what are you reading right now? [Archive]

Landblast

11-17-2006, 06:03 PM

<img src="http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r37/pbrstreetgang1/8f.jpg?t=1163818807" border="0" width="250" height="350" />   <img src="http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r37/pbrstreetgang1/10304839-1.jpg?t=1163818905" border="0" width="300" height="400" />                                                                                                                                               strugglin through marley and me. 

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mikeyboy

11-17-2006, 06:07 PM

This thread.  Der.

burrben

11-17-2006, 06:07 PM

FezPaul

11-17-2006, 06:49 PM

William Shirer- Rise and fall of the 3rd Reich.Neil peart- Ghost Rider.Barry Glassner- Culture of Fear (an Opie Book Club selection).I like to keep a few books going at once because I'm an Amphibian.And I'm stupid.

reeshy

11-17-2006, 06:51 PM

Why is it whenever this thread starts over,,,,,,everbody is an intellectual....I'm reading playboy.....well....not reading it.....jacking to it!!!!!!!!!!!! Actually. I'm reading "Flags of Our Fathers"...with my dad....who was there!!!!

Keotok

11-17-2006, 07:08 PM

ADF

11-17-2006, 07:14 PM

extracheese

11-17-2006, 07:27 PM

Just finished Odd Thomas and will start Forever Odd  by Dean Koontz. Scheduled for December is The Tomb by F. Paul Wilson (If i can find it)I like these whacky characters as in Repairman Jack and Odd Thomas.

Team_Ramrod

11-17-2006, 07:36 PM

mikeyboy wrote: This thread.  Der. Damn it Mikeyboy, that was the line I was going to say. You stole my thunder, is what I would say if I were waiting on hold and you were the caller before me. Which by the way is so f'n pathetic, why not hang  up? Actually, that raises a good question. Why did I post this? why not move on?God, I'm so pathetic.

Kevin

11-17-2006, 07:41 PM

johnniewalker

11-17-2006, 09:58 PM

burrben wrote: <img width="329" height="500" border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1594200297.01.LZZZZZZZ" /> How come?  Class or personal reasons?

dereckfishboy

11-18-2006, 03:42 AM

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e68/jenosyde/lullaby.jpg

klaus_kinski_Jr

11-18-2006, 03:50 AM

extracheese wrote: Scheduled for December is The Tomb by F. Paul Wilson (If i can find it)  You should have no problem finding The Tomb since it was reissued for a "lower" price. Great read Repairmen Jack is a great character  Just finished - ASK THE PARROT - Richard Stark (I write reviews for a site called Bookgasm since the book comes out later this week)Reading Right now - THE AMATEUR - Robert Littell

jax

11-18-2006, 05:16 AM

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent by Julia Alverez.  Crazed by Ha Jin

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El Mudo

11-18-2006, 05:32 AM

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/014024364X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Captain Rooster

11-18-2006, 05:54 AM

Currently ...  Listening "iPod" book:  Starship Troopers by Heinlein. Never saw the movie (the OC in space) and don't plan n the seeing the movie. AWESOME BOOK! I was in the infantry and Heinlein NAILS the reality of Sergeantsa and Offciers.  Reading King's The Dark Tower III: Waste Lands ... slow at firstm nuch better now.

feralBoy

11-18-2006, 06:05 AM

Battle Royale.  This book is pretty badass.  It's more of a fun read than anything else. It is translated from japan, so it can get tough to keep up with the names of all the characters. <img src="http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/7220000/7223645.jpg" border="0" width="395" height="648" />

DarkHippie

11-18-2006, 07:53 AM

Skinny Legs and All, by Tom Robbins

burrben

11-18-2006, 08:34 AM

johnniewalker wrote: burrben wrote: <img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1594200297.01.LZZZZZZZ" border="0" width="329" height="500" />  How come?  Class or personal reasons? it's for a political theory class but it's one of the few that i'm actually reading word for word, not just skimming

johnniewalker

11-18-2006, 08:39 AM

burrben wrote: johnniewalker wrote: burrben wrote: <img width="329" height="500" border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1594200297.01.LZZZZZZZ" /> How come? Class or personal reasons? it's for a political theory class but it's one of the few that i'm actually reading word for word, not just skimming I googled him because I've never heard of him and I figured it was for a political class. I thought its an odd pick for a political theory class, there is over 2000 years of written political theory.  Is it cool though?

