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  • uninnocent-
    uninnocent- Posts: 5,959
    just finished jim harrison's a good day to die. next in my queue is phillip k dick's do androids dream of electric sheep? i've been wanting to read it for quite some time.
  • Nastasja
    Nastasja Posts: 9,668
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being

    Milan Kundera
    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 Twilight
    Digital Twilight Posts: 5,642
    Nastasja wrote:
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being

    Milan Kundera

    Read about half of that one and then for some reason left it and moved on...

    Reading 'No Destination' by Satish Kumar (autobiography)

    At the age of nine, Satish Kumar renounced the world and became a wandering Jain monk. Leaving the monkhood when 18, he joined Vinoba Bhave's campaign for land reform, working to turn Gandhi's vision of a renewed India and a peaceful world into reality. He undertook an 8000-mile peace pilgrimage, walking from India to America without any money, through deserts, mountains, storms and snow. Since 1973 he has lived in Britain, taking on the editorship of "Resurgence" magazine, and becoming the guiding light behind a number of ecological, spiritual and educational ventures. Written with simplicity, this is an account of an extraordinary life.
  • Nastasja
    Nastasja Posts: 9,668
    Digital Twilight wrote:
    Nastasja wrote:
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being

    Milan Kundera

    Read about half of that one and then for some reason left it and moved on...

    Reading 'No Destination' by Satish Kumar (autobiography)

    At the age of nine, Satish Kumar renounced the world and became a wandering Jain monk. Leaving the monkhood when 18, he joined Vinoba Bhave's campaign for land reform, working to turn Gandhi's vision of a renewed India and a peaceful world into reality. He undertook an 8000-mile peace pilgrimage, walking from India to America without any money, through deserts, mountains, storms and snow. Since 1973 he has lived in Britain, taking on the editorship of "Resurgence" magazine, and becoming the guiding light behind a number of ecological, spiritual and educational ventures. Written with simplicity, this is an account of an extraordinary life.

    and I'm reading it the third time....
    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
  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    When You Are Engulfed In Flames - David Sedaris
    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
  • OceanInDisguise13
    OceanInDisguise13 Posts: 937
    Just about to start Warrior of the Light by Paulo Coelho after finishing The Alchemist.
    I wish I was an alien at home behind the sun.....
    I wanna race..with the sundown..I want a last breath..I don't let out...
  • Sawyer
    Sawyer Posts: 2,411
    Assholes Finish First-Tucker Max
  • Hartydog
    Hartydog Posts: 2,060
    Blood Artists - Chuck Hogan
    Boston 9-28-04, 5-24-06, 5-25-06, 5-17-10, 8-5-16, 8-7-16, 9-2-18, 9-4-18
    Ft Worth 9-15-23
    Hartford 5-13-06, 6-27-08, 10-25-13
    Mansfield, MA 6-30-08, 6-28-08, 7-2-03, 7-3-03, 7-11-03, 8-29-00, 8-30-00, 9-15-98, 9-16-98
    Worcester 10-15-13, 10-16-13
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Hartydog wrote:
    Blood Artists - Chuck Hogan

    ooh whats this one about???
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • One Song Glory
    One Song Glory Posts: 710
    I just finished "Dracula" and quite liked it. I'm a fan of Gothic lit, but with all the vampire craziness lately, I thought I might find it a bit overdone...even if it is the original. But I was pleasantly surprised!
    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
  • merkinball
    merkinball Posts: 2,262
    Just got caught up on the Walking Dead comic books, which were very good. Normally I'm not one for Zombies either. Also reading Anthony Bourdain ~ Kitchen Confidential.

    Next up, Cory Doctorow ~ For the Win
    "You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

    http://www.last.fm/user/merkinball/
    spotify:user:merkinball
  • Horos
    Horos Posts: 4,518
    Led Zepplin (When Giants Walked the Earth) - Mick Wall
    #FHP
  • intodeep
    intodeep Posts: 7,249
    merkinball wrote:
    Just got caught up on the Walking Dead comic books, which were very good. Normally I'm not one for Zombies either. Also reading Anthony Bourdain ~ Kitchen Confidential.

    Next up, Cory Doctorow ~ For the Win
    I'm really excited for the Walking Dead AMC show at the end of the month! My buddy has been reading it and loves them.
    I like Anthony Bourdain's show never read his books.

    I'm about 520 pages into George RR Martin's "AGame of Thrones"
    It is getting pretty good.
    Charlotte 00 | Charlotte 03 | Asheville 04 | Atlanta 12 | Greenville 16 | Columbia 16 |Seattle 18  | Nashville 22 | Ohana Festival 24 x2 | Atlanta 25 x2
  • PJaddicted
    PJaddicted Posts: 1,432
    Control Unleashed Leslie McDevitt

    It's a dog training book. :D
    ~*LIVE~LOVE~LAUGH*~

    *May the Peace of the Wilderness be with YOU*

    He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.
    — Unknown
  • Nastasja
    Nastasja Posts: 9,668
    The Physics of Immortality - Frank Tippler
    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
  • AELARA
    AELARA Posts: 803
    Istanbul - Orhan Pamuk
    I am mine!
  • loadedgun
    loadedgun Indiana Posts: 1,398
    Into Thin Air-Jon Krakauer
    Midwest. Indy/Lafayette.
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    loadedgun wrote:
    Into Thin Air-Jon Krakauer

    oh my what a heart stopper this book was for me.


    high fidelity - nick hornby
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • theoceansmademe
    theoceansmademe Posts: 1,132
    loadedgun wrote:
    Into Thin Air-Jon Krakauer

    Awesome book. Read that in 4 days.

    I have two going

    The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean by Susan Casey

    Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History by Selby and Campbell
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    edited October 2010
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    'One day in August 1880, a shabbily dessed young Frenchman disembarks at Steamer Point, in the Arabian port of Aden. He carries a brown leather suitcase; he has a touch of fever.'

    At the age of twenty-five, Arthur Rimbaud - the infamous author of 'A Season In Hell', the pioneer of modernism, the lover and destroyer of Verlaine, the "hoodlum poet" celebrated a century later by Bob Dylan and Jim Morrison - turned his back on poetry, France, and fame, for a life of wandering in East Africa. Following his fascinating journey, Charles Nicholl shows how Rimbaud lived out that mysterious pronouncement of his teenage years: "Je est un autre" - I is somebody else.'
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