It's forever alone month and I am reading...
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre.
Also on volume 7/15 of The Arabian Nights and 2/7 of In Search of the Lost Time.
I like forever alone month. It makes me want to work out and stuff to get handsome again. Otherwise, I haz girlfriend and nothing to worry about.
I'm reading Ender's Game, by the way. I'm already 106 pages in. I'm kinda proud of myself. I also wanna read Free Culture by the end of the month.
Si vis pacem, para bellum
I'm reading Looking for Alaska by John Green. It's wonderful so far. A sort of discovering yourself tale of a kid who goes to boarding school and falls in love with a girl.
Right now I'm reading The Crime Studio by Steve Aylett. It's great! Every line in the book is a zinger. I can't wait to read more of his stuff. I forgot how good he is.
I'll be finishing that tonight. Don't know what's next yet.
I know that kid. And you guys will too, once you read Praise of Motherhood.
I want it now!
A few more months.
I'm reading On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan.
I'm just up to part two, and while it's an ok read and well written I wish those two would just screw already!
just finished this:
the storytelling was incredible.
never been a graphic novel man, but more like this could convert me.
Looking for Alaska looks very enjoyable but this artworker should be shot:
I'm just up to part two, and while it's an ok read and well written I wish those two would just screw already!
Urgh that book made me want to punch a wall!
Juliet, Naked (in Dutch) by Nick Hornby. Loving it so far. 
Beast in View by Margaret Millar. Short bout novel to get me through a Friday.
I'm just up to part two, and while it's an ok read and well written I wish those two would just screw already!
Urgh that book made me want to punch a wall!
Trust me, it is way better than it's artwork suggests. It was a NY Times Bestseller.
11/22/63 but, with the kids, I'm averaging 6-10 pages a day.
^That was a good one.
I'm reading science fiction anthologies at the moment (The New Space Opera, Vol. 1-2). Some of the stories make me feel way stupid but whatever, I like space and futuristic stuff!
I read The Woman in Black a few days ago and really enjoyed it. It's creepy - kind of like if Wuthering Heights (the book) and The Others (the film) had a baby. The style of writing was in keeping with the classics, and I wouldn't have believed it was written in 1983 if Wikipedia hadn't told me so.
I wanted to see the movie (The Woman in Black) today but it's not uhm, available yet. I didn't know about the book, but now I have to read it.
So was The DaVinci Code. Your argument is invalid!
I'm reading science fiction anthologies at the moment (The New Space Opera, Vol. 1-2). Some of the stories make me feel way stupid but whatever, I like space and futuristic stuff!
I read The Woman in Black a few days ago and really enjoyed it. It's creepy - kind of like if Wuthering Heights (the book) and The Others (the film) had a baby. The style of writing was in keeping with the classics, and I wouldn't have believed it was written in 1983 if Wikipedia hadn't told me so.
I'm picking up my copy of Woman in Black tomorrow. I heard it's great to read at night for added effect.
Sure is...I kept looking over the back of my sofa while I was reading it at night!
I'm currently reading IT , only 60-70 pages in but it has me well and truly gripped.
So was The DaVinci Code. Your argument is invalid!
Ooooh, you're a stinker.
I'm glad you didn't think I was being an asshole. Sometimes I worry. I just thought it was funny the way you said that.
Finished The Crime Studio. It's definately not for everyone, but it was perfect for me. I loved it.
Started Vacation by Jeremy C. Shipp. He sent it to me years ago, but I was swamped with tons of books I HAD to get to and personal problems and then, honestly, I forgot all about it. So overdue to be read. I wasn't going to start it, but I was going through books I have transferred recently to my "to-read" pile. I read the Prologue (hmm, pretty good) and decided to read the first chapter (hooked!). So yeah!
So was The DaVinci Code. Your argument is invalid!
You mind reader, you.
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
+10!
I hope you like it!
I loved that book!
It was my favorite Auster next to Oracle Night.
I never read anything by Auster before, but I love the piece he has in the recent Horror edition of Granta.
I've just started Skels by Maggie Dubris. So far it's excellent. One of many strange books I picked up in Dublin last week.
Almost done with Skippy Dies by Paul Murray.
Thanks for the link...that's right up my alley.
I just finished Looking for Alaska. Freakin' A. Heavy book. Sad. But so good. I love John Green. The way he writes about living and experiencing the world and just existing. So good. So poignant.
So was The DaVinci Code. Your argument is invalid!
You mind reader, you.
I was thinking the same thing,
This is why we can't have nice things.
So was The DaVinci Code. Your argument is invalid!
You mind reader, you.
I was thinking the same thing,
I was thinking this
"They sold you hippies grunge, hip hop, now liberty activism."
I haven't been reading much lately. I'd been kinda consumed ripping people on internet forums, but I've decided to be a bit more productive with my free time and read The Dark Fields by Alan Glynn.
I HATED On Chesil Beach! God, what a load of crap! It's about stupid people being stupid twats. Kind of similar to how I feel about Great Gatsby.
Now I'm reading Blood by Jospeh Glass. It's a bit gruesome, but seems like a good quick read.
Gatsby is the archetype, the very Platonic Ideal, of stupid people being stupid twats. F U, F Scott!
This is why we can't have nice things.
I'm reading World War Z by Max Brooks.
So far, that's one of the few books we disagree about Tuff.
Yes! Totally!
Haha. I liked that book, sort of because of how stupid and twaty everyone was.
Same reason for The Sun Also Rises.
I think you're supposed to like it because of how stupid and twatty everyone is, but it just annoyed me.
Reading The Woman In Black by Susan Hill now.
Hahahaha... yeah...
I'm reading Marie Claire... it's good this month.
Siddhartha arrived in the mail, from the Netherlands weirdly enough. I'll start it tomororow.
Oh and, I am glad that Sarah hated Chesil Beach too. The characters were awful, frigid wankers!
I think that's why Nick Carraway, the narrator, is just looking on and describing them the way he does. He's a normal everyday average guy. And then there's these entitled fucks with all this money doing stupid shit. He looks on in bewilderment mostly.
But really, the plotting on that one is great. It's become a template for so many books since.
^5 Hope you like it!
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
&
Eats, Shoots & Leaves - Lynne Truss
This is why we can't have nice things.
I named this tree atop a hill near my house Juan Paul after reading that.
I was reading a history of the civil rights movement, but I can't find where I put it. My friend has a book on Huey Newton, I'm gonna try to borrow that.
"They sold you hippies grunge, hip hop, now liberty activism."
http://freeconcord.org