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  • gleemonex
    gleemonex Posts: 848
    I just recently read Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer and I need to promote it on here. Really amazing book by a very good author. Anyone who enjoyed Everything is Illuminated would surely enjoy this book. Check it out.
    “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
  • One Song Glory
    One Song Glory Posts: 710
    About halfway through "Dear American Airlines" by Jonathan Miles and I only started it a couple hours ago. A very quick read, but in the most brilliant of ways. Reminds me a bit of Coupland, especially his latest novel, "The Gum Thief", more stylistically than in plot. (The whole thing is basically a venomous letter to American Airlines about the fucked up state of the narrator's life and how it all boils down to a canceled flight.) In reality, missing the flight is just the breaking point for a man whose life has been spiraling downwards for decades. Miles is a brilliant and captivating new novelist and I highly recommend this for anyone that might be pondering their lives while waiting around in airports this month! :)
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  • _Crazy_Mary_
    _Crazy_Mary_ Posts: 1,299
    rrivers wrote:
    I had to read that in high school as well. I don't remember being particularly moved by it either.


    I remember not being moved or interested in anything I read in high school, so I can see where you (and others, apparently) are coming from, but I don't understand how someone cannot be touched by this book. The guy saw babies being thrown into the fire. His whole family was murdered and so many people starved to death.
    Are you all so insensitive/numb that this doesn't stir some kind of anger or grief inside you?
    I really screwed that up. I really Schruted it.
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    one flew over the cuckoos nest - ken kesey.
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • small town beck
    small town beck Posts: 6,691
    I just purchased "Fugitive Pieces" so I am going to read that... I am in the midst of "IT" but I have read that so many times I think I can pick it up and leave it from time to time :)
  • _Crazy_Mary_
    _Crazy_Mary_ Posts: 1,299
    Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg just arrived and I'm trying to get into it, but I worry that I don't know enough about history to keep up.
    I really screwed that up. I really Schruted it.
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    _Crazy_Mary_ wrote:
    Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg just arrived and I'm trying to get into it, but I worry that I don't know enough about history to keep up.

    and thats when you find other books to fill in the gaps. :)

    but be careful cause one day you could wake up and find yourself surrrounded by piles of books like me. its a shocking addiction. :D
    hear my name
    take a good look
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    lie beside me
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  • _Crazy_Mary_
    _Crazy_Mary_ Posts: 1,299
    catefrances wrote:
    and thats when you find other books to fill in the gaps. :)

    but be careful cause one day you could wake up and find yourself surrrounded by piles of books like me. its a shocking addiction. :D

    you are so right! I just ordered a book called The Long Walk about Soviet prisoners that walk to China to escape!
    I really screwed that up. I really Schruted it.
  • CHANGEinWAVES
    CHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    _Crazy_Mary_ wrote:
    you are so right! I just ordered a book called The Long Walk about Soviet prisoners that walk to China to escape!
    this book sounds really good! let us know how it is...please.
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • the wolf
    the wolf Posts: 7,027
    CHANGEinWAVES wrote:
    this book sounds really good! let us know how it is...please.

    i thought you were reading " My sexy voice " ???????

    let me know when your done with that ! that sounded good too!!
    Peace, Love.

    "To question your government is not unpatriotic --
    to not question your government is unpatriotic."
    -- Sen. Chuck Hagel
  • CHANGEinWAVES
    CHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    the wolf wrote:
    i thought you were reading " My sexy voice " ???????

    let me know when your done with that ! that sounded good too!!
    I was...it was good. I laughed and laughed. the shaving "scene" was the best.
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    _Crazy_Mary_ wrote:
    I remember not being moved or interested in anything I read in high school, so I can see where you (and others, apparently) are coming from, but I don't understand how someone cannot be touched by this book. The guy saw babies being thrown into the fire. His whole family was murdered and so many people starved to death.
    Are you all so insensitive/numb that this doesn't stir some kind of anger or grief inside you?

    Calm down. I was in high school and I barely remember reading it. Move on and stop being morally superior to everyone.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    Just finished "Clapton" and "Son of a Witch". "Son of a Witch" was like all the other Maguire books I've read, just ok. I heard there is a third book in the "Wicked" series coming out this year called "A Lion Among Men" that will focus on the Cowardly Lion.

    Now I'm reading "50 Great Short Stories" and "Don't Know Much About History".
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • libragirl
    libragirl Posts: 4,632
    Im currently reading New Earth: finding your life's purpose and a book about reiki.
    These cuts are leaving creases. Trace the scars to fit the pieces, to tell the story, you don't need to say a word.
  • PearlJamaholic
    PearlJamaholic Posts: 2,019
    _Crazy_Mary_ wrote:
    I remember not being moved or interested in anything I read in high school, so I can see where you (and others, apparently) are coming from, but I don't understand how someone cannot be touched by this book. The guy saw babies being thrown into the fire. His whole family was murdered and so many people starved to death.
    Are you all so insensitive/numb that this doesn't stir some kind of anger or grief inside you?

    it was written so matter of a fact. its like nazis used babies as target practice. ok i already knew the nazis did horrible things... thanks for the bland discription mr author person. he should have had his story ghost written.
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  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    PearlJamaholic wrote:
    it was written so matter of a fact. its like nazis used babies as target practice. ok i already knew the nazis did horrible things... thanks for the bland discription mr author person. he should have had his story ghost written.

    Right.

    Just because you don't particularly care for a book about the holocaust, does not mean you are "insensitive/numb" to the horrible things that happened.

    "Mr. Author Person" is funny.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • One Song Glory
    One Song Glory Posts: 710
    Started "Accidental Death of an Anarchist" today on lunch. A very interesting little play, I believe originally in Italian...? It's definitely a classic satire on power and I'm loving it. The character known as "The Maniac" got me laughing out loud up in the lunchroom, and I hardly ever laugh out loud when reading, even though I always have my nose in a book. Very political, but lots of fun. Similar to the style of Catch-22 I'm finding...well, if Catch-22 had been a play. It's quite amusing though. :)
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    2005: Kitchener/Hamilton/Toronto
    2006: Toronto 1 & 2
    2008: Hartford/EV Toronto 1 & 2
    2009: Toronto/Philadelphia 3 & 4
    2010: Buffalo
    2011: Montreal/Toronto 1 & 2/Hamilton
    2013: London/Buffalo/Vancouver/Seattle
    2016: Toronto 1 & 2
    2022: Hamilton/Toronto
    2023: EV Seattle 1&2
  • the wolf
    the wolf Posts: 7,027
    CHANGEinWAVES wrote:
    I was...it was good. I laughed and laughed. the shaving "scene" was the best.

    oh shit ! i almost forgot about the shaving scene!! my god, that gave me nightmares!!! ouch !!!

    what about the toilet bowl part, where dude gets his junk stuck between the seat and and the rim of the bowl!!!!!
    Peace, Love.

    "To question your government is not unpatriotic --
    to not question your government is unpatriotic."
    -- Sen. Chuck Hagel
  • CHANGEinWAVES
    CHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    the wolf wrote:
    oh shit ! i almost forgot about the shaving scene!! my god, that gave me nightmares!!! ouch !!!

    what about the toilet bowl part, where dude gets his junk stuck between the seat and and the rim of the bowl!!!!!
    almost peed my self from laughter on that one:)
    gotta love a book like that:)
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • ForestBrain
    ForestBrain Posts: 460
    I'm reading "The Gardens of the Moon" by Steven Erikson.
    When life gives you lemons, throw them at somebody.

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