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  • chime
    chime Posts: 7,839
    edited January 2014
    Currently reading Haruki Murakami's 1Q84. Have finished books one and two and just starting book three. They were a xmas gift for xmas '12 and I have only just got around to them. I don't know what it is about Murakami but I always enjoy his books.
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  • Leezestarr313
    Leezestarr313 Temple of the cat Posts: 14,444
    edited January 2014
    Finally finished Jonny Bails Floatin yesterday (awesome book, read it if you can!!!) and went on to my second Kindle book. This time, it's a German novel. It's called Der Turm, English would be The Tower, written by German author Uwe Tellkamp. It is set basically in the time I grew up in GDR. If you ever want to know what it was like, I would probably recommend this book. Here's a review in English:


    "Just as today we see the lost world of the German bourgeoisie through the eyes of Thomas Mann, so later generations will read Tellkamp’s novel in order to re-experience the stagnation and implosion of the GDR." —Süddeutsche Zeitung

    Set in the 1980s in the socialist German Democratic Republic, The Tower tells the story of a middle-class family living in a dilapidated Dresden. The son, Christian Hoffmann, wants to study medicine but ends up in the chemical industry, following a twelve-month imprisonment for reading subversive literature. His father, Richard, is a successful surgeon with a secret child from a long-term affair. And Richard’s brother-in-law, Meno Rohde, an editor at a Dresden publishing house, is negotiating between writers and the censors. An entire world of characters and events spin around the family in the years leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the demise of the GDR.

    Epically written, lovingly detailed, and filled with drama, Uwe Tellkamp’s The Tower tells the tale of the GDR in decline, a country in which three generations drift—helplessly in some cases, impatiently in others—towards the maelstrom of the 1989 revolution.

    http://frischand.co/16/the-tower

    The website also says it will be available in English in July 2014. I just started, so I cannot make a statement if I like it or not. Sounds promising though, after the first pages.
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  • he.who.forgets
    he.who.forgets Posts: 4,593
    Just finished Bill Bryson's One Summer, America 1927. Great read for anyone that digs history. Now I'm halfway through Bukowski's Hot Water Music

    We were but stones your light made us stars
  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    F Me In The Brain said:


    Big readers -- how do you store your books?

    I want suggestions too! I moved to a house half the size of my old house...I have aspirations to get organized, but every time I open a box, I find it's full of books...and I don't now what to do. No real room for a bookcase, so they are chilling in boxes in the basement for now.

    Thread Integrity: Just finished Quiet', and 'Inside of a Dog'-highly recommend the latter to ALL 'dog people'.

    The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

    - Christopher McCandless
  • JonnyPistachio
    JonnyPistachio Florida Posts: 10,219
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    just started fellow forum friend Lukinfan's new novel... 35 pages in...so far its great!
    Pick up my debut novel here on amazon: Jonny Bails Floatin (in paperback) (also available on Kindle for $2.99)
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,836
    JonnyPistachio said:

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    just started fellow forum friend Lukinfan's new novel... 35 pages in...so far its great!

    It is near the top of my pile next to my bed!
    The love he receives is the love that is saved
  • gunter1976
    gunter1976 Posts: 587
    Some words regarding my current read. I had not listened to Metallica for a long, long time and pretty much gave up on the band after the Black Album. I always very much enjoyed their earlier work though, up until the ...And Justice for All album, yet after that my interest started to dwindle.

    However, recently it struck me once more how much I love the song Fade to Black, so I picked up my copy of the Live Shit: Binge & Purge live album from the 1993 Nowhere Else to Roam tour and am appreciating it once more. I still remember seeing Metallica live in Belgium around that time and having a blast.

    So I decided to order Enter Night by Mick Wall, and started catching up on some Metallica history:

    Their roots lie in the heavy rock of 70s groups like Deep Purple. The music they played--heavy metal mixed with punk attitude--became its own genre: thrash. Their bassist died and they survived to became the biggest-selling band in the world. As grunge threatened to overtake them, they reinvented themselves. Then their singer went into rehab and they almost fell apart. They are Metallica, the most influential heavy metal band of the last thirty years.

    As Led Zeppelin was for hard rock and the Sex Pistols were for punk, Metallica became the band that defined the look and sound of 1980s heavy metal. Inventors of thrash metal--Slayer, Anthrax and Megadeth followed--it was always Metallica who led the way, who pushed to another level, who became the last of the superstar rockers.

    Metallica is the fifth-largest selling artist of all time, with 100 million records sold worldwide. Their music has extended its reach beyond rock and metal, and into the pop mainstream, as they went from speed metal to MTV with their hit single "Enter Sandman." Until now there hasn't been a critical, authoritative, in-depth portrait of the band. Mick Wall's thoroughly researched, insightful work is enriched by his interviews with band members, record company execs, roadies, and fellow musicians. He tells the story of how a tennis-playing, music-loving Danish immigrant named Lars Ulrich created a band with singer James Hetfield and made his dreams a reality. "Enter Night" follows the band through tragedy and triumph, from the bus crash that killed their bassist Cliff Burton in 1986 to the 2004 documentary "Some Kind of Monster," and on to their current status as the leaders of the Big Four festival that played to a million fans in Britain and Europe and continues in the U.S. in 2011.

