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  • jimbojones1138
    jimbojones1138 Posts: 3,640
    right now "the return of the shadow" vol VI of XII of the History Of Middle Earth...JRR TOLKIEN!!!
    it's largely due to eddie that i liked to jump off of things as a child...
  • Enkidu
    Enkidu So Cal Posts: 2,996
    I read maybe one of the worst books ever. It isn't written as much as it's dictated and somebody wrote down words. Entertainingly awful. Teed Off by Sherrie Daly, John Daly (the golfer)'s 4th wife. Yes, 4th. On page 2 she complains about golfer groupies, women who look/dress like strippers. On the cover of the book - guess what, she looks like a stripper.

    However, it's so terrible it's kind of fun. In a nasty white trash kind of way. If anyone would like it, PM me and I'll send it to you. The only catch, you have to promise not to throw it away but pass it along to someone else.

    I'm serious, PM me. And it's yours.
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell on my brand new Nook I just got for my birthday!
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    True Spirit: The True Story of a 16-Year-Old Australian Who Sailed Solo, Nonstop, and Unassisted Around the World
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,369
    Rereading In the Fall by Jeffrey Lent. I first read it in 2000 or so. I planned to reread it, but I was waiting for the perfect time. It's the type of book to read patiently as it's very well written and worth the undivided attention of a reader.
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    the largest dictionary in the world
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."

    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • Newch91
    Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    I never started Jason Leung's book, "This All Encompassing Trip". I am reading the Connecticut Driver's Manual right now.
    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
  • covered in bliss
    covered in bliss chi-caw-go Posts: 1,332
    samjam wrote:
    I plan to start Water for Elephants today as I hear so many great things about it.

    It really is a great book.

    Emily Giffin has a real gift if you're in the mood for some light, poolside reading. Nothing deep but good subjects and she uses some big words so it's not totally mind-numbing crap!
  • I am reading A Thousand Splendid Suns for the third time. I love that book.
    Emily
  • nsepstru
    nsepstru Posts: 187
    Just finished "Rain Gods" by James Lee Burke.

    Now reading The Short Novels of John Steinbeck which includes: "Tortilla Flat", "The Moon Is Down", "The Red Pony", "Of Mice and Men", "Cannery Row", and "The Pearl"
    I'm not human...I'm Danish!
  • intodeep
    intodeep Posts: 7,249
    I have been waiting a while to say this......

    I am reading A Dance With Dragons by GRRM :):D:):D

    that felt good.
    Charlotte 00 | Charlotte 03 | Asheville 04 | Atlanta 12 | Greenville 16 | Columbia 16 |Seattle 18  | Nashville 22 | Ohana Festival 24 x2 | Atlanta 25 x2
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    The first post I ever posted on this message board is on page 6 of this thread. How time flies!
  • ComeToTX
    ComeToTX Austin Posts: 8,057
    just finished the ESPN book and started "The Love You Make" about the beatles. enter night about metallica is next.
    This show, another show, a show here and a show there.
  • stargirl69
    stargirl69 Posts: 6,387
    I have just started Keith Richards biography Life ... not the best music bio I've read but it's ok for the early days into the story of him and The Rolling Stones.
    “There should be a place where only the things you want to happen, happen”
  • LukinFan
    LukinFan Florida Posts: 29,119
    Everlost

    http://www.amazon.com/Everlost/dp/1416921885

    Actually a really good book
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  • afroannnie
    afroannnie Posts: 12,995
    Just finished "Under the Banner of Heaven"...

    Just started "The Girl Who Played With Fire"
    Show #13 was a lucky one for me....
  • Lizardjam
    Lizardjam Posts: 1,121
    intodeep wrote:
    I have been waiting a while to say this......

    I am reading A Dance With Dragons by GRRM :):D:):D

    that felt good.


    Me Too!
    bugs in the way...I feel about you

    "New music, new friends. Pearl Jam."

    I like our socks. I hear we make a fine sock. I always say, You might not love our records, but I think you'll like our socks. - Stone

    "This record is us speaking out in class." -EV on PJ
  • teegan31
    teegan31 Southwestern ON Posts: 126
    JaneNY wrote:
    (re)Reading The Vampire Lestat (Anne Rice)

    I've read Scar Tissue myself - entertaining read to say the least.


    I've read both of those and have to say I love Scar Tissue, reading music (auto)biographies are my favorite and that one is top 5! Right now I'm reading Steven Tylers book and so far so good!
  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    The Big Short: Inside The Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
    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