What book are you reading?

tcadd94

F Me In The Brain said:

tcadd94 said:

Can someone recommend a book for me? I need to get back into reading. I could scroll and pick out a book...but I guess I don't feel like it. I'm a Kerouac/Beats fan for anybody willing to help.

Given your description of what you like....if you have not read Naked Lunch (Burroughs) or Post Office (Bukowski) I would suggest either of those.



If you just want to read a great book? Highly recommend all of these, see which one sounds best to you.

James Ellroy - American Tabloid

Chuck Palahniuk - Choke

Clive Barker - The Great and Secret Show

George RR Martin - A Game of Thrones

Jon Krakauer - Into Thin Air

Can't thank you enough! Appreciate it, brother!

23scidoo

tcadd94 said:

23scidoo said:

''Right as rain'' by George P. Pelecanos..old one,but always enjoy reading my brother >-

George Pelecanos is your brother?? Very cool! Tell him I forgive him for killing off Wallace and all my other favorite Wire characters...

hahaha

you know what i mean..he's greek,i'm greek..

kw18

kw18 said:

Now I'm on to this:



I have a feeling it's going to make me wish I studied math more in school ...

Just finished this up today. Really good book. As a nonfiction book written by a fiction author, it has a very nice narrative and fiction type feel, making for a good read. But, as such, I'm taking many of the more outlandish scenes depicted with a grain of salt.

Not sure what I'm going to read next ... have to check the list!

afroannnie

kw18 said:

kw18 said:

Now I'm on to this:



I have a feeling it's going to make me wish I studied math more in school ...

Just finished this up today. Really good book. As a nonfiction book written by a fiction author, it has a very nice narrative and fiction type feel, making for a good read. But, as such, I'm taking many of the more outlandish scenes depicted with a grain of salt.

Not sure what I'm going to read next ... have to check the list!

Yay! =D> At this rate, we're going to have 70% of our books read in no time...as long as someone stops ordering books... :-\"

kw18

afroannnie said:

kw18 said:

kw18 said:

Now I'm on to this:



I have a feeling it's going to make me wish I studied math more in school ...

Just finished this up today. Really good book. As a nonfiction book written by a fiction author, it has a very nice narrative and fiction type feel, making for a good read. But, as such, I'm taking many of the more outlandish scenes depicted with a grain of salt.

Not sure what I'm going to read next ... have to check the list!

Yay! =D> At this rate, we're going to have 70% of our books read in no time...as long as someone stops ordering books... :-\"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6l8MFdTaPE

afroannnie

kw18 said:

afroannnie said:

kw18 said:

kw18 said:

Now I'm on to this:



I have a feeling it's going to make me wish I studied math more in school ...

Just finished this up today. Really good book. As a nonfiction book written by a fiction author, it has a very nice narrative and fiction type feel, making for a good read. But, as such, I'm taking many of the more outlandish scenes depicted with a grain of salt.

Not sure what I'm going to read next ... have to check the list!

Yay! =D> At this rate, we're going to have 70% of our books read in no time...as long as someone stops ordering books... :-\"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6l8MFdTaPE

) ) Takes one to know one! :-B :P

vant0037

Just finished this:



Just started this:

BLACK35

War by Sebastian Junger

23scidoo

I just got ''Doctor sleep'' by Stephen King..can't wait to start

kw18

23scidoo said:

I just got ''Doctor sleep'' by Stephen King..can't wait to start

A really good book. I hope you enjoy it!

kw18

I just finished this:



Not bad. Certainly interesting. But it wasn't that great, either. King wrote the first draft before his accident, and then finished it up afterward. Some cool ideas in it, but I just felt the flow didn't work very well. Too much bouncing around between narrators.

Now I'm reading this:



I'm only about 20 pages in, but I'm already quite enjoying it.

Newch91

Breakfast of Champions is a fun read. Read it last summer and really enjoyed and loved it.

23scidoo

kw18 said:

I just finished this:



Not bad. Certainly interesting. But it wasn't that great, either. King wrote the first draft before his accident, and then finished it up afterward. Some cool ideas in it, but I just felt the flow didn't work very well. Too much bouncing around between narrators.

