"The Picture of Dorian Gray" for my Brit Lit 2 class. I didn't finish it during the break. At least I started it.
I was disappointed with this book. I wasnt expecting a shock story cause of its time period but i was expecting a fleshed out story and so much of this story is vague to the point of not even being a story. self-censorship to a level of boredom.
The last few I've read have been:
"In the heart of the sea: The tragedy of the whaleship Essex"
"Life of Pi"
"The Big Sky"
"All Quiet on the Western Front"
"Fall of Giants"
"A thousand splendid suns"
The only people we should try to get even with...
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
"The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy for my World Lit class. During the first class on Tuesday, I didn't know if I was enrolled in a History class or an English class.
The God of Small Things is devastating and beautiful. I would love to read that book again for the first time, even though I felt completely destroyed at the end of it.
finished up Under the Dome yesterday morning... :thumbup:
I'm on a SK kick so I think I'm going to read Thinner next...
Um, Thinner isn't a Stephen King book. It's by Richard Bachman. Next thing you know, you're going to claim Eddie Vedder is the same as that Jerome Turner guy. :fp:
:P
I was on a Stephen King kick for a while, too, but I think I'm going to slow it down and try a couple classics I own but have never read. I think I want to hit up Breakfast at Tiffany's, Frenzy or Casino Royal next ...
"The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy for my World Lit class. During the first class on Tuesday, I didn't know if I was enrolled in a History class or an English class.
The God of Small Things is devastating and beautiful. I would love to read that book again for the first time, even though I felt completely destroyed at the end of it.
I have no idea what is going on in the book and it keeps putting me to sleep.
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I think I will be rereading some work by my favourite author. After Dark, by Haruki Murakami
Have you ever read 1Q84? It's on my list of books to pick up, as what I've read about it sounds interesting. But I've never read any of his other works. Thoughts?
Forgot to mention two more books I'm reading now for my third English class:
Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry and Prose and Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire by Helen Vendler. Makes me happy one of the greatest 20th century poets lived in Connecticut.
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"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
"The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy for my World Lit class. During the first class on Tuesday, I didn't know if I was enrolled in a History class or an English class.
The God of Small Things is devastating and beautiful. I would love to read that book again for the first time, even though I felt completely destroyed at the end of it.
I have no idea what is going on in the book and it keeps putting me to sleep.
It has a language all its own, but as soon as you get into the rhythm of it, it's like a language you've known your whole life. Or at least that was my experience. Give it time.
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"In the heart of the sea: The tragedy of the whaleship Essex"
Read that when it came out...I liked it very much. Bought his book The Last Stand on Custer & Sitting Bull - it is currently in the giant stack of books to read.
Starting St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell.
It's her first collection of short stories. I loved Swamplandia! and couldn't wait for her new collection of short stories to come out, so I bought this one.
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About 1/3 of the way through it and it has so much stuff I never knew about Springsteen and his early days. Just getting into when he met Jon Landau and the ideas he had for the Born to Run album. Good stuff!
About 1/3 of the way through it and it has so much stuff I never knew about Springsteen and his early days. Just getting into when he met Jon Landau and the ideas he had for the Born to Run album. Good stuff!
:thumbup: Love that book so much. Gets better and better.
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"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."
I think I will be rereading some work by my favourite author. After Dark, by Haruki Murakami
Have you ever read 1Q84? It's on my list of books to pick up, as what I've read about it sounds interesting. But I've never read any of his other works. Thoughts?
I did read 1Q84 and although there is definitely some great writing to be found, overall I do not consider this one of his best works. I found it rather far-fetched and too much "out there" at times.
If you have never read anything by Murakami, I would suggest you start out with something more subtle, a book that features some but not too much of the surreal twists and turns that generally characterize vintage Murakami.
In this regard I suggest you pick up After Dark, a short novel that I am currently rereading myself, or works such as Sputnik Sweetheart, Dance Dance Dance, or Norwegian Wood.
I trust you will not be disappointed.
"...bring it back someway bring it back, back, back... to the clean form, to the pure form..."
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'Deep in the mountainous jungle of Malaysia the aboriginal Sng'oi exist on the edge of extinction, though their way of living may ultimately be the kind of existence that will allow us all to survive. The Sng'oi - pre-industrial, pre-agricultural, semi-nomadic - live without cars or cell phones, without clocks or schedules, in a lush green place where worry and hurry, competition and suspicion are not known. Yet these indigenous people - as do many other aboriginal groups - possess an acute and uncanny sense of the energies, emotions, and intentions of their place and the living beings who populate it, and trustingly follow this intuition, using it to make decisions about their actions each day.
