July- its THE LOHANS Birthday and I am reading...
The World According to Garp, by John Irving.
Always wanted to read this... started The Hunger Games and having a hard time with it--I guess I thought I was going to be blown away but, although the story is ok, I'm not liking the writing style.
this is the third book in a row that I haven't enjoyed while reading--I'm probably going to reread We Are Oblivion next to break the cycle
Always wanted to read this... started The Hunger Games and having a hard time with it--I guess I thought I was going to be blown away but, although the story is ok, I'm not liking the writing style.
this is the third book in a row that I haven't enjoyed while reading--I'm probably going to reread We Are Oblivion next to break the cycle
Or you could start reading grown up books.
Always wanted to read this... started The Hunger Games and having a hard time with it--I guess I thought I was going to be blown away but, although the story is ok, I'm not liking the writing style.
this is the third book in a row that I haven't enjoyed while reading--I'm probably going to reread We Are Oblivion next to break the cycle
If you read one John Irving novel, you'll want to read them all. I've read The World According to Garp before but it's been a few years and I like reading books more than once. A Prayer for Owen Meany is really, really good, and The Cider House Rules is one of my favorites. Definitely pick up The World According to Garp if you get a chance.
I'm reading The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty. It's really good. I kind of wish I hadn't already seen the movie though. It's never quite the same when you know what's happening. Like always though, the books has more detail and is quite a bit more graphic.
Always wanted to read this... started The Hunger Games and having a hard time with it--I guess I thought I was going to be blown away but, although the story is ok, I'm not liking the writing style.
this is the third book in a row that I haven't enjoyed while reading--I'm probably going to reread We Are Oblivion next to break the cycle
If you read one John Irving novel, you'll want to read them all. I've read The World According to Garp before but it's been a few years and I like reading books more than once. A Prayer for Owen Meany is really, really good, and The Cider House Rules is one of my favorites. Definitely pick up The World According to Garp if you get a chance.
I've only read The World According to Garp and The Hotel New Hampshire. Both were very good. The only thing that's stopped me reading more of his work is the amount of similar content in all his books. I decided take a decent break between books.
Finished The Moon is one Harsh Mistress and am re-reading the Sublime Object of Ideology.
1) The Robert Heinlein
2) The Slavoj Zizek
"They sold you hippies grunge, hip hop, now liberty activism."
Run by Douglas Winter
TANSTAAFL!
Scariest, most horrifying book I've ever read in my entire life. I could not read it again and I won't have a copy in my home or on my kindle.
Sounds like an endorsement to me. Added to my amazon wishlist.
Liz Jensen- The Univited. A weird and slow book that's growing on me. Halfway through it.
Always wanted to read this... started The Hunger Games and having a hard time with it--I guess I thought I was going to be blown away but, although the story is ok, I'm not liking the writing style.
this is the third book in a row that I haven't enjoyed while reading--I'm probably going to reread We Are Oblivion next to break the cycle
Or you could start reading grown up books.
You were nicer to me before you became a mod.
Always wanted to read this... started The Hunger Games and having a hard time with it--I guess I thought I was going to be blown away but, although the story is ok, I'm not liking the writing style.
this is the third book in a row that I haven't enjoyed while reading--I'm probably going to reread We Are Oblivion next to break the cycle
Or you could start reading grown up books.
You were nicer to me before you became a God.
I don't know what you're talking about 
Scary?
Oh I read that.... Seven years ago, was it? During the season of Hurricane Katrina. Though, Hurricane Wilma hit us much harder that year.
Thanks a lot for fucking up the thread for me, asshole.
Dickshithead bastard.
Sorry.
Dickshithead bastard.
If you aren't talking to LizardKing, I'm sorry too.
I was talking to LizardKing, and I realize I was being harsh.
Sorry, guy, but that shit freaks me the fuck out. I have to have my hand on the screen in this thread until we get to the next page. I know this is unreasonable but we're talking about satan here.
What's that guy from?
I'm reading Mother's Milk by Edward St Aubyn
and my mum is making me read Ada's Rules which is basically a diet book. I'm not enjoying it very much, it's alright. We're all trying to lose weight right now, I'm the only one who's lost weight yet (over half a stone, yes) and my mum thinks this book is "inspiring". I disagree but it's a bit helpful I suppose, reinforcing things I already know, making it a bit clearer in my mind.
