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  • uninnocent-
    uninnocent- Posts: 5,959
    nick hornby - high fidelity
  • One Song Glory
    One Song Glory Posts: 710
    uninnocent- wrote:
    nick hornby - high fidelity

    +1000! Huge fan of Nick Hornby's stuff here. I loved that book. It's so much better than the movie, although I'm fond of it too.
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  • mfc2006
    mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,491
    uninnocent- wrote:
    nick hornby - high fidelity


    great book. i'm reading his book "long way down"
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  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    13 Things That Don't Make Sense
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • rhcpjam1029
    rhcpjam1029 Posts: 1,982
    the lost symbol by dan brown.

    it's pretty good. very fast paced.
    Beavis: All my friends are brown and red? What does that mean?
    Butthead: It means that his friends are like turds and that they like suck.
    Beavis: Heh heh. Oh yeah. Yeah! Get those spoons out of my face before I shove them up your butt!
    Butthead: Huh huh.
  • dont panic
    dont panic Posts: 21
    Switching between 2 books depending on the mood and concentration levels :)
    "Juliet, naked" by Nick Hornby (author of High fidelity). Liking it this far.
    "The God delusion" by Richard Dawkins. brilliantly written and argued.
    Don't panic. It's okay.
  • Sian-of-the-dead
    Sian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    mfc2006 wrote:
    great book. i'm reading his book "long way down"

    I love that book :thumbup:

    I finally started Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code last night.... over 100 pages in and i'm loving it 8-)
    Been to this many PJ shows: Reading 2006 London 2007 Manchester & London 2009 Dublin, Belfast, London, Nijmegen & Berlin 2010 Manchester 1 & Manchester 2 2012...

    ... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.
  • i_lov_it
    i_lov_it Perth, Western Australia Posts: 4,007
    Hmmmm Well i wouldn't EXACTLY call it a "BOOK"...more like *Reading* material with HEAPS of Pictures!!!.....lol ;)
  • Franny
    Franny Posts: 2,054
    i_lov_it wrote:
    Hmmmm Well i wouldn't EXACTLY call it a "BOOK"...more like *Reading* material with HEAPS of Pictures!!!.....lol ;)


    mmmm would that be the "stick book"??? :lol:
  • Flagg
    Flagg Posts: 5,856
    Just finished "Boys Will Be Boys" by Jeff Pearlman.

    Now reading With the "Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa" by E.B. Sledge.
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  • Razor Face
    Razor Face Posts: 53
    Currently reading "The Manuscript Found in Saragossa" by Jan Potacki and I've already got "Viriconium" by M. John Harrison lined up for when I finish this.
    I'll ride this wave ... 
  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    decides2dream wrote:
    i started yesterday and am bout half-way thru disgrace ~ j.m.coetzee.
    it is a fantastic read thus far.

    this was really good. disturbing at times, but really good. really well written.


    just started yesterday
    the street of a thousand blossoms ~ gail tsukiyama
    Stay with me...
    Let's just breathe...


    I am myself like you somehow


  • Nastasja
    Nastasja Posts: 9,668
    the globalization of addiction
    You can spend your time alone, re-digesting past regrets,
    Or you can come to terms and realize
    You're the only one who can't forgive yourself
  • ZiggyStar
    ZiggyStar Posts: 14,328
    Factotum by Bukowski
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  • South of Seattle
    South of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    Playboy - April 2010
    NERDS!
  • small town beck
    small town beck Posts: 6,691
    South of Seattle wrote:
    Playboy - April 2010

    :lol:




    "Long Way Round" by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman I have seen part of "Long Way Down" and I just love, LOVE Ewan McGregor...I wouldn't mind riding a motorcycle with him :D
  • Brock Samson
    Brock Samson Posts: 328
    edited March 2010
    i'm almost done re-reading 'needful things' by stephen king. on deck is 'the stand'. that'll be the third time reading that one.
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  • small town beck
    small town beck Posts: 6,691
    moe.ron wrote:
    i'm almost re-reading 'needful things' by stephen king. on deck is 'the stand'. that'll be the third time reading that one.

