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klaus_kinski_Jr

03-10-2006, 08:12 AM

Alright I go through books like some go through toilet paper. Here are my last three.

The Mayor Of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy: for anyone who have seen the movie The Claim that was lossely based on this. I love books where people are just treated like shit.

Orphans Prefered - Christopher Corbett: A book about the Pony Express which only covers that subject for like a third of it.

South Of The Rio Grande - Max Brand: Dime store Pulp Western novel really dense and lving it. Thought it was going ot be such a quick read and turns out it's not. Can't wait ot go through all theother ones I have in my pile of books.

Death Metal Moe

03-10-2006, 08:27 AM

I really wish I read more.  I used to read a lot.  Lately, I've been reading this 2 short chapters at a time on the throne:<img height="400" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/080652569X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" width="280" border="0" />

J.Clints

03-10-2006, 08:53 AM

I HAVE BEEN READING WRESTLING BOOKS LATLEY. SHAWN MICHELS BOOK IS GREAT.

Furtherman

03-10-2006, 08:56 AM

badorties

03-10-2006, 09:11 AM

'history of violence' ...the latest david sedaris ... and i just started 'box office poison' & 'layer cake'

J.Clints

03-10-2006, 09:16 AM

KURT ANGLE'S BOOK ITS TRUE ITS TRUE IS ALSO GREAT.

landarch

03-10-2006, 09:26 AM

All by Larry Brown:JoeThe Rabbit FactoryFather and SonBrown was an amazing writer local to Oxford, Mississippi (as were William Faulkner and John Grisham and many others).  A bit racy for some tastes, but phenomenal nonetheless.  He died a couple of years ago at age 54.  So sad, he only wrote eight or nine books but every one of them are a must read, and mostly available at Barnes and Noble stores, even here in NJ.

Dirtybird12

03-10-2006, 12:58 PM

5 people you meet in heaven - mitch albombrave new world - aldous huxleyfatal vision - joe mcginniss

HBox

03-10-2006, 01:01 PM

A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius - Dave EggersChoke - Chuck PalahniukThe Historian - Elizabeth Kostova

Recyclerz

03-10-2006, 01:17 PM

Alright I go through books like some go through toilet paper.Isn't the texture of the paper a little....rough?Paradise - Toni MorrisonThe Quiet American  - Graham GreeneThe World is Flat - Thomas Friedman.

TheGameHHH

03-10-2006, 01:22 PM

Sadly, PSP has overtaken my life I can only remember the last book i read and that's because it was very recent. "Who Moved My Cheese?" I forgot who wrote it though.

TheKnicks23

03-10-2006, 01:34 PM

For Whom the Bell TollsThe Count of Monte Cristo The Professor, The Banker, and the Suicide King - really cool look into the biggest poker game ever

suggums

03-10-2006, 01:40 PM

confessions of an economic hit man -john perkins said the shotgun to the head -saul williams kitchen confidential -anthony bourdain and hbox, what'd you think of the historian? lengthy but i enjoyed the story and the history 

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PapaBear

03-10-2006, 01:45 PM

The Sun Also Rises-HemingwayThe Bear and the Dragon-ClancySome Grisham book

HBox

03-10-2006, 01:57 PM

and hbox, what'd you think of the historian? lengthy but i enjoyed the story and the historyVery good book, couldn't stop reading through the first 98%, but it ended so suddenly it was like slamming into a brick wall, very much a let down. The way the story ended was so abrupt and anti-climactic. And you can see it coming towards the end when you are getting so close to the final pages but it still felt like it's not close to a conclusion. And then what was sort of the epilogue made no sense and was not set up at all. Maybe I was just expecting more from the ending of a book that I enjoyed immensly until that point. Didn't ruin the book though, still loved it.

jax

03-10-2006, 02:00 PM

I just read Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris -- great airplane book.  I couldn't make it through Freidman's The World is Flat. I thought it was way too repetitive and very boring, unlike his op-ed pieces, which I enjoy.

