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  • sarah ve
    sarah ve Posts: 43
    elmer wrote:
    Enduring Love - Ian McEwan

    I love Ian Mcewan! His Book Saturday is wonderful!
    See you at the beach!! 6/17

    ~Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities~
    -Voltaire
  • nocode23
    nocode23 Posts: 411
    All The Pretty Horses-Cormac McCarthy
  • small town beck
    small town beck Posts: 6,691
    Reading "IT" for about the 20th time. Still gold.
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    elmer wrote:
    Enduring Love - Ian McEwan

    ooh... this one was interesting to say the least.
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • PearlJamaholic
    PearlJamaholic Posts: 2,019
    _Crazy_Mary_ wrote:
    I just finished Night by Elie Wiesel. It's about his life in the concentration camps. Pretty heavy.

    So now I'm reading The Good Guy by Dean Koontz. It's the same as every other Koontz book. Creepy serial killer in Laguna Beach....

    had to read 'night' for school last semester or something. one of the blandest books i ever read. the way he described the whole thing it just seemed so boring. i really didnt care about anything he mentioned. his story telling is about as deep as the paper its printed on.
    http://db.etree.org/PearlJamaholic
  • gleemonex
    gleemonex Posts: 848
    PearlJamaholic wrote:
    had to read 'night' for school last semester or something. one of the blandest books i ever read. the way he described the whole thing it just seemed so boring. i really didnt care about anything he mentioned. his story telling is about as deep as the paper its printed on.

    I read this in high school and felt the same way.
    “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
  • gleemonex
    gleemonex Posts: 848
    I'm taking a roadtrip to Bonnaroo very soon and I'm bringing Catch-22 by Joseph Heller and Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut with me.
    “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
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,236
    THE NINE...Inside The Secret World of the Supreme Court


    by Jeffrey Toobin

    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • zenith
    zenith Posts: 3,191
    even tho its been sitting on my shelf for a while now, im finally finishing up stephen kings dark tower - halfway thru the second last book, one to go - are these ones ever going to be put to screen???
    impatience is a gift ........
  • the wolf
    the wolf Posts: 7,027
    "The Shell game" by Steve Alten.

    everyone should read this book, at least every American!

    a fiction tale, about what really goes on in the good ol' U.S. of A.!!!!

    how we can be lead to war for no good reason.

    all based on true events, but told through a fictional scene.

    AWESOME read!

    really.
    Peace, Love.

    "To question your government is not unpatriotic --
    to not question your government is unpatriotic."
    -- Sen. Chuck Hagel
  • sweetpotato
    sweetpotato Posts: 1,278
    i'm currently reading two novels (one's almost finished, so it's "safe" to overlap, otherwise i start confusing the characters! :D ):

    So Young, Brave and Handsome by Leif Enger (he wrote Peace Like a River, which may be my favorite book ever). This is a Western of sorts, much like his last one, and it's so good. Maybe not AS breathtakingly great as his first one, but pretty close. He's a superb writer.

    and

    The Kindness of Strangers by Katrina Kittle. This one is killing me, since it's about a family that takes in a foster child who has been sexually abused by his own parents. Honestly, when I bought it I wasn't entirely sure of the nature of the "ordeal" the child had been through, which is how the back cover described it. Now that I'm into it and I care about the characters, I want to finish it, but it's beginning to disturb me to the point that I wake up at night thinking about it and getting upset about the whole thing, since I know this kind of horrible shit actually happens. I'm about half way through it, and I find myself hoping that someone kills his parents. That's all I can see right now as a satisfying resolution, but as I told a friend recently, I'm hoping that reading this book (which is very well written, btw, not in any way exploitive) will make me a better person, and maybe I'll be satisfied with something short of their painful annihilation. :(

    Next up: Dreams From My Father by (soon to be President) Barack Obama :)
    "Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States, Barack Obama."

    "Obama's main opponent in this election on November 4th (was) not John McCain, it (was) ignorance."~Michael Moore

    "i'm feeling kinda righteous right now. with my badass motherfuckin' ukulele!"
    ~ed, 8/7
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    sweetpotato wrote:
    The Kindness of Strangers by Katrina Kittle. This one is killing me, since it's about a family that takes in a foster child who has been sexually abused by his own parents. Honestly, when I bought it I wasn't entirely sure of the nature of the "ordeal" the child had been through, which is how the back cover described it. Now that I'm into it and I care about the characters, I want to finish it, but it's beginning to disturb me to the point that I wake up at night thinking about it and getting upset about the whole thing, since I know this kind of horrible shit actually happens. I'm about half way through it, and I find myself hoping that someone kills his parents. That's all I can see right now as a satisfying resolution, but as I told a friend recently, I'm hoping that reading this book (which is very well written, btw, not in any way exploitive) will make me a better person, and maybe I'll be satisfied with something short of their painful annihilation. :(
    :( some books can really take it out of ya.
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • PJSerf
    PJSerf Posts: 637
    Way behind in my reading, but here is my lineup that I'm hoping to tackle in the next month:

    The Chris Farley Show
    A Quiet Belief in Angels
    Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk

    Hoping to free up some time to finish all 3 by the end of July.
    "If you love someone, set them free... if someone loves you, don't fuck up" - EV
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    sarah ve wrote:
    I love Ian Mcewan! His Book Saturday is wonderful!

    Saturday is the only book by him that I've read. I enjoyed it.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    PearlJamaholic wrote:
    had to read 'night' for school last semester or something. one of the blandest books i ever read. the way he described the whole thing it just seemed so boring. i really didnt care about anything he mentioned. his story telling is about as deep as the paper its printed on.

    I had to read that in high school as well. I don't remember being particularly moved by it either.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    zenith wrote:
    even tho its been sitting on my shelf for a while now, im finally finishing up stephen kings dark tower - halfway thru the second last book, one to go - are these ones ever going to be put to screen???

    I heard that JJ Abrahams and Damon Lindelof (the guys behind "Lost") are developing it. I don't think it will come out anytime soon. I think it would work best as an HBO show or miniseries similiar to "John Adams".
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • Drummer98136
    Drummer98136 Posts: 26
    Eckhart Tolle's "A New Earth; Awakening to Your Life's Purpose"
    BOOM-DA-DA-DA-DA-BOOM-BOOM-DA-DA
  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    Nasty Bits by Anthony Bourdain
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • Super Vedder
    Super Vedder Posts: 1,531
    My Booky Wook - Russell Brand
    Crime And Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    Ishmael - Daniel Quinn
    Black, the greatest without a doubt........
  • TrixieCat
    TrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    The Princess Bride
    It is for my book club.
    Not really too into it yet.
    Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
    And I don't feel right when you're gone away

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