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  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,377
    Instead of starting Sala's Gift I read a fun fanciful, but well written book, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai. She wrote Inheritance of Loss. It would be a great plane book, and it would be just a good book with a cup of tea or coffee or even lemonade. I read it in a day because the action flows well, and it's a short book. I'd recommend it. I wrote a review on http://nextstopgraduateschool.blogspot.com.
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • Porchsitter
    Porchsitter Loganville, GA Posts: 1,091
    Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett's "Good Omens." Loving it so far.
    We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.--Bill Hicks
  • Restless Soul
    Restless Soul Posts: 805
    Porchsitter wrote:
    Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett's "Good Omens." Loving it so far.

    I love that book! And neil gaiman too. Can't wait to see stardust when it comes out here in October I think.
    "We have to change the concept of patriotism to one of “matriotism” — love of humanity that transcends war. A matriarch would never send her own children off to wars that kill other people’s children." Cindy Sheehan
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    London, Hammersmith Apollo (Ed solo), 31 July 2012
    Milton Keynes Bowl, 11 July 2014
    London, Hammersmith Apollo (Ed solo), 06 June 2017
    London, O2, 18 June 2018
    London, O2, 17 July 2018
    Amsterdam, Afas Live (Ed solo), 09 June 2019
    Amsterdam, Afas Live (Ed solo), 10 June 2019



  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    Cofessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
    Democracy Now wrote:
    Today, we spend the hour with a man who claims to have worked deep inside the forces driving corporate globalization. In his first book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins told the story of his work as a highly paid consultant hired to strong-arm leaders into creating policy favorable to the US government and corporations, what he calls the “corporatocracy.” John Perkins says he helped the US cheat poor countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars by lending them more money than they could possibly repay and then taking over their economies. John Perkins has just come out with his second book on this issue. It’s called The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals and the Truth about Global Corruption. John Perkins joins us now in the firehouse studio. Welcome to Democracy Now!

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    This was absolutely one the best DN program to date. Amy Goodman spoke to John Perkins who was an highly paid "Economic Hitman" for the US government and it's major corporations. Other than running many of these third world countries into debt, these econ hitmen would bribe political leaders from these countries. Many of these countries had "SOMETHING" this country wanted. Such as OIL, Bauxite (used to make aluminum) or Cobalt (used in every cellphone and computer.)

    I know this is true because this same thing was done to Jamaica my birthplace. They corrupted the leaders in order to get at our bauxite mines and now the US corporations owns most of Jamaica's export. If these leaders refused to be corrupted these private industries would send in these "Jackels" to assassinate or overthrow these leaders.

    This is fascinating to listen or to read @ The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global Corruption" and get a better understanding on how NSA super-cedes the CIA. Then who really runs this country, not the President (it matters not if it's Democratic or Republican) but major Corporations/Private Industries.

    ".......Give The Corporations Some Complications......"

    Peace
    Earle
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    *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)


  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    westsidepie wrote:
    "Last Exit to Brooklyn" by Hubert Selby, Jr.

    Tralala....

    ...pie

    nice. love me some H when i'm feeling particlarly nihilistic. :)
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    Cormac McCarthy - No Country For Old Men
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • Maggot Brain
    Maggot Brain Posts: 22
    'My Life Among The Serial Killers' - Dr Helen Morrison .... I get some strange looks when people see what i'm reading, but i find it all so fascinating!
  • he still stands
    he still stands Posts: 2,835
    "Bluebeard" by Kurt Vonnegut

    Pretty good so far, but I don't think it can match Slaughterhouse Five
    Everything not forbidden is compulsory and eveything not compulsory is forbidden. You are free... free to do what the government says you can do.
  • nuffingman
    nuffingman Posts: 3,014
    Just been on holiday so read a few in a short space of time.

    Harry Potter - Deathly hallows
    Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
    Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
    A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson
    Notes from a Small Country - Bill Bryson
    Winter in Madrid - C.J. Sansom
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,377
    Just finished Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story by Christopher Moore. Great book to escape as he is a funny writer. I always use his books to escape tedium.
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • Mel1979
    Mel1979 Posts: 17
    A Clockwork Orange. A good read so far.
  • elmer
    elmer Posts: 1,683
    Steinbeck 'East of Eden'....................over half way through, impressed I am, has brought a tear to my eye already. cowsheds that were once castles and all that kind of feelng, comforting sadness.
  • Collin
    Collin Posts: 4,931
    Has anyone read The Outsider by Colin Wilson?
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  • #X.
    #X. Posts: 142
    I saw Bourne Ult. earlier this week. Oh my, that is the best movie. The dirt bikie scence is the bestest. Anyways I started Bourne Identity by R. Ludlow last night, i heard there is a total of five books in the series! Ya for me. #X.
    "The Poet is a madman lost in adventure."
    -Paul Verlaine-

    "With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion."
    -Edgar Poe-
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    i just picked up an anthology of amiri baraka's poetry, transbluesency. i'm so thrilled to have found it. :D
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • CHANGEinWAVES
    CHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    Empress: A Novel
    By Shan Sa
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • gue_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    How to Blow Up the AT&T Building by Marvin Bush
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  • Restless Soul
    Restless Soul Posts: 805
    Marley & Me by john grogan - very funny!
    "We have to change the concept of patriotism to one of “matriotism” — love of humanity that transcends war. A matriarch would never send her own children off to wars that kill other people’s children." Cindy Sheehan
    ---
    London, Brixton, 14 July 1993
    London, Wembley, 1996
    London, Wembley, 18 June 2007
    London, O2, 18 August 2009
    London, Hammersmith Apollo (Ed solo), 31 July 2012
    Milton Keynes Bowl, 11 July 2014
    London, Hammersmith Apollo (Ed solo), 06 June 2017
    London, O2, 18 June 2018
    London, O2, 17 July 2018
    Amsterdam, Afas Live (Ed solo), 09 June 2019
    Amsterdam, Afas Live (Ed solo), 10 June 2019



  • Soujiro_Seta
    Soujiro_Seta Posts: 100
    American Psycho
    Its interesting so far but a bit dense.
  • TrixieCat
    TrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    Restless Soul wrote:
    Marley & Me by john grogan - very funny!
    I adored this book!
    Now I am reading The Divide, by the author of the Horse Whisperer....snooze city....it is for my book club..oh well. :)
    Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
    And I don't feel right when you're gone away

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