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  • CP218430
    CP218430 Posts: 1,955
    Salman Rushdie's - Joseph Anton (Amazing)
    98: St. Louis. 2000: Alpine. 2003: Chicago. 2006: Chicago Night 2, Milwaukee Night 1. 2007: Chicago (Lolla). 2009: Chicago 1 & 2. 2011: Alpine 1 & 2. 2013: Chicago & LA Night 1. 2016: Chicago 1 & 2. 2018: Chicago 1 & 2. 

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  • Newch91
    Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    afroannnie wrote:
    Newch91 wrote:
    afroannnie wrote:
    Next up...

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    Burroughs meets Kerouac...should be interesting...
    Let me know how this one is.

    I will :) Only a few chapters in...but it's interesting because Burroughs & Kerouac write alternating chapters from two different characters' point of view..
    Already sounds good!
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,806
    Had this one in my pile for a long time and wanted to get to it before the mini-series starts. Used to be an SK freak but relaxed some on him. This started off pretty strong:

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    The love he receives is the love that is saved
  • kw18
    kw18 Posts: 3,909
    kw18 wrote:
    Tomorrow, I'm going to dip into my pile of "books I should have already read" and read this:

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    Finished this up last night. Now I'm going to continue my "books I should have already read" series with:

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    I actually read about half of this in high school; I just never got around to finishing it. Here's hoping for a better result this time!
    "Where's KW?"
    "Let's check Idaho."
  • kw18
    kw18 Posts: 3,909
    F Me In The Brain wrote:
    Had this one in my pile for a long time and wanted to get to it before the mini-series starts. Used to be an SK freak but relaxed some on him. This started off pretty strong:

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    It's a great book! Really reminds me of some of his earlier work. Hope you enjoy it!
    "Where's KW?"
    "Let's check Idaho."
  • Black Diamond
    Black Diamond Posts: 25,109
    Time and Again is one of my all time faves... AWFUL movie...
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,806
    kw18 wrote:
    F Me In The Brain wrote:
    Had this one in my pile for a long time and wanted to get to it before the mini-series starts. Used to be an SK freak but relaxed some on him. This started off pretty strong:

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    It's a great book! Really reminds me of some of his earlier work. Hope you enjoy it!

    That is very encouraging, thanks! I loved his earlier stuff. I have to give props to 11/22/63, I felt that was his best work in a while. Hopefully this will be just as good or better.
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  • 81
    81 Needing a ride to Forest Hills and a ounce of weed. Please inquire within. Thanks. Or not. Posts: 58,276
    how to distill bourbon
    81 is now off the air

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  • gunter1976
    gunter1976 Posts: 587
    Been reading the Autumn series by David Moody on and off. About halfway through the third book in a series of six, and I hope to stick with it till the end this time around.

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    "...bring it back someway bring it back, back, back... to the clean form, to the pure form..."

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  • moretonbayfig
    moretonbayfig Australia Posts: 805
    Entertain Us! The Rise and Fall of Alternative Rock in The Nineties by Craig Schuftan

    Excellent read - reliving alot, learning alot... currently immersed in 1997 'Flux and Chaos'
  • Jeff Murray
    Jeff Murray Posts: 1,259
    gunter1976 wrote:
    Been reading the Autumn series by David Moody on and off. About halfway through the third book in a series of six, and I hope to stick with it till the end this time around.

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    I still need to get the 2nd book in the Hater series... This is one book where the cover would push me towards a kindle... I might get listed on the watch list by our company security while reading that in the cafeteria! :twisted:
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  • Jeff Murray
    Jeff Murray Posts: 1,259
    Going old school with my next book... Starting Ed McBain's "Cop Hater" from the 87th Precinct series... This will be a different series for me as their are multiple main characters throughout the series and the city it is based in is completely made up by the author. Hoping I find the story as interesting as the concept.
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  • vant0037
    vant0037 Posts: 6,170
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    Fascinating so far.
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    moretonbayfig wrote:
    Entertain Us! The Rise and Fall of Alternative Rock in The Nineties by Craig Schuftan

    Excellent read - reliving alot, learning alot... currently immersed in 1997 'Flux and Chaos'


    I love shuftans books. if you havent already read them have a look at his the culture club and hey nietzsche leave those kids alone. actually I have a spare copy of nietzsche if youre interested.
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  • moretonbayfig
    moretonbayfig Australia Posts: 805
    catefrances wrote:
    moretonbayfig wrote:
    Entertain Us! The Rise and Fall of Alternative Rock in The Nineties by Craig Schuftan

    Excellent read - reliving alot, learning alot... currently immersed in 1997 'Flux and Chaos'


    I love shuftans books. if you havent already read them have a look at his the culture club and hey nietzsche leave those kids alone. actually I have a spare copy of nietzsche if youre interested.

    I'd love to read those too. I really enjoyed his writing style - academic but engaging and entertaining. He showed incredible restraint at times, but didn't shy away from the grotty depths of Durst and Woodstock '99 (WTFF?!). EV came out with clean hands and Thom Yorke came out beautifully :D . Cate, Please PM me the details of your spare copy of 'Nietzsche, Leave Those Kids Alone' - thanks!
  • Dissidentman
    Dissidentman Posts: 15,378
    Dan Millman

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  • afroannnie
    afroannnie Posts: 12,995
    Finished up...
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    Honestly the afterword was more intriguing than the actual book. It was cool that the book was written by 2 different perspectives, but it was just very "matter of factly" written....the true story that the book is based on and why it wasn't published until relatively recently is kind of crazy. I also tried to remember that the book was basically the first work for either Burroughs or Kerouac.

    not sure how much reading I'll get to do this weekend...but this is up next...

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    Show #13 was a lucky one for me....
  • kw18
    kw18 Posts: 3,909
    kw18 wrote:
    Now I'm going to continue my "books I should have already read" series with:

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    I actually read about half of this in high school; I just never got around to finishing it. Here's hoping for a better result this time!

    I haven't even cracked this book open yet. Too much crap to take care of this week. :evil:
    "Where's KW?"
    "Let's check Idaho."
  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
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    The story of how, in the darkest days of the Second World War, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt met over Christmas in Washington and launched their grand strategy to defeat the Axis powers.

    By Christmas Eve, 1941, the war could hardly have been worse for Britain or the United States. Barely three weeks earlier the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor and a week before Christmas the Italian navy penetrated Alexandria harbour in Egypt and sank the British battleships Queen Elizabeth and Valiant.

    The full story of how Churchill and Roosevelt spent three weeks charting the future strategy of the Allies has now been pieced together for the first time. One Christmas in Washington shows how two very different nations learned to work together and how two super-egos were joined by a common purpose - to win the war.
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  • guypjfreak
    guypjfreak Posts: 2,281
    im reading
    THE WORLD WITHOUT US ......its like it says its about how and wot the world will be like when we are gone and its quite mad ..
    its mad how much damage we have done to the planet and its mad that apart from a few things nature will end up rebuilding the planet ....tis a good read that makes you think :D

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