    "Enter Night" delves into the various incarnations of the band, and the personalities of all key members, past and present--especially Ulrich and Hetfield--to produce the definitive word on the biggest metal band on the planet.
    "...bring it back someway bring it back, back, back... to the clean form, to the pure form..."

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  • vant0037
    vant0037 Posts: 6,170
    Finished Last of the Mohicans. Ultimately, a great read. Took a while to get used to his style and the narrative holes, but I ended up enjoying it a lot. The movie sucks though. Haha.

    I was given a book by a friend to read, which is always a nice thought, but it really messes with my queue because I feel like I have to read it now.

    Reading this:

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  • kw18
    kw18 Posts: 3,909
    kw18 said:



    Now I'm diving back into the Barsoom series ...

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    I finished this up over the weekend, as well as the 9th book in the series:

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    Now I'm reading the 10th book in the series of 11 ... almost done!

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    "Where's KW?"
    "Let's check Idaho."
  • kw18
    kw18 Posts: 3,909
    vant0037 said:

    Finished Last of the Mohicans. Ultimately, a great read. Took a while to get used to his style and the narrative holes, but I ended up enjoying it a lot. The movie sucks though. Haha.

    I was given a book by a friend to read, which is always a nice thought, but it really messes with my queue because I feel like I have to read it now.

    Reading this:

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    I really liked this book. Had a "classic Bachman" feel to it. Almost wish it was longer.
    "Where's KW?"
    "Let's check Idaho."
  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    RKCNDY said:

    F Me In The Brain said:


    Big readers -- how do you store your books?

    I want suggestions too! I moved to a house half the size of my old house...I have aspirations to get organized, but every time I open a box, I find it's full of books...and I don't now what to do. No real room for a bookcase, so they are chilling in boxes in the basement for now.

    Thread Integrity: Just finished Quiet', and 'Inside of a Dog'-highly recommend the latter to ALL 'dog people'.

    We live in the narrowest space I think I've ever lived in -- and I grew up in a travel trailer -- but we have a reasonably high ceiling. So, what we did is a single shelf that wraps around most of our apartment that is accessible by a step ladder.

    PM if you want pics/video.

    Works for us.
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  • afroannnie
    afroannnie Posts: 12,995
    afroannnie said:


    I plan on starting to read this book next:

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    Finished up this one this weekend...I really enjoyed it...it was interesting how the author (with the help of many advisors) approached living out the laws/rules of the bible for a year...

    Currently reading this :D and enjoying it so far :D
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    Show #13 was a lucky one for me....
  • JonnyPistachio
    JonnyPistachio Florida Posts: 10,219
    Afro! :)>- ;)

    I hope you enjoy the rest! :D
    Pick up my debut novel here on amazon: Jonny Bails Floatin (in paperback) (also available on Kindle for $2.99)
  • shortstack
    shortstack Posts: 2,339
    afroannie needs to shave her legs :P
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  • he.who.forgets
    he.who.forgets Posts: 4,593
    Just started Rethinking Life on the Appalachian Trail by Gary Bond. I've always wanted to hike the AT, maybe this will lend a little motivation.
    We were but stones your light made us stars
  • afroannnie
    afroannnie Posts: 12,995
    JonnyPistachio said:

    Afro! :)>- ;)

    I hope you enjoy the rest! :D

    So far, so good! :D
    Show #13 was a lucky one for me....
  • afroannnie
    afroannnie Posts: 12,995
    shortstack said:

    afroannie needs to shave her legs :P

    :-$ Or it will end up on the grievances thread... :P
    Show #13 was a lucky one for me....
  • Digital Twilight
    Digital Twilight Posts: 5,642
    I've just finished The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Homes), Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and Utopia by Thomas More. The Hound was a good read and my first from the Sherlock series but i'm not desperate to read anymore anytime soon. Heart of Darkness was good (This book famously inspired the movie Apocalypse Now) but I think I prefered the short story 'Youth' tagged at the end of the book. Utopia was a quick an interesting read, I believe this book actually coined the phrase 'Utopia' (it was written in 1516).

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18414.Utopia

    And now I have moved onto this:

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  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    vant0037 said:

    Finished Last of the Mohicans. Ultimately, a great read. Took a while to get used to his style and the narrative holes, but I ended up enjoying it a lot. The movie sucks though. Haha.

    Which movie? It's been filmed about umpteen times. :))
    If you mean the one with Daniel Day-Lewis, yeah, except for the characters the story doesn't much resemble the book.
    "The stars are all connected to the brain."
  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    Digital Twilight said:

    I've just finished The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Homes), Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and Utopia by Thomas More. The Hound was a good read and my first from the Sherlock series but i'm not desperate to read anymore anytime soon. Heart of Darkness was good (This book famously inspired the movie Apocalypse Now) but I think I prefered the short story 'Youth' tagged at the end of the book.

    When I first read Heart of Darkness, I thought it was a bit overdone. Later, I read King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild and got a completely new insight into the story. Conrad wrote about what he saw and he probably saw some pretty horrible things in Africa.
    "The stars are all connected to the brain."

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