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  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    Cliffy6745 wrote:
    Who Princess wrote:
    Cliffy6745 wrote:
    Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields

    Only 50 or so pages in but it's insane.
    That sounds like it could be a good read. Living in Texas, the border violence of the last few years has been mind blowing. I honestly don't know how people in the border towns can have anything close to a normal life anymore.

    It's very good. It takes a little while to get adapted to his style of writing but once you get going it's great. Doesn't really sound like there is much of a normal life their anymore. Terribly sad. Does not portray the drug war the way our government and media do though.
    That's why I'd like to learn more about what's really going on. I'm hundreds of miles from the border in North Texas but what goes on there has an effect on the whole state, including the politics. I've thought for a long time that we don't really get an accurate picture here. We're also removed enough from it that we can just say "Wow, that's bad" and never think about if there's anything that can be done to change it.
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  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,024
    Who Princess wrote:
    That's why I'd like to learn more about what's really going on. I'm hundreds of miles from the border in North Texas but what goes on there has an effect on the whole state, including the politics. I've thought for a long time that we don't really get an accurate picture here. We're also removed enough from it that we can just say "Wow, that's bad" and never think about if there's anything that can be done to change it.

    Yeah, I would certainly imagine it has a huge impact on the entire state. So far it has only touched on the politics of the war but it makes it pretty clear in reality it is not the US/Mexican govenement against the cartel and that the Mexican government and army are clearly in bed with the cartels. I'll let you know what I think as I get further, would be happy to send the book your way when I'm done. Like I said, he has a very interesting style to his writing that you have to get in the flow of at first but it seems like a good book so far.
  • Nastasja
    Nastasja Posts: 9,668
    Orhan Pamuk - SNOW
    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
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,369
    Nastasja wrote:
    Orhan Pamuk - SNOW
    It is amazing how breathtaking are the words Pamuk uses to describe the season, the moment, the beyond human.
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  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,369
    Gumbo Tales, Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table by Sara Roahen
    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
  • JK_Livin
    JK_Livin South Jersey Posts: 7,365
    I saw this book at Barnes and Noble the other night for my kid's fundraising night. Looks like a fantastic read.

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    Here is the book narrated by Samuel Jackson

    http://www.amazon.com/Go-F-Sleep-Adam-M ... 1617750255
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  • Jeff Murray
    Jeff Murray Posts: 1,259
    The Lincoln Lawyer - Michael Connelly
    If there were no Angels would there be no sin?
  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,179
    I should re-read Bag Of Bones soon. I bought it when it forst came out and read, thought it was ok I think (I honestly don't rememebr too much about it though :? ) Now I heard they are gonna make a movie or tv mini series movie about it or something?

    I also probably should get/read Girl With The Dragon Tattoo before the movie come out.
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  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    eeriepadave wrote:
    I should re-read Bag Of Bones soon. I bought it when it forst came out and read, thought it was ok I think (I honestly don't rememebr too much about it though :? ) Now I heard they are gonna make a movie or tv mini series movie about it or something?

    I also probably should get/read Girl With The Dragon Tattoo before the movie come out.

    Yeah the mini-series is on this Sunday and Monday for Bag of Bones. I was like you, not a huge fan of it when I read it when it came out, but still plan on checking out the series.
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    ive decided itd be a good idea to finish those books i started and for some reason(probably distraction) put aside. then i can move on back to my unreads.


    blackwood farm - anne rice.
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,807
    Just started reading this, slow & hoping it will pick up before I put it down!

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  • Fighting Hellfish
    Fighting Hellfish Posts: 3,175
    finishing up a bio on Don Mattingly and getting started on Where men Win Glory, which was written by Jon Krakauer who also wrote into the wild, and is about Pat Tillman
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    I started "The Tenderness of Wolves" by Stef Penney. It's fantastic so far!
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,807
    Fighting Hellfish wrote:
    finishing up a bio on Don Mattingly and getting started on Where men Win Glory, which was written by Jon Krakauer who also wrote into the wild, and is about Pat Tillman

    If you havent read 'Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith' by Krakauer you should check that out too. It is a fascinating portrait of the Morman history and it does a good job of showing yet another seriously fucked attempt at mind control by a religious group.
    Also, Into Thin Air is, IMHO, his best book. Love it!
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    F Me In The Brain wrote:
    Fighting Hellfish wrote:
    finishing up a bio on Don Mattingly and getting started on Where men Win Glory, which was written by Jon Krakauer who also wrote into the wild, and is about Pat Tillman

    If you havent read 'Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith' by Krakauer you should check that out too. It is a fascinating portrait of the Morman history and it does a good job of showing yet another seriously fucked attempt at mind control by a religious group.
    Also, Into Thin Air is, IMHO, his best book. Love it!


    this book made me cry. but i loved it also.
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    I have Krakauer's Mormon book, In thin Air, the Tillman book, and Into the Wild. I've only read Into the Wild. I enjoyed it a lot, just haven't gotten around to the other ones yet.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • AELARA
    AELARA Posts: 803
    Geert Mak - De Burg
    I am mine!
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    a view of toher windows - neal casal.

    not actually reading this book cause its a book of photographs neal took on the road with the cardinals... so im just looking at all the pretty pictures. some ive seen before, most i havent... turns out neal took my fave pic of ryan adams. :thumbup:
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • guitar59
    guitar59 Posts: 1,221
    intodeep wrote:


    I'm going to start Ender's Game on my kindle fire when i get it in a couple weeks :twisted:
    Just finished Ender's Game. I read it for work, and was surprised by how much I enjoyed it.
  • intodeep
    intodeep Posts: 7,249
    guitar59 wrote:
    intodeep wrote:


    I'm going to start Ender's Game on my kindle fire when i get it in a couple weeks :twisted:
    Just finished Ender's Game. I read it for work, and was surprised by how much I enjoyed it.
    I liked it a lot too!
    I thought it worked really well as an enjoyable read, but he obviously had a message he was getting across too. Well written and it kept me excited to keep reading.
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