Hahahaha dickshithead bastard!
Started Strangeness in the Proportion.
Sorry, guy, but that shit freaks me the fuck out. I have to have my hand on the screen in this thread until we get to the next page. I know this is unreasonable but we're talking about satan here.
Got rid of it for you. I didn't realise you were that scared. You weren't being harsh.
Aw man, thank you. I know it's ridiculous how much that scares me...I blame my Catholic upbringing.
Sacré Blue by Christopher Moore.
"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
The Jargon File 4.2.2
And
The Gilded Age
Also, if you read one Irving novel you *will* want to read them all, but *also* if you've read one Irving novel you *have* read them all.
Garp is pretty epic anyway.
This is why we can't have nice things.
I've been reading a bunch of articles about Scientology for the past couple of hours and my eyes are bleeding.
2/3 of the way through Citrus Coubty and I'm digging it. It's by John Brandon.
Just started The Mall by S L Grey. South African horror.
I just started The Girl Who Played with Fire. So far I like it better than the way the first book starts. I'm also still reading Middlesex. I don't know why it's taking me so long to read it.
I know I probably tell you this every month, but that book pretty much tells the story of my Papou's immigration to the U.S.
He came the same way, to the same areas, at the same times, and I believe our family had a restaurant. Though, our restaurant was actually a liquor smuggling business / speakeasy I guess. Or was that on my Yiayia's side? I get confused with all the boaters...
He came the same way, to the same areas, at the same times, and I believe our family had a restaurant. Though, our restaurant was actually a liquor smuggling business / speakeasy I guess. Or was that on my Yiayia's side? I get confused with all the boaters...
I knew you were a freak of nature
As soon as I started reading it I totally pictured you. I kept wanting to text you each time I read something that reminded me of you. You're Greek he/she is Greek, You're in Detriot, They're in Detroit, They're malakas, You're a malaka, it fits. The story must be about you.
I really am enjoying the book but I'm kinda savoring it in a sense because I'm taking my time with it.
I am reading The Girls of Riyadh which my Manager lent to me (so I have to finish!)
It's basically a watered-down Sex and the City set in Saudi Arabia, but quite enjoyable.
I've moved on from Scientology to the Jonestown Massacre. Looks like July's the month for...cults.
Room kicked ass. Does she normally write books like that or was it a different kind of thing for her? It looks like all her others are historical type novels.
I haven't read anything else by her, but I loved Room. Have you seen the review on Goodreads where this Filipino gives it 2 stars (or 1) because there are the words "Filipino shemales" somewhere in the book?
Every time I see that word, I now think of Lindsay (Bluth) Funke's affinity for that trendy new clothing line, which she pronounces shuh•MAHL•ee (rhymes with tamale).
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/121201584?auto_login_attempted=true
This is the review.
Me too!
This is the review.
That's hilarious but culturally insensitive toward cultural sensitivity.
just wrapped up The Naked Civil Servant, And I Don't Want to Live This Life Anymore
currently crying with Miss MacIntosh, My Darling because of the following and more:
"I had walked alone, searching seeing only, though I sought for an ultimate harmony, the fleeting image, the disrelation, the chaos begetting chaos, the truth as but another illusion, that which must perish, the rose which must fade, the heart which must stop. Nothing I had touched but that it had faded like a dream, there being no dream that would not fail, no life which would not cease, no soul which answered mine like deep calling to deep."
hoping i can hang in there and see it through to the end.
I liked Room so much that I read it twice within a two or three month period. I picked another one of her books thinking I'd found a new author to follow, but I didn't enjoy the one I picked that much. It wasn't even a novel, really, but a collection of short stories (Touchy Subjects was the title). I think Room is entirely different from any of her other work, which is kind of too bad.
Ritt, I think you'd enjoy We Need to Talk About Kevin. Maybe, possibly.
I agree Alecia, Room and ...Kevin have the same kind of pull. Couldn't stop reading either of those.
The Woods by Harlan Coben.
In Cold Blood.
The Yiddish Policemen's Union (Michael Chabon)
Crash - J.G. Ballard
I tried to this one a long time ago when I was a narcoleptic but it was real hard to enjoy books back then.
I'm about halfway through Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth and Les Miserables.