It's ok so far. It's short stories and so far I've read "Willa", "Harvey's Dream", and "Rest Stop". I skipped "Gingerbread Girl" because I read it when it was in Esquire and didn't like it that much. Of the ones I've read, "Willa" was the best. I'm going to read "Stationary Bike" next, which I already read in another collection but it's good so I'll read it again. "The Things they Left Behind" is another one I've read in there that I'll read again. So overall, I'd give it a B so far.
I have "Under the Banner of Heaven", but every time I go to pick out a book I don't feel in the mood to read it. Maybe one day. I did like "Into the Wild".
"Under the Banner of Heaven" really was a great read so if you get into the mood just keep reading.
I finished "Blaze" and just found it so incredibly sad :(
Why I Am Not A Christian and other collected essays by Bertrand Russell
“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
"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"
I've got to read A Light in August and Absolom, Absolom to make up an incomplete in a Faulkner class I took last year.
"Almost all those politicians took money from Enron, and there they are holding hearings. That's like O.J. Simpson getting in the Rae Carruth jury pool." -- Charles Barkley
I'm almost finished with it. I HIGHLY recommend it to anyone. I'd never heard of it before until a friend of mine let me borrow it. It's a sci-fi sort of book, but not really. It takes place in the future, on the moon. The moon is in the beginning stages of colonization and it's about the first boy born on the moon. He's never even been on Earth before and it makes him kind of depressing and dull because all he's ever seen is the moon. I don't want to give anything away but it's absolutely beautiful and wonderfully written.
About halfway through it. I'm not blown away like the cover suggests, but it is an interesting read. I've also got The Tenth Insight, which is a sequel of sorts.
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Its very interesting.
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"What a stupid lamb."
"What a sick, masochistic lion."
"Under the Banner of Heaven" really was a great read so if you get into the mood just keep reading.
I finished "Blaze" and just found it so incredibly sad :(
Finished "Just After Sunset" last night. I think "N." was the best story.
its a "taking me out of my comfort zone" read....
I've seen the movie. (I used to be a big Bowie fan). I didn't know it was based on a book.
I don't think I shall ever read another book.
I'm pretending that it's 1994 and I'm reading the newest best seller.
You aren't reading Too Fat to Fish??!!!
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I read the whole thing the day it came out! Are you reading it? What do you think of it?
I bought it and just read Howard's foreword so far. I'm looking to get a little of it in this weekend.
Let me know when you finish it and I'll tell you what I thought. I don't want to ruin it for you.
I'm almost finished with it. I HIGHLY recommend it to anyone. I'd never heard of it before until a friend of mine let me borrow it. It's a sci-fi sort of book, but not really. It takes place in the future, on the moon. The moon is in the beginning stages of colonization and it's about the first boy born on the moon. He's never even been on Earth before and it makes him kind of depressing and dull because all he's ever seen is the moon. I don't want to give anything away but it's absolutely beautiful and wonderfully written.
Once I'm done with it, I will have read every single one of his books.
Black Coffee Blues is definitely the 'heaviest' of his books.
About halfway through it. I'm not blown away like the cover suggests, but it is an interesting read. I've also got The Tenth Insight, which is a sequel of sorts.
an alternate view of the world when the axis powers win WWII.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
and when you reach the last writing in that book, i know you, you MUST read it out loud. its the only way.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
The author was very sincere, and even though I don't totally follow the "Baptist" mindset (for lack of a better term), I got a lot out of it.
Way different from the movie and WAY better!
Starting Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and then on to P.D. James - Children of Men.
On a bit of dystopian kick lately.
ooh this is a good one.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say