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  • ReleasH
    ReleasH Posts: 743
    Don't really have time for reading outside of stuff for class, but I just finished House of God, which was great.
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    daystar143 wrote:
    I liked Wicked and Son of a Witch, but then again, I've been told my tastes in literature are unusual.

    Right now, I'm reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman and I love it. Fortunately, other, more normal people like it, too, so I can recommend it without (much) worry.

    i heard of it for the very first time today and it sounds VERY interesting.
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    catefrances wrote:
    crime and punishment.....still :(

    my ONLY goal this summer is to finally finish brothers karamazov...
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    Rygar wrote:
    Lazy butt.
    I'm reading Star Wars: The Last Command. I even make the lightsaber noises.

    that book is awesome. it started a very long adolescent star wars obsession for me.
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    soulsinging wrote:
    my ONLY goal this summer is to finally finish brothers karamazov...

    my ONLY goal is to never read dostoyevsky again. :D
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  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    soulsinging wrote:
    my ONLY goal this summer is to finally finish brothers karamazov...
    I'm afraid to read this book. I've started it three times and was actually enjoying it, and all three times there was some sort of cataclysm in my life that made me set it aside, and I wouldn't pick it up again for so long that I had to start over. So now I'm superstitious about reading it.

    I had a similar experience with "One Hundred Years of Solitude," which I eventually DID finish, but given my current health situation I'm really leery of courting disaster, so I may never read this one.
    "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
  • Brainofdz
    Brainofdz Posts: 1,617
    I just finished "Moneyball" by Michael Lewis

    and started "Aphex Hides The Hurt" by Colson Whitehead
    "Stunned by my own reflection, It's looking back, sees me too clearly and I swore I'd never go there again, Not unlike a friend that politely drags you down,down,down"

    When you see me on the street, yell out "FAVO!!!"

    I've been to alot of Pearl Jam shows;So fucking what.
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    soulsinging wrote:
    my ONLY goal this summer is to finally finish brothers karamazov...

    You won't regret it.
  • SoLATisA
    SoLATisA Posts: 215
    i've been on such a Nelson DeMille kick lately....

    after reading all the John Corey books backwards, I have finally begun "Plum Island".... I do not think anything will top the "Lion's Game"
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    hippiemom wrote:
    I'm afraid to read this book. I've started it three times and was actually enjoying it, and all three times there was some sort of cataclysm in my life that made me set it aside, and I wouldn't pick it up again for so long that I had to start over. So now I'm superstitious about reading it.

    I had a similar experience with "One Hundred Years of Solitude," which I eventually DID finish, but given my current health situation I'm really leery of courting disaster, so I may never read this one.

    that's a trip... i have the same story. ive started it at least 2-3 times and got a couple 100 pages in but for some reason something always came up and it fell away. 100 years of solitude is also on my book shelf for reading this summer, though im a bit intimidated as i hear it's pretty dense.

    cate, you're nuts! crime and punishment changed my life... convinced me to major in literature, among other things.

    byrnz, glad to hear it comes highly recommended. everyone i know who has read it said it is incredible.
  • xavier mcdaniel
    xavier mcdaniel Somewhere in NYC Posts: 9,431
    I'm into sports history, so I'm reading the Roberto Clemente book that came out last year. I'm about 130 pages into it so far.
    Reading 2004
    Albany 2006 Camden 2006 E. Rutherford 2, 2006 Inglewood 2006,
    Chicago 2007
    Camden 2008 MSG 2008 MSG 2008 Hartford 2008.
    Seattle 2009 Seattle 2009 Philadelphia 2009,Philadelphia 2009 Philadelphia 2009
    Hartford 2010 MSG 2010 MSG 2010
    Toronto 2011,Toronto 2011
    Wrigley Field 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Philadelphia 2, 2013
    Philadelphia 1, 2016 Philadelphia 2 2016 New York 2016 New York 2016 Fenway 1, 2016
    Fenway 2, 2018
    MSG 2022
    St. Paul, 1, St. Paul 2 2023
    MSG 2024, MSG 2024
    Philadelphia 2024
    "I play good, hard-nosed basketball.
    Things happen in the game. Nothing you
    can do. I don't go and say,
    "I'm gonna beat this guy up."
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    soulsinging wrote:

    cate, you're nuts! crime and punishment changed my life... convinced me to major in literature, among other things.

