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  • Scratchin a LetterScratchin a Letter Posts: 2,303
    Shampoo Planet, by Douglas Coupland. Consumerism in a (large) nutshell.
  • deadnotedeadnote Posts: 1,678
    just picked up the jennifer love hewiit biography
    set your laughter free

    dreamer in my dream

    we got the guns

    i love you,but im..............callin out.........callin out
  • deadnotedeadnote Posts: 1,678
    not that im gonna read it though casue ive tried biographies before
    set your laughter free

    dreamer in my dream

    we got the guns

    i love you,but im..............callin out.........callin out
  • rriversrrivers Posts: 3,696
    Ms. Haiku wrote:
    However, as I recently read Unless, and Dirt Music , both of which were EXCELLENT!!!!, I'm heading toward starving for incredible writing if I don't get it soon. I'll go fucking postal, in a libriarian-want-to-be-kindof way if I don't get food for my brain!

    I just finished "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole. It is very well written.

    Now I am reading "Blues for Mr. Charlie" by James Baldwin.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • know1know1 Posts: 6,794
    The Winter of our Discontent - Steinbeck
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
  • Ms. HaikuMs. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,271
    rrivers wrote:
    I just finished "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole. It is very well written.
    Yippee! A referral - thank you :)
    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
  • ChazzChazz Posts: 1,136
    Into thin Air - Jon Krakauer....i'm mid way through and its really good...if you enjoyed the book Into the Wild you'll like this
    Dublin, Reading 06
    London, Copenhagen 07
    MSG 08
    SBE, Manchester, London 09
    Dublin, Belfast, London 10
    Manchester, Berlin 12
    Amsterdam, Milton Keynes 14
    London 18
    London 22
  • AlBorlandAlBorland Posts: 117
    my_small_self wrote:
    Into thin Air - Jon Krakauer....i'm mid way through and its really good...if you enjoyed the book Into the Wild you'll like this

    Im about 3/4 through. Very good, just hard to keep up with all the people he's introduced.
    Skeletons ain't got nowhere to stick their money.
  • urbanhippieurbanhippie Posts: 3,007
    New Rulers of the World - John Pilger
    A human being that was given to fly.

    Wembley 18/06/07

    If there was a reason, it was you.

    O2 Arena 18/09/09
  • Ms. HaikuMs. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,271
    http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=262446

    I guess I should have just posted here instead of making a new thread. Oh well. Have fun figuring out what it is. It looks like it's for readers :)
    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
  • SpunkieSpunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 6,724
    Book 2 of Bourne Trilogy.
  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    i just got a 30% off at borders coupon. i've been eyeing 3 books for a while now, so which of the following options should i grab? anyone read or heard anything about any of them?

    book of lost things- john connolly
    looming tower: al-quaeda and the road to 9/11- lawrence wright
    anonymous lawyer- jeremy blachman

    also, anyone read any cormac mccarthy? a few of his novels have piqued my curiosity.
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    soulsinging wrote:
    i just got a 30% off at borders coupon. i've been eyeing 3 books for a while now, so which of the following options should i grab? anyone read or heard anything about any of them?

    book of lost things- john connolly
    looming tower: al-quaeda and the road to 9/11- lawrence wright
    anonymous lawyer- jeremy blachman

    also, anyone read any cormac mccarthy? a few of his novels have piqued my curiosity.

    the book of lost things. i totally loved this book. talk about fractured fairy tales.

    as for cormac mccarthy. i've read the border trilogy, the orchard keeper and blood meridian. i enjoy his writing very much.
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • ChazzChazz Posts: 1,136
    AlBorland wrote:
    Im about 3/4 through. Very good, just hard to keep up with all the people he's introduced.