MHasegawa

11-18-2006, 10:54 AM

confessions of an economic hitman- john perkins

lleeder

11-18-2006, 11:00 AM

fohat

11-18-2006, 11:13 AM

I'm on a Tolkein kick.  I finally made it through the Silmarillion last month, so now I'm going back through the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings.I always read the same books over and over.  I used to read the Douglas Adams books repetitivly also...

johnniewalker

11-18-2006, 11:19 AM

The 30 posts funkman made in Is Jim Norton is funny?

reillyluck

11-18-2006, 11:27 AM

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f275/raidersoccergrl9/harry%20potter/1151866m6bn.jpgyeah i like harry potter. so what?  oh yeah, see if you say that shit to my face<img src="/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-tongue-out.gif" border="0" alt="Tongue out" title="Tongue out" width="18" height="18" />

aceofspades7

01-11-2007, 11:22 AM

this book is amazing - should make a great movie too:<img src="http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n37/n189982.jpg" border="0" width="316" height="481" />

PapaBear

01-11-2007, 11:27 AM

BoondockSaint

01-11-2007, 11:28 AM

<img src="http://www.tenderbar.com/images/TenderBar_hc.jpg" border="0" width="190" height="293" /> I just finished The Tender Bar.  Great book.  Memoir of a guy growing up on LI with no father.  And it mentions Gilgo Beach which rocks.  Now I'm working on the new Hannibal Lecter book, Hannibal Rising.  It ok, not great, so far.

Boricua1

01-11-2007, 11:47 AM

Aggie

01-11-2007, 11:56 AM

Just finished this book: <img src="http://members.tripod.com/~charnelhouse/stand90.jpg" border="0" width="202" height="300" />Asked for this for Christmas and just started:<img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0609601202.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" border="0" width="281" height="416" />

Dan 'Hampton

01-11-2007, 01:39 PM

This thread and the Wiki entry for Little Britain

burrben

01-11-2007, 01:43 PM

kindred

01-11-2007, 01:58 PM

reillyluck wrote: <img src="http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f275/raidersoccergrl9/harry%20potter/1151866m6bn.jpg" border="0" width="170" height="256" />yeah i like harry potter. so what?  oh yeah, see if you say that shit to my face<img src="/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-tongue-out.gif" border="0" alt="Tongue out" title="Tongue out" width="18" height="18" />Me too!  I'm really enjoying this book.  Rowling is starting to put everything thing together and I love all the "snoggin" in this book!!

CofyCrakCocaine

01-11-2007, 02:35 PM

I'd post pics but yeah. I'm too dumb to know how to do that. Or too lazy. You decide.I'm reading right now: 'Lenin's Tomb', by David Remnick.  I'm also reading 'Reporting', also by Remnick.

Captain Rooster

01-11-2007, 02:39 PM

King's Drak Tower V: Wolves of Calla

CofyCrakCocaine

01-11-2007, 02:46 PM

Rooster, how is the Dark Tower series for ya? I read the Gunslinger and felt it was too slow. Does it get better/worth continuing reading?

Yerdaddy

01-12-2007, 08:13 AM

Who knew books would be the second best thing about Bangkok? This place has some of the best used bookstores I've ever seen. Finished recently:Graham Greene - The Captain and the EnemyAsne Seierstad - The Bookseller of Kabul (true story I had heard was crap before but couldn't remember why. Someone gave me the book in Egypt and it turned out to be really good - one of the few books to tell good and bad and inbetween about Muslims.)Elmore Leanord - Pagan Babies - (all Elmore Leanord is great)Working on:Seven Pillars of Wisdom - T.E. Lawrence (so much better than I expected. Should have started it two years ago.)Seymour Hersh - Chain of Command: The Road from 9-11 to Abu Ghraib - (Awesome piece of investigative journalism. Should be required reading for Americans.)Dispatches - Michael Herr - (Mildly gonzo-style dispatches from a journalist during Vietnam. Intense. The guy was apparently hired as a writer for Apocolypse Now and Full Metal Jacket. I can see why.)

El Mudo

01-12-2007, 08:55 AM

Tall_James

01-12-2007, 09:00 AM

In case you're interested...<a href="http://www.artgarfunkel.com/library.html">Here is a list of every single book Art Garfunkel has read.</a>Didn't expect that, did you?

weekapaugjz

01-12-2007, 09:02 AM

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679313109.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpgjust started this last night.  very interesting so far, about the how the loss of culture can lead to a "dark age" and what institutions in society must be held up to secure meaningful culture.

mendyweiss

01-12-2007, 09:06 AM

<img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0375705473.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" border="0" width="299" height="475" />Yea, they weren't all accountants and lawyers !!

