What book are you reading?

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  • electronblue
    electronblue Posts: 3,502
    just finished reading patti smith's "just kids"
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    "Forgive every being,
    the bad feelings 
    it's just me"


  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    just finished reading patti smith's "just kids"
    What'd ya think? I loved that book.
  • EmBleve
    EmBleve Posts: 3,019
    aNiMaL wrote:
    EmBleve wrote:
    Scar Tissue Anthony Kiedis
    Excellent read, I thought. I felt like i was high when he was high in the book, and low when he was low.
    I agree, it was excellent. It was much better than I thought it would be. Quite entertaining.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    Marc Spitz Nobody Likes You, Inside the turbulent Life and Times of Green Day. An interesting, mostly well read story about the band from my first home town... I spent the first year of my life on Gilman street- of course I like these guys!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • dcfaithful
    dcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    just picked up The Road by Cormack McCarthy from my local library... we'll see how it goes.
    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!!!)
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  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    PJ212 wrote:
    Bossypants - Tina Fey... pretty funny

    I read that. Laugh out loud funny!
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    guitar59 wrote:
    Water for Elephants


    That's the only one of hers that's really good. Her latest, Ape House, is dreadful which is too bad b/c bonobo's are cool but the book is awful. I can't wait to see the movie of Water for Elephants.

    This is good to know. I enjoyed Water for Elephants and since Ape House is now an affordable paperback I thought I would read it...maybe not...

    I just finished The Hunger Games Trilogy and just started To Kill a Mockingbird. I decided that I would read some classics this year, interspersed with the trade fiction.

    I finished "Mockingbird" a few months ago. Really enjoyed it. Didn't remember much of it from high school. :D

    Currently halfway through "A Clash of Kings". Second book in the "Game of Thrones" series.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • PilateOfTheStorm
    PilateOfTheStorm Posts: 4,319
    eddie vedder & pearl jam : none too fragile by martin clarke

    and also unless by carol shields (because i'm lazy & easily distracted)
  • BLACK35
    BLACK35 Hanover, Ontario Posts: 22,967
    Brotherhood of Warriors by Aaron Cohen

    Good read, about some kid of Israel heritage (US citizen) who went to Israel to join the special forces. He makes it to the most prestigious parts of their counter terrorism units. Crazy stuff
    2005 - London
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    2010 - Buffalo
    2011 - Toronto 1&2
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    2014 - Cincinnati, St. Louis, Detroit
    2016 - Ft. Lauderdale, Miami, Ottawa, Toronto 1
    2018 - Fenway 1&2
    2022 - Hamilton, Toronto
    2023 - Chicago 1&2
    2024 - Las Vegas 1&2
  • Nastasja
    Nastasja Posts: 9,668
    The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls
    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
    dcfaithful wrote:
    just picked up The Road by Cormack McCarthy from my local library... we'll see how it goes.

    I love that book.

    I'm currently reading:

    Capitalism as if the world matters - Jonathon Porritt

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Capitalism-as-I ... =8-1-fkmr1

    Great book so far. Worth reading if anyone is interested in the environment and the world's future sustainability.
  • xavier mcdaniel
    xavier mcdaniel Somewhere in NYC Posts: 9,434
    Uppity - the new biography of Bill White, former Cardinal, former NL president and ex-broadcast partner of Phil Rizzuto.
    Reading 2004
    Albany 2006 Camden 2006 E. Rutherford 2, 2006 Inglewood 2006,
    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
    Wrigley Field 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Philadelphia 2, 2013
    Philadelphia 1, 2016 Philadelphia 2 2016 New York 2016 New York 2016 Fenway 1, 2016
    Fenway 2, 2018
    MSG 2022
    St. Paul, 1, St. Paul 2 2023
    MSG 2024, MSG 2024
    Philadelphia 2024
    "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."
  • Nastasja
    Nastasja Posts: 9,668
    Traversuras de la nina mala - Mario Vargas Llosa
    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
    Where Men Win Glory - Jon Krakauer
    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
  • uninnocent-
    uninnocent- Posts: 5,959
    various authors - darwin's bastards

    it's a collection of canadian post-apocalyptic short stories by many canadian fiction writers. sadly a few of the stories i've read so far are shite, though there have been a couple shining moments. i'm hoping it'll get better as i progress through it.
  • cbrunelle783
    cbrunelle783 Posts: 1,025
    The Reading Promise- Alice Ozma About this girl who's father read to her every night from the time she was 9 until she left for college. Sounds a little overbearing?? it's not it's really great.
    Boston 5/17/10
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    PJ20 9/3/11-9/4/11

    Concert Wishlist: I am Mine, Marker in the Sand, Parachutes, In Hiding, All Those Yesterdays, I Got Shit, Long Road, Light Years
  • Newch91
    Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    "56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports" - Kostya Kennedy
    Shows: 6.27.08 Hartford, CT/5.15.10 Hartford, CT/6.18.2011 Hartford, CT (EV Solo)/10.19.13 Brooklyn/10.25.13 Hartford
    "Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
  • xavier mcdaniel
    xavier mcdaniel Somewhere in NYC Posts: 9,434
    I'm 150 pages into the Stan Musial book by George Vescey.
    Reading 2004
    Albany 2006 Camden 2006 E. Rutherford 2, 2006 Inglewood 2006,
    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
    Wrigley Field 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Philadelphia 2, 2013
    Philadelphia 1, 2016 Philadelphia 2 2016 New York 2016 New York 2016 Fenway 1, 2016
    Fenway 2, 2018
    MSG 2022
    St. Paul, 1, St. Paul 2 2023
    MSG 2024, MSG 2024
    Philadelphia 2024
    "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."
  • jervin007
    jervin007 Posts: 3,182
    A Feast For Crows by George R.R. Martin. Book four of the Game of Thrones series.

    Once I finish it I am finally going to tackle The Dark Tower series. I have read the first three books, but never can find time to finish it due to school.
    PJ:
    2003 Mansfield: July 2
    2004 Boston: Sept 28 & 29
    2005 Montreal: Sept 15
    2006 Boston: May 24 & 25
    2008 Hartford: June 27, Mansfield: June 28,
    2010 Boston: May 17
    2013 Worcester: Oct 15, Hartford: Oct 25,
    2016 Hampton: April 18, Raleigh: April 20 (cancelled), Columbia: April 21. Quebec: May 5. Boston (Fenway): August 7

    EV Solo: Boston 8/2/08, Boston 6/16/11
  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    Kristin Lavransdattar by Sigrid Unset
    Rereading it for the umpteenth time (if you're counting the previous version), 2nd time for the Tiina Nunnely translation. Incredibly rich story.
    "The stars are all connected to the brain."