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  • intodeep
    intodeep Posts: 7,249
    I am hoping to begin Jim collin's book Good to Great soon.

    I've heard it is good... or perhaps in this instance i should say great :)
    Charlotte 00 | Charlotte 03 | Asheville 04 | Atlanta 12 | Greenville 16 | Columbia 16 |Seattle 18  | Nashville 22 | Ohana Festival 24 x2 | Atlanta 25 x2
  • esther1977
    esther1977 Posts: 540
    Les Miserable - Victor Hugo Think i read it like 5 times before, but still loving it.
    When all your dreams turn to dust, vacuum
    When all else fails, read the instruction
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    aNiMaL wrote:
    Bump. ;)

    Thanks animal. I did a couple of searches for this thread and nothing came up.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • Uncle Leo
    Uncle Leo Posts: 1,059
    Actually, I just ran across 5 Against 1 so I just read that. Then I am moving on to "Right as Rain." I don't know much about it. My dad liked it and gave me his copy.
    I cannot come up with a new sig till I get this egg off my face.
  • kidatplay
    kidatplay Posts: 14
    I was reading Howard Zinn's "A Power Governments Cannot Suppress" - but then found Derrick Jensen's "Endgame, Vol. 1" This is from http://www.powells.com:

    Synopses & Reviews
    Publisher Comments:
    The long-awaited companion piece to Derrick Jensen's immensely popular and highly acclaimed works A Language Older Than Words and The Culture of Make Believe. Accepting the increasingly widespread belief that industrialized culture inevitably erodes the natural world, Endgame sets out to explore how this relationship impels us towards a revolutionary and as-yet undiscovered shift in strategy. Building on a series of simple but increasingly provocative premises, Jensen leaves us hoping for what may be inevitable: a return to agrarian communal life via the disintegration of civilization itself.
    give this a look: www.borgenproject.org
  • Tom K
    Tom K Posts: 842
    Black Sunday - Thomas Harris
    I'm gone ..Long gone..This time I'm letting go of it all...So long...Cause this time I'm gone
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Big Sur by Jack Kerouac

    and also A portrait of the artist as a young man by James Joyce for school
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • chris05
    chris05 Posts: 347
    Just finished " Tishimingo Blues " by Elmore Leonard. Really good book.
    Who cares if the world is going down the toilet? Eddie Vedder got his mojo back!
  • wavescamecrashing
    wavescamecrashing Posts: 440
    jsut finished the bedroom secrets of the master chefs, by Irvine Welsh

    very good, i was late for work coz I had to finish it. you know when you get to the last 20 pages and you physically cant put the book down?

    i recommend this one, I havent enjoyed all of his books as much, its one of the better ones,,,
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Hokkaido Highway Blies - 'Hitchhiking Japan' by Will Ferguson

    I'm off to live and work in South Korea for a couple of years in March and so am reading all things far Eastern at the moment.
  • intodeep
    intodeep Posts: 7,249
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    Big Sur by Jack Kerouac

    and also A portrait of the artist as a young man by James Joyce for school

    I got on a kick when i was younger and i read a lot of Kerouac books. Big Sir was the next on my list but i never made it to it :(

    hope it is good for you

    I always loved dharma bums a lot.
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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    Big Sur by Jack Kerouac

    and also A portrait of the artist as a young man by James Joyce for school

    Big Sur's a good un. Probably the best after On the Road and the Dharma Bums.
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    an unquiet mind - kay redfield jamison
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • Todd76
    Todd76 Posts: 1,469
    Byrnzie wrote:
    Big Sur's a good un. Probably the best after On the Road and the Dharma Bums.

    I actually preferred "Big Sur" to "On The Road" and "Dharma Bums"....although they are all great - ENJOY
    In my world everyone is a pony,
    and they all eat rainbows and pooh butterflies!
  • Dustin51
    Dustin51 Posts: 222
    Just started the second book in the Dark Tower series by Stephen King...I know...I know...I'm a little behind the times but I always wanted to check those out and im finally doing it.
    Be excellent to each other
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    intodeep wrote:
    I got on a kick when i was younger and i read a lot of Kerouac books. Big Sir was the next on my list but i never made it to it :(
    you should do. it gives you a real sense of what Kerouac was like as a person, since it's pretty much all about self-discovery. He makes a lot of interesting points like the fact that kids everywhere in college thought that Jack Kerouac was some 26 year old zipping all over America having fun and by the time of writing Big Sur, he was a 39 year old alcoholic suffering from depression and bouts of delirium tremens. He seemed to have no illusions about his persona that was created by On the road.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    Right now:

    The Descent by Jeff Long
    Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
    Travels by Michael Crichton

    Just finished:

    The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman
    1 Dead in Attic by Chris Rose
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • genie
    genie Posts: 2,222
    i have abstained myself from posting any comments in this thread up until now.....

    i'm reading some accountancy shit, in particular it is:

    Business Taxation for the year 06/07 Aubrey Penning & Bob Thomas
    and Managing Performance & Resources Janet Brammer.....

    so people i hope when you read those titles, you got bored, as i get bored each day!
  • parel jam
    parel jam Posts: 7,223
    Last part of Harry Potter 6.

    Next week Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5.
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  • pj10alive42
    pj10alive42 Posts: 381
    Commodify Your Dissent - Thomas Frank
    I'm trying to drink away the part of the day I cannot sleep away...

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