Ho Ho Ho, December 09 and I'm reading...
Finished reading Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. It was not awful. I expected to be rolling my eyes into some kind of vortex the whole way through. I didn't laugh out loud or anything...but I did say in my head, "I CAN APPRECIATE THE HUMOUR OF THIS SITUATION"
The characters are frustrating, but it's quite sharp and it's aged well considering it was written 10 years ago.
Maybe I'm getting old but everything is just so gosh darn pleasant nowadays. It's hard not to like everything in one way or another.
Don't know what to read next-I've got The Outcry by Henry James in my bag but haven't had a chance to get started yet.
I really liked Her Fearful Symmetry too - I'm inspired to take a tour at Highgate cemetery. Have you read A M Homes? You might like her stuff too, try This Book Will Save Your Life (or any of her books really, except for the memoir).
I just read Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, it was fun.
I read a Biography of Charles Manson by Simon Wells which left me disturbed then Polaroids from the Dead by Douglas Coupland and now Angels Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon.
Barca - you read a biography of Charles Manson and it wasn't Helter Skelter. True Helter Skelter is mainly about the murders - but damn that is my favorite true crime book I think. It left me walking around in a trance state for a few days contemplating how he could get people to murder for him so gruesomely. Then again - so did Hitler...
I read Helter Skelter a few years ago and I agree with you its one of the best true crime books I ever read, off the top of my head I think The Killer Beside Me by Ann Rule was real good too.
I'm reading yet another Philip Roth: The Counterlife. It's genius so far.
thanks for sharing.blackhawk tactical pants.
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My favourite. I hope you like it. If you do, I love you (not a threat).
Nick Cave - The Death of Bunny Munro.
Love me some Nick Cave and I really liked his first book which I found to be a mind fuck to read at times but enjoyable.
I thought this was great, though I love Nick Cave so maybe I'm predisposed. But it was nice and filthy. Always a plus.
I read Helter Skelter a few years ago and I agree with you its one of the best true crime books I ever read, off the top of my head I think The Killer Beside Me by Ann Rule was real good too.
I've tried to read The Killer Beside Me twice now.
The first time I only made it a few pages. I just wasn't in the mood for it.
The second time I made it over halfway through it and then just sort of lost interest.
I do want to finish it one day...
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson.... appropriate given the December-ness of the season right now
"I thought I had mono once for an entire year. Turns out I was just really bored."
Wayne Campbell
The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol
"Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested."
"Jemand musste Josef K. verleumdet haben, denn ohne dass er etwas Böses getan hätte, wurde er eines Morgens verhaftet"
I am tired of being an illiterate doofus.
I decided to begin reading again.
I bought a stack of short story collections
ranging from Beowulf to T.S. Eliot.
I am reading The Glass Menagerie today
and it is fairly interesting at best.
Thank you for this thread.
It's what inspired me to begin reading for enjoyment again.
I picked up The PRISONER a novelization of the original TV series, written by Thomas M. Disch. I'm 'cited because I never got to finish watching the amc mini series, and this has gots ta be better!
I'm reading "Panic" by Jeff Abbot. It OK. Then I'll read "Haunted" by some Palahniuk dude. Then, me thinks, More "Wheel of time" by Jordan.
Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis, (;
Just started Dubliners by James Joyce. I absolutely loved A Portrait of the artist as a Young Man so I think I'll enjoy this as well.
"Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested."
"Jemand musste Josef K. verleumdet haben, denn ohne dass er etwas Böses getan hätte, wurde er eines Morgens verhaftet"
Im 100 pages into Windows On The World by Frederic Beigbeder. Its awesome, so good Im ordering another by him right now.
Scar Lover by Harry Crews
I love Harry Crews and he's never mention around here anymore.
Feast of Snakes is my favorite.
Scar Lover was pretty good too though.
Let me know what you think.
Halfway through The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. I really love the casual prose; he just nails it. But as a non Spanish speaker, all that slang goes right over my head, and the characters are way too difficult to track.
just got "the wild things" by dave eggers, been waiting for a new fiction book by eggers for a while.
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It got slated in The Times over here but I loved LOVED how they started the review, "In reverse alchemy Eggers has managed to take solid gold and turn it into base metal" they done wrote it better than that and it was a perfectly crafted line I wanted to just die over. I messed it up.
I'm still reading Mysteries by knut Hamsun. All the work I had to do and I've been watching way too much TV lately. It's a wonderful book, really dig this guy.
Just started it. Was loaned to me by someone at work who said they liked it when they were my age.
Keep us posted, I'd like to know if you ended up hating it or loving it :D
Is it one of those love it or hate it books? I'm going to say it was not bad but not great either. Some cool stuff happened but a lot of the time nothing was happening at all.
Now reading House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski.
I've had this for at least a year but have never got around to reading it.
I've had this for at least a year but have never got around to reading it.
Definitely worth it.
Also, I'm reading Out of Touch by this Tietz guy, you guys may have heard of him.
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I just finished The Last Colony by John Scalzi. It was awesome... the whole series was awesome. three of the best books I've read in a good while.
