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  • Mel1979
    Mel1979 Posts: 17
    Now onto 'Choke' by Chuck Palahniuk
  • answers are fatal
    answers are fatal Posts: 281
    Hiroshima
    By: John Heresy
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    Now reading "Manhunt: the 12-day chase for Lincoln's killer". It's written like a novel and is really good so far.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • smithnic
    smithnic Posts: 1,565
    Mel1979 wrote:
    Now onto 'Choke' by Chuck Palahniuk

    Palahniuk is one of my favorites! That's probably right of there with his best.
    Go Get 'Em Tigers!
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Ms. Haiku wrote:
    Atonement by Ian McEwan. I read it a few years ago, but the language is sinking into me more this time. I'm reading it again because the movie is coming out. I'm becoming a James McAvoy fan, and I would like to see the movie, but I want to refresh my memory with the book. A lot of moments, but somehow there are spaces between the moments. They are not spaces for breathing, and they add an edge. Maybe that's why I didn't get into the writing. More description than dialogue. Excellent description nonetheless.

    i hate when they make films of books i really enjoyed. :(

    re: your comment ms. haiku about its screenplay friendliness.
    i think considering the book was about Briony's misinterpretation of something seen and the consequences of that, the detail within the book was a deliberate device to show how sometimes, it really is ALL in the details. :)
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  • xavier mcdaniel
    xavier mcdaniel Somewhere in NYC Posts: 9,440
    I just finished a book on the 1967 Toronto Maple Leafs, which discusses the team and what happened with the franchise in the years following.
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    darkness visible - william styron
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  • somebodyelsessky2020
    somebodyelsessky2020 Posts: 1,178
    101 sexual positions - max von dong
    Oh dear dad
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    Like you somehow
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    Where it takes me
    I'll hold the pain
    Release me
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,377
    catefrances wrote:
    i hate when they make films of books i really enjoyed. :(

    re: your comment ms. haiku about its screenplay friendliness.
    i think considering the book was about Briony's misinterpretation of something seen and the consequences of that, the detail within the book was a deliberate device to show how sometimes, it really is ALL in the details. :)
    Well, just like last time, the beginning is bogging me down. I finished it the first time. However, this time I decided to go on to another book. I tried to reread it so I can see how it relates to the movie. I skipped around to the important parts, and remembered some stuff. The middle is really the meat of the passionate writing. The beginning is alright, and sets the story, but the middle is where I was actually interested in the book. Not this time, I have to go on to something because the beginning just doesn't interest me. I didn't like the ending. All these strings of stories and new strings created. It's like a new writer wrote the ending.
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  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
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  • Math
    Math Posts: 71
    somebodyelse'ssky wrote:
    101 sexual positions - max von dong

    I'm waiting on the movie for this one.

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  • Linda
    Linda Posts: 1,656
    Marisha Pessl's debut novel Special Topics in Calamity Physics.
    i'm not happy yet.....
  • lgt
    lgt Posts: 720
    Finished Antonia Evans' biography of Mary Queen of Scots and started Brick Lane by Monica Ali... although not really getting into it.
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    Linda wrote:
    Marisha Pessl's debut novel Special Topics in Calamity Physics.

    That is a novel? I saw it but thought it was about Physicis and passed on it. I have heard good things about it.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • Linda
    Linda Posts: 1,656
    rrivers wrote:
    That is a novel? I saw it but thought it was about Physicis and passed on it. I have heard good things about it.

    i thought so either, but its a nice novel, its a talented girl that Marisha Pessl.
    i'm not happy yet.....
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,377
    Heat by Bill Buford. As a vegetarian I'm getting a little disheartened how affluence is associated with incredible amounts of meat at meals (not news, I know), and how superstar chefs are supporting the health problems in this country.
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  • chinobaeza
    chinobaeza Santiago Posts: 2,489
    I'm reading the biography of Winston Churchill by Geoffrey Best
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    touched with fire: manic depressive illness and the artistic temperament - kay redfield jamison.
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  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    Yes, Your Teen is Crazy!

    Loving Your Kid Without Losing Your Mind

    Michael J. Bradley
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    Ms. Haiku wrote:
    Heat by Bill Buford. As a vegetarian I'm getting a little disheartened how affluence is associated with incredible amounts of meat at meals (not news, I know), and how superstar chefs are supporting the health problems in this country.

    Superstar chefs support the health problems in this country? Ha!
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."

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