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  • ZiggyStar
    ZiggyStar Posts: 14,328
    High Fidelity -- Nick Hornby
    ★ 1995 - Brisbane ★ 1998 - Brisbane ★ 2003 - Brisbane ★ 2006 - Brisbane ★
    ★ 2009 - Sydney, Brisbane, Auckland, Christchurch ★
    ★ 2011 - EV Newcastle, Melbourne 1, Melbourne 2 ★
  • HeyWayne
    HeyWayne Posts: 316
    ZiggyStar wrote:
    High Fidelity -- Nick Hornby

    Great book, and fantastic film. Cusack rules!

    Currently reading Shades of Grey - Jasper Fforde.

    Excited by the news that David Mitchell's latest is now available.
    Just a dude growing veg

    haywayne.blogspot.com
  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    The Broken Window by Jeffrey Deaver
    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
  • BlackThirteen
    BlackThirteen Posts: 423
    Song Yet Sung--James McBride
  • One Song Glory
    One Song Glory Posts: 710
    Just started a collection of short stories called "Darwin's Bastards". :D It's a Canadian project with entries from some of my favourite authors, including Douglas Coupland (the main draw for me), Yann Martell and William Gibson. The stories share each writer's vision of a dystopian future for our species. Most of them are quite entertaining so far, although kind of disturbing as well.
    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
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Gao Xingjian - Soul Mountain

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    'Gao Xingjian was the winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature, the first Chinese author ever to be so honoured. In 1983 Chinese playwright, critic, fiction writer, and painter Gao Xingjian (pronounced gow shing-jen) was diagnosed with lung cancer and faced imminent death. But six weeks later, a second examination revealed there was no cancer, he had won a reprieve from death and was back in the world of the living. Faced with a repressive cultural environment and the threat of a spell in a prison farm, Gao fled Beijing. He travelled to the remote mountains and ancient forests of Sichuan in Southwest China and from there back to the East Coast, a journey of fifteen thousand kilometres over a period of five months. The result of this epic voyage of discovery is his novel "Soul Mountain."'
  • Sian-of-the-dead
    Sian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    Darker by Simon Clark
    Been to this many PJ shows: Reading 2006 London 2007 Manchester & London 2009 Dublin, Belfast, London, Nijmegen & Berlin 2010 Manchester 1 & Manchester 2 2012...

    ... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.
  • badbrains
    badbrains Posts: 10,255
    Everyone SHOULD read TranceFormation of America by Cathy obrien and mark Phillips. Do yourself a favor and read it. It will be difficult at times but it's a must!!!!
  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    "Ravens in Winter" by Bernd Heinrich
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • loadedgun
    loadedgun Indiana Posts: 1,398
    The Talisman. Stephen King and Peter Straub
    Midwest. Indy/Lafayette.
  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    Freakonomics :D
    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
  • unlost dogs
    unlost dogs Greater Boston Posts: 12,553
    The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, don't want it to end as it's the last in the trilogy.
    15 years of sharks 06/30/08 (MA), 05/17/10 (Boston), 09/03/11 (Alpine Valley), 09/04/11 (Alpine Valley), 09/30/12 (Missoula), 07/19/13 (Wrigley), 10/15/13 (Worcester), 10/16/13 (Worcester), 10/25/13 (Hartford), 12/4/13 (Vancouver), 12/6/13 (Seattle), 6/26/14 (Berlin), 6/28/14 (Stockholm), 10/16/14 (Detroit)
  • Yefa
    Yefa Posts: 1,134
    Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter
    You see me empty, Sir, do not pause and inquire, simply assume and refill.
    - Al Swearengen

    http://www.cantstoptheserenity.com
  • dcfaithful
    dcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    The Beach by Alex Garland
    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!!!)
    9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
    9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
  • uninnocent-
    uninnocent- Posts: 5,959
    Currently I'm reading the Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling, and although I enjoy some of the themes present, it's not really holding my interest. There seems to be a disconnect between myself and the stories, and I just cannot seem to relate to any characters.

    My last book, Tadeusz Borowski's 'This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen...', was an astounding and educational collection of short stories. I highly recommed it.

    I think that if I give up on Kipling, I'll move onto 'Eating the Dinosaur'. Any opinions on that one?
  • Eraserhead
    Eraserhead Stoke-on-Trent Posts: 2,981
    The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invention_of_Morel
    Manchester 04.06.00, Leeds 25.08.06, Wembley 18.06.07, Dusseldorf 21.06.07, Shepherds Bush 11.08.09, Manchester 17.08.09, Adelaide 17.11.09, Melbourne 20.11.09, Sydney 22.11.09, Brisbane 25.11.09, MSG1 20.05.10, MSG2 21.05.10, Dublin 22.06.10, Belfast 23.06.10, London 25.06.10, Long Beach 06.07.11 (EV), Los Angeles 08.07.11 (EV), Toronto 11.09.11, Toronto 12.09.11, Ottawa 14.09.11, Hamilton 14.09.11, Manchester 20.06.12, Manchester 21.06.12, Amsterdam 26.06.2012, Amsterdam 27.06.2012, Berlin 04.07.12, Berlin 05.07.12, Stockholm 07.07.12, Oslo 09.07.12, Copenhagen 10.07.12, Manchester 28.07.12 (EV), Brooklyn 18.10.13, Brooklyn 19.10.13, Philly 21.10.13, Philly 22.10.13, San Diego 21.11.13, LA 23.11.13, LA 24.11.13, Oakland 26.11.13, Portland 29.11.13, Spokane 30.11.13, Calgary 02.12.13, Vancouver 04.12.13, Seattle 06.12.13, Trieste 22.06.14, Vienna 25.06.14, Berlin 26.06.14, Stockholm 28.06.14, Leeds 08.07.14, Philly 28.04.16, Philly 28.04.16, MSG1 01.05.16, MSG2 02.05.16
  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    loadedgun wrote:
    The Talisman. Stephen King and Peter Straub
    I need to re-read this one, as I have the sequel sitting at home unread. Great book btw. :ugeek:
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • AELARA
    AELARA Posts: 803
    On the road - Jack Kerouac
    I am mine!
  • CantKeepMeHere
    CantKeepMeHere Posts: 2,177
    Stephen King
    Under The Dome
    My Pearl Jam Fan Videos
    Best on the web - check them out
    http://www.youtube.com/user/cantkeepmehere
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    2008 Bonnaroo - 2009 Philly 2&3 - 2010 MSG 1&2
  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    "hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world"
    ~ haruki murakami


    it's some pretty trippy shit. just finished up "kafka by the shore" by the same author.....more trippy shit. really good stuff.
    Stay with me...
    Let's just breathe...


    I am myself like you somehow


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