    Another Stephen King fan?! Nice. I know some people didn't like 'needful things' but I liked it...of course I really liked 'insomnia' and I have friends that are King fans that thought it was boring. To each their own. I always enjoy re-reading them. Although I still have to finish 'the dome' :oops:
  • Brock Samson
    Brock Samson Posts: 328
    small town beck wrote:
    moe.ron wrote:
    i'm almost re-reading 'needful things' by stephen king. on deck is 'the stand'. that'll be the third time reading that one.

    Another Stephen King fan?! Nice. I know some people didn't like 'needful things' but I liked it...of course I really liked 'insomnia' and I have friends that are King fans that thought it was boring. To each their own. I always enjoy re-reading them. Although I still have to finish 'the dome' :oops:

    yeah, i'm a fan. since christmas, i've read:

    just after sunset
    the shining
    desperation (re-read)
    the regulators (re-read)
    misery (re-read)

    i've got 'under the dome' but i'm not going to read it. waiting for the paperback to come out. i don't like reading my hardcovers, i'd much rather keep them on the shelf. plus, it's kind of a bitch carrying around king novels that aren't paperbacks. makes me feel like i'm in high school again, lugging around text books.

    i used to have just about everything of his in paperback, but over the years i've lost just about all of them (plus a lot of first print hardcovers). since 'from a buick 8' came out in paperback, i've been buying a lot of his stuff in paperback again. got quite a collection going. i went to a book fair last winter and was astounded to see all the king paperbacks they had. i bought all but 3 and paid 25 cents per book. oh shit, that reminds me. i was bidding on an auction on ebay that ended while i was at work...i gotta check to see if i won. :D yep, won it. he's got 29 paperbacks and i get to pick the 10 that i want. here's what he's got listed:

    SALEM'S LOT 1976
    THE SHINING 1978
    NIGHT SHIFT 1979
    THE DEAD ZONE 1980
    FIRE-STARTER 1981
    CUJO 1982
    DANSE MACABRE 1983 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
    CHRISTINE 1983 #1 NATIONWIDE BESTSELLER
    THINNER 1984
    PET SEMATARY 1984 #1 NATIONWIDE BESTSELLER
    CYCLE OF THE WEREWOLF 1985
    THE BACHMAN BOOKS 1986
    IT 1987 #1 BESTSELLER
    THE EYES OF THE DRAGON 1988 #1 BESTSELLER
    MISERY 1988 #1 BESTSELLER
    THE DARK HALF 1990 #1 BESTSELLER
    FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT 1991 #1 BESTSELLER
    NEEDFUL THINGS 1992 #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
    DOLORES CLAIBORNE 1993 #1 BESTSELLER
    GERALD'S GAME 1993 #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
    INSOMNIA 1995 #1 BESTSELLER
    ROSE MADDER 1996 #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
    STORM OF THE CENTURY 1999 AN ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
    DREAMCATCHER 2001 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
    THE TALISMAN 2001 #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
    FROM A BUICK 8 2003 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
    EVERYTHING'S EVENTUAL (14 DARK TALES) 2003 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
    THE COLORADO KID 2005
    LISEY'S STORY 2007

    gotta figure out which ones i want.

    oh, you said you loved insomnia......i read that one.....years ago. wasn't really a fan of it, but i think i'll give it another shot. not exactly a typical king novel, from what i can remember. personally, the one king novel i didn't really care for was 'cell'. i loved how it started, he got right to it immediately, but it fizzled fast for me.
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  • small town beck
    small town beck Posts: 6,691
    Just after Sunset was good and I remember loving The Regulators but haven't read it in a while. Sadly most of my King books are packed away back East :(

    Yeah I liked Insomnia and have probably read it three times. Oh you should get Cycle of the Werewolf. I also liked Gerald's Game (although scary because it felt like that could really happen) and I liked how it connected with Dolores Claiborne. Dreamcatcher was a DUD...the first three hundred pages were brilliant...and then veered off into "wtf?" for me.

    I have read and re-read 'it' and 'different seasons' I don't know how many times.

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