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  • Indifference71
    Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,906
    oona left wrote:
    Who Princess wrote:
    Don't know if it was me but I thought Columbine was excellent. Well written and thought-provoking. There are so many false assumptions about what happened and why, and he does a thorough job of debunking them.

    Agreed. I can count myself among those who were mistaken on a lot of things, especially motive.

    I did not find the accounts of the attack to be overly gruesome in any way, but the scope of the assault and the length of the planning are both chilling.

    If it was you, thanks for the recommendation. I don't know how long it will take me to shake the feeling the book has left me with, but I'm glad I read it.


    It may have been me who mentioned the Columbine book a couple months ago.

    I'm right there with you with having been mistaken on so many things about that tragedy. As I was reading the descriptions of the actual attack, I was on the edge of my seat like it was fiction. Pretty sad that that actually happened. But overall, great book and very eye-opening.
  • Indifference71
    Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,906
    Reading "No Easy Day" right now....

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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    virginia woolf: an inner life - julia briggs
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • peacefrompaul
    peacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    A sociology text
  • Sprunkn7
    Sprunkn7 Posts: 5,286
    I Can Pee On This...and other Poems by Cats

    Hilarious and cute at the same time.
    Thank you fellow 10 clubber for saving my ass....again!!!
  • afroannnie
    afroannnie Posts: 12,995
    How to Survive a Robot Uprising
    Show #13 was a lucky one for me....
  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    Still slogging my way through Pete Townshend's Who I Am. I just don't like reading memoirs! Started listening to the audiobook on my commute to and from work and I'm enjoying it much more that way. He reads it himself and it's often very funny as he laughs at different events and imitates other people's voices as he quotes them. I've never listened to an audiobook before but this is kind of fun.
    "The stars are all connected to the brain."
  • Nastasja
    Nastasja Posts: 9,668
    The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Moshin Hamid
    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
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Who Princess wrote:
    Still slogging my way through Pete Townshend's Who I Am. I just don't like reading memoirs! Started listening to the audiobook on my commute to and from work and I'm enjoying it much more that way. He reads it himself and it's often very funny as he laughs at different events and imitates other people's voices as he quotes them. I've never listened to an audiobook before but this is kind of fun.


    why would you start a memoir if you dont like reading memoirs??? i get its pete townsend but why think itll be any different than reading any other memoir. i have read a bio on pete townsend and im not even a fan of the who(please be kind to me ;) ). but then again i am a fan of biographies. i can imagine him being very entertaining reading his memoir.
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    catefrances wrote:
    Who Princess wrote:
    Still slogging my way through Pete Townshend's Who I Am. I just don't like reading memoirs! Started listening to the audiobook on my commute to and from work and I'm enjoying it much more that way. He reads it himself and it's often very funny as he laughs at different events and imitates other people's voices as he quotes them. I've never listened to an audiobook before but this is kind of fun.


    why would you start a memoir if you dont like reading memoirs??? i get its pete townsend but why think itll be any different than reading any other memoir. i have read a bio on pete townsend and im not even a fan of the who(please be kind to me ;) ). but then again i am a fan of biographies. i can imagine him being very entertaining reading his memoir.
    Well, my decision to read it was a little more than just being a Who fan. Pete worked on this book for many years. He was one of the first artists to have his own web site, petetownshend.com, which unfortunately no longer exists. He had a blog there that was often very good reading. He also posted passages from his work-in-progress autobiography and I was impressed with the writing. (I also liked the title he was planning to give it--Pete Townshend: Who He? I'm guessing the lame title it ended up with was an editorial decision.)

    Many memoirs are badly written, so even if the person has had an unusual or eventful life, I can't get past the writing. While that isn't the case with this one, it still follows the humdrum format of "I did this, and then I did this, and then I went there, and then I did that." I tend to think most memoirs are self-serving. There's some of that in Pete's but he is also a pretty harsh critic of himself, with plenty of detail about his failings and the people he's wronged.

    But listening to him read the book is very entertaining. He's a good storyteller. Listening to it seems to make it a very different book.
    "The stars are all connected to the brain."
  • Nastasja
    Nastasja Posts: 9,668
    The Island of the Day Before - Umberto Eco
    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
  • afroannnie
    afroannnie Posts: 12,995
    The Walking Dead-Compendium One
    Show #13 was a lucky one for me....
  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    The Great Northern Railway: A History by R. Hidy, M. Hidy, R. Scott and D. Hofsommer.
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • oona left
    oona left Posts: 1,677
    "Just After Sunset" by Stephen King.
  • Owl
    Owl Posts: 1,062
    The King's biography and it's really good!

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  • kw18
    kw18 Posts: 3,909
    I just finished the Talisman, and now I'm starting Black House.
    "Where's KW?"
    "Let's check Idaho."
  • Enkidu
    Enkidu So Cal Posts: 2,996
    Owl wrote:
    The King's biography and it's really good!

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    This is the second one? Oh man, these two Elvis books are THE best. If you haven't read them, get them. I wasn't ever a big Elvis fan and then I read these books and understood why he's - duh - the King.
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,230
    This months Men's Health on work outs for the abdominals.

    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
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    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
  • 81
    81 Needing a ride to Forest Hills and a ounce of weed. Please inquire within. Thanks. Or not. Posts: 58,276
    none of the above
    81 is now off the air

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