Now I'm reading this:



I'm only about 20 pages in, but I'm already quite enjoying it.

You are right about ''From a buick 8''..one from his worst..it was that the first e-book he made?

afroannnie

afroannnie said:

I just started Firestarter last night...my hubby got me a 1st edition copy of this book for my birthday I watched the movie years ago, but I've never read the book. So far, so good...

I finished up Firestarter last night, from what I remember it follows the movie (although I can't remember the end of the movie since it's been 25-30 years since I've seen it). Good book, with some definite page-turning moments.

I just started this last night...It's my 12th book this year

kw18

23scidoo said:

You are right about ''From a buick 8''..one from his worst..it was that the first e-book he made?

I think the first e-book he ever did was The Plant, but I could be wrong ...

guypjfreak

just finishing reading EVERYONE LOVE OUR TOWN really really good read but super sad in that alot of talented people died doing H . its got me looking at a few other bands in a different light and checking them out again only a bit more seriously this time round if youve not read it id highly recommend it .

Enkidu

Yet another blog post, but featuring two of our own so if you haven't read Jonny Bails and The Big Hoot, what are you waiting for? The third book mentioned is more of a romance, very sweet and gentle.

http://mybookclubforone.blogspot.com/2014/03/new-writers.html

F Me In The Brain

Enkidu said:

Yet another blog post, but featuring two of our own so if you haven't read Jonny Bails and The Big Hoot, what are you waiting for? The third book mentioned is more of a romance, very sweet and gentle.

http://mybookclubforone.blogspot.com/2014/03/new-writers.html

LukinFan

Enkidu said:

Yet another blog post, but featuring two of our own so if you haven't read Jonny Bails and The Big Hoot, what are you waiting for? The third book mentioned is more of a romance, very sweet and gentle.

http://mybookclubforone.blogspot.com/2014/03/new-writers.html

Thanks Ann!

Newch91

Next up for my 18th Century English Restoration class:

Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe

Who Princess

Moll Flanders. I remember writing a paper on that. )

Newch91

) That is one of our paper topics we can choose to write on. Not sure what I want to write on and it's due in a few weeks. One topic I'm leaning towards writing on is if I go back in time and meet Alexander Pope in a coffee shop and have a conversation with him. I think the catch to it is we have to direct quotes from his poetry that we covered in class for his response. We read "The Rape of the Lock," "Essay on Criticism," and "Essay on Man."

Who Princess

Newch91 said:

) That is one of our paper topics we can choose to write on. Not sure what I want to write on and it's due in a few weeks. One topic I'm leaning towards writing on is if I go back in time and meet Alexander Pope in a coffee shop and have a conversation with him. I think the catch to it is we have to direct quotes from his poetry that we covered in class for his response. We read "The Rape of the Lock," "Essay on Criticism," and "Essay on Man."

Not sure I could do that. Sounds like work. :P

F Me In The Brain

Your Pope Conversation sounds way better than a paper on Moll Flanders. I thought that book was bo-ring!

Newch91

F Me In The Brain said:

Your Pope Conversation sounds way better than a paper on Moll Flanders. I thought that book was bo-ring!

It's off to a slow start 20 pages in. It would help a lot of he used quotation marks.

kw18

kw18 said:

I'm only about 20 pages in, but I'm already quite enjoying it.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It was the first Vonnegut book I've read all the way through, and I look forward to reading more by him.

Now I'm reading this:



I'm about 50 pages in, but only about 10 pages into the actual story. The first quarter of the book is an editor's note going over background, themes, historical context, etc. I'm looking forward to getting to the meat of the story.

Wobbie

this guy can really tell a tale:

SD48277

I'm going back and forth between two : Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark, by Jane Fletcher Geniesse, and S., by J.J. Abrams.

he.who.forgets

imalive said:

this guy can really tell a tale:

I've only ever read the Kite Runner, but LOVED it

cornnifer

imalive said:

this guy can really tell a tale:

Just finished this one..., "...Mountains..." that is. Meh. i really like Hosseini's prose, but i didn't get very much from this particular story. To me it seemed more like a collection of short stories. I had a lot of unanswered questions about some of the characters and i was generally unmoved.