Columbine is such an unsettling book - it really freaked me out after reading it.
I'm reading a very good Nordic thriller - The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen. It's being marketed as "Just like Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" and I like it better.
About 50 pages from finishing Zombie Spaceship Wasteland by Patton Oswalt. Fucking hilarious.
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2006-06-26 St. Paul
2007-08-05 Chicago
2009-08-23 Chicago
2009-08-28 San Francisco
2010-05-01 NOLA (Jazz Fest)
2011-07-02 EV Minneapolis
2011-09-03 PJ20
2011-09-04 PJ20
2011-09-17 Winnipeg
2012-06-26 Amsterdam
2012-06-27 Amsterdam
2013-07-19 Wrigley
2013-11-21 San Diego
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2014-10-20 Milwaukee
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I loved Shakey the Neil Young book and I also loved Catcher in the Rye although its been 20 years since i ready it :?
Reading John Steakley's Armor and coming on the heals of having read starship troopers, old man's war, and forever war which all were military sci fi and all followed a similar flow and model Armor is a breath of fresh air.
The language and flow is not perfect but i don't find it bothersome and the characters in it are very cool. I find myself interested in a lot of them which was my main complaint about the other three books was i had a harder time relating to others in the book that were not the central character.
Only halfway through bue enjoying it a lot.
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If you liked Armor you should read John Steakley's Vampire$, just whatever you do don't watch the John Carpenter movie....
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saw the author on the Daily Show at some point in the last year and was so interested in the interview that I remembered the book, found it and now am totally sucked into it, it's an amazing story
On May 13, 1945, twenty-four American servicemen and WACs boarded a transport plane for a sightseeing trip over “Shangri-La,” a beautiful and mysterious valley deep within the jungle-covered mountains of Dutch New Guinea. Unlike the peaceful Tibetan monks of James Hilton’s bestselling novel Lost Horizon, this Shangri-La was home to spear-carrying tribesmen, warriors rumored to be cannibals.
But the pleasure tour became an unforgettable battle for survival when the plane crashed. Miraculously, three passengers pulled through. Margaret Hastings, barefoot and burned, had no choice but to wear her dead best friend’s shoes. John McCollom, grieving the death of his twin brother also aboard the plane, masked his grief with stoicism. Kenneth Decker, too, was severely burned and suffered a gaping head wound.
Emotionally devastated, badly injured, and vulnerable to the hidden dangers of the jungle, the trio faced certain death unless they left the crash site. Caught between man-eating headhunters and enemy Japanese, the wounded passengers endured a harrowing hike down the mountainside—a journey into the unknown that would lead them straight into a primitive tribe of superstitious natives who had never before seen a white man—or woman.
Drawn from interviews, declassified U.S. Army documents, personal photos and mementos, a survivor’s diary, a rescuer’s journal, and original film footage, Lost in Shangri-La recounts this incredible true-life adventure for the first time. Mitchell Zuckoff reveals how the determined trio—dehydrated, sick, and in pain—traversed the dense jungle to find help; how a brave band of paratroopers risked their own lives to save the survivors; and how a cowboy colonel attempted a previously untested rescue mission to get them out.
By trekking into the New Guinea jungle, visiting remote villages, and rediscovering the crash site, Zuckoff also captures the contemporary natives’ remembrances of the long-ago day when strange creatures fell from the sky. A riveting work of narrative nonfiction that vividly brings to life an odyssey at times terrifying, enlightening, and comic, Lost in Shangri-La is a thrill ride from beginning to end.
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2005 ~ London, Toronto
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2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
Just finished reading "The Kite Runner" Started it a couple days ago, then read the second half of it today since it's my one day off. It was a great book and I would definitely recommend it
Now I'm reading Terry Goodkinds "The Omen Machine"
Just finished "Fever" by Robin Cook and "World War Z".
Two of the worst books I've read in my life.
Really? What was so bad about them? I've never read the Cook one, but World War Z was, well, what I expected it to be: an easy, mindless read. I had pretty low expectations going in, and so I wasn't disappointed. A bunch of fake eyewitness accounts about a non-existent pandemic? How awful or good could it be? That's what made the book tolerable for me...I didn't expect much.
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2011-07-02 EV Minneapolis
2011-09-03 PJ20
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i read this a few years back.. september 2004 according to my scribble on the title page. i loved it.. it gave me an insight into neil young(perhaps)and fodder for my writing, which is always a good thing..
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Just finished reading "The Kite Runner" Started it a couple days ago, then read the second half of it today since it's my one day off. It was a great book and I would definitely recommend it
Now I'm reading Terry Goodkinds "The Omen Machine"
i LOVED the Kite Runner! May just have to re-read it
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i have read the first 6 chapters --- its really good -- gets a little slow when he goes back and talks about his early childhood but he is a good writer
Just finished "Fever" by Robin Cook and "World War Z".
Two of the worst books I've read in my life.