    Yeah I know what you mean, I have to keep flicking back to the first pages to the list of people/expeditions
    Dublin, Reading 06
    London, Copenhagen 07
    MSG 08
    SBE, Manchester, London 09
    Dublin, Belfast, London 10
    Manchester, Berlin 12
    Amsterdam, Milton Keynes 14
    London 18
    London 22
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    The Book of Sand by Jorge Luis Borges
    "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"
  • harmless_little_f***harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    I'm not reading much at the moment but the next book I want to read is Boy Meets Girl by Ali Smith. I can't get enough of Ali Smith books.
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • StereotypeStereotype Maribor, Slovenia Posts: 885
    Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Egdar Allan Poe
    This man was a genius if you ask me.
    The worst enemies of music? Money and Mathematics. Combined with music, they both do the exact opposite of what they're supposed to do. Money makes music cheap, mathematics makes it stupid and predictable.

    ____

    Zagreb 2006/ Munich 2007/ Venice 2007/ Berlin 2009 / Venice 2010 / 2 x Berlin 2012 / Stockholm 2012 / Milan 2014 / Trieste 2014 / Vienna 2014 / Florence (EV) 2019 / Padova 2018 / Prague 2018 / Imola 2022 / Budapest 2022 / Vienna 2022 / Prague 2022 

  • BinauralBinaural Posts: 1,046
    I really want a good fiction book, I've been reading non fiction for a few months now and want a bit of a change. Anyone recommend anything? I think Im gonna go for some classics, maybe Moby Dick or The Count of Monte Cristo, anyone suggest which?
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    Katowice 06/07 London 06/07 Dusseldorf 06/07 Nijgemen 06/07
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    what's welsh for zen - john cale & victor bockris
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • BinauralBinaural Posts: 1,046
    Well found one. 'Ludmilla's Broken English' by DBC Pierre.
    Loved Vernon GOD Little so I thought why not :) Really liking it so far.
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    *^*^*^*^*^*^*^RED MOSQUITO #2^*^*^*^*^*^*^*

    Dublin 08/06
    Katowice 06/07 London 06/07 Dusseldorf 06/07 Nijgemen 06/07
  • AnonAnon Posts: 11,175
    'Everfree' by Nick Sagan (Carl Sagan's son)
  • mammasanmammasan Posts: 5,656
    The World Without Us by Alan Weisman.
    "When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." - Ron Paul
  • rriversrrivers Posts: 3,696
    Right now reading "The Maltese Falcon" and still trying to finish "The Historian"!!
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • smarcheesmarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    just finishing up The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

    next on to The Husband by Dean Koontz
    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
  • EnkiduEnkidu So Cal Posts: 2,996
    The most fun book - The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland.
  • metsophortemetsophorte Posts: 61
    Just finished Ishmael by Daniel Quinn.. excellent book..
    Now I'm reading Amrita by Banana Yoshimoto
  • One Song GloryOne Song Glory Posts: 710
    Enkidu wrote:
    The most fun book - The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland.

    Is it as good as his other books??? I'm a huge Coupland fan and have read all of his other works. I haven't had time to read it yet with my 4 books a week for all my classes. It shall have to be Christmas reading. :D
    2003: Toronto
    2005: Kitchener/Hamilton/Toronto
    2006: Toronto 1 & 2
    2008: Hartford/EV Toronto 1 & 2
    2009: Toronto/Philadelphia 3 & 4
    2010: Buffalo
    2011: Montreal/Toronto 1 & 2/Hamilton
    2013: London/Buffalo/Vancouver/Seattle
    2016: Toronto 1 & 2
    2022: Hamilton/Toronto
    2023: EV Seattle 1&2
  • Blind3Blind3 Posts: 1,149
    Carlisle vs. Army .
    Jim Thorpe , Dwight Eisenhower, Pop Warner
    { And the forgotten story of football's greatest battle }
    by Lars Anderson
    "Buy the ticket,take the ride"
    Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

    "If I wanted you to understand, I would have explained it better"
    Johan Cruijff
  • malabogiamalabogia Posts: 59
    Recently finished The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins and now reading Cosmos by Carl Sagan (I admit I have been late to read this). Of course a little terry pratchett or douglas adams therapy here and there to lighten me up.
    "when one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion." Robert Pirsig
  • Mel1979Mel1979 Posts: 17
    What did you think of The God Delusion? Seen it in bookstores and the cover makes it sound very interesting.

    I've just finished American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, now reading Tully by Paullina Simons
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