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  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    Red Seas Under Red Skies- Scott Lynch
  • Comic Book Tattoo :D By various artists, set to the lyrics of Tori Amos. Made me think that Pearl Jam could totally do a similar book. Eddie's lyrics set to a comic book. Jeremy, Release, World Wide Suicide and the list goes on.
    Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's Soul remains Unawakened.
    Anatole France
  • MissiMissi Posts: 17
    The Quiet Girl by Peter Hoeg
    And 3 books for school:
    A biography of Hermann Hesse
    Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
    Headless by Charlotte Kerner
  • robowskirobowski Posts: 143
    been reading alot of Brian Kenne if you like the horror genre - similar to King, but his books take on a different aspect of horror (zombies, ghouls, etc..) also read day by day armageddon by j.l. bourne - it was excellent. Its a survivors diary of his experiences and encounters during a zombie apocalypse.
    if you like illustrated stuff - try the walking dead series from Image pick up volume one in your graphic novel section and you'll be hooked from the get go!
    As you live your life in sometimes quiet desperation, facing adversity and tragedy: if you have hope and love, that mixture helps you overcome that tragedy and go on with the rest of your life.”
    --Jack Lengyel
  • jimed14jimed14 Posts: 9,488
    For the true numbers geek and statistcs nerd ... like me ... this is essential reading every January ...

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    "You're one of the few Red Sox fans I don't mind." - Newch91

    "I don't believe in damn curses. Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him. Maybe I'll drill him in the ass." --- Pedro Martinez
  • pretextpretext Posts: 1,294
    The Art of Political Murder - Francisco Goldman
    I'm on a state-sponsored terrorism bender.
  • PorchsitterPorchsitter Posts: 1,069
    "The Worst Hard Time" by Tim Egan and "The Forgotten Man" by Amity Shlaes. Man is about the Great Depression, and Time is about the Dust Bowl during the Depression.
    We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.--Bill Hicks
  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    "After Dachau" by Daniel Quinn, and "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde.

    "Picture" is a FANTASTIC read. :geek:
    7/2/06 - Denver, CO
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    8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
    9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
    9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
    9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
  • libragirllibragirl Posts: 4,632
    after sunset by Stephen King
    These cuts are leaving creases. Trace the scars to fit the pieces, to tell the story, you don't need to say a word.
  • Killer Weekend(Ridley Pearson)
    The bus came by and I got on!!!!!
  • rockpantsrockpants Posts: 838
    I received David Wroblewski's novel, "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" for Xmas, so I've just started that.
  • youngsteryoungster Posts: 6,576
    Slash by Slash. Before PJ, GNR was my favorite band. Good book.
    He who forgets will be destined to remember.

    9/29/04 Boston, 6/28/08 Mansfield, 8/23/09 Chicago, 5/15/10 Hartford
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    8/5/16 Fenway, 8/7/16 Fenway
    EV Solo: 6/16/11 Boston, 6/18/11 Hartford,
  • NS44729NS44729 Posts: 35
    Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

    Really dense to say the least.
  • The How of Happiness - A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want

    Trying desperately to shake off this depression. Yuck.....Winter.
    05-10-06, 08-05-07, 06-14-08 , 08-12-08(EV), 06-11-09(EV), 06-12-09(EV), 08-21-09, 05-10-10, 09-11-11, 09-12-11, 07-16-13, 07-19-13, 10-12-13, 10-21-13, 10-22-13,
  • NS44729NS44729 Posts: 35
    The How of Happiness - A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want

    Trying desperately to shake off this depression. Yuck.....Winter.

    Winter does suck for depression that's for damn sure.
    Is the book helping?
  • NS44729 wrote:
    The How of Happiness - A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want

    Trying desperately to shake off this depression. Yuck.....Winter.

    Winter does suck for depression that's for damn sure.
    Is the book helping?