Really? What was so bad about them? I've never read the Cook one, but World War Z was, well, what I expected it to be: an easy, mindless read. I had pretty low expectations going in, and so I wasn't disappointed. A bunch of fake eyewitness accounts about a non-existent pandemic? How awful or good could it be? That's what made the book tolerable for me...I didn't expect much.
I had low expectations too and the book managed to go way under those expectations.
In this gripping, brilliantly reported and sure to be newsmaking book, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Ron Suskind tells the complete story of America’s financial meltdown and an untested new president charged with commanding Washington, taming Wall Street, rescuing an economy on the verge of collapse and restoring the confidence of a shaken America. Suskind moves from the frenzied trading floors of lower Manhattan to the power corridors inside the Beltway and introduces a larger-than-life cast of politicians and advisors, titans of high finance, reformers, lobbyists and others who faced a crisis that threatened not only the United States but the entire world. Based on hundreds of hours of interviews and exhaustive research, filled with piercing insight and startling disclosures, Suskind’s eye-opening book goes beyond the headlines and previous accounts, bringing into focus the unprecedented struggle between Wall Street and Washington, between hope and fear—a struggle that continues to roil the United States of America.
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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
Started this one today, a few chapters in and it's a bit slow but I'm hoping it will pick up soon. Some of the reviews I've seen for it aren't that great though.
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2019 - Alice in Chains Milwaukee, WI
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Columbine is such an unsettling book - it really freaked me out after reading it.
I'm reading a very good Nordic thriller - The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen. It's being marketed as "Just like Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" and I like it better.
2003-06-16 St. Paul
2006-06-26 St. Paul
2007-08-05 Chicago
2009-08-23 Chicago
2009-08-28 San Francisco
2010-05-01 NOLA (Jazz Fest)
2011-07-02 EV Minneapolis
2011-09-03 PJ20
2011-09-04 PJ20
2011-09-17 Winnipeg
2012-06-26 Amsterdam
2012-06-27 Amsterdam
2013-07-19 Wrigley
2013-11-21 San Diego
2013-11-23 Los Angeles
2013-11-24 Los Angeles
2014-07-08 Leeds, UK
2014-07-11 Milton Keynes, UK
2014-10-09 Lincoln
2014-10-19 St. Paul
2014-10-20 Milwaukee
2016-08-20 Wrigley 1
2016-08-22 Wrigley 2
2018-06-18 London 1
2018-08-18 Wrigley 1
2018-08-20 Wrigley 2
2022-09-16 Nashville
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2023-09-02 St. Paul
2023-09-05 Chicago 1
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2006-06-26 St. Paul
2007-08-05 Chicago
2009-08-23 Chicago
2009-08-28 San Francisco
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2011-07-02 EV Minneapolis
2011-09-03 PJ20
2011-09-04 PJ20
2011-09-17 Winnipeg
2012-06-26 Amsterdam
2012-06-27 Amsterdam
2013-07-19 Wrigley
2013-11-21 San Diego
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2013-11-24 Los Angeles
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2014-07-11 Milton Keynes, UK
2014-10-09 Lincoln
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2014-10-20 Milwaukee
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2016-08-22 Wrigley 2
2018-06-18 London 1
2018-08-18 Wrigley 1
2018-08-20 Wrigley 2
2022-09-16 Nashville
2023-08-31 St. Paul
2023-09-02 St. Paul
2023-09-05 Chicago 1
Pretty much blows all the myths about Columbine out of the water.
Reading John Steakley's Armor and coming on the heals of having read starship troopers, old man's war, and forever war which all were military sci fi and all followed a similar flow and model Armor is a breath of fresh air.
The language and flow is not perfect but i don't find it bothersome and the characters in it are very cool. I find myself interested in a lot of them which was my main complaint about the other three books was i had a harder time relating to others in the book that were not the central character.
Only halfway through bue enjoying it a lot.
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On May 13, 1945, twenty-four American servicemen and WACs boarded a transport plane for a sightseeing trip over “Shangri-La,” a beautiful and mysterious valley deep within the jungle-covered mountains of Dutch New Guinea. Unlike the peaceful Tibetan monks of James Hilton’s bestselling novel Lost Horizon, this Shangri-La was home to spear-carrying tribesmen, warriors rumored to be cannibals.
But the pleasure tour became an unforgettable battle for survival when the plane crashed. Miraculously, three passengers pulled through. Margaret Hastings, barefoot and burned, had no choice but to wear her dead best friend’s shoes. John McCollom, grieving the death of his twin brother also aboard the plane, masked his grief with stoicism. Kenneth Decker, too, was severely burned and suffered a gaping head wound.
Emotionally devastated, badly injured, and vulnerable to the hidden dangers of the jungle, the trio faced certain death unless they left the crash site. Caught between man-eating headhunters and enemy Japanese, the wounded passengers endured a harrowing hike down the mountainside—a journey into the unknown that would lead them straight into a primitive tribe of superstitious natives who had never before seen a white man—or woman.