Just started Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said by PKD
Love me some Nick Cave and I really liked his first book which I found to be a mind fuck to read at times but enjoyable.
Any opinions on this one yet? Based on his first novel, I expected to hate Bunny Munro. It is so much different. But, surprisingly, Munro is just as good. But, a different kind of good entirely.
As for me, I've been on a Jose Saramago kick lately. I started The Double a few weeks ago and am just now getting to read it regularly. I've read his Blindness and All the Names already, and have The Cave and The Stone Raft waiting for me.
My favourite. I hope you like it. If you do, I love you (not a threat).
I've just finished reading it, and I liked it. I kept thinking of The End of Alice by A.M. Homes as I was reading Lolita. The same disturbing seductive pedophile creepiness.
I've just started Watchmen. It's my first comic book since I read Asterix when I was younger. I have watched the movie, and I'm kind of glad I have before reading it.
I've just finished reading it, and I liked it. I kept thinking of The End of Alice by A.M. Homes as I was reading Lolita. The same disturbing seductive pedophile creepiness.
Did you find the narrator funny, at all? I was surprised at how funny the book is. All the pedophilia has the tendency to overshadow how witty Humbert Humbert is.
I've just finished reading it, and I liked it. I kept thinking of The End of Alice by A.M. Homes as I was reading Lolita. The same disturbing seductive pedophile creepiness.
Did you find the narrator funny, at all? I was surprised at how funny the book is. All the pedophilia has the tendency to overshadow how witty Humbert Humbert is.
I thought he was funny at times but the book really made me sad a lot of the time. i thought I was supposed to hate him for being a filthy kiddy fiddler but I felt sorry for him most of the time.
I've just finished reading it, and I liked it. I kept thinking of The End of Alice by A.M. Homes as I was reading Lolita. The same disturbing seductive pedophile creepiness.
Did you find the narrator funny, at all? I was surprised at how funny the book is. All the pedophilia has the tendency to overshadow how witty Humbert Humbert is.
I thought he was funny at times but the book really made me sad a lot of the time. i thought I was supposed to hate him for being a filthy kiddy fiddler but I felt sorry for him most of the time.
Crazy how that works, right? Lolita gets all the praise it deserves.
I've just finished reading it, and I liked it. I kept thinking of The End of Alice by A.M. Homes as I was reading Lolita. The same disturbing seductive pedophile creepiness.
Did you find the narrator funny, at all? I was surprised at how funny the book is. All the pedophilia has the tendency to overshadow how witty Humbert Humbert is.
I thought he was funny at times but the book really made me sad a lot of the time. i thought I was supposed to hate him for being a filthy kiddy fiddler but I felt sorry for him most of the time.
Crazy how that works, right? Lolita gets all the praise it deserves.
The narrator was funny in a clever way. But it is overshadowed by the feeling of disgust toward him, he is a clever man living a sad life.
I'd loved to have studied this book at uni.
Im reading Tower by Ken Bruen, its freakin awesome.
A Field Of Wild Flowers by DeLeon DeMicoli. This is my fourth book by this gyuy this year and its great.
Chinese Takeout by Arthur Nersesian.
I've been in a non-fiction mood for a while.
So I just finished Predictably Irrational. This book was really good. I love books about Social Economics and Sociology.
Before that I was reading Influence. But I got distracted by the other one...
Over the past 5 days being sans internet, I've read The Gates by John Connolly and the first three books in the Death Note manga series. I've also started The Picture of Dorian Grey.
How is that? I loved the anime but hated the movies.
I got Invisible by Paul Auster for Christmas. It's awesome and disturbing, but I thought it lost momentum towards the end. Now I think I'll read Blindness, but I also got 2666 and I've ordered The War of the World by Niall Furguson.
I'm pretty excited about the new DeLillo coming out next year.
How is that? I loved the anime but hated the movies.
I absolutely love it. I couldn't handle watching the show, the books are far superior. Now I just need buy the remaining 9 books.
I just finished Out by Natsuo Kirino. Now I'm reading, well more like listening to an audiobook, of The Catcher in the Rye for my English class. Sucks to have homework over break.
"The sun may burn brightly, and the faces of children may be plump and achingly sweet, but in the air we breathe, in the water we drink and in the food we share, there will always be darkness in the world."
How is that? I loved the anime but hated the movies.
I absolutely love it. I couldn't handle watching the show, the books are far superior. Now I just need buy the remaining 9 books.
Ugh! I hate the voice of whoever does the reading on "Catcher"...reminds me of a depressed George Costanza.
I'm re-reading The Emperor Thread
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I just read this:
It was scary! I haven't been actually scared by a book since The Forbidden Game: The Hunter by L.J.Smith. I had to stay up extra late to finish it and then I couldn't turn out the light for fear of astrally projected enemies.
American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson's memoir, full of funny, debaucherous anecdotes. Read his novel Between the Bridge and the River earlier this year, which I found surprisingly-well-written. Not because of him, but just because of being a celebrity.
The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler
Awopbopaloobop Alopbanboom, by Nik Cohn
Reading "The Road" and "Stiff".
Think for yourself. Question Authority.