AppleBoy

01-12-2007, 09:58 AM

blakjeezis

01-12-2007, 10:29 AM

Seave_Dave72

01-12-2007, 10:30 AM

Confessions of an economic hitman

EffMeBoobs

01-12-2007, 11:06 AM

<img src="http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/0293-1/%7B65F0843E-5EA2-40F3-B522-741992938C2F%7DImg100.jpg" border="0" width="284" height="306" />Got it for Xmas.  The beginning was great....but towards the end now and I'm struggling through it because I already knows what happens to Marley.  Funny thing is my own puppy snuggles up with me when I read this book.  Pretty gosh darn cute.

dolemyte

01-12-2007, 11:55 AM

Mick Foley's first book and about to start my yearly reading of Motley Crew's 'The Dirt' <img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060392886.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIlitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" border="0" width="240" height="240" /> 

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ralphbxny

01-12-2007, 12:28 PM

Just finished Wildfire-Nelson Demille last night and started today Ali Rap by George Lois

spadanko

01-12-2007, 12:54 PM

jetdog

01-12-2007, 01:37 PM

<h2>Activation of Proton Pumping in Human Neutrophils Occurs by Exocytosis of Vesicles Bearing Vacuolar-type H+-ATPases<a href="http://www.jbc.org/cgi/content/full/271/27/15963#FN1">*</a> </h2> (Received for publication, January 23, 1996, and in revised form, April 2, 1996) Arvind Nanda <a href="http://www.jbc.org/cgi/content/full/271/27/15963#O2"><img src="http://www.jbc.org/math/12pt/normal/scr/link/Dagger.gif" border="0" alt="Dagger " width="5" height="9" align="bottom" /></a><a href="http://www.jbc.org/cgi/content/full/271/27/15963#O3">§</a><a href="http://www.jbc.org/cgi/content/full/271/27/15963#FN4">¶</a>, John H. Brumell <a href="http://www.jbc.org/cgi/content/full/271/27/15963#O2"><img src="http://www.jbc.org/math/12pt/normal/scr/link/Dagger.gif" border="0" alt="Dagger " width="5" height="9" align="bottom" /></a><a href="http://www.jbc.org/cgi/content/full/271/27/15963#O3">§</a><a href="http://www.jbc.org/cgi/content/full/271/27/15963#FN5"><img src="http://www.jbc.org/math/12pt/normal/scr/link/par.gif" border="0" alt="par " width="4" height="11" align="bottom" /></a>, Tommy Nordström <a href="http://www.jbc.org/cgi/content/full/271/27/15963#O2"><img src="http://www.jbc.org/math/12pt/normal/scr/link/Dagger.gif" border="0" alt="Dagger " width="5" height="9" align="bottom" /></a>, Lars Kjeldsen <a href="http://www.jbc.org/cgi/content/full/271/27/15963#O6">''</a>, Henrik Sengeløv <a href="http://www.jbc.org/cgi/content/full/271/27/15963#O6">''</a>, Niels Borregaard <a href="http://www.jbc.org/cgi/content/full/271/27/15963#O6">''</a>, Ori D. Rotstein <a href="http://www.jbc.org/cgi/content/full/271/27/15963#O7"><img src="http://www.jbc.org/math/12pt/normal/scr/link/tprime.gif" border="0" alt="'''" width="9" height="5" align="top" /></a> and Sergio Grinstein <a href="http://www.jbc.org/cgi/content/full/271/27/15963#O2"><img src="http://www.jbc.org/math/12pt/normal/scr/link/Dagger.gif" border="0" alt="Dagger " width="5" height="9" align="bottom" /></a><a href="http://www.jbc.org/cgi/content/full/271/27/15963#O3">§</a><a href="http://www.jbc.org/cgi/content/full/271/27/15963#FN8"><img src="http://www.jbc.org/math/12pt/normal/scr/link/par.gif" border="0" alt="par " width="4" height="11" align="bottom" /></a> From the <a name="O2" title="O2"></a><img src="http://www.jbc.org/math/12pt/normal/scr/Dagger.gif" border="0" alt="Dagger " width="5" height="9" align="bottom" /> Division of Cell Biology, Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Ave., Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1X8 Canada, the <a name="O3" title="O3"></a>§ Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A8 Canada, the <a name="O7" title="O7"></a><img src="http://www.jbc.org/math/12pt/normal/scr/tprime.gif" border="0" alt="'''" width="9" height="5" align="top" /> Department of Surgery, The Toronto Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 2C4 Canada, and the <a name="O6" title="O6"></a>'' Granulocyte Research Laboratory, Department of Haematology L, Rigshopitalet, Copenhagen, DK-2100 Denmark