Drawn from interviews, declassified U.S. Army documents, personal photos and mementos, a survivor’s diary, a rescuer’s journal, and original film footage, Lost in Shangri-La recounts this incredible true-life adventure for the first time. Mitchell Zuckoff reveals how the determined trio—dehydrated, sick, and in pain—traversed the dense jungle to find help; how a brave band of paratroopers risked their own lives to save the survivors; and how a cowboy colonel attempted a previously untested rescue mission to get them out.
By trekking into the New Guinea jungle, visiting remote villages, and rediscovering the crash site, Zuckoff also captures the contemporary natives’ remembrances of the long-ago day when strange creatures fell from the sky. A riveting work of narrative nonfiction that vividly brings to life an odyssey at times terrifying, enlightening, and comic, Lost in Shangri-La is a thrill ride from beginning to end.
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
Now I'm reading Terry Goodkinds "The Omen Machine"
Two of the worst books I've read in my life.
Really? What was so bad about them? I've never read the Cook one, but World War Z was, well, what I expected it to be: an easy, mindless read. I had pretty low expectations going in, and so I wasn't disappointed. A bunch of fake eyewitness accounts about a non-existent pandemic? How awful or good could it be? That's what made the book tolerable for me...I didn't expect much.
2003-06-16 St. Paul
2006-06-26 St. Paul
2007-08-05 Chicago
2009-08-23 Chicago
2009-08-28 San Francisco
2010-05-01 NOLA (Jazz Fest)
2011-07-02 EV Minneapolis
2011-09-03 PJ20
2011-09-04 PJ20
2011-09-17 Winnipeg
2012-06-26 Amsterdam
2012-06-27 Amsterdam
2013-07-19 Wrigley
2013-11-21 San Diego
2013-11-23 Los Angeles
2013-11-24 Los Angeles
2014-07-08 Leeds, UK
2014-07-11 Milton Keynes, UK
2014-10-09 Lincoln
2014-10-19 St. Paul
2014-10-20 Milwaukee
2016-08-20 Wrigley 1
2016-08-22 Wrigley 2
2018-06-18 London 1
2018-08-18 Wrigley 1
2018-08-20 Wrigley 2
2022-09-16 Nashville
2023-08-31 St. Paul
2023-09-02 St. Paul
2023-09-05 Chicago 1
i read this a few years back.. september 2004 according to my scribble on the title page. i loved it.. it gave me an insight into neil young(perhaps)and fodder for my writing, which is always a good thing..
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
How is it?
Or you can come to terms and realize
You're the only one who can't forgive yourself
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
Loved it.
i have read the first 6 chapters --- its really good -- gets a little slow when he goes back and talks about his early childhood but he is a good writer
I had low expectations too and the book managed to go way under those expectations.
In this gripping, brilliantly reported and sure to be newsmaking book, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Ron Suskind tells the complete story of America’s financial meltdown and an untested new president charged with commanding Washington, taming Wall Street, rescuing an economy on the verge of collapse and restoring the confidence of a shaken America. Suskind moves from the frenzied trading floors of lower Manhattan to the power corridors inside the Beltway and introduces a larger-than-life cast of politicians and advisors, titans of high finance, reformers, lobbyists and others who faced a crisis that threatened not only the United States but the entire world. Based on hundreds of hours of interviews and exhaustive research, filled with piercing insight and startling disclosures, Suskind’s eye-opening book goes beyond the headlines and previous accounts, bringing into focus the unprecedented struggle between Wall Street and Washington, between hope and fear—a struggle that continues to roil the United States of America.
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
2003 - Champaign, IL
2006 - Chicago, IL 1 & 2
2007 - Chicago, IL Lollapalooza
2009 - Chicago, IL 1 & 2
2010 - St. Louis, MO
2011 - East Troy, WI 1 & 2 (PJ20 Destination Weekend)
2012 - Atlanta, GA, Missoula, MT
2013 - Chicago, IL (Wrigley Field), Dallas, TX, Oklahoma City, OK
2014 - St. Louis, MO, Tulsa, OK, Moline, IL (No Code, IL), Saint Paul, MN, Milwaukee, WI (Yield, WI)
2016 - Greenville, SC (Vs, SC), Raleigh, NC, Columbia, SC, Boston, MA (Fenway Park 1), Chicago, IL (Wrigley Field 1 & 2)
2022 - Nashville, TN, St. Louis, MO, Oklahoma City, OK, Phoenix, AZ, Las Vegas, NV
2023 - St. Paul, MN 2, Fort Worth, TX 2, Austin, TX 1, and Austin, TX 2
2014 - Soundgarden Tinley Park, IL (with Nine Inch Nails)
2017 - Soundgarden Dallas (cancelled) RIP Chris Cornell
2023 - Jerry Cantrell Milwaukee, WI