What book are you reading?

elmer · April 2006

libragirl wrote:

Im reading Cold Mountain. It's so much better then the movie.

Another that I realy enjoyed...........he should have kept the little bear at the end

eMMI · April 2006

The Woman In White by Wilkie Collins.

I'm not usually the type of person who reads detective novels and stuff similar to them but this one I'm really really enjoying.

you are · April 2006

i'm reading A Million Little Pieces by James Frey....it's about what he went through when he was recovering from his addiction to drugs and alchohol. there's some contraversy over the accuracy of his story, but he said he wrote it as he remembered it. it's still a really good story and helps you to understand what addicts go through in recovery.

lanners · April 2006

you are wrote:

i'm reading A Million Little Pieces by James Frey....it's about what he went through when he was recovering from his addiction to drugs and alchohol. there's some contraversy over the accuracy of his story, but he said he wrote it as he remembered it. it's still a really good story and helps you to understand what addicts go through in recovery.

i read that a couple of months ago and despite the controversy and the fact that a lot of it isn't true, it's still a pretty good read.

i usually have two books on the go, one at home and one at the office. my office book right now is Love & Death by Max Wallace and Ian Halperin about the "murder" of Kurt Cobain. My office is upstairs from a second hand/discount book store and i picked it up for $3.99 the other day. It's been pretty interesting so far.

My home book, which i am just about to crack open is Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer. A friend of mine is obsessed with it so i thought i would give it a shot before i watch the movie.

soulsinging · April 2006

you are wrote:

i'm reading A Million Little Pieces by James Frey....it's about what he went through when he was recovering from his addiction to drugs and alchohol. there's some contraversy over the accuracy of his story, but he said he wrote it as he remembered it. it's still a really good story and helps you to understand what addicts go through in recovery.

actually, this book is pure bullshit, and im not talking about accuracy. his portrayal of what it's like to be an addict and how to recover is pure fiction. the only person who would think this is an accurate portrayal of recovery is someone who's never been through it or seen it up close and personal.

zants · April 2006

Midaq Alley - Naguib Mahfouz

you are · April 2006

soulsinging wrote:

actually, this book is pure bullshit, and im not talking about accuracy. his portrayal of what it's like to be an addict and how to recover is pure fiction. the only person who would think this is an accurate portrayal of recovery is someone who's never been through it or seen it up close and personal.

well, i can't say that i know what it's like because i've personally never been addicted to any drugs or alchohol.....but i have a few friends that are recovering addicts and some that are addicts. some of them can relate with what he wrote, but not all of them. i think it can be different with each person.

rrivers · May 2006

soulsinging wrote:

actually, this book is pure bullshit, and im not talking about accuracy. his portrayal of what it's like to be an addict and how to recover is pure fiction. the only person who would think this is an accurate portrayal of recovery is someone who's never been through it or seen it up close and personal.

I bought it in january before all the flack about it came out. I wish I would have read it before it came out that it is not true. I do not know what it is like to recover from drugs so it may be, as soulsinging says, pure bullshit even from that standpoint. It is a good read though.

soulsinging · May 2006

you are wrote:

well, i can't say that i know what it's like because i've personally never been addicted to any drugs or alchohol.....but i have a few friends that are recovering addicts and some that are addicts. some of them can relate with what he wrote, but not all of them. i think it can be different with each person.

my issue was more with the attitude. he made himself out to be so bad ass. everything he thought and said was true and indicated what a cool independent guy he was. everything the counselors said in there was wishy-washy bullshit. anybody who got honestly upset or emotional was a pansy. him and his hard ass crew were the real people who'd make it. it was a crock.

ive seen people come into recovery with the attitude he presented in the book. "ill do it my way and i dont give a fuck what anyone tells me." they dont make it. that's why i say his story was bs.