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Bob Impact

01-12-2007, 04:53 PM

Rereading Atlas Shrugged, it's a January tradition for me.  Aside from that Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk.

WhistlePig

01-12-2007, 05:14 PM

Got "Nature Girl" for Xmas. Classic Hiaasen

http://www.popmatters.com/images/book_cover_art/n/nature-girl-2006.jpg

weekapaugjz

01-12-2007, 05:16 PM

Seave_Dave72 wrote: Confessions of an economic hitman i read this over the summer, one of the best books i have read in a long time.

Landblast

01-12-2007, 05:19 PM

Yerdaddy

01-12-2007, 10:27 PM

weekapaugjz wrote: Seave_Dave72 wrote: Confessions of an economic hitman  i read this over the summer, one of the best books i have read in a long time.Why is this book still so popular? Do me a favor and fact check this guy's story! In fact, I think you can search for the thread in which I looked into and found about a 99% chance the guy is a complete liar. But check it out for yourself.

Yosammity

01-13-2007, 05:48 AM

theclumsyox

01-13-2007, 06:15 AM

Manhattan Loverboy by Arthur NersesianVery funny absurdist humor. Writes kind of crazy like Vonnegut or Robbins. <img src="http://simonkmiller.com/wp-content/photos/Manhattan_Loverboy.jpg" border="0" />Guns, Germs and Steel - The Fates of Human Societies by Jared DiamondAmazing. Believe it won the Pulitzer Prize as well.<img src="http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~aahobor/Lucy-Day/Images/Covers-50/Guns-Germs-and-Steel.jpg" border="0" />Also.. going back a few posts, earlier in the year I read all 7 Dark Tower books by Stephen King back-to-back. The Gunslinger was slow, but after that it was amazing. Very well written, very elaborate story. The end of book 7 is horiffic however. 

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jax

01-13-2007, 06:23 AM

Dan 'Hampton

01-15-2007, 05:58 PM

douchebagsean

01-15-2007, 06:34 PM

burrben wrote: johnniewalker wrote: burrben wrote: <img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1594200297.01.LZZZZZZZ" border="0" width="329" height="500" />  How come? Class or personal reasons? it's for a political theory class but it's one of the few that i'm actually reading word for word, not just skimming I dont always agree with Dr. West's theories but it is a great book, he makes some solid points

Wallower

01-15-2007, 07:02 PM

feralBoy wrote: Battle Royale.  This book is pretty badass.  It's more of a fun read than anything else. It is translated from japan, so it can get tough to keep up with the names of all the characters. <img src="http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/7220000/7223645.jpg" border="0" width="395" height="648" /> That's an awesome book. Did you know they made two movies about it? The first one is the book you're reading. The second one is a steaming pile of crap. But still fun to watch. I'm catching up on some comics.<img src="http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/1962/ue01001nt5.jpg" border="0" width="200" height="313" />The Galactus Saga.

feralBoy

01-15-2007, 07:22 PM

Wallower wrote: That's an awesome book. Did you know they made two movies about it? The first one is the book you're reading. The second one is a steaming pile of crap. But still fun to watch.I actually saw the first movie.  I didn't even know there was a second one.  I'll have to check if netflix has it.  There are also a ton of graphic novels as well.  Haven't read any of those though.  My current reading... <img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/b5/74/3117024128a0186be15dc010.L.jpg" border="0" width="333" height="500" />It's taking long to read, because i'm trying to read the Old English part as well as the translated modern english.  I'm really not good pronouncing old english at all, and it's taking forever.  It's some hard shit.

Gvac

01-15-2007, 07:23 PM

Yet another translation of The Tao Te Ching.

TheVHD

01-15-2007, 07:35 PM

It's kind of old... but I think it's awesome.<img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/98/4e/4d7d92c008a0bbd83ae57010._AA240_.L.jpg" border="0" width="240" height="240" />

keithy_19

01-15-2007, 07:40 PM

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.Then I want to finally read the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, which translates into The Strife of Love in a Dream.

