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  • marcos
    marcos Posts: 2,112
    CorduroyGirl wrote:
    AH! I read The Great Gatsby this summer... Had never read it (I know, major flaw!) and even more than the story itself, I loved the characters! They are so well constructed! Got a little pissed by the end, though... :evil:

    I'm very seasonal about my reading, it's kinda goofy but whatever. Gatsby is the perfect summer book. Hopefully I will be able to tackle some more Dostoyevsky this winter, loved Crime & Punishment, maybe check out The Brothers Karamazov this winter?
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    Patrick Süskind - Perfume
    Tom Robbins - Villa Incognito
    Pascal Bruckner - Lunes de fiel (Bitter Moon)
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • CorduroyGirl
    CorduroyGirl Posts: 283
    marcos wrote:
    Hopefully I will be able to tackle some more Dostoyevsky this winter, loved Crime & Punishment, maybe check out The Brothers Karamazov this winter?
    Absolutely! Crime and Punishment is great and makes you think and question a lot, but The Brothers Karamazov gets you so envolved (maybe because it's long and you get to know the characters so deeply) that at some point you just can't stop! :)

    This:
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    Patrick Süskind - Perfume

    HOW could I forget it!? So awesome!
    ~Can't escape from the common rule
    If you hate something, don't you do it too...~
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    CorduroyGirl wrote:
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    This:
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    Patrick Süskind - Perfume

    HOW could I forget it!? So awesome!
    believe me ..kinda 100 more will come to my mind the next days..im just old to remember all now.. :lol:
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • CorduroyGirl
    CorduroyGirl Posts: 283
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    CorduroyGirl wrote:
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    This:
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    Patrick Süskind - Perfume

    HOW could I forget it!? So awesome!
    believe me ..kinda 100 more will come to my mind the next days..im just old to remember all now.. :lol:

    Same here... Sometimes it gets really frustrating because I don't even recognize the name when asked if I read a certain book, only after the person starts talking about the story i realize I DID read it :roll:
    ~Can't escape from the common rule
    If you hate something, don't you do it too...~
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    CorduroyGirl wrote:
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    believe me ..kinda 100 more will come to my mind the next days..im just old to remember all now.. :lol:

    Same here... Sometimes it gets really frustrating because I don't even recognize the name when asked if I read a certain book, only after the person starts talking about the story i realize I DID read it :roll:
    happens to me a month ago.. :roll:
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    Housekeeping - Marilyn Robinson
    Birthday Letters - Ted Hughes
    Earthsea series- Ursula Le Guin
    Middlemarch - George Eliot
    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - Laurence Sterne
    Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu
    New Testament (NIV)
    Cancel my subscription to the Ressurection
    Send my credentials to the house of detention

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  • unsung
    unsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    Just started Hayek's The Road to Serfdom.
  • he still stands
    he still stands Posts: 2,835
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    Patrick Süskind - Perfume
    Tom Robbins - Villa Incognito
    Pascal Bruckner - Lunes de fiel (Bitter Moon)

    VILLA INCOGNITO!!! "tanuki's scrotum was flapping in the wind"... or something like that :D

    have you read Robbin's other stuff? I like 5/6 books of his better than Villa Incognito (which is pretty darn good)
    Everything not forbidden is compulsory and eveything not compulsory is forbidden. You are free... free to do what the government says you can do.
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    he still stands wrote:
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    Patrick Süskind - Perfume
    Tom Robbins - Villa Incognito
    Pascal Bruckner - Lunes de fiel (Bitter Moon)

    VILLA INCOGNITO!!! "tanuki's scrotum was flapping in the wind"... or something like that :D

    have you read Robbin's other stuff? I like 5/6 books of his better than Villa Incognito (which is pretty darn good)
    i could easily post ..Jitterbug Perfume .
    the guy is genious..
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • he still stands
    he still stands Posts: 2,835
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    he still stands wrote:
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    Patrick Süskind - Perfume
    Tom Robbins - Villa Incognito
    Pascal Bruckner - Lunes de fiel (Bitter Moon)

    VILLA INCOGNITO!!! "tanuki's scrotum was flapping in the wind"... or something like that :D

    have you read Robbin's other stuff? I like 5/6 books of his better than Villa Incognito (which is pretty darn good)
    i could easily post ..Jitterbug Perfume .
    the guy is genious..

    Jitterbug is my favorite... followed by Another Roadside Attraction.

    3rd would probably be Still Life with Woodpecker, then Skinny Legs and All.

    After those four, I'd put Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and Villa Incognito in the same class.

    The other two were "meh"
    Everything not forbidden is compulsory and eveything not compulsory is forbidden. You are free... free to do what the government says you can do.
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    he still stands wrote:

    Jitterbug is my favorite... followed by Another Roadside Attraction.

    3rd would probably be Still Life with Woodpecker, then Skinny Legs and All.

    After those four, I'd put Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and Villa Incognito in the same class.