Badinia

03-10-2006, 02:01 PM

Hey, Klaus has a great avatar too- he's the king of the Mods.  Not to be confused with Mojopin, king of the mods.This month, I read Dennis Cooper's God Jr: A short book about a disabled drug addict's monument to the son he killed.  Good.  Not as graphic as Frisk, which made me throw up in my mouth a little bit.P.G. Wodehouse's Carry On, Jeeves: Perfect for drinking a martini and laughing with your head all the way back. Halfway through Cormac McCarthy's The Orchard Keeper.  I was reminded of his border trilogy by the brokeback movie.Last month, I read the 33 1/3 book about Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures, which was a geek fest, and also Chris Elliott's Shroud of the Thwacker, which was uneven but pretty funny.<img height="100" src="http://www.badinia.com/uploaded_images/withnail-782399.gif" width="300" border="0" />Regards, Badinia

torker

03-10-2006, 02:06 PM

Bulldogcakes

03-10-2006, 03:07 PM

<img width="320" height="240" border="0" src="http://undergroundclips.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/bushonmeetthepress2.jpg" /> "Read? You mean like books?"

Davios

03-10-2006, 03:15 PM

suggums wrote: confessions of an economic hit man -john perkins Perkins was actually at my school last week, he was speaking basically about the stuff in the book. All incredibly interesting including his visit to Panama and the subsequent events thereafter. I think he'd make a really great guest for the show.

furie

03-10-2006, 03:46 PM

The FountainHead
Anthem
The Alienist

Billy Staples

03-10-2006, 09:23 PM

The DaVinci Code - Dan BrownOn the Road - Jack Kerouac (Book on tape)Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. ThompsonThe US Constitution....just to see if it still exists even though its only a piece of paper

Garcia525

03-11-2006, 05:14 AM

My last book was "Black House" by Stephen King & Peter StraubTwenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer travelled to a parallel
universe called The Territories to save his mother and her Territories
"twinner" from a premature and agonizing death that would have brought
cataclysm to the other world. Now Jack is a retired Los Angeles
homicide detective living in the nearly nonexistent hamlet of Tamarack,
WI. He has no recollection of his adventures in the Territories and was
compelled to leave the police force when an odd, happenstance event
threatened to awaken those memories.
When a series of gruesome murders occur in western Wisconsin that
are reminiscent of those committed several decades earlier by a
real-life madman named Albert Fish, the killer is dubbed "The
Fisherman" and Jack's buddy, the local chief of police, begs Jack to
help his inexperienced force find him. But is this merely the work of a
disturbed individual, or has a mysterious and malignant force been
unleashed in this quiet town? What causes Jack's inexplicable waking
dreams, if that is what they are, of robins' eggs and red feathers?
It's almost as if someone is trying to tell him something. As that
message becomes increasingly impossible to ignore, Jack is drawn back
to the Territories and to his own hidden past, where he may find the
soul-strength to enter a terrifying house at the end of a deserted
track of forest, there to encounter the obscene and ferocious evils
sheltered within it.
It is the follow up book to "The Talisman" but a good read on its own.

JoeYaDeadHomey

03-11-2006, 06:32 PM

i actually read ALOT, because im a dork ^_^ nothing of substance though, im very into vampire fantasy/fiction books. yet my grammar suffers terribly from internet-itis.  i read the historian when it came out over the summer, i enjoyed it alot, but some of it was just very boring. the whole part with the monks, was about 20 pages too long. after all that happened the last 100 pages or so seemed like they tried to cram too much in. overall a very good book, that i should probably give another read. last read are  already dead  - charile hustonwasting the dawn - David Hurwitzgrasping for air time - jay mohradam copeland on edge - Adam copelandim half through lita's book, its just ok. i dont really care about her, i just want to do very bad things to her.   i also just started 30 days of night: rumors of the undead by steve niles, a must for any 30 days fan.  real quick too, im intersted in the hbk book, but wrestling books are far too fast a read for me to spend 25.00 when they come out, anyone interested AMAZON has amazing deals if you want 2 or 3 months,  i've picked up many wrestling books for 5.00 or less not too long after release.

Alice S. Fuzzybutt

03-11-2006, 06:34 PM

The Lovely Bones-- Alice Sebold (Peter Jackson is set to produce!)Rosie-- Anne LamontOne Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest-- Ken Kesey