TheGameHHH

01-15-2007, 08:30 PM

"Cocaine" by Dominic Streatfeild, it talks about this history of coca and the plants history throughout time. I read it once about 5 years ago and now I wanna re-read it because I remember it being so good.

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Kevin

01-15-2007, 08:47 PM

TheVHD wrote: It's kind of old... but I think it's awesome.<img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/98/4e/4d7d92c008a0bbd83ae57010._AA240_.L.jpg" border="0" width="240" height="240" /> What is that about?

Reephdweller

01-15-2007, 09:00 PM

spadanko

01-17-2007, 07:50 AM

Aggie wrote:  Just finished this book: <img src="http://members.tripod.com/~charnelhouse/stand90.jpg" border="0" width="202" height="300" /> I too jsut finished The Stand.. good stuff

Furtherman

01-17-2007, 08:44 AM

theclumsyox wrote: Guns, Germs and Steel - The Fates of Human Societies by Jared DiamondAmazing. Believe it won the Pulitzer Prize as well.<img src="http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~aahobor/Lucy-Day/Images/Covers-50/Guns-Germs-and-Steel.jpg" border="0" width="28" height="30" />Check out Jared Diamond's follow up, "Collapse".  It's a fasinating look into how every major past society collapsed and how every modern one will.And I still feel eveyone should read Cormac McCarthy's The Road.  It'll scare the hell out of you.<img src="http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n34/n174963.jpg" border="0" width="304" height="500" />

scorpion

01-17-2007, 08:58 AM

Landblast wrote: <img src="http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r37/pbrstreetgang1/nasty-bits.jpg?t=1168654771" border="0" width="168" height="254" /> Me too!  Loved the first one...

EliSnow

01-17-2007, 09:32 AM

I'm in the midst of reading a number of things right now:<img src="http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f373/EliSnow/Rubicon.jpg" border="0" width="227" height="350" /> (Need to finish this)<img src="http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f373/EliSnow/Conan.jpg" border="0" width="240" height="240" /> <img src="http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f373/EliSnow/Lonesome.jpg" border="0" width="318" height="475" />

phixion

01-17-2007, 10:04 AM

Cocaine" by Dominic Streatfeild, it talks about this history of coca and the plants history throughout time. I read it once about 5 years ago and now I wanna re-read it because I remember it being so good.  great fuckin book.

Doctor Manhattan

01-17-2007, 10:14 AM

<img src="http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/596/civilwar200602090746400io2.jpg" border="0" width="400" height="615" />It's not very good, but I'm facinated by Spiderman's new Iron Man created costume.

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AppleBoy

02-16-2007, 10:04 AM

Don Stugots

02-16-2007, 10:08 AM

the listening thread.

ChimneyFish

02-16-2007, 10:39 AM

<a href="http://www.anotherversionofthetruth.com/" target="_blank">http://www.anotherversionofthetruth.com</a>

Badinia

02-16-2007, 10:55 AM

<img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400060761.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" border="0" width="285" height="289" />  This is hilarious, and a total page turner.  I keep trying to think of ways to sneak in more reading time with it this week.

drjoek

02-16-2007, 11:03 AM

Ron and fez.net message board Duh!?!?!   WWRD

CofyCrakCocaine

02-16-2007, 11:08 AM

Andomray

02-16-2007, 11:12 AM

http://g-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/3c/1e/44d7024128a08127ab4b5010._AA240_.L.jpg and going to start this soon: http://www.zverina.com/2002/images/021207-pulp.jpg

IamFogHat

02-16-2007, 11:15 AM

<img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0670032565.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" border="0" width="240" height="240" />and the warren Ellis graphic novel series Fell<img src="http://www.readaboutcomics.com/images/022406_fell01.jpg" border="0" width="150" height="228" />

jax

02-16-2007, 12:14 PM

<a href="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0224074539.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg&imgrefurl=http://reader2.com/warmjelly/nazis&h=475&w=330&sz=36&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=PQ2O7O j1236DaM:&tbnh=129&tbnw=90&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dplot%2Bagainst%2Bamerica%2Bp%2Broth%2 6gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG"><img src="http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:PQ2O7Oj1236DaM:http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0224074539.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" border="0" width="90" height="129" /></a> Just finished this, next up Waiting for Adam

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Yerdaddy

02-16-2007, 06:05 PM

<img src="http://www.randomhouse.com.au/system%20pictures/9780099478393.jpg" border="0" width="200" height="310" />Finished this last week. I knew it would be good, but not that good. The movie screenplay changed alot so don't let the fact that you've seen the movie lead you to pass up the book. This book should be required reading for anyone interested in international relations or Iraq or America in general.