    The other two were "meh"
    Still Life with Woodpecker is so smart book!!
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,669
    In order to keep this post from running WAY too long, I'll only list one favorite from any one author (tortuously difficult to do!):

    Abbey, Edward: THE FOOL’S PROGRESS
    Alexie, Sherman: FLIGHT
    Andrews, F. Emerson: UPSIDE-DOWN TOWN
    Bechard, Gorman: THE SECOND GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD
    Berry Wendell: THE WILD BIRDS
    Bly, Robert: THE MAN IN THE BLACK COAT TURNS
    Boyd, Malcolm: AREYOU RUNNING WITH ME, JESUS?
    Bradbury, Ray: FAHRENHEIT 451
    Brown, Dee: BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE
    Bulgakov, Mikhail: HEART OF A DOG
    Burnford, Sheila: THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY
    Carlin, George: LAST WORDS
    Capote, Truman: OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMS
    Choinard, Yvon: LET MY PEOPLE GO SURFING
    Hayden, Tom: THE LOST GOSPEL OF THE EARTH
    Hemingway, Ernest: THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
    Hempton, Gordon: ONE SQUARE INCH OF SILENCE
    Huxley, Aldous: THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION
    Jensen, Derrick: ENDGAME
    Joyce, James: ULYSSES
    Kunstler, James Howard: THE LONG EMERGENCY
    Laing, R.D.: THE POLITICS OF EXPERIENCE
    Lee, Harper: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
    McCullers, Carson: THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER
    McKibben, Bill: EAARTH
    Miller, Henry: TROPIC OF CANCER
    Morrow, Betty: SEE UP THE MOUNTAIN
    Murphy, Beatrice M.: EBONY RHYTHM, AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY NEGRO VERSE
    National Geographic Society: FIELD GUIDE TO THE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA
    Nelson, Willie: THE TAO OF WILLIE
    Orwell, George,: 1984
    Peacock, Douglas: WALKING IT OFF
    Plath, Sylvia: THE BELL JAR
    Richards, Keith: LIFE
    Rowling, J.K.: HARRY POTTER AND…
    Seton, Ernest Thompson: ROLF IN THE WOODS
    Stegner, Wallace: CROSSING TO SAFETY
    Steinbeck: THE GRAPES WRATH
    Tolkien, J.R.R.: THE LORD OF THE RINGS
    Traven, B.: THE JUNGLE SERIES
    Vonnegut, Kurt: A MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY
    Warner, Brad: HARDCORE ZEN
    Weaver, Harriett E.: THERE STAND THE GIANTS
    Weisman, Alan: THE WORLD WITHOUT US
    Wilson, Edward O.: THE FUTURE OF LIFE
    Zim, Howard: INSECTS

    Sorry my list is so long- that’s as short as I can make it. All are essential to my life... thus far.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    "Watership Down"-Richard Adams
    "The Future of Life"-E.O. Wilson
    "Kingbird Highway"-Kenn Kaufman
    "Swan Song"-Robert McCammon
    "Battleship Bismarck..A Survivor's Story"-Burkard Baron von Mullenheim-Rechberg
    "The Song of the Dodo"-David Quammen
    "WE3-The Absolute Edition"-Grant Morrison and Frank Quiteley
    "The Tao of Pooh"-Benjamin Hoff
    "The Ghost with Trembling Wings..Science, Wishful Thinking, and the Search for Lost Species"-Scott Weidensaul
    "The Big Year...A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession"-Mark Obmascik
    "The Lorax"-Dr. Seuss
    "Tigers in the Snow"-Peter Matthiessen
    "Winter World...The Ingenuity of Animal Survival"-Bernd Heinrich
    "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever"-Stephen R. Donaldson
    "The Return of Tarzan"-Edgar Rice Burroughs
    "Vanishing Wildlife of North America"-Thomas B. Allen
    "A People's History of the United States...1492-Present"-Howard Zinn
    "The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America"-David Allen Sibley
    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.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,669
    tybird wrote:
    "A People's History of the United States...1492-Present"-Howard Zinn

    Yeow! A big omission from my list: +1 :thumbup:
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    You're all PJ fans and none of you have read Ishmael?! :shock: It's like, recommended reading...
  • marcos
    marcos Posts: 2,112
    Jeanwah wrote:
    You're all PJ fans and none of you have read Ishmael?! :shock: It's like, recommended reading...

    I've heard Eddie mention it before, sounds interesting, but I usually don't read anything philosophical written in the last 20 years. I really need to get with the times I suppose, though do Pearl Jam lyrics count?
  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    brianlux wrote:
    tybird wrote:
    "A People's History of the United States...1492-Present"-Howard Zinn

    Yeow! A big omission from my list: +1 :thumbup:
    Shout to you for the Nat Geo Field guide....which I also have a copy...or two..of.. :lol:

    ...and "Lord of the Rings".....and I hope to read E.O.'s "Insects" one day....a very engaging gentleman...I have met him a couple of times...and we share a home state. :mrgreen:
    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.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,669
    tybird wrote:
    brianlux wrote:
    tybird wrote:
    "A People's History of the United States...1492-Present"-Howard Zinn

    Yeow! A big omission from my list: +1 :thumbup:
    Shout to you for the Nat Geo Field guide....which I also have a copy...or two..of.. :lol:

    ...and "Lord of the Rings".....and I hope to read E.O.'s "Insects" one day....a very engaging gentleman...I have met him a couple of times...and we share a home state. :mrgreen:

    Wonderful that you got to meet E.O. Wilson! Excellent! I met Wendell Berry once and had a hard time getting a few words out, but he was very kind and humble. I thanked him for responding to a letter I wrote to him about how his words had changed my life. He said, meekly, "Well, I'm glad I did something right." I can picture Wilson being the same kind of person. And Terry Tempest Williams- another writer I'd love to meet. She belongs on my list for her recent amazing columns in The Progressive. First rate all the way.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • usamamasan1
    usamamasan1 Posts: 4,695
    The art of the deal

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