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  • Sian-of-the-deadSian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    I just finished The DaVinci Code - incredible. I really didn't want it to end :(

    I'm about to start I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
    Been to this many PJ shows: Reading 2006 London 2007 Manchester & London 2009 Dublin, Belfast, London, Nijmegen & Berlin 2010 Manchester 1 & Manchester 2 2012...

    ... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.
  • skippybrewskippybrew Posts: 283
    Sian-of-the-dead wrote:
    I'm about to start I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

    Great book. Classic. It makes the movie seem downright feelgood by comparison (and they butchered it).
  • peacegirlpeacegirl Posts: 835
    I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie by Pamela Des Barres

    I've had this book for about 10yrs...have started it a few times but never finished it...this time I am!
  • rriversrrivers Posts: 3,696
    skippybrew wrote:
    Sian-of-the-dead wrote:
    I'm about to start I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

    Great book. Classic. It makes the movie seem downright feelgood by comparison (and they butchered it).

    Yeah the book is way better.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • lovebuzzlovebuzz Posts: 42
    Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose... just as good as the HBO series it inspired.
  • theoceansmademetheoceansmademe Posts: 1,132
    Byrnzie wrote:
    Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory
    Peter Hessler

    9780061804090.jpg

    seems interesting will check my local library
  • theoceansmademetheoceansmademe Posts: 1,132
    smarchee wrote:
    reading Into Thin Air by John Krakauer now

    one of my all-time favorites.

    if you haven't yet read his book on Pat Tillman--just as good as Thin Air
  • PearlJamaholicPearlJamaholic Posts: 2,018
    rrivers wrote:
    skippybrew wrote:
    Sian-of-the-dead wrote:
    I'm about to start I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

    Great book. Classic. It makes the movie seem downright feelgood by comparison (and they butchered it).

    Yeah the book is way better.

    probably my favorite vampire story. every time someone says they saw the movie and it sucked, i tell them read the book. the movie really should have been called i am savior.

    what did the movie really have in common with the book anyways??? main character's name is the only thing i can think of right now.
    http://db.etree.org/PearlJamaholic
  • armyreservearmyreserve Posts: 209
    Beryl: A Pig's Tale
    10/06/91 Hollywood, CA; 05/13/92 Hollywood, CA; 09/02/93 Hollywood, CA; 11/05/93 Indio, CA; 11/07/95 San Diego, CA; 03/29/98 (Dead Man Walking - The Concert) Los Angeles, CA; 07/13/98 Inglewood, CA; 10/24/00 Los Angeles, CA; 10/28/00 Devore, CA;07/09/06 Los Angeles, CA; 07/10/06 Los Angeles, CA; 09/30/09 Universal City, CA; 10/01/09 Universal City, CA
  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire by Alan Palmer
    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.
  • decides2dreamdecides2dream Posts: 14,977
    the zookeeper's wife ~ diane ackerman

    bout half-way thru and it is fantastic.
    Stay with me...
    Let's just breathe...


    I am myself like you somehow


  • rriversrrivers Posts: 3,696
    Island of the Blue Dolphins...my son is reading it in class so I am reading it with him.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • oona leftoona left Posts: 1,677
    decides2dream wrote:
    the zookeeper's wife ~ diane ackerman

    bout half-way thru and it is fantastic.

    Just read this about a month ago, after stumbling across it.

    It's an amazing story.
  • One Song GloryOne Song Glory Posts: 710
    Just finished Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and am now about halfway through William Gibson's "Pattern Recognition". "Jekyll and Hyde" is a classic and I quite enjoyed reading the original. Not a fan of Gibson, as much as I usually love weird postmodernist shit. Not a terrible story, but his writing doesn't really impress me, a bit too Dan Brown "airport paperback" for me. Ah, the life of an English student. :D
    2003: Toronto
    2005: Kitchener/Hamilton/Toronto
    2006: Toronto 1 & 2
    2008: Hartford/EV Toronto 1 & 2
    2009: Toronto/Philadelphia 3 & 4
    2010: Buffalo
    2011: Montreal/Toronto 1 & 2/Hamilton
    2013: London/Buffalo/Vancouver/Seattle
    2016: Toronto 1 & 2
    2022: Hamilton/Toronto
    2023: EV Seattle 1&2
  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    "Sinner Take All...A Memoir of Love and Porn" by Tera Patrick :twisted:
    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.
  • decides2dreamdecides2dream Posts: 14,977
    just started yesterday:


    the stranger ~ albert camus
    Stay with me...
    Let's just breathe...


    I am myself like you somehow


  • blondieblue227blondieblue227 Posts: 4,509
    the new disability history by paul longmore

    before that

    the tale of egar sawtelle
    *~Pearl Jam will be blasted from speakers until morale improves~*