BoondockSaint

02-17-2007, 11:46 AM

<img src="http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/Images/fdr11.JPG" border="0" width="265" height="399" /> FDR was a sneaky bastard.

Gvac

02-17-2007, 12:03 PM

Andomray wrote:    <img src="http://www.zverina.com/2002/images/021207-pulp.jpg" border="0" />  You listen to the Blues and read Bukowski?Seriously, Andomray, you've got to be the coolest chick  EVER.  In my never ending quest to find fiction that I enjoy, I just finished "Lifeguard" by James Patterson.What a steaming pile of shit.  No wonder I stick to non-fiction.

furie

02-17-2007, 12:25 PM

a canticle for Lebowitz

TheGameHHH

02-17-2007, 12:36 PM

I'm reading this book called "Thinking in Pictures: My Life With Autism" by Temple Grandin. It's actually totally fascinating.

westsidechef

02-17-2007, 06:51 PM

A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole for what must be at least the 100th time. Timeless novel.

lleeder

02-17-2007, 06:53 PM

Justice Society #3

Donnielimes

02-17-2007, 07:00 PM

Esquire Magazine great article about Robert Downey Jr., really good and a good articleon David Fincher. Downey is starring in the "Ironman" movie ,directed by Favreau. Fincher is coming out with "Zodiac". Pretty good articles. "Ironman" should be cool.

docgoblin

02-18-2007, 02:16 PM

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cougarjake13

02-18-2007, 02:18 PM

posts on this messageboard

wonderwoman

02-18-2007, 02:32 PM

I'm trying to read of all the threads on the board for today <img src="/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/blink.gif" border="0" width="20" height="20" />

WhistlePig

02-18-2007, 03:24 PM

My mom brings me bags of books and once in a while I find a gem among a
pile of crap and this book was one. Steve Martin is an incredible writer.
Didn't expect to enjoy it but did. It was one of those books that makes you
sad when you're through.

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klaus_kinski_Jr

02-18-2007, 06:45 PM

Just finished:
Lester Dent's Zeppelin Tales.
VIA DOLOROSA - Ronald Damien Malfi

About to start this:

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This message was edited by klaus_kinski_Jr on 2-18-07 @ 10:46 PM

stinkbud

02-18-2007, 07:50 PM

<img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0399153691.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" border="0" width="240" height="240" />Dirk Pitt books are such guilty pleasurea :)

keithy_19

02-18-2007, 08:37 PM

I'm going to pick up Hot Water Music by Bukowski tomorrow. And I want to read Haunted. by Chuck Palahniuk.

PapaBear

03-06-2007, 08:19 PM

I need a new bathroom book. Any suggestions? Since it's bathroom reading, it can't be too complicated. My most recent b/r books have been in the line of Grisham, Clancy, and some history books."Flagged" art books from Brentano's need not apply.

hedges

03-07-2007, 12:35 AM

I am reading "The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov

thelyonhart

03-07-2007, 03:38 AM

Cleophus James

03-07-2007, 04:24 AM

Sheeplovr

03-07-2007, 04:34 AM

the man who fell to earth wich sparked a little bus chat how about dem apples

busybeeman

03-07-2007, 06:23 AM

"Discovering Our Inner Ape"  by de Waal<table border="0" width="200"><tbody><tr><td align="center"> </td></tr><tr><td align="center"><h4>Frans De Waal</h4>Frans B.M. de Waal was born in the Netherlands in 1948. He trained as a zoologist and ethologist and earned a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Utrecht. He is Research Professor in Psychobiology at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where he is also Professor of Primate Behavior and Professor of Psychology. In addition to Good Natured and Bonobos: The Forgotten Ape, Professor de Waal wrote Chimpanzee Politics and Peacemaking among Primates. His current interests include food-sharing, social reciprocity, and conflict-resolution in primates as well as the origins of morality and justice in human society.</td></tr></tbody></table>

raulfd4

03-07-2007, 06:36 AM

<img src="http://www.cubatravelusa.com/ERNEST_HEMINGWAY_PHOTO.jpg" border="0" alt="ernie" title="ernie" width="176" height="250" />been on a big hemingway kick - in our time, for whom the bell tolls, sun also rises, green hills of africa, old man and the sea, short stories, farewell to arms <img src="http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pictures/a-f/fitzgerald-f-scott/fitzgerald-med.jpg" border="0" alt="f" title="f" width="160" height="199" />sticking to the romantics....trying to re-read some fitgerald - this side of paradise, great gatsby, short storiesi was an english major, what can i say?

