What book are you reading?

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  • IamTomIamTom Posts: 1,138
    I'm reading.....



    A Language Older Than Words-Derrick Jensen.
    http://www.derrickjensen.org/

    Nature and the Human Psyche-Bill Plotkin. http://www.animas.org/default.asp

    Both wonderful personal growth books. Beautiful,brave and, especially A Language...,not for those who want to stay in denial about the culture we live in.


    A Child's Journey Through Placement-Fahlberg.

    For my professional development in working with Young People.
    Given To Live -

    Latest story - Declan at Slipknot is up on the website now at www.giventolive.com along with Kayleigh at Foo Fighters, Tony at Stereophonics and more.

    Inspired by Pearl Jam, making live music dreams come true.
  • tarotvixen wrote:
    was trying to reply to the couple that read 30 novels hehehe - I read roughly 80 to 100 novels, 30 is how many new novels I allow myself in a year. If I ever get married, He doesn't need to read so much as have shares in Borders so I don't send us broke!
    Wow! Good for you! I would probably read more if I had the time, but it isn't there :(
    When life gives you lemons, throw them at somebody.
  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    "Setting the Desert on Fire: T.E. Lawrence and Britain's Secret War in Arabia, 1916-1918"
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • Finished "Frankenstein". Now reading "Reaper's Gale".
    When life gives you lemons, throw them at somebody.
  • Charlie Huston - 'Every Last Drop.'
    And I'm not living this life without you, I'm selfish and clear
    And you're not leaving here without me, I don't wanna be without
    My best... friend. Wake up, to see you could have it all
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    though i shouldnt have, i started into the wild yesterday and finished it about an hour ago. now im off to shoot me some caribou. :D
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    "Hitman: My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling" by Bret Hart
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • thunderDANthunderDAN Posts: 2,094
    I just picked up Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman
  • gleemonexgleemonex Posts: 848
    Just read and am writing a report on "Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and then Lost It to the Revolution." It's pretty damn good, especially if you like Cuban history or anything mafia related.
    “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
  • Skinny Legs And All - Tom Robbins aka God
    "The customer...is always...an ASSHOLE"

    "The world fascinates me."

    "Doesn't mean that much to me, to mean that much to you"

  • TrixieCatTrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    No Country For Old Men
    Night of the Radish
    one of Nigella Lawson's cookbooks. lol
    Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
    And I don't feel right when you're gone away
  • Solat13Solat13 Posts: 6,996
    thunderDAN wrote:
    I just picked up Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman

    I'm about halfway through it. I'm a big fan of his other books.
    - Busted down the pretext
    - 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
  • TrixieCatTrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    Solat13 wrote:
    I'm about halfway through it. I'm a big fan of his other books.
    Are you liking this one?
    Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
    And I don't feel right when you're gone away
  • just finished reading the little prince. and what a heart-warming little tale it was :)
  • Almost done w/Randy Couture's autobio and then it's on to Marcia Brady!
    model role model
  • smarcheesmarchee Posts: 14,539
    The Bourne Ultimatum by Robert Ludlum
    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
  • mdigenakismdigenakis Posts: 1,337
    Walden - Henry David Thoreau

    People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn
    "Don't let the darkness eat you up..."

    -Greg Dulli

  • smarchee wrote:
    The Bourne Ultimatum by Robert Ludlum


    E-e-e-e-e-xcellent.
    When life gives you lemons, throw them at somebody.
  • the kite runner
  • CHANGEinWAVESCHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    the kite runner
    You're going to let me borrow it when you're done right?...since I'm the only one in our family who hasn't read it.
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • DrHeidi41DrHeidi41 Posts: 106
    Bob Woodward's new book, The War Within. It is very good, but very disconcerting.
  • I've been reading slaughterhouse 5 for about a week now and am only 50 pages in :o I'm just finding it hard to really give a fuck :o
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • SnakeSnake Posts: 2,605
    Just started "Walden and Civil Disobedience". Figured its a good time to read those kind of things :cool:
    Pirates had democracy too.

    "Its a secret to everybody."
  • A Tale of Two Cities...bout 200 pages into it and struggling to finish...
  • Black DiamondBlack Diamond Posts: 25,107
    Indignation by Philip Roth
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  • AmentsChickAmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    Last Man Down: A Firefighter's Story of Survival and Escape from the World Trade Center by Richard Picciotto
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • The Four Agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz
    the sorrow grows bigger, when the sorrow's denied
  • SpunkieSpunkie Posts: 6,672
    Slaughter House Five
    -Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
  • tish wrote:
    Slaughter House Five
    -Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

    One of the best books ever.
  • DrHeidi41DrHeidi41 Posts: 106
    One of the best books ever.

    I'd agree with that. It's one of those books that can be read repeatedly, and you'll always learn or discover something new.
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