Psychologist Robert Wolff lived with the Sng'oi, learned their language, shared their food, slept in their huts, and came to love and admire these people who respect silence, trust time to reveal and heal, and live entirely in the present with a sense of joy. Even more, he came to recognize the depth of our alienation from these basic qualities of life. Much more than a document of a disappearing people, 'Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing' holds a mirror to our own existence, allowing us to see how far we have wandered from the ways of the intuitive and trusting Sng'oi, and challenges us, in our fragmented world, to rediscover this humanity within ourselves.'
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I was disappointed with this book. I wasnt expecting a shock story cause of its time period but i was expecting a fleshed out story and so much of this story is vague to the point of not even being a story. self-censorship to a level of boredom.
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I'm on a SK kick so I think I'm going to read Thinner next...
The last few I've read have been:
"In the heart of the sea: The tragedy of the whaleship Essex"
"Life of Pi"
"The Big Sky"
"All Quiet on the Western Front"
"Fall of Giants"
"A thousand splendid suns"
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
The God of Small Things is devastating and beautiful. I would love to read that book again for the first time, even though I felt completely destroyed at the end of it.
Um, Thinner isn't a Stephen King book. It's by Richard Bachman. Next thing you know, you're going to claim Eddie Vedder is the same as that Jerome Turner guy. :fp:
:P
I was on a Stephen King kick for a while, too, but I think I'm going to slow it down and try a couple classics I own but have never read. I think I want to hit up Breakfast at Tiffany's, Frenzy or Casino Royal next ...
"Let's check Idaho."
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
Have you ever read 1Q84? It's on my list of books to pick up, as what I've read about it sounds interesting. But I've never read any of his other works. Thoughts?
"Let's check Idaho."
Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry and Prose and Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire by Helen Vendler. Makes me happy one of the greatest 20th century poets lived in Connecticut.
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
Read that when it came out...I liked it very much. Bought his book The Last Stand on Custer & Sitting Bull - it is currently in the giant stack of books to read.
It's her first collection of short stories. I loved Swamplandia! and couldn't wait for her new collection of short stories to come out, so I bought this one.
Awesome book so far.
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2010-05-01 NOLA (Jazz Fest)
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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
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2016-08-22 Wrigley 2
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2018-08-18 Wrigley 1
2018-08-20 Wrigley 2
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2023-09-02 St. Paul
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About 1/3 of the way through it and it has so much stuff I never knew about Springsteen and his early days. Just getting into when he met Jon Landau and the ideas he had for the Born to Run album. Good stuff!
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"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
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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
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"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."
I did read 1Q84 and although there is definitely some great writing to be found, overall I do not consider this one of his best works. I found it rather far-fetched and too much "out there" at times.
If you have never read anything by Murakami, I would suggest you start out with something more subtle, a book that features some but not too much of the surreal twists and turns that generally characterize vintage Murakami.
In this regard I suggest you pick up After Dark, a short novel that I am currently rereading myself, or works such as Sputnik Sweetheart, Dance Dance Dance, or Norwegian Wood.
I trust you will not be disappointed.
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One of the random books I own I've never read.
"Let's check Idaho."
scratch and sniff?
it's sort of a how-to book
That was in the self help section?
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
'Deep in the mountainous jungle of Malaysia the aboriginal Sng'oi exist on the edge of extinction, though their way of living may ultimately be the kind of existence that will allow us all to survive. The Sng'oi - pre-industrial, pre-agricultural, semi-nomadic - live without cars or cell phones, without clocks or schedules, in a lush green place where worry and hurry, competition and suspicion are not known. Yet these indigenous people - as do many other aboriginal groups - possess an acute and uncanny sense of the energies, emotions, and intentions of their place and the living beings who populate it, and trustingly follow this intuition, using it to make decisions about their actions each day.
Psychologist Robert Wolff lived with the Sng'oi, learned their language, shared their food, slept in their huts, and came to love and admire these people who respect silence, trust time to reveal and heal, and live entirely in the present with a sense of joy. Even more, he came to recognize the depth of our alienation from these basic qualities of life. Much more than a document of a disappearing people, 'Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing' holds a mirror to our own existence, allowing us to see how far we have wandered from the ways of the intuitive and trusting Sng'oi, and challenges us, in our fragmented world, to rediscover this humanity within ourselves.'