I love David Sedaris! I know my neighbors have to think I'm a little off, because I listen to Sedaris while working in my yard, and I don't even realize I'm laughing out loud until I'm wiping the tears from my face! "When you are engulfed in flames" is good, but if you need to laugh, and lift some of your day to day stressors, listen to "Me talk pretty one day". You should listen to David Sedaris, his narration is awesome, especially when he is speaking as his mother, sister or brother. My husband and I went a few years ago to hear him read from "Dress your family in courdoroy and denim" and it was priceless. My husband hadn't read anything of his before that night, but really got into it that night on.
Right now I'm reading "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" by Barbara Kingsolver. She is a fantastic fiction writer but this book is about her family's year long project to eat only local or personally grown foods. It's really been an eye opener for me, specifically about how much petroleum is used to grow and manufacture food.
This is a great thread!
Sedaris is amazingly good!
However, Kigsolver is terrible. Pigs In Heaven was absolutely terrible.
I had a flight to Chicago last week so I picked up a John Grisham book for some brain candy on the flight. I'm almost through Playing for Pizza. It's a pretty fun story of a third string qb who do to injury gets called upon to play in the AFC Championship game and blows a 17 point lead in the 4th quarter and is known as the biggest goat of alltime. He can't get a job in the NFL, but winds up playing pro football in Italy for an Italian American Football League. It's a pretty fun book and a quick read.
If you have not read it already, you shoud read The Lost by Daniel Mendelsohn. I could not put it down. A very realistic account of trying to find out what happend to relatives.
If you have not read it already, you shoud read The Lost by Daniel Mendelsohn. I could not put it down. A very realistic account of trying to find out what happend to relatives.
i've not even cracked page one yet, so i have no idea what this means
but yeah, it's a big series, and between that my love of john connolly's charlie parker novels, diving into a 7-book series that incorporates the entire mythology of a stephen king universe i've never read seems a little overwhelming.
You can read the dark tower series without reading any other king book and not feel like you're missing out on anything. Other books he's written may have some dark tower incorporated into them some way or another but not some much or in such detail that you'd have to read them to gain knowledge about something within a dark tower book.
Slowly working through Failed States by Noam Chomsky and I just started Mary Shelley's Frankenstein for school.
“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’” - Kurt Vonnegut
New Moon - Stephanie Meyer Yes I got sucked into the series, but they are actually pretty good........
I read the first one and hated it. You should be warned I've heard bad things about the last book.
Just finished "Heartsick" by Chelsea Cain, a serial killer book with a Hannibal Lecter type killer who's in jail. Was really good for awhile and then kind of trailer off.
Now reading "The Raw Shark Texts". Really weird, but compelling.
i'm not sure. i just finished stephen king's 'gunslinger.' it was pretty good, but not sure i'm ready to dive forward with the series. i've had george rr martin's 'game of thrones' on my shelf for weeks and want to read it, but ever since the wheel of time debacle i'm leery of diving into a huge epic fantasy series that isn't finished and has no projection for when it may be.
so i'm considering reading either 'songs of innocence' by richard aleas (hard case crimes) or diving into tad williams' dragonbone chair. at least that series is done.
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.
i'm surprised as it had lots of big words like 'boat' and 'sand' in it
yeah, good book so far... total eye opener.
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.
I am surprised you are reading it since it doesn't have words like boobies and poopie-head.
He is wearing blue underpants...:cool:
when you've read Dostoevsky and Rimbaud i feel a little boobie and poop head can be a little light refreshment.
who is... i'm on page 217.. no blue scants yet.
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.
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and am now reading Charles Bock ~ Beautiful Children. Damn good!
Great
Better
Damn Good
Fucking Horrible Trash!
Haha, glad to see I reached both ends of the spectrum with this order
Sedaris is amazingly good!
However, Kigsolver is terrible. Pigs In Heaven was absolutely terrible.
- 8/28/98
- 9/2/00
- 4/28/03, 5/3/03, 7/3/03, 7/5/03, 7/6/03, 7/9/03, 7/11/03, 7/12/03, 7/14/03
- 9/28/04, 9/29/04, 10/1/04, 10/2/04
- 9/11/05, 9/12/05, 9/13/05, 9/30/05, 10/1/05, 10/3/05
- 5/12/06, 5/13/06, 5/27/06, 5/28/06, 5/30/06, 6/1/06, 6/3/06, 6/23/06, 7/22/06, 7/23/06, 12/2/06, 12/9/06
- 8/2/07, 8/5/07
- 6/19/08, 6/20/08, 6/22/08, 6/24/08, 6/25/08, 6/27/08, 6/28/08, 6/30/08, 7/1/08
- 8/23/09, 8/24/09, 9/21/09, 9/22/09, 10/27/09, 10/28/09, 10/30/09, 10/31/09
- 5/15/10, 5/17/10, 5/18/10, 5/20/10, 5/21/10, 10/23/10, 10/24/10
- 9/11/11, 9/12/11
- 10/18/13, 10/21/13, 10/22/13, 11/30/13, 12/4/13
(i am on a holocaust 'kick' for some reason)
If you have not read it already, you shoud read The Lost by Daniel Mendelsohn. I could not put it down. A very realistic account of trying to find out what happend to relatives.
I'm now reading:
Don Delillo's Falling Man
and
Christopher Hitchen's God Is Not Great
You can read the dark tower series without reading any other king book and not feel like you're missing out on anything. Other books he's written may have some dark tower incorporated into them some way or another but not some much or in such detail that you'd have to read them to gain knowledge about something within a dark tower book.
(excellent read if you have a disabled kid, or have one in the womb)
To keep you clear of the sun
You've been burned more than once
You don't think much of trust
just read Sammy's Hill by Kristin Gore...funny, light girly-fiction.
also:
girl with a pearl earring (meh.)
We're just like you only prettier (fun) (Celia Rivenbark?)
the last Sword of Truth book by Terry Goodkind.
Whatever you are, be a good one --Lincoln
~D.K.S.
cool..thanks for posting that link.
To keep you clear of the sun
You've been burned more than once
You don't think much of trust
no problem--it's a credit-based system, but it's worked really well for me...
Whatever you are, be a good one --Lincoln
it's really fresh
halszka123@op.pl
atonement was better than ok, but not excellent
and murder was just ok- quick, easy read, but did manage to keep my interest
I read the first one and hated it. You should be warned I've heard bad things about the last book.
Just finished "Heartsick" by Chelsea Cain, a serial killer book with a Hannibal Lecter type killer who's in jail. Was really good for awhile and then kind of trailer off.
Now reading "The Raw Shark Texts". Really weird, but compelling.
so i'm considering reading either 'songs of innocence' by richard aleas (hard case crimes) or diving into tad williams' dragonbone chair. at least that series is done.
Perfect time in my life to pick this gem back up.
I have The House of Seven Gables lined up after it. :eek: Another re-read.
Just finished The Last Lecture for my book club.
And I don't feel right when you're gone away
And I don't feel right when you're gone away
you think or you know Mrs T Stalker?
i'm surprised as it had lots of big words like 'boat' and 'sand' in it
yeah, good book so far... total eye opener.
He is wearing blue underpants...:cool:
And I don't feel right when you're gone away
when you've read Dostoevsky and Rimbaud i feel a little boobie and poop head can be a little light refreshment.
who is... i'm on page 217.. no blue scants yet.
And I don't feel right when you're gone away