What book are you reading?

1…162163165167168…390

Comments

  • EmBleve
    EmBleve Posts: 3,019
    Scar Tissue Anthony Kiedis
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    The Wise Man's Fear- Patrick Rothfuss
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • Nastasja
    Nastasja Posts: 9,668
    Parallax View - Slavoj Zizek
    and slightly more light:
    Paris to the Moon - Adam Gopnik
    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
  • Pledge My Grievance
    Pledge My Grievance Posts: 89
    Phantoms/Dean Koontz
    In Digitized Remorse
  • RYEzupSF
    RYEzupSF Posts: 6,003
    re-reading The Devil's Teeth by Susan Casey. About great white sharks- fucking amazing.
    BrowserPreview_tmp_zps26eff4aa.gif

    Don't fuck sheep. -EV 7/11/11
    You can never have enough Neil in the mix. -EV 10/24/10
    There's only one commandment: Don't be an asshole. -EV 5/6/10
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    RYEzupSF wrote:
    re-reading The Devil's Teeth by Susan Casey. About great white sharks- fucking amazing.

    I saw a show on tv a few weeks ago about a killer whale attacking a great white off the coast of those islands. They called the main guy from the book (Pete?) out to check it out. Cool stuff.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • Jeff Murray
    Jeff Murray Posts: 1,259
    Currently reading Stranger Than Fiction by Chuck Palahniuk.

    Anyone familiar with Amy Hempel? There is a short story relating to her work in Stranger Than Fiction and kind of got me interested. Curious if anyone has any opinions on her work.
    If there were no Angels would there be no sin?
  • dcfaithful
    dcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    Finished The Beach last night.... :shock: :o:o

    Anybody have any recommendations for something similar?
    7/2/06 - Denver, CO
    6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
    8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
    9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
    9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
    9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
  • number1PJfan
    number1PJfan Posts: 3,748
    Water for Elephants
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Beneath Blossom Rain: Discovering Bhutan on the Toughest Trek in the World - Kevin Grange

    41608_164936170208101_2236359_n.jpg
  • pearljgirl2010
    pearljgirl2010 Shillington, PA/Tuckerton, NJ Posts: 3,428
    The Interior, by Lisa See
    Need a tour Travel Agent??? Pick me :-)

    Whatever you are, be a good one --Lincoln
  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,179
    number1PJfan wrote:
    Water for Elephants


    I just finished reading this (first book I've read in a few years, LOL). I enjoyed it. It wasn't jaw dropping but just kept me interested.

    Before this the last ones I read were:
    Dewey (was very good :) ),
    Lost City Of Z (I also liked, suppose to make a movie of this)
    Jailing The Johnston Gang (local PA "gang". Pretty much told the story of these local legends. Interesting stuff)
    8/28/98- Camden, NJ
    10/31/09- Philly
    5/21/10- NYC
    9/2/12- Philly, PA
    7/19/13- Wrigley
    10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
    10/21/13- Philly, PA
    10/22/13- Philly, PA
    10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
    4/28/16- Philly, PA
    4/29/16- Philly, PA
    5/1/16- NYC
    5/2/16- NYC
    9/2/18- Boston, MA
    9/4/18- Boston, MA
    9/14/22- Camden, NJ
    9/7/24- Philly, PA
    9/9/24- Philly, PA
    Tres Mts.- 3/23/11- Philly. PA
    Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
    RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
  • number1PJfan
    number1PJfan Posts: 3,748
    eeriepadave wrote:
    number1PJfan wrote:
    Water for Elephants


    I just finished reading this (first book I've read in a few years, LOL). I enjoyed it. It wasn't jaw dropping but just kept me interested.

    Before this the last ones I read were:
    Dewey (was very good :) ),
    Lost City Of Z (I also liked, suppose to make a movie of this)
    Jailing The Johnston Gang (local PA "gang". Pretty much told the story of these local legends. Interesting stuff)

    Definitely not life changing but it is a page turner. I am about half way through and I am rather enjoying it for the most part.
  • he.who.forgets
    he.who.forgets Posts: 4,593
    Just checked out Slaughterhouse Five from the library. Trying to make my way through some of the classics I havent read. Anyone read it? Good?
    We were but stones your light made us stars
  • cbrunelle783
    cbrunelle783 Posts: 1,025
    number1PJfan wrote:
    Water for Elephants


    That's the only one of hers that's really good. Her latest, Ape House, is dreadful which is too bad b/c bonobo's are cool but the book is awful. I can't wait to see the movie of Water for Elephants.
    Boston 5/17/10
    Tres Mts. 3/27/11
    EV Solo:Providence 6/15/11 Boston 6/16/11 Hartford 6/18/11
    PJ20 9/3/11-9/4/11

    Concert Wishlist: I am Mine, Marker in the Sand, Parachutes, In Hiding, All Those Yesterdays, I Got Shit, Long Road, Light Years
  • PilateOfTheStorm
    PilateOfTheStorm Posts: 4,319
    Unless by Carol Shields
  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    he.who.forgets wrote:
    Just checked out Slaughterhouse Five from the library. Trying to make my way through some of the classics I havent read. Anyone read it? Good?
    Many years ago. I'd read most of Vonnegut's stuff and I thought that one was the best. He had such a strange style but he really seemed to pull it off in that one.
    "The stars are all connected to the brain."
  • MoonTurtle
    MoonTurtle Posts: 752
    Noa's Ark: One Child's Voyage into Multiliteracy
  • Nastasja
    Nastasja Posts: 9,668
    Longue marche - Bernard Olivier
    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
  • number1PJfan
    number1PJfan Posts: 3,748
    cbrunelle783 wrote:
    number1PJfan wrote:
    Water for Elephants


    That's the only one of hers that's really good. Her latest, Ape House, is dreadful which is too bad b/c bonobo's are cool but the book is awful. I can't wait to see the movie of Water for Elephants.

    Wish I hadn't seen the trailer for it before I finished the book. You know how you get certain imagery in your head and the movie just f's it all up for you.

Categories