J.Clints

03-07-2007, 06:37 AM

I am working on the Marine. Its ok

Chigworthy

03-07-2007, 03:14 PM

<img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/080507581X.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" border="0" width="240" height="240" />About the history of the creepy Farrallon Islands and great white research out there.  On a clear day we can see these islands from the Sonoma coast.

PigShitIrish

03-07-2007, 07:53 PM

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PapaBear

03-07-2007, 07:57 PM

I wasn't sure what to get for my bathroom reading, but I ended up getting this.<img src="http://www.yetanotherblog.de/media/2/20050424-digital-fortress.jpg" border="0" width="155" height="250" />I've never read Dan Brown. Anyone know if it's any good, or did I waste the 6 bucks?

Kevin

03-07-2007, 07:57 PM

stump12

03-08-2007, 02:33 PM

PapaBear wrote: I wasn't sure what to get for my bathroom reading, but I ended up getting this.<img src="http://www.yetanotherblog.de/media/2/20050424-digital-fortress.jpg" border="0" width="155" height="250" />I've never read Dan Brown. Anyone know if it's any good, or did I waste the 6 bucks? I ve read the Da vinci code and Angels and Demons and they were both good. Im readin Map of Bones  by James Rollins right now and its kinda like Dan Brown.

BabyLuvWhatley

03-08-2007, 02:42 PM

<img src="http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/10160000/10168119.gif" border="0" alt="Cover Image" width="100" height="152" /> I have a chocolate stout that will be ready for St. P's day... can't wait.

QueensideDave

03-09-2007, 09:04 AM

<img src="http://www.monstersandcritics.com/artman/uploads/perfume.jpg" border="0" /> don't be fooled by the name, the book is fantastic. <img src="http://www.littlecrackedegg.com/issue02/books/images/kill.jpg" border="0" /> 

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undressa

03-09-2007, 09:06 AM

this board!

keithy_19

03-10-2007, 10:30 AM

High Fidelity by Nick Hornby. It's my comfort book.

Andomray

03-10-2007, 10:38 AM

Badinia

03-10-2007, 12:20 PM

<img src="http://content.vcommerce.com/products/fullsize/601/3579601.jpg" border="0" width="279" height="481" /> Not life-changing, but funny comedy humor.

JesterOfSadness

03-10-2007, 12:28 PM

The Death of WCW

JPMNICK

03-10-2007, 12:41 PM

On Suggestion from Opie, I picked this one up today. Pretty good so far.  <h1 id="title">Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants</h1><h2 id="contributor">by <a href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?ATH=Robert+Sullivan&z=y">Robert Sullivan</a></h2>  <img src="http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/8230000/8235565.jpg" border="0" width="426" height="648" />

KnoxHarrington

03-10-2007, 12:56 PM

<img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0553803328.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg"></img>

I've been on a Tom Robbins kick lately.

Reephdweller

03-10-2007, 01:25 PM

ralphbxny

03-10-2007, 02:59 PM

For one more day mitch albom

docgoblin

03-10-2007, 04:54 PM

Just finished The Jean Shepherd bio (Great reading!).Now reading "Ghost Soldiers" by Hampton Sides. It's the story of the incredible WW2 rescue operation that liberated the remaining POW's from the Bataan Death March, before the Japanese could slaughter them all. It's an amazing story.

