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  • smithnic
    smithnic Posts: 1,565
    Just finished Ayn Rand ~ The Fountainhead (over-rated!)
    and am now reading Charles Bock ~ Beautiful Children. Damn good!
    Go Get 'Em Tigers!
  • smithnic
    smithnic Posts: 1,565
    PJSerf wrote:
    Order just placed on Amazon:

    Ishmael
    My Ishmael
    Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
    I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell

    Great
    Better
    Damn Good
    Fucking Horrible Trash!
    Go Get 'Em Tigers!
  • PJSerf
    PJSerf Posts: 637
    smithnic wrote:
    Great
    Better
    Damn Good
    Fucking Horrible Trash!

    Haha, glad to see I reached both ends of the spectrum with this order :)
    "If you love someone, set them free... if someone loves you, don't fuck up" - EV
  • smithnic
    smithnic Posts: 1,565
    wahine wrote:
    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.
    Go Get 'Em Tigers!
  • Solat13
    Solat13 Posts: 6,996
    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.
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  • Inhiding230
    Inhiding230 Posts: 362
    New Moon - Stephanie Meyer Yes I got sucked into the series, but they are actually pretty good........
  • nfanel
    nfanel Posts: 2,558
    All But My Life by Gerda Weissman Klein

    (i am on a holocaust 'kick' for some reason)
  • Black Diamond
    Black Diamond Posts: 25,109
    nfanel wrote:
    All But My Life by Gerda Weissman Klein

    (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.
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  • Cropduster84
    Cropduster84 Posts: 1,283
    Just finished Hemingway's Old Man and The Sea......


    I'm now reading:

    Don Delillo's Falling Man

    and

    Christopher Hitchen's God Is Not Great
    'The more I studied religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.' - Sir Richard Francis Burton
  • nfanel
    nfanel Posts: 2,558
    Black Diamond wrote:
    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 haven't! thanks, i'll check it out!
  • Vedderlution_Baby
    Vedderlution_Baby Posts: 2,535
    catch22 wrote:
    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.
  • blondieblue227
    blondieblue227 Va, USA Posts: 4,509
    No Excuses by kyle maynard

    (excellent read if you have a disabled kid, or have one in the womb)
    *~Pearl Jam will be blasted from speakers until morale improves~*

  • angie76
    angie76 Posts: 646
    A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
    Dig a ditch deep enough
    To keep you clear of the sun
    You've been burned more than once
    You don't think much of trust
  • pearljgirl2010
    pearljgirl2010 Shillington, PA/Tuckerton, NJ Posts: 3,428
    I recently discovered paperbackswap.com. It's a great site if you go thru books quickly--easy to trade them on this site.

    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.
    Need a tour Travel Agent??? Pick me :-)

    Whatever you are, be a good one --Lincoln
  • BetterThanYou
    BetterThanYou Posts: 853
    just started "Tales From The moe.Republic" by John Derhak.
    "Have you ever.........pooped a balloon?"
    ~D.K.S.
  • angie76
    angie76 Posts: 646
    pearljgirl2010 wrote:
    I recently discovered paperbackswap.com. It's a great site if you go thru books quickly--easy to trade them on this site.

    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.

    cool..thanks for posting that link.
    Dig a ditch deep enough
    To keep you clear of the sun
    You've been burned more than once
    You don't think much of trust
  • pearljgirl2010
    pearljgirl2010 Shillington, PA/Tuckerton, NJ Posts: 3,428
    angie76 wrote:
    cool..thanks for posting that link.

    no problem--it's a credit-based system, but it's worked really well for me...
    Need a tour Travel Agent??? Pick me :-)

    Whatever you are, be a good one --Lincoln
  • halszka123
    halszka123 Posts: 1,109
    manual of small animal internal medicine

    it's really fresh
    Not 10c member? Have sth to say? write to me - I'll put it on the forum
    halszka123@op.pl
  • gleemonex
    gleemonex Posts: 848
    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
  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    just finished 'Atonement' by Ian McEwan & 'Murder on the Orient Express' by Agatha christie for my summer reading

    atonement was better than ok, but not excellent
    and murder was just ok- quick, easy read, but did manage to keep my interest

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