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  • he still stands
    he still stands Posts: 2,835
    Has anyone else read "The Road?"

    I'm trying to but damn... I just find it boring as hell.

    Maybe it is because I usually read fantastical, absurdist fiction by authors like Tom Robbins, Robert Anton Wilson, Christopher Moore, Vonnegut, etc.
    Everything not forbidden is compulsory and eveything not compulsory is forbidden. You are free... free to do what the government says you can do.
  • gleemonex
    gleemonex Posts: 848
    Just finished Zeitoun by Dave Eggers. It's about a Syrian-American in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina who floats around the city in a canoe helping people before being falsely arrested and imprisoned. I found it to be more heartbreaking and staggering than Eggers' work of genius.
    “Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’” - Kurt Vonnegut
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    he still stands wrote:
    Has anyone else read "The Road?"

    I'm trying to but damn... I just find it boring as hell.

    Maybe it is because I usually read fantastical, absurdist fiction by authors like Tom Robbins, Robert Anton Wilson, Christopher Moore, Vonnegut, etc.


    I read it and enjoyed it. Didn't find it boring at all.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • aneutronbomb
    aneutronbomb Posts: 818
    to kill a mockingbird
    and fuck me if I say somethin you dont wanna hear, fuck me!
    and fuck me if you only hear what you wanna hear
    fuck me...if I care...but im not leavin here
  • Lizard
    Lizard So Cal Posts: 12,091
    A Thousand Acres
    So I'll just lie down and wait for the dream
    Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me
  • mookiemoochie16
    mookiemoochie16 Posts: 521
    World War Z by Max Brooks, It's about how greed and corruption by people in power causes the zombie apocolypse. I feel like kind of a nerd reading it, but it's actually really interesting.
    The oceans made me, but who came up with love?

    "You put some udder cream on that shit?" ~EV 5/17/10
  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    rrivers wrote:
    he still stands wrote:
    Has anyone else read "The Road?"

    I'm trying to but damn... I just find it boring as hell.

    Maybe it is because I usually read fantastical, absurdist fiction by authors like Tom Robbins, Robert Anton Wilson, Christopher Moore, Vonnegut, etc.


    I read it and enjoyed it. Didn't find it boring at all.

    +1 found is a page turner, read it in 2 days
    1998 ~ Barrie
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    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
  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    Cronies: Oil, The Bushes and the Rise of Texas, Amercia's Superstate by Robert Bryce
    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
  • Franny
    Franny Posts: 2,054
    station X The code breakers of Bletchley Park, Michael Smith
  • The Champ
    The Champ Posts: 4,063
    Invisible by Paul Auster..
    'I want to hurry home to you
    put on a slow, dumb show for you
    and crack you up
    so you can put a blue ribbon on my brain
    god I'm very, very frightening
    and I'll overdo it'
  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    decides2dream wrote:
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    just finished: foreign correspondence - geraldine brooks
    just started: the italian affair - laura fraser



    just finished yesterday: the italian affair - and it was awesome!
    highly recommend! anyone who enjoyed eat pray love or similar - would probably love this book.
    started today: memories of my melancholy whores - gabriel garcia marquez

    short read, but good.

    just started yesterday...


    unaccustomed earth ~ jhumpa lahiri
    collection of 8 short stories. so far, so good!



    finished this tuesday, it was awesome! :thumbup:
    definitely recommend.

    i started yesterday and am bout half-way thru disgrace ~ j.m.coetzee.
    it is a fantastic read thus far.

    i've lucked out, found a director at our firm that has similar book tastes as me, and she brings me in books all the time now to read. we've been swapping stories about books for about a year now, a common bond....so it's great. saves me $$$ and also don't even have to think about what i want to read next, or visit my town's sad little library, etc. she brings in 3 books at a time for me. :D
    Stay with me...
    Let's just breathe...


    I am myself like you somehow


  • mdigenakis
    mdigenakis Posts: 1,337
    The Death of Captain America by Ed Brubaker
    and
    Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
    and
    Overthrow by Stephen Kinzer
    "Don't let the darkness eat you up..."

    -Greg Dulli

  • he still stands
    he still stands Posts: 2,835
    mdigenakis wrote:
    Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

    much love for the Hitchiker's series. I've read Hitchikers, Restaurant at the end of the Universe, and So Long and Thanks for all the Fish.

    I plan on getting to the other two eventually. Great stuff.
    Everything not forbidden is compulsory and eveything not compulsory is forbidden. You are free... free to do what the government says you can do.
  • Yellow Ledbelly
    Yellow Ledbelly Posts: 3,749
    I haven't read a book in quite some time, but I have a friend who does read a good bit and she gives me reports on what she has read....it's almost like reading in a lazy ass, numskull kinda way. She just finished a Mary Higgins Clark book which she thought was pretty good
    All I have to do is revel in the everyday....then do it again tomorrow

    They say every sin is deadly but I believe they may be wrong...I'm guilty of all seven and I don't feel too bad at all
  • Lizardjam
    Lizardjam Posts: 1,121
    The Devil May Ride, Wendy Roberts

    I recently discovered this mystery series with a paranormal twist and i'm on this, the second book. i find them hard to put down!
    bugs in the way...I feel about you

    "New music, new friends. Pearl Jam."

    I like our socks. I hear we make a fine sock. I always say, You might not love our records, but I think you'll like our socks. - Stone

    "This record is us speaking out in class." -EV on PJ
  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,325
    The Story of Edgar Sawtelle....so far, so good....but I hear people hate the ending. :shh:
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,029
    Finally getting around to reading the Pat Tillman book "Where Men Win Glory". Man, he was one hell of a man. Of all the fake sports "heros" we have today, this guy really got it. I love reading about him riding his bike to Arizone Cardinals practice then finally buying a Volvo Station Wagon. There should be a lot more athletes like him in sports today.

    How the fuck did he turn down a $9 mil contract from the Rams to play for the minimum salary for the Cardinals?

    He was a better guy that I will ever dream of being (obviously).
  • One Song Glory
    One Song Glory Posts: 710
    Just finished Sam Selvon's "The Lonely Londoners". Fantastic little novel about West Indian immigrants in London, written in an extremely effective (but also exaggerated) dialect. Next up: Paul Auster's City of Glass. It's some freaky shit so far. Reminding me in a weird way of "The Raw Shark Texts" for absolutely no reason other than the paranoia.
    2003: Toronto
    2005: Kitchener/Hamilton/Toronto
    2006: Toronto 1 & 2
    2008: Hartford/EV Toronto 1 & 2
    2009: Toronto/Philadelphia 3 & 4
    2010: Buffalo
    2011: Montreal/Toronto 1 & 2/Hamilton
    2013: London/Buffalo/Vancouver/Seattle
    2016: Toronto 1 & 2
    2022: Hamilton/Toronto
    2023: EV Seattle 1&2
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    One Song Glory wrote:
    Reminding me in a weird way of "The Raw Shark Texts" for absolutely no reason other than the paranoia.

    I enjoyed that book. Weird as shit, but still good.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."

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