Don Stugots

03-10-2007, 04:56 PM

The hot chic pic game 2

Fat_Sunny

03-10-2007, 04:58 PM

docgoblin wrote: Just finished The Jean Shepherd bio (Great reading!).Now reading "Ghost Soldiers" by Hampton Sides. It's the story of the incredible WW2 rescue operation that liberated the remaining POW's from the Bataan Death March, before the Japanese could slaughter them all. It's an amazing story.  How Did You Even Know About That Book?  F_S's Uncle Died On The Bataan Death March, So He Sought Out Books Like This, And Read Ghost Soldiers Several Years Ago.  How Did It Get On Your Radar Screen?

booster11373

03-10-2007, 05:25 PM

Today I finished Downtown by Pete HamillTommorow I will startThe Jesus Papers by I dont know who

FezPaul

03-10-2007, 05:30 PM

QueensideDave wrote:  <img src="http://www.littlecrackedegg.com/issue02/books/images/kill.jpg" border="0" width="81" height="125" /> I've read that. Good history of American Punk Rock.And a great title.

lleeder

03-10-2007, 06:17 PM

Old X-men comics

Mike Teacher

03-10-2007, 06:36 PM

Fat_Sunny wrote: docgoblin wrote: Just finished The Jean Shepherd bio (Great reading!).Now reading "Ghost Soldiers" by Hampton Sides. It's the story of the incredible WW2 rescue operation that liberated the remaining POW's from the Bataan Death March, before the Japanese could slaughter them all. It's an amazing story.  How Did You Even Know About That Book?  F_S's Uncle Died On The Bataan Death March, So He Sought Out Books Like This, And Read Ghost Soldiers Several Years Ago.  How Did It Get On Your Radar Screen?Cant speak for Docgoblin but the Bataan Death March and the Raid on Cabanatuan have always been huge for fans of WW2 history, and there was a recent [?] movie, 'The Great Raid' I think; that's all about the Raid that rescued these guys. Amazing story, film was OK imho.The book on Shep also rules, and whoever mentioned Tom Robbins, he's so good and so different and his writing is so dense that reading his stuff is actually tiring, I read a sentence and then haveta think about for like 5 mins, sorta like Pirsigs 'Zen... Motorcycle Maint.' Completely different use of the language. Another Roadside Attraction is about the best thing Ive ever seen written.

klaus_kinski_Jr

03-10-2007, 08:12 PM

Just finished this literary treasure

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Just started this one he also wrote what we know as The Makintosh Man original
title Freedom Trap

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hedges

03-10-2007, 10:02 PM

"The World Don't Owe Me Nothing"

by David Honeyboy Edwards

barjockey

03-10-2007, 10:30 PM

nothing

shodan

03-10-2007, 10:41 PM

I am reading World War Z right now...great book. Recently I read Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, one of the best and most savage books I have ever read. (Also read The Road by the same author; saddest thing I have ever read). Next I will be reading The Terror, by Dan Simmons.

Yerdaddy

03-10-2007, 11:55 PM

George Packer - "Assassin's Gate: America in Iraq". I was so glad to finally get to a place where I could get this book - a Border's in one of the many giant malls in Kuala Lumpur. It's outstanding so far. <a href="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2005/0509.hirsh.html" target="_blank">Here's an article about the book I just found - "Confessions of a Humvee Liberal". </a>As a journalist Packer fascinates me as much as his name does.Finished recently: John Le Carre - Absolute Friends. Good novel about liberal politics in the Cold War to the Wurr on Turr. It's not what you might expect.

Furtherman

03-28-2007, 09:40 AM

I've mentioned this book before, but my jaw just dropped upon hearing the news today that Oprah's next pick for her book club is Cormac McCarthy's The Road.

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CHICAGO (AP) - Don't expect a lot of sunshine in Oprah Winfrey's latest book club pick. Publishing's leading hit-maker has chosen Cormac McCarthy's "The Road," a bleak, apocalyptic novel by an author who rarely talks to the media.

"It is so extraordinary," Winfrey said Wednesday. "I promise you, you'll be thinking about it long after you finish the final page."

McCarthy, 73, is known for novels such as "All the Pretty Horses" and "Blood Meridian," and has been widely cited as an heir to William Faulkner for his biblical prose and rural settings. Critic Harold Bloom, famous for his discerning taste, has called McCarthy one of the greatest living American writers, along with Don DeLillo, Philip Roth and Thomas Pynchon.

"The Road," published last September by Knopf, is a sparely written story of a father and son trying to survive as they wander through a burned and bare landscape. It was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle prize and is considered a leading contender for the Pulitzer Prize.

"It's unlike anything I've ever chosen as a book club selection before because it's post-apocalyptic. (It is) very unusual for me to select this book, but it's fascinating," Winfrey said.

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This book is awesome, but I can't see Oprah's audience embracing it. It's chilling and hard core. It'll freak them out. Which is good, in a way.