    i could well be nuts conor. but i'm not reading it for pleasure. i'm reading it for uni. i find it hard going cause right now in my life it's not a book i would have chosen to read. our prof tears it apart so much it loses any appeal. and i am not thrilled with raskolnikov finding redemption. but that's just my atheist views finding fault with religion. plus raskolnikov just annoys me.
    i enjoy it well enough, but i'd have preferred to come to it on my own. but the brothers karamazov, the idiot and the rest will have to wait a while.
    hear my name
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  • belfast1
    belfast1 Posts: 788
    currently reading (well looking at as its a b&w street photo book)

    Gary Stochl - On City Streets
    dublin 1996 london 2000 dublin 2006 prague 2006 copenhagen 2007 london 2007 rotterdam 2009 london 2009 dublin 2010 belfast 2010 vienna 2014 amsterdam 2014 london 2018
  • danleri
    danleri Posts: 497
    I'm reading a book about history of cannabis, and also a biography about The Who, and I don't know which one is more hallucinogenic...
    Verona '00 | Dublin '06 | Barcelona '06 | London '07 | Copenhagen '07 | Berlin '09 | Dublin '10 | Belfast '10 | Berlin '10 | Toronto1 '11 | Toronto2 '11 | Amsterdam1 '12 | Stockholm '12 | Oslo '12 | Copenhagen '12 | Brooklyn1 '13 | Brooklyn2 '13 | Amsterdam1 '14 | Amsterdam2 '14 | Vienna '14 | Berlin '14
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,368
    Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown.
    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
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    I did that, for my first degree. I should re-read it, sometime.

    what do you mean by that fins?
    you did bram stoker's dracula. cause i'm having all sorts of visions. :D
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • Sprunkn7
    Sprunkn7 Posts: 5,286
    The new Nirvana Biography.
    I like all the stories, true or not about K.C. Little things, like Kurt pissing his pants on the way to a Sammy Hagar concert or how he and his first live-in girlfriend both had pet rats and thats how they got together. Mostly just how wack he was. I mean he was a nut.
    Matt Lukin from the Melvins is mentioned a lot.
    Not a must read, I wasn't a big Nirvana fan, but I certainly wanted to see what Pearl Jam references where in there. Will post again if I read anything worth noting.
    Thank you fellow 10 clubber for saving my ass....again!!!
  • small town beck
    small town beck Posts: 6,691
    Rygar wrote:
    Lazy butt.
    I'm reading Star Wars: The Last Command. I even make the lightsaber noises.


    Kidding.

    Hey Beck, say g'bye, I'm outta this happenin' pot of excitement that is Amherst in 3 days. Back to HRM for me.


    What? but I never got to go to the dancing dooly's with you? :( :p:D Enjoy Halifax..like that is hard to do :p

    g'bye? Are you not coming back to the pit either? :confused:

    Well this lazy butt has to get to work :o
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    small town beck wrote:
    What? but I never got to go to the dancing dooly's with you? :( :p:D Enjoy Halifax..like that is hard to do :p

    g'bye? Are you not coming back to the pit either? :confused:

    Well this lazy butt has to get to work :o

    I'll be around the pit, but my utilities are disconnected...today sometime...
    How I'll miss that Dooly's...sniff sniff. And all the super Neons and Cavaliers...the townspeople will make them fly yet!
  • small town beck
    small town beck Posts: 6,691
    Rygar wrote:
    I'll be around the pit, but my utilities are disconnected...today sometime...
    How I'll miss that Dooly's...sniff sniff. And all the super Neons and Cavaliers...the townspeople will make them fly yet!


    Well like any utility company I am sure they will be right on time :rolleyes: :p

    I am sure you will miss that Amherst.. I miss it just thinking about it.. those super Neons with the bass pumping.. good times.

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