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  • fyreguy73
    fyreguy73 Posts: 168
    fire trap
    He who forgets, will be destined to remember.

    I wish I was the verb "to trust"
    and never let you down.


    Brisbane 1, 06
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    Psychology Fifth Edition Peter Gray
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    Linda wrote:
    irving, the cider house rules. love irving.
    One of my all time favorites :)

    Now I'm reading The Secret History of the War on Cancer by Devra Davis. It's about how the fuckwits that are the chemical and pharmaceutical industries worked hand-in-hand for over a century with the medical establishment, researchers, even the American Cancer Society, to hide known causes of cancer, thus exposing millions to disease and setting back the possibility of someday finding a cure. Pure evil, they are.
    "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
  • Spunkie
    Spunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    The Bourne Trilogy...

    I am anxious to get to War and Peace and Dr. Zhivago, as "Into the Wild" reminded me. (Wasn't the book credits cool?!)
    I was swimming in the Great Barrier Reef 
    Animals were hiding behind the Coral 
    Except for little Turtle
    I could swear he's trying to talk to me 
    Gurgle Gurgle
  • jocelyn
    jocelyn Posts: 67
    urbanhippie wrote:
    Oh I loved that book...


    My brother told me there is a movie adaptation of World War Z in the works.

    That book. Scared. The. Shit. Out. Of Me. I keep seeing the end of the world everywhere! It was masterful! Loved it. Highly recommend it.
    "I can only be as good as you'll let me."
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,377
    Blackberry Wine by Joanne Harris. I just finished Under a Flaming Sky about the 1894 Hinckley Fire. Rather eerie to be reading it now. It was good. I needed fiction after it though. Blackberry Wine is at least one notch better in the writing than Under a Flaming Sky.

    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!
    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
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    I'm re-reading The Norton Shakespeare, and going over Cymbeline again. A right bizarre load of bollocks it is, too. I once wrote an essay defending it, back in the day, and I got 95% for my efforts. But in my relative agedness, I have to admit it's far from his best work.
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    freedom from fear - aung san suu kyi
    the bell jar - sylvia plath
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • oktacoma
    oktacoma Posts: 335
    Beyond Civilization by Daniel Quinn.
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    lost world- arthur conan doyle
  • Scratchin a Letter
    Scratchin a Letter Posts: 2,303
    Shampoo Planet, by Douglas Coupland. Consumerism in a (large) nutshell.
  • deadnote
    deadnote 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
  • deadnote
    deadnote 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
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    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."
  • know1
    know1 Posts: 6,801
    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. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,377
    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
  • Chazz
    Chazz Posts: 1,156
    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
    2006 - Dublin, Reading; 2007 - London, Copenhagen; 2008 - MSG; 2009 - SBE, Manchester, London; 2010 - Dublin, Belfast, London; 2012 - Manchester, Berlin; 2014 - Amsterdam, Milton Keynes; 2018 - London; 2022 - London; 2024 - Manchester
  • AlBorland
    AlBorland 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.
  • urbanhippie
    urbanhippie 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. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,377
    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

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