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  • Wilds
    Wilds Posts: 4,329
    Just started "Atlas Shrugged".
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    Wilds wrote:
    Just started "Atlas Shrugged".

    In a conference room where I work, someone put this book on the ledge of a big dry erase board and wrote "If you think your life's bad, read this" with an arrow pointing to "Atlas Shrugged".
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • dcfaithful
    dcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    rrivers wrote:
    Wilds wrote:
    Just started "Atlas Shrugged".

    In a conference room where I work, someone put this book on the ledge of a big dry erase board and wrote "If you think your life's bad, read this" with an arrow pointing to "Atlas Shrugged".

    How inticing. Did you pick it up and start to read it? There would've been no hesitation on my part.
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  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    dcfaithful wrote:
    rrivers wrote:
    Wilds wrote:
    Just started "Atlas Shrugged".

    In a conference room where I work, someone put this book on the ledge of a big dry erase board and wrote "If you think your life's bad, read this" with an arrow pointing to "Atlas Shrugged".

    How inticing. Did you pick it up and start to read it? There would've been no hesitation on my part.

    I thought about it, but then remembered the 30 books at home to read that I have!
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • libragirl
    libragirl Posts: 4,632
    I'm currently reading book 3 of the Midnight Breed series by Lara Adrian. I was able to download the first one free on my kindle. I was skeptical about reading it but it was free..lol. Now I'm addicted to them.
    These cuts are leaving creases. Trace the scars to fit the pieces, to tell the story, you don't need to say a word.
  • Wilds
    Wilds Posts: 4,329
    rrivers wrote:
    Wilds wrote:
    Just started "Atlas Shrugged".

    In a conference room where I work, someone put this book on the ledge of a big dry erase board and wrote "If you think your life's bad, read this" with an arrow pointing to "Atlas Shrugged".

    Heavy reading. Flying to Japan Monday and this will keep me busy. The font is like a 1. ;)
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    Wilds wrote:
    rrivers wrote:
    Wilds wrote:
    Just started "Atlas Shrugged".

    In a conference room where I work, someone put this book on the ledge of a big dry erase board and wrote "If you think your life's bad, read this" with an arrow pointing to "Atlas Shrugged".

    The font is like a 1. ;)

    That made me laugh, probably because it's true. :D Have a good trip!
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • Hartydog
    Hartydog Posts: 2,060
    Currently working on a book about Saturday Night Live called "Saturday Night"
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  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    Hartydog wrote:
    Currently working on a book about Saturday Night Live called "Saturday Night"

    I read this: http://www.amazon.com/Live-New-York-Unc ... 918&sr=8-1

    It's an oral history of SNL and was really good.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • Hartydog
    Hartydog Posts: 2,060
    rrivers wrote:
    Hartydog wrote:
    Currently working on a book about Saturday Night Live called "Saturday Night"

    I read this: http://www.amazon.com/Live-New-York-Unc ... 918&sr=8-1

    It's an oral history of SNL and was really good.

    I have that checked out from the library and am about to start it. Looking forward to it.
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    Mansfield, MA 6-30-08, 6-28-08, 7-2-03, 7-3-03, 7-11-03, 8-29-00, 8-30-00, 9-15-98, 9-16-98
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  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    Hartydog wrote:
    rrivers wrote:
    Hartydog wrote:
    Currently working on a book about Saturday Night Live called "Saturday Night"

    I read this: http://www.amazon.com/Live-New-York-Unc ... 918&sr=8-1

    It's an oral history of SNL and was really good.

    I have that checked out from the library and am about to start it. Looking forward to it.

    You'll enjoy it. It's a fast read and you really get to see what whiners these people are!
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • small town beck
    small town beck Posts: 6,691
    soulsinging wrote:
    small town beck wrote:
    "Middlesex" by... I can't remember the author's name right now. Interesting so far but I am probably only fifty pages in.

    Jeffrey Eugenides. Also wrote the Virgin Suicides. Middlesex is good.

    I enjoyed it. Very haunting.

    I am re reading a Bill Bryson book. He is HILARIOUS.
  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    i've got a pile of *classics* at home that i have never gotten around to.....and i am starting today.


    first up:

    heart of darkness - joseph conrad
    Stay with me...
    Let's just breathe...


    I am myself like you somehow


  • Lizard
    Lizard So Cal Posts: 12,091
    Wilds wrote:
    rrivers wrote:
    Wilds wrote:
    Just started "Atlas Shrugged".

    In a conference room where I work, someone put this book on the ledge of a big dry erase board and wrote "If you think your life's bad, read this" with an arrow pointing to "Atlas Shrugged".

    Heavy reading. Flying to Japan Monday and this will keep me busy. The font is like a 1. ;)
    that book took me 6 months to read!!! :lol:
    So I'll just lie down and wait for the dream
    Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,381
    I'm reading, The Language of Baklava by Diana Abu-Jaber

    Ones that I would recommend that I finished recently

    My Life in France - Julia Child
    The Tenth Muse - Judith Jones
    Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
    The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield

    I didn't like The Sharper the Knife the Less you Cry and The Maytrees

    I've read 12 trade paperbacks within the past 2 months. It's funny because last week I was so depressed because I didn't have time to work out. Then I logged a book I read into my book logs, reviewed how many books I recently read, and had a V8 moment! Aha! No wonder I don't have time.
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  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    decides2dream wrote:
    i've got a pile of *classics* at home that i have never gotten around to.....and i am starting today.


    first up:

    heart of darkness - joseph conrad
    Oh....don't you mean "Apocalypse Now"? :lol:;)
    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.
  • bee_boy
    bee_boy Posts: 384
    Travesuras de la Niña Mala (The bad girl) - Mario Vargas Llosa

    For the ones who've read "Madame Bovary" by Flaubert, it is sort of like its Peruvian version
  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    bee_boy wrote:
    Travesuras de la Niña Mala (The bad girl) - Mario Vargas Llosa

    For the ones who've read "Madame Bovary" by Flaubert, it is sort of like its Peruvian version



    interesting!
    i LOVE madame bovary, and i jusr recently reread it. still love it.

    tybird wrote:
    Oh....don't you mean "Apocalypse Now"?


    you tryin' to ruin the story for me? ;) :twisted: :mrgreen:



    do you know i have never read any of the books by jane austen? :oops:
    as i female i feel remiss admitting this. ;) i know i have shamed myself in front of ms. haiku. :P
    seriously tho, i've seen just about every film made of her work, and yet...never read em. right amongst a lot of the other classics on my shelves. amazing too....i have read so many classics....there are just so damn many of em! :lol:
    Stay with me...
    Let's just breathe...


    I am myself like you somehow


  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    Inside the Kingdom by Carmen bin Laden (yes, THAT bin laden)
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    well I'm out of Nelson DeMille wish he'd write faster
    was thinking of getting "The Creature From Jekyll Island" anyone read it here?

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