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  • Lostdogsinthegarden
    Lostdogsinthegarden Posts: 844
    I'm reading "Relic" by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. I was a fan of the movie as I'm a horror man, and the book is definitely stepping it up.
  • Igivesuchgoodparadym
    Igivesuchgoodparadym Posts: 924
    has anyone said they're reading "Deep?" Well, it's more a magazine, so I guess not.
    model role model
  • YourDirtisMyfood
    YourDirtisMyfood Boston Posts: 4,668
    i heard the sequel to Kite Runner is called Cunt Rider.
  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    mca47 wrote:
    I'm about 1/4 of the way through "Under the Banner of Heaven".

    So far it's incredible!

    I've said it about 29457 times in this thread...but that is my all-time favorite book. I have several recommendations on memoirs from former FLDS members if you're interested.
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • Enkidu
    Enkidu So Cal Posts: 2,996
    I've been thinking about re-reading Under the Banner of Heaven. I loved it when I read it and I'm so angry about Prop 8 and how much money the Mormon church put into it - you know, I AM gonna re-read it. And I'd love to read more books about the church.

    (Right now I'm re-reading the Henning Mankell Kurt Wallander detective series, about a detective in Sweden. Great book series.)
  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    Enkidu wrote:
    I've been thinking about re-reading Under the Banner of Heaven. I loved it when I read it and I'm so angry about Prop 8 and how much money the Mormon church put into it - you know, I AM gonna re-read it. And I'd love to read more books about the church.

    You and me both. So much for seperation of church and state, huh?
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • YourDirtisMyfood
    YourDirtisMyfood Boston Posts: 4,668
    AmentsChick wrote:
    You and me both. So much for seperation of church and state, huh?


    Banner is Krakauer right? Will you get the Tillman book if it comes out?
  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Ceremonies-Deborah-Laake/dp/0440217806

    http://kassidylane.com/

    http://www.amazon.com/Escape-Carolyn-Jessop/dp/0767927575/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1226598598&sr=8-2

    http://www.amazon.com/Mormon-Murders-Steven-Naifeh/dp/0451401522

    This one is especially eye-opening:

    http://www.amazon.com/Mormon-Conspiracy-Charles-L-Wood/dp/158275036X/ref=pd_sim_b_2
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    YourDirtisMyfood wrote:
    Banner is Krakauer right? Will you get the Tillman book if it comes out?
    Yup, it is indeed Krakauer! (I am so in love with him as a writer!)

    I was *DEFINITELY* get the Tillman book IF it ever comes out. From what I understand, it was set to release in October, but Krakauer didn't like the way the publisher was handling it so he held back the book and apparently it's in limbo for the time being. The earliest we'll be seeing it is 2009.
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • YourDirtisMyfood
    YourDirtisMyfood Boston Posts: 4,668
    AmentsChick wrote:
    Yup, it is indeed Krakauer! (I am so in love with him as a writer!)

    I was *DEFINITELY* get the Tillman book IF it ever comes out. From what I understand, it was set to release in October, but Krakauer didn't like the way the publisher was handling it so he held back the book and apparently it's in limbo for the time being. The earliest we'll be seeing it is 2009.

    I'd like to see him write a story on Heath Ledger, the same way he researched McCandless and no doubt Tillman. That'd be a good story.
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    small town beck wrote:
    How is the "Just Past Sunset"?

    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".
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    YourDirtisMyfood wrote:
    I'd like to see him write a story on Heath Ledger, the same way he researched McCandless and no doubt Tillman. That'd be a good story.

    That's true. But, to be honest, I don't think Ledger is "extreme" enough for Krakauer. As he wrote in UtBoH, he is intruiged by anything extreme (i.e. mountain/rock climbing, religion, abandoning all useless possessions and living off the land, etc).

    In my opinion, though, Krakauer could write about his shoelaces and I'd probably find it fascinating.
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • gleemonex
    gleemonex Posts: 848
    I just finished reading Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. Holy shit, what a book.
    “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
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    'Hokkaido Highway Blues - Hitchhiking Japan' by Will Ferguson. A very funny book, and a very good writer.
  • Bathgate66
    Bathgate66 Posts: 15,813
    Down Thunder Road
    THE MAKING OF BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

    by Marc Elliot & *Mike Appel


    * Springsteens former Producer / Manager
    For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside
    That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive
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  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Jorge Luis Borges - Ficciones
    "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"
  • halszka123
    halszka123 Posts: 1,109
    The Art of Intrusion: The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers, Intruders & Deceivers - Kevin Mitnick
    Not 10c member? Have sth to say? write to me - I'll put it on the forum
    halszka123@op.pl
  • unifiedscene
    unifiedscene Posts: 462
    Lies of Locke Lamorra- Scott Lynch

    It's a blast... Oceans 11 meets the renaissance!
    she was underwhelmed, if that's a word
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Maud Ellman's The Politics of Impersonality: T.S Eliot & Ezra Pound
    "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"
  • Linda
    Linda Posts: 1,656
    (re) reading Christiane F.

    wir kinder vom Bahnhoff Zoo....
    i'm not happy yet.....

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