2007 What you reading in January to start the new year?
[QUOTE=PGoutis01;916616]That's one of the books I was trying to order on Barnes and Noble with my giftcard. I hear so many good things about the show. I can't wait until it comes out on DVD.[/QUOTE]
word....I just found out it was a book first....look forward to cracking it sometime soon.
"I thought I had mono once for an entire year. Turns out I was just really bored."
Wayne Campbell
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That looks more like a record cover than it does a book.
[img]http://www.beatthefish.com/images/harrington.jpg[/img] and [I]The Prestige[/I].
cheers on the Welsh. I still haven't finished it..
if you like the Hold Em book, go get Positively Fifth Street by James McManus
it's not really a guide to how to play but a pretty damn good story about the early years of Binion's World Series of Poker
Highly recommended
Ive just started THE HOUSE by Bentley Little, I dont know anything at all about the writer but I have a feeling hes a poor mans Stephen King, hopefully Im wrong, Does anyone who has read him care to enlighten me?
Jeay... just finished Norwegian Wood 
quite good... kind of sad... rather weak ending, though... but still a good read... worth the time.. I like Murakami... About to start The Wind-Up Chronicle asap...
Still working on Perfume and some Bukowski...
Shouts, Johnny R.
New Poems by Buckowski--books 1,2 & now I'm on vol. 3. Inspirational, moving and true. what more can ya ask for?
When I was in Japan, I read "Heimen Inu" (Flat Dog) by Ich Otsu. He is a Japanese horror / fantasy writer. I just loved this book and if it's not available in English I'd love to translate it for you guys. (His other book "Calling You" will be available in US this summer I think.)
Well now, I'm reading Naked by David Sedaris.
The Catmother of all Worldwide Cats
[QUOTE=Barca Boy;917434]Ive just started THE HOUSE by Bentley Little, I dont know anything at all about the writer but I have a feeling hes a poor mans Stephen King, hopefully Im wrong, Does anyone who has read him care to enlighten me?[/QUOTE]
I read an article by Stephen King once and he said that in his spare time he read Bentley Little....maybe not so much the poor mans Stephen King but King's favorite way to get a fright.
"I thought I had mono once for an entire year. Turns out I was just really bored."
Wayne Campbell
So I just finished Hannibal Rising about a week ago and here is my gripe:
It seems to me that it was written like a movie. I don't know how soon it was optioned, though it had to have been around the inception since I see the movie is already coming out. It just felt very superficial and...I guess the best way that I can describe it is it felt like I was reading a movie.
Did anybody else have this problem? Most books that are adapted into movies have a multitude of "scenes" cut out of them. I can't think of one thing that could be cut out of the book and still have it be a 2 - 2 1/2 hour movie.
Do not speak- unless it improves on silence.
I went to buy Hannibal Rising the other day and in the place it was supposed to be on the shelf sat Victoria Beckham's book. I want to read it!
is it sold with the crayons ?
Which one?
And to clarify I want to read the new Hannibal Lecter book not the Victoria Beckham thing.
the latter, of course
you may fare better with the Posh Spice book....just sayin. Hannibal Rising the movie looks better than the book. The kid in it is supposed to be great.
"I thought I had mono once for an entire year. Turns out I was just really bored."
Wayne Campbell
Gaspard Ulliel was not convincing at all as Audrey Tautou's lost love in [B]A very Long Engagement[/B].
I'm reading The People act of Love by James Meek.
I finished The Black Dahlia last night. That book was amazing. Dang I don't know why I haven't read any Ellroy before. That guy is awesome. I'm glad I've bought the whole L.A. quartet.
Started Darkly Dreaming Dexter. I'm almost done. Not the best writing, but their's something about it that draws you in. I'm feeling for the characters. I'm really liking the book so far. I can't wait to see where it's going.
Im reading Number9dream by David Mitchell and The Road by Cormac Mc Carthy.
I read Hannibal Rising and it was indeed shite. I was expecting something a little different, more epic maybe. Instead it just expanded on something that was hinted at in previous books. As a hint this story was interesting. As a novel it's not. Take the mystery away and suddenly you're bored and noticing what a hack the writer is. I know what the other person who read the book meant about it being written like a film script, he might as well have just started his chapters with that INT - someplace - day thing you get to set the scene in a script.
