1

    Great book so far. Worth reading if anyone is interested in the environment and the world's future sustainability.
  • xavier mcdanielxavier mcdaniel Somewhere in NYC Posts: 9,305
    Uppity - the new biography of Bill White, former Cardinal, former NL president and ex-broadcast partner of Phil Rizzuto.
    Reading 2004
    Albany 2006 Camden 2006 E. Rutherford 2, 2006 Inglewood 2006,
    Chicago 2007
    Camden 2008 MSG 2008 MSG 2008 Hartford 2008.
    Seattle 2009 Seattle 2009 Philadelphia 2009,Philadelphia 2009 Philadelphia 2009
    Hartford 2010 MSG 2010 MSG 2010
    Toronto 2011,Toronto 2011
    Wrigley Field 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Philadelphia 2, 2013
    Philadelphia 1, 2016 Philadelphia 2 2016 New York 2016 New York 2016 Fenway 1, 2016
    Fenway 2, 2018
    MSG 2022
    St. Paul, 1, St. Paul 2 2023
    MSG 2024, MSG 2024
    Philadelphia 2024
    "I play good, hard-nosed basketball.
    Things happen in the game. Nothing you
    can do. I don't go and say,
    "I'm gonna beat this guy up."
  • NastasjaNastasja Posts: 9,668
    Traversuras de la nina mala - Mario Vargas Llosa
    You can spend your time alone, re-digesting past regrets,
    Or you can come to terms and realize
    You're the only one who can't forgive yourself
  • smarcheesmarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    Where Men Win Glory - Jon Krakauer
    1998 ~ Barrie
    2003 ~ Toronto
    2005 ~ London, Toronto
    2006 ~ Toronto
    2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
    2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
    2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
    2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
    2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
    2014 - Detroit
    2019 - Chicago X 2
  • uninnocent-uninnocent- Posts: 5,959
    various authors - darwin's bastards

    it's a collection of canadian post-apocalyptic short stories by many canadian fiction writers. sadly a few of the stories i've read so far are shite, though there have been a couple shining moments. i'm hoping it'll get better as i progress through it.
  • cbrunelle783cbrunelle783 Posts: 1,025
    The Reading Promise- Alice Ozma About this girl who's father read to her every night from the time she was 9 until she left for college. Sounds a little overbearing?? it's not it's really great.
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    PJ20 9/3/11-9/4/11

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  • Newch91Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    "56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports" - Kostya Kennedy
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    "Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
  • xavier mcdanielxavier mcdaniel Somewhere in NYC Posts: 9,305
    I'm 150 pages into the Stan Musial book by George Vescey.
    Reading 2004
    Albany 2006 Camden 2006 E. Rutherford 2, 2006 Inglewood 2006,
    Chicago 2007
    Camden 2008 MSG 2008 MSG 2008 Hartford 2008.
    Seattle 2009 Seattle 2009 Philadelphia 2009,Philadelphia 2009 Philadelphia 2009
    Hartford 2010 MSG 2010 MSG 2010
    Toronto 2011,Toronto 2011
    Wrigley Field 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Philadelphia 2, 2013
    Philadelphia 1, 2016 Philadelphia 2 2016 New York 2016 New York 2016 Fenway 1, 2016
    Fenway 2, 2018
    MSG 2022
    St. Paul, 1, St. Paul 2 2023
    MSG 2024, MSG 2024
    Philadelphia 2024
    "I play good, hard-nosed basketball.
    Things happen in the game. Nothing you
    can do. I don't go and say,
    "I'm gonna beat this guy up."
  • jervin007jervin007 Posts: 3,182
    A Feast For Crows by George R.R. Martin. Book four of the Game of Thrones series.

    Once I finish it I am finally going to tackle The Dark Tower series. I have read the first three books, but never can find time to finish it due to school.
    PJ:
    2003 Mansfield: July 2
    2004 Boston: Sept 28 & 29
    2005 Montreal: Sept 15
    2006 Boston: May 24 & 25
    2008 Hartford: June 27, Mansfield: June 28,
    2010 Boston: May 17
    2013 Worcester: Oct 15, Hartford: Oct 25,
    2016 Hampton: April 18, Raleigh: April 20 (cancelled), Columbia: April 21. Quebec: May 5. Boston (Fenway): August 7

    EV Solo: Boston 8/2/08, Boston 6/16/11
  • Who PrincessWho Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    Kristin Lavransdattar by Sigrid Unset
    Rereading it for the umpteenth time (if you're counting the previous version), 2nd time for the Tiina Nunnely translation. Incredibly rich story.
    "The stars are all connected to the brain."
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