    Not yet...But I'm only on Chapter 1 :D
    05-10-06, 08-05-07, 06-14-08 , 08-12-08(EV), 06-11-09(EV), 06-12-09(EV), 08-21-09, 05-10-10, 09-11-11, 09-12-11, 07-16-13, 07-19-13, 10-12-13, 10-21-13, 10-22-13,
  • NS44729NS44729 Posts: 35
    Ha! That's funny. Good luck. Just a few more months til spring though, right?
  • milarsomilarso Posts: 1,280
    Im reading a book called, "Behind the Red Line".
    It's about the first American hockey player to play in the Soviet Union, for a professional Soviet team.
    It's a pretty good book, and is really eye-opening about the way that Russian citizens looked at America. According to the author, almost of the Russians he met loved America and were extremely accommodating/friendly. But it also showed first hand, from the workers perspectives, about how screwed up the socialist form of government really is.
    Also has a lot of good hockey stories :)
    "The dude abides. I don't know about you, but I take comfort in that. It's good knowin' he's out there. The Dude. Takin' her easy for all us sinners."
  • eMMIeMMI Posts: 6,262
    Michel Palin - Diaries, 1969-1979 The Python Years :)
    "Don't be faint-hearted, I have a solution! We shall go and commandeer some small craft, then drift at leisure until we happen upon another ideal place for our waterside supper with riparian entertainments."
  • PearlOfAGirlPearlOfAGirl Posts: 15,993
    Obi Once wrote:
    Hunter Thompson - Fear & loathing in Las Vegas, just finished it a fun read! Brilliant monologues..

    Dan Brown - Angels & Demons, i just started and so far its interesting, alltho the set of of the story really has a lot of similarities as Da Vinci Code (murder, victim's daughter and a secret research).
    Regarding Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas ~ I've seen the movie about a dozen times, but I heard the book is really good :D

    Wish you were here...

    ~RIP Dad
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Ken Kesey - 'Sometimes a Great Notion'

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  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Obi Once wrote:
    Hunter Thompson - Fear & loathing in Las Vegas, just finished it a fun read! Brilliant monologues..

    Dan Brown - Angels & Demons, i just started and so far its interesting, alltho the set of of the story really has a lot of similarities as Da Vinci Code (murder, victim's daughter and a secret research).
    Regarding Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas ~ I've seen the movie about a dozen times, but I heard the book is really good :D

    It's not really good, it's one of the five best books to come out of America in the 20th Century. Buy it...read it. Nuff' said. :geek:
  • NS44729NS44729 Posts: 35
    The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao ~ Junot Diaz

    Awesome! I love the way the guy writes.
  • rriversrrivers Posts: 3,696
    I just finished "THe Appeal" by John Grisham. Sucky ending.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • nuffingmannuffingman Posts: 3,014
    At the moment I'm not reading anything but heard an excellent revue on the radio for Niccolo Ammaniti’s The Crossroads. I'll have a look for this.
  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    Byrnzie wrote:
    Ken Kesey - 'Sometimes a Great Notion'

    How is that? I've toyed with picking it up myself a few times, but it looks pretty hefty and time for reading can be hard to come by sometimes.

    Right now, I'm reading:

    Jim Butcher- Blood Rites
  • just finished reading "lullaby" by chuck palahniuk (fight club, choke) ... pretty good read... especially towards the end

    now i need a recommendation for something new! (choosing a new book is always intimidating)

    i love and have read just about everything from vonnegut, palahniuk, hemingway, salinger
    looking for something in a similar vein... sortof cynical, manic, psychological, gritty, truthful

    any suggestions? :geek:
    "Senza speme vivemo in disio"

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  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    The West Point Route: The Atlanta & West Point Road and the Western Railway of Alabama
    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.
  • HermanBloomHermanBloom Posts: 1,764
    Byrnzie wrote:
    Ken Kesey - 'Sometimes a Great Notion'

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    Brilliant and amazing book; possibly better than Cuckoo's Nest.

    I'm reading Unto a God Unknown by John Steinbeck
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    I thought the world...Turns out the world thought me
  • _Crazy_Mary__Crazy_Mary_ Posts: 1,299
    :shock: I'm still reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. I've just been very busy and Kinsolver is such a hypocrite in this book it's hard to keep reading...
    I really screwed that up. I really Schruted it.
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