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  • One Song GloryOne Song Glory Posts: 710
    "Ripley Bogle" by Robert McLiam Wilson. I'm about a third of the way through and I'm adoring it so far...although I have a feeling that the protagonist is going to die at the end. It's about an extremely brilliant, young homeless guy living on the streets in London and his story of how he got there. It's also the very last novel of my undergrad degree!
    2003: Toronto
    2005: Kitchener/Hamilton/Toronto
    2006: Toronto 1 & 2
    2008: Hartford/EV Toronto 1 & 2
    2009: Toronto/Philadelphia 3 & 4
    2010: Buffalo
    2011: Montreal/Toronto 1 & 2/Hamilton
    2013: London/Buffalo/Vancouver/Seattle
    2016: Toronto 1 & 2
    2022: Hamilton/Toronto
    2023: EV Seattle 1&2
  • One Song GloryOne Song Glory Posts: 710
    decides2dream wrote:
    just started yesterday:


    the stranger ~ albert camus

    Are you reading Camus in the original French or the English translation? I remember struggling through that one for a high school French class. I THINK I enjoyed it but I'm sure I didn't get as much out of it as someone fluent in French. I've always meant to go back to the translation eventually.
    2003: Toronto
    2005: Kitchener/Hamilton/Toronto
    2006: Toronto 1 & 2
    2008: Hartford/EV Toronto 1 & 2
    2009: Toronto/Philadelphia 3 & 4
    2010: Buffalo
    2011: Montreal/Toronto 1 & 2/Hamilton
    2013: London/Buffalo/Vancouver/Seattle
    2016: Toronto 1 & 2
    2022: Hamilton/Toronto
    2023: EV Seattle 1&2
  • Lost_ClayLost_Clay Posts: 1,085
    i'm ripping thru Don Cherry's hockey stories & stuff & pickin away at The Acadians - a people's story of exile & triumph (by Dean Jobb)
    "ah fuck it get in trouble"

    06/29/03 09/22/05 09/24/05 09/25/05 05/09/06 05/10/06
  • theoceansmademetheoceansmademe Posts: 1,132
    Open by Andre Aggasi.

    Must admit, I was a bit hesitant to check this one out, but 40 pages into I am glad I did.

    Not sure how much help he got from his editor but the story telling is excellent so far.
  • smarcheesmarchee Posts: 14,539
    The Price Of The Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards Of A Year In Iraq by Rory Stewart
    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
  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    "Peter & Max , A Fables Novel" by Bill Willingham
    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.
  • decides2dreamdecides2dream Posts: 14,977
    One Song Glory wrote:
    decides2dream wrote:
    just started yesterday:


    the stranger ~ albert camus

    Are you reading Camus in the original French or the English translation? I remember struggling through that one for a high school French class. I THINK I enjoyed it but I'm sure I didn't get as much out of it as someone fluent in French. I've always meant to go back to the translation eventually.


    me reading in a language outside of english? hahahahahahahaha. :lol:

    so yes, that's a no. i am reading the english translation. i can barely eek out a few phrases in foreign languages, forget reading in em. it's a short book, and interestingly, a very easy read when you read it in your first language. :D i'm enjoying it. probably finish it up tonight on the train or tomorrow at lunch. give it another go!
    Stay with me...
    Let's just breathe...


    I am myself like you somehow


  • One Song GloryOne Song Glory Posts: 710
    decides2dream wrote:
    One Song Glory wrote:
    decides2dream wrote:
    just started yesterday:


    the stranger ~ albert camus

    Are you reading Camus in the original French or the English translation? I remember struggling through that one for a high school French class. I THINK I enjoyed it but I'm sure I didn't get as much out of it as someone fluent in French. I've always meant to go back to the translation eventually.


    me reading in a language outside of english? hahahahahahahaha. :lol:

    so yes, that's a no. i am reading the english translation. i can barely eek out a few phrases in foreign languages, forget reading in em. it's a short book, and interestingly, a very easy read when you read it in your first language. :D i'm enjoying it. probably finish it up tonight on the train or tomorrow at lunch. give it another go!

    I figured it would be an easy read in English, considering we 11th-graders were able to suss out most of it with our embarrassingly rudimentary French. I'd be curious to see how it differs in the translation...although I honestly wouldn't remember anything that specific to the French I'm sure. Grade 11 was six years ago for me!

    Also, being Canadian, asking whether you're reading it in French or English is probably more of a valid question. :D
    2003: Toronto
    2005: Kitchener/Hamilton/Toronto
    2006: Toronto 1 & 2
    2008: Hartford/EV Toronto 1 & 2
    2009: Toronto/Philadelphia 3 & 4
    2010: Buffalo
    2011: Montreal/Toronto 1 & 2/Hamilton
    2013: London/Buffalo/Vancouver/Seattle
    2016: Toronto 1 & 2
    2022: Hamilton/Toronto
    2023: EV Seattle 1&2
  • michelleelisemichelleelise Posts: 346
    I was finally able to get "Under the Dome" from the library :D

    I'd forgotten how much I love Stephen King - I'm only about a quarter of the way through and already feel connected to each of these characters.
  • rriversrrivers Posts: 3,696
    michelle822 wrote:
    I was finally able to get "Under the Dome" from the library :D

    I'd forgotten how much I love Stephen King - I'm only about a quarter of the way through and already feel connected to each of these characters.

    He doesn't disappoint. I'm already looking forward to his next book.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • oona leftoona left Posts: 1,677
    rrivers wrote:
    michelle822 wrote:
    I was finally able to get "Under the Dome" from the library :D

    I'd forgotten how much I love Stephen King - I'm only about a quarter of the way through and already feel connected to each of these characters.

    He doesn't disappoint. I'm already looking forward to his next book.

    That's exactly what I love most about his books - you can feel he himself loves the characters he creates.

    I
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    are you somebody - nuala ofaolain.
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
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