NakedClown · May 2006

The Fall - Albert Camus

rrivers · May 2006

soulsinging wrote:

my issue was more with the attitude. he made himself out to be so bad ass. everything he thought and said was true and indicated what a cool independent guy he was. everything the counselors said in there was wishy-washy bullshit. anybody who got honestly upset or emotional was a pansy. him and his hard ass crew were the real people who'd make it. it was a crock.

ive seen people come into recovery with the attitude he presented in the book. "ill do it my way and i dont give a fuck what anyone tells me." they dont make it. that's why i say his story was bs.

From the way he let Oprah walk all over him with her bullshit, you can see that he was not the tough guy that he made himself out to be.

soulsinging · May 2006

rrivers wrote:

From the way he let Oprah walk all over him with her bullshit, you can see that he was not the tough guy that he made himself out to be.

exactly. which is why i think his book sucked. it wasnt an honest look at recovering from addiction. it was a self-aggrandizing made-for-tv-movie version of how he wishes it had been.

civ_eng_girl · May 2006

soulsinging wrote:

exactly. which is why i think his book sucked. it wasnt an honest look at recovering from addiction. it was a self-aggrandizing made-for-tv-movie version of how he wishes it had been.

my book club just met last week to discuss this book, and we figured out that the character Miles (the family-man judge), who was not depicted as a 'bad-ass', but as one of the 'emotional types' who followed the program, was the only person that wasn't dead less than a year after being released from the hospital.....

so this backs up your point, soulsinging.... all the bad-asses (besides James) are dead. but Miles is doing well.

imspinnin · May 2006

Dark Demon by Christine Feehan...
Hopefully this one will last me more than a couple of days

imspinnin · May 2006

you are wrote:

i'm reading A Million Little Pieces by James Frey....it's about what he went through when he was recovering from his addiction to drugs and alchohol. there's some contraversy over the accuracy of his story, but he said he wrote it as he remembered it. it's still a really good story and helps you to understand what addicts go through in recovery.

I personally liked that book, I got a feel for what an adict of any kind go through...regardless of all the hype, I thought it was good.

you are · May 2006

soulsinging wrote:

my issue was more with the attitude. he made himself out to be so bad ass. everything he thought and said was true and indicated what a cool independent guy he was. everything the counselors said in there was wishy-washy bullshit. anybody who got honestly upset or emotional was a pansy. him and his hard ass crew were the real people who'd make it. it was a crock.

ive seen people come into recovery with the attitude he presented in the book. "ill do it my way and i dont give a fuck what anyone tells me." they dont make it. that's why i say his story was bs.

the book that i picked up had an added note from him and he said that he did portray himself has harder and more aggresive than he really was.....the part that i appreciate about the book is where he describes how he views himself (i.e. where he can't see himself as anything more than an addict and a criminal.....and where he can't see beyond the addiction because he doesn't know anything else). that's the part that i appreciate because it gives me a better understanding when trying to relate to my friends who are going through it.

belfast1 · May 2006

Iceland by Patrick Desgraupes - wonderful 5x4 colour transparencies reproduced in book form

soulsinging · May 2006

you are wrote:

the book that i picked up had an added note from him and he said that he did portray himself has harder and more aggresive than he really was.....the part that i appreciate about the book is where he describes how he views himself (i.e. where he can't see himself as anything more than an addict and a criminal.....and where he can't see beyond the addiction because he doesn't know anything else). that's the part that i appreciate because it gives me a better understanding when trying to relate to my friends who are going through it.

the self-loathing of an addict is about the only thing he got right in there, ill give you that. it was the only part worth reading in that whole mess of a novel and certainly the only remotely accurate sentiment.

you are · May 2006

soulsinging wrote:

the self-loathing of an addict is about the only thing he got right in there, ill give you that. it was the only part worth reading in that whole mess of a novel and certainly the only remotely accurate sentiment.

Yeah, I get what you're saying.....I just like all kinds of stories so it's still interesting to me, but I can tell he elaborated or made a lot of it up.

jezebeloria · May 2006

I just finished reading "Wonderland Avenue" by Danny Sugerman. This book was suggested by someone here in the AET for having best description of heroin use in print. I was curious as in the last few years a few former friends have died from OD's. What a fantastic writer this guy was. Definitely suggest it if you are a Doors fan too.

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