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  • AmentsChickAmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    nfanel wrote:
    me too! imagine that!
    total chick book indeed and i am loving it so far!

    YAY!! :) What part are you at?
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • nfanelnfanel Posts: 2,558
    YAY!! :) What part are you at?
    i'm just starting india...i've been falling asleep on the train so my reading is slower than normal. :p
  • AmentsChickAmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    nfanel wrote:
    i'm just starting india...i've been falling asleep on the train so my reading is slower than normal. :p

    I just started India as well (took a short hiatus from reading to watch some tv). The Italy part was much more interesting when she was lusting after men...now she's just meditating all day. BOOOOOORING. ;)
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • nfanelnfanel Posts: 2,558
    I just started India as well (took a short hiatus from reading to watch some tv). The Italy part was much more interesting when she was lusting after men...now she's just meditating all day. BOOOOOORING. ;)
    and that's why i love you. :D
    agreed. though at least i'm not hungry all the time while reading now!! describing all of those italian dishes was killing me! :p
  • smarcheesmarchee Posts: 14,539
    Failed States by Noam Chomsky

    needed something more serious to break up a streak of ficition books I have been on
    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
  • i just finished The Zombie Survival Guide and I'm now reading I am America (and So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert
    "Well, I think this band is incapable of sucking."
    -my dad after hearing Not for You for the first time on SNL .
  • "The Great Hunt" by Robert Jordan.
    When life gives you lemons, throw them at somebody.
  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    a Jeremy Clarkson one about the world motoring habits... it's very very funny
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • jamie ukjamie uk Posts: 3,812
    I'm still on Puckoon, by Spike Milligan, it's a short book..but I been here so flippin much I aint finished it yet.
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • Tom KTom K Posts: 842
    I just started A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole..
    I'm gone ..Long gone..This time I'm letting go of it all...So long...Cause this time I'm gone
  • rriversrrivers Posts: 3,696
    Tom K wrote:
    I just started A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole..
    I read that a few months ago. Good read.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • mdigenakismdigenakis Posts: 1,337
    i just finished The Zombie Survival Guide and I'm now reading I am America (and So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert
    thought about buying Zombie survival guide, is it a good read?
    "Don't let the darkness eat you up..."

    -Greg Dulli

  • urbanhippieurbanhippie Posts: 3,007
    mdigenakis wrote:
    thought about buying Zombie survival guide, is it a good read?
    It's pretty cool :cool:
    You should also try 'World War Z' by the same author... It's very good too. :D
    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
  • SpunkieSpunkie Posts: 6,672
    Gridlock and Good Omens.
  • urbanhippieurbanhippie Posts: 3,007
    tish wrote:
    Gridlock and Good Omens.
    Good taste :cool:
    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
  • chadwickchadwick Posts: 21,157
    Algebra, for people who suck big fucking time at stuff, 1st edition - 0001.

    English, for none poetic/song writing people who piss me off, 9,000,000th edition - 00 you F'ing suck big balls...

    First chapter is so amazing I am getting excited just tellin you about it.

    "speech" - nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives and articales, adverbs, prepositions,
    conjuctions, interjections.

    "parts of sentence" - subjects, verbs, objects and complements.

    "subordinate word groups" - prepositional phrases, verbal phrases, absolute phrases, subordinare clauses.

    "sentence types" - sentence structure, sentence purposes.

    this is the first chapter and it is such an exciting read I for one can not put
    the fucking book down, I am erect from this. ;)
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."

    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • acoustic guyacoustic guy Posts: 3,770
    Bill O'Reilly's "Culture Warrior"
    Get em a Body Bag Yeeeeeaaaaa!
    Sweep the Leg Johnny.
  • brainofmebrainofme Posts: 231
    "Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak.

    Love it, it's so poetic. he paints beautiful pictures with his words. some of the lines could actually stand on their own, as a poem. i wish i could speak russian, so i could read the non-translated original version.
    definitely recommend this one!
    Vienna, Austria 2006
    Munich, Germany 2007
  • sherlock holmes collection of short stories.
  • Ms. HaikuMs. Haiku Posts: 7,265
    Ralph Ellison by Arnold Rampersad. It's over 500 pages, and not daunting because it flows really nicely. I'm only on page 188, but so far I'd recommend it.
    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
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Saul Bellow - Herzog
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    gleemonex wrote:
    The Dharma Bums

    That's a good one. My favourite of his is still a toss up between 'On the road' and 'Big Sur' though.
  • V VV V Posts: 5,191
    Dirty Blonde - Courtney Love Diarys !
    ~~~~~~~~~~ PINK FLUFFY LOVE PSYCHO~~~~~~~~~~
    Astoria,Dublin,Reading 06,Wembley 07,Sheapards Bush & o2 09 thats multiple Jamgasms!
  • gabersgabers Posts: 2,787
    I am America and so can You! by Stephen Colbert. I'm getting all sorts of good advice from this book.
  • 'The Liar' by Stephen Fry
    Been to this many PJ shows: Reading 2006 London 2007 Manchester & London 2009 Dublin, Belfast, London, Nijmegen & Berlin 2010 Manchester 1 & Manchester 2 2012...

    ... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.
  • rriversrrivers Posts: 3,696
    The Terror by Dan Simmons and Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • Two BirdsTwo Birds Posts: 256
    Being Young - By Astrid Young
    Eat, Love and Pray - by Elizabeth Ashley
    Peace,
    ________________________
    Too many shows but never enough!
    These guys are the fruit of the earth...
  • sweetpotatosweetpotato Posts: 1,278
    Best Buddhist Writing 2007

    and

    Bridge of Sighs- by Richard Russo

    i usually have 2-3 going at once, tho they have to be of different categories (fict/nf/current aff/bio, etc) or in different genres, otherwise i get the characters and storylines mixed up! :p
    "Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States, Barack Obama."

    "Obama's main opponent in this election on November 4th (was) not John McCain, it (was) ignorance."~Michael Moore

    "i'm feeling kinda righteous right now. with my badass motherfuckin' ukulele!"
    ~ed, 8/7
  • BlancheBlanche Posts: 247
    The War of the Buttons (La guerre des boutons) by Louis Pergaud

    Not sure if it's been translated, though, as it contains a lot of colloquialisms.
    However, I am learning lots of insults I've never heard before.
  • the iron heel by jack london. i really hope this book is really good. i read his short essay on socialism and i read it three times in the first day.
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