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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Ken Kesey - 'Sometimes a Great Notion'

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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    HeartShapedBox wrote:
    Obi Once wrote:
    Hunter Thompson - Fear & loathing in Las Vegas, just finished it a fun read! Brilliant monologues..

    Dan Brown - Angels & Demons, i just started and so far its interesting, alltho the set of of the story really has a lot of similarities as Da Vinci Code (murder, victim's daughter and a secret research).
    Regarding Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas ~ I've seen the movie about a dozen times, but I heard the book is really good :D

    It's not really good, it's one of the five best books to come out of America in the 20th Century. Buy it...read it. Nuff' said. :geek:
  • NS44729
    NS44729 Posts: 35
    The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao ~ Junot Diaz

    Awesome! I love the way the guy writes.
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    I just finished "THe Appeal" by John Grisham. Sucky ending.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • nuffingman
    nuffingman Posts: 3,014
    At the moment I'm not reading anything but heard an excellent revue on the radio for Niccolo Ammaniti’s The Crossroads. I'll have a look for this.
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    Byrnzie wrote:
    Ken Kesey - 'Sometimes a Great Notion'

    How is that? I've toyed with picking it up myself a few times, but it looks pretty hefty and time for reading can be hard to come by sometimes.

    Right now, I'm reading:

    Jim Butcher- Blood Rites
  • Kilgore_Trout
    Kilgore_Trout Posts: 7,334
    just finished reading "lullaby" by chuck palahniuk (fight club, choke) ... pretty good read... especially towards the end

    now i need a recommendation for something new! (choosing a new book is always intimidating)

    i love and have read just about everything from vonnegut, palahniuk, hemingway, salinger
    looking for something in a similar vein... sortof cynical, manic, psychological, gritty, truthful

    any suggestions? :geek:
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  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    The West Point Route: The Atlanta & West Point Road and the Western Railway of Alabama
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • HermanBloom
    HermanBloom Posts: 1,764
    Byrnzie wrote:
    Ken Kesey - 'Sometimes a Great Notion'

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    Brilliant and amazing book; possibly better than Cuckoo's Nest.

    I'm reading Unto a God Unknown by John Steinbeck
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  • _Crazy_Mary_
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    :shock: I'm still reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. I've just been very busy and Kinsolver is such a hypocrite in this book it's hard to keep reading...
    I really screwed that up. I really Schruted it.
  • xavier mcdaniel
    xavier mcdaniel Somewhere in NYC Posts: 9,434
    I just finished a book about former FBI agent John O'Neil. If you've followed the September 11 investigation, he is the man in the FBI that was paying attention to Bin Laden well before the attacks.
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  • libragirl
    libragirl Posts: 4,632
    Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill.
    These cuts are leaving creases. Trace the scars to fit the pieces, to tell the story, you don't need to say a word.
  • dreamncolor
    dreamncolor Posts: 380
    just finished Saint Maybe - Anne Tyler.....and plan to start Searching for Caleb - same author, on monday. i've been a voracious reader as of late.....that makes 5 in the past 3 weeks. never realized just how much reading i could fit in on my to/from work train commute and during lunch. it's been great!
    i'll ride the wave where it takes me
  • smithnic
    smithnic Posts: 1,565
    sgossard3 wrote:
    just finished reading "lullaby" by chuck palahniuk (fight club, choke) ... pretty good read... especially towards the end

    now i need a recommendation for something new! (choosing a new book is always intimidating)

    i love and have read just about everything from vonnegut, palahniuk, hemingway, salinger
    looking for something in a similar vein... sortof cynical, manic, psychological, gritty, truthful

    any suggestions? :geek:


    Keep going with all of palahniuk's work.

    Also, I'd recommend, to everyone, Beautiful Children by Charles Bock
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  • Kilgore_Trout
    Kilgore_Trout Posts: 7,334
    smithnic wrote:
    sgossard3 wrote:
    just finished reading "lullaby" by chuck palahniuk (fight club, choke) ... pretty good read... especially towards the end

    now i need a recommendation for something new! (choosing a new book is always intimidating)

    i love and have read just about everything from vonnegut, palahniuk, hemingway, salinger
    looking for something in a similar vein... sortof cynical, manic, psychological, gritty, truthful

    any suggestions? :geek:


    Keep going with all of palahniuk's work.

    Also, I'd recommend, to everyone, Beautiful Children by Charles Bock
    just picked up "an oral biography of buster casey" by chuck yesterday... about half way through and its great... totally unique story telling layout! and very funny! its been a long time since ive been reading as regularly as i am now and even longer since ive found a new favorite author... i chose a good new years resolution and hopefully one i'll keep :geek: ... also checked out that "sometimes a great notion" that a few of you mentioned... after those two ill pick up your bock suggestion... thanks!

    hope this thread keeps going for when i need another... nothings worse than spending days reading a book only to realize it sucks
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  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    soulsinging wrote:
    Byrnzie wrote:
    Ken Kesey - 'Sometimes a Great Notion'

    How is that? I've toyed with picking it up myself a few times, but it looks pretty hefty and time for reading can be hard to come by sometimes.

    Right now, I'm reading:

    Jim Butcher- Blood Rites

    I started the first Dresden book last night.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    libragirl wrote:
    Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill.

    That was pretty good, but I thought his short story collection, "20th Century Ghosts" was a lot better.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    dreamncolor wrote:
    just finished Saint Maybe - Anne Tyler.....and plan to start Searching for Caleb - same author, on monday. i've been a voracious reader as of late.....that makes 5 in the past 3 weeks. never realized just how much reading i could fit in on my to/from work train commute and during lunch. it's been great!
    A daily train ride sounds sweet....all that time to ride and a train ride, sweeeeet 8-)
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • Enkidu
    Enkidu So Cal Posts: 2,996
    Trying to finish The Defining Moment by Jonathan Alter about FDR's first 100 days as president - I'd like to finish it before the inauguration. It's amazing how similar things were back then to today.
  • pjfan31
    pjfan31 Posts: 7,335
    Finished Adam Gilchrist autobiography yesterday. And I also started Scar tissue. The Anthony Keddis book.
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