I'm reading High Fidelity, but about the end of the first chapter I remembered I had seen the movie and now I have John Cusack's face stuck on the main character and it's pissing me off because main characters are usually a very indefinite gray area of emotion in my head. The book isn't bad, though.. when I don't think of Cusack..
Started 'Mystics and Zen Masters', finished 'The Four Agreements' and Chuck's 'Invisible Monsters'. Next up is Hunter S. Thompson's 'The Rum Diary' and Bukowski's 'Factotum'.
Just finished Electroboy-Andy Behrman,
Starting Kafka on the Shore-Haruki Murakami
Also I read Portnoy's Complaint, which morey advised against though I can't imagine why. I found it funny...diverting...ultimately tiresome. I was glad it ended but not sorry that I read it.
1984 by George Orwell - it's already disturbing 20 pages in
Slaughter House Five by Vonnegut - never read any of him before so we'll see...
"I thought I had mono once for an entire year. Turns out I was just really bored."
Wayne Campbell
[QUOTE=projcon;924018]1984 by George Orwell - it's already disturbing 20 pages in
Slaughter House Five by Vonnegut - never read any of him before so we'll see...[/QUOTE]
I haven't read slaughter house yet, even though I know it's supposed to be one of his best... if you've never read him before though, I'd reccomend Galapagos, or Timequake, or Sirens of Titan next.
Slaughterhouse Five is one of my all-time favorites. I would re-read it but I keep giving away my copies. Ok, well I loan them out and never get them back. So I don't have one now.
I finished Darkly Dreaming Dexter last night. That book turned out to be better than I was expecting. I'm looking at a pile right now and I don't know which one to start. One of these are what I'm contemplating:
Clown Girl
The Littlest Hitler
Flood (a Burke Novel)
Franny and Zoey
The Beach
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
The sad thing is I have soooo many books to read. I really did narrow it down to these for now.
[QUOTE=PGoutis01;924745]I finished Darkly Dreaming Dexter last night. That book turned out to be better than I was expecting. I'm looking at a pile right now and I don't know which one to start. One of these are what I'm contemplating:
Clown Girl
The Littlest Hitler
Flood (a Burke Novel)
Franny and Zoey
The Beach
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
The sad thing is I have soooo many books to read. I really did narrow it down to these for now.[/QUOTE]
You are going to love a Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius...it has to be my favorite read. I had a strange connection to the authors feelings and emotions throughout. Enjoy
I am currently finishing up Suicide Cassanova...then from their I will need some suggestions of what to read next. I may re-read Heartbreaking Work again. I have not read it since it was released.
[QUOTE=PGoutis01;924745]I finished Darkly Dreaming Dexter last night. That book turned out to be better than I was expecting. I'm looking at a pile right now and I don't know which one to start. One of these are what I'm contemplating:
Clown Girl
The Littlest Hitler
Flood (a Burke Novel)
Franny and Zoey
The Beach
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
The sad thing is I have soooo many books to read. I really did narrow it down to these for now.[/QUOTE]
Go for Franny and Zooey, I can't believe you haven't read it yet! Plus it won't take you long.
[QUOTE=Vendetta;924749]Go for Franny and Zooey, I can't believe you haven't read it yet! Plus it won't take you long.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, that's one of the books I've had laying around for a long time. I always mean to read it and then end up reading something else...
Ok, I started the Beach. Just because I've owned that one the longest... It's only fair. 
I ordered a load of trashy shite like I usually do at this time of year so I've been reading more Janet Evanovich [I]Stephanie Plum[/I] books. Next shipment of braindead genre fiction coming May 2007!
Franny and Zooey is great. I read it when I was a freshman in High School (required reading). It is one of those books you can read and re-read.
[QUOTE=Vendetta;925081]I ordered a load of trashy shite like I usually do at this time of year so I've been reading more Janet Evanovich [I]Stephanie Plum[/I] books. Next shipment of braindead genre fiction coming May 2007![/QUOTE]
I binge on junk reading once in a while too. I had a Wal-Mart gift card to use up so I bought a Nora Roberts trilogy but I haven't started it yet.
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[B]D[/B]reaming
[B]D[/B]exter
I like it. Not as good as I expected, but a solid read.[/QUOTE]
That's one of the books I was trying to order on Barnes and Noble with my giftcard. I hear so many good things about the show. I can't wait until it comes out on DVD.