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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,831
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Sin killer - larry mcmurtry
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  • Enkidu
    Enkidu So Cal Posts: 2,996
    I finally read A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving. Everyone kept telling me to read it - I don't know why it took so long. It's beautiful. So beautiful I wrote a blog post about it. (About it and other books we have sitting on our shelves we keep meaning to read.)

    http://mybookclubforone.blogspot.com/2014/10/that-book-sitting-on-your-shelf_26.html
  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    F Me In The Brain said:

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    Aaargh - I forgot that was being released end of October! I'm kicking myself now, but will download it on my trusty kindle immediately and get on it.
    my small self... like a book amongst the many on a shelf
  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    Enkidu said:

    I finally read A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving. Everyone kept telling me to read it - I don't know why it took so long. It's beautiful. So beautiful I wrote a blog post about it. (About it and other books we have sitting on our shelves we keep meaning to read.)

    http://mybookclubforone.blogspot.com/2014/10/that-book-sitting-on-your-shelf_26.html

    Yes, there's a wonderful satisfaction to it, when everything ties up at the end. I have read it two or three times but not in years, so that will come off my shelf again soon.
    my small self... like a book amongst the many on a shelf
  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    And third post in a row for me - currently reading William Gibson's new one, just released - The Peripheral. Been a fan since Neuromancer came out.
    my small self... like a book amongst the many on a shelf
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,831
    Enkidu said:

    I finally read A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving. Everyone kept telling me to read it - I don't know why it took so long. It's beautiful. So beautiful I wrote a blog post about it. (About it and other books we have sitting on our shelves we keep meaning to read.)

    http://mybookclubforone.blogspot.com/2014/10/that-book-sitting-on-your-shelf_26.html

    Got on am Irving kick and read them all a few years back. The rare author that my wife and I both love.
    The love he receives is the love that is saved
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Our band could be your life - michael azerrad
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    "So Anyway", John Cleese's autobiography (or at least, his first autobiography - he has made it clear he is writing another volume, as this one apparently ends just as the Pythons get going). I got a signed copy last night when I went to a reading/interview with Cleese. He's doing a brief US tour prior to his UK tour, so some of you might get a chance to catch him, too. Amusing but not hysterical so far.
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  • 23scidoo
    23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 20,000
    Howl and Other poems by Allen Ginsberg
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    I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,329
    catefrances said:

    Our band could be your life - michael azerrad

    there's some great stuff in there.......along with a whole bunch of shitty bands!

    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,329
    robertstackarmy said:

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    Russo is one of my all time favorite authors. Bridge of Sighs is a bit more challenging than most of his others.

    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,329
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    only a couple of chapters in, but.......wow. powerful.
    If I had known then what I know now...

    Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
    VIC 07
    EV LA1 08
    Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
    Columbus 10
    EV LA 11
    Vancouver 11
    Missoula 12
    Portland 13, Spokane 13
    St. Paul 14, Denver 14
    Philly I & II, 16
    Denver 22
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  • Given To Nap
    Given To Nap Posts: 150
    ^^^ One of my favorite books. It's really hard for me to pass up a dog book.
  • SD48277
    SD48277 Posts: 12,243
    imalive said:

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    only a couple of chapters in, but.......wow. powerful.

    Very good book. Intense. The author lives nearby and offers memoir-writing classes. I would love to try this sometime, but my schedule never seems to work out for it to happen.
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,315
    Just got done with Game of Thrones book 5. Moving onto Dune.

    Fantasy books about great houses fighting with both brute and brain in feudal times.

    After this I want to read "In the Kingdom of Ice" which is the true account of a failed expedition to the article circle in the 1800's
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  • JonnyPistachio
    JonnyPistachio Florida Posts: 10,219
    I finished The Adventures of Cavalier & Clay a few weeks back and have just started Shantaram.
    I've read about 150 pages and love it so far.
    Pick up my debut novel here on amazon: Jonny Bails Floatin (in paperback) (also available on Kindle for $2.99)
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,831
    JonnyPistachio said:

    I finished The Adventures of Cavalier & Clay.

    Looks great, added to my list.

    Just started this but I dont know about reading cover to cover. Looks like a sweet 'browser' while I get into something else. Cannot read a book this size in bed before I conk out at night...if I drop it on my face as I doze off it will leave a mark. If I let us fall to the floor it could ruin the beautiful art inside its pages...and there is no room for it on my nightstand.
    :))
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    Pretty amazing piece of work!
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  • madtowndave
    madtowndave Minneapolis, MN Posts: 4,013
    JonnyPistachio said:

    I finished The Adventures of Cavalier & Clay a few weeks back and have just started Shantaram.
    I've read about 150 pages and love it so far.

    Both are great reads!!!
    I just started The Drop by Dennis Lehane, which was recommended by one of my best friends.
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  • iamica
    iamica Chicago Posts: 2,628
    I'm reading Jane Eyre right now. So depressing.
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