July- its THE LOHANS Birthday and I am reading...
No, but I just read the synopsis on Amazon & it seems kind of interesting.
I finished Berlin Noir, and even though the second half wasn't as great as the first half, it was still an awesome book.
The Rum Diary by Hunter S Thompson.
Finished Strangeness in the Proportion and really liked it.
Started Please Do Not Shoot Me In The Face by Bradley Sands. It's great so far.
Started Please Do Not Shoot Me In The Face by Bradley Sands. It's great so far.
That one had me laughing so hard I probably looked crazy.
I have all of his books. I still have to read It Came From Below The Belt and My Heart Said No, But the Camera Crew Said Yes!
Something about his writing I just love.
I'm really excited for his new one. The story from Warmed and Bound was an excerpt from it (I want to say first chapter). I don't know any details about when it's coming out though.
Finished HP3 and I don't seem to have 4, so I started reading a zombie book someone gave me.
This is why we can't have nice things.
The Demon by Hubert Selby, Jr. It's good but not quite as good as Last Exit to Brooklyn, Requiem for a Dream or The Room.
And what is with this guy and naming every character one of about six names? Every one of his stories just about has a character named Harry. So far, The Demon has had two completely different characters named Louise and one named Marion which was also the name of a character in Requiem for a Dream.
That's another author I've been meaning to read for years and haven't read anything by yet.
Finished Please Do Not Shoot Me In The Face and thought it was great. Laugh out loud funny.
Started A Town Called Suckhole by David W. Barbee.
Trying to make it through some of these books I bought a long time ago. I keep buying books and forgetting about the ones I already bought!
I need more laugh out loud funny books!
Get Rico Slade Will Fucking Kill You by Bradley Sands and if you like that, then move on to Please Do Not Shoot Me In The Face.
Also check out Apathy and Other Small Victories by Paul Neilan and The Subject Steve by Sam Lipsyte.
Thanks for the recommendations, I'll check them out!
Finished The Rum Diary and a short novella by Philip K Dick, We Can Remember It For You Wholesale, which I enjoyed very much.
Now that I've wandered so far as to one of the last pages in my Kindle, tomorrow I'll read A Light To Starve By (Axel Taiari), Sorry I Ruined Your Orgy (Bradley Sands) and finally, By The Nails of the Warpriest (Nik Korpon).
Sharp Objects, by Gillian Flynn
I reeeeeally like this author.
You both have excellent taste!
I reeeeeally like this author.
Loved it.
I have 3 books I am currently reading but I haven't had much time to read them since I've been painting and eating my life away. I'm still working on Middlesex, barely making dents in The Girl Who Played with Fire on my weekends at home, and I started Gabriel Garcia Marquez' Vivir a Contarla( Yeah, in Spanish). I'm reading it out loud so I can practice my Spanish.
I was just gonna read that Marquez one of these days, it's one of the last 5 days on my to-read list. I have it in Romanian though, I've read enough Spanish lately enough, what with all the Llosa and Allende.
I did read all 3 of those today, and just loved them. All of them. Why I've waited so long to read them is still a mystery.
I'm about 30 pages into Being and Nothingness by Sartre but that's my difficult book and I'm taking it slow.
Read The Blue Hour by Alonso Cueto and started Siddhartha by Hesse.
The Portrait of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Yes!
Zoo by Otsuichi.
Yes!
I'm glad you approve, my new GoodReads friend!
You should pick up Last Exit to Brooklyn. It's six stories so you don't have to read them all at once. The writing style takes a bit to get into but once you do, it's really good. If you like a disturbing, unsettling read, Hubert Selby, Jr should do the trick.
You should pick up Last Exit to Brooklyn. It's six stories so you don't have to read them all at once. The writing style takes a bit to get into but once you do, it's really good. If you like a disturbing, unsettling read, Hubert Selby, Jr should do the trick.
Thanks dude! It's been added to the wishlist.
Now I'm reading Dark Places by Gillian Flynn. I kind of don't want to, because her books suck me in and I finish them in one sitting and then my eyeballs hurt. But moreso because she's only written three books and I don't know how long it'll be before she writes another one, and it's not like I can just email her and say, TELL ME A STORY, PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE. Once I read this one I'll have read all she's got available for me to read!
It's weird. I've never liked mysteries all that much, other than Nancy Drew when I was like, 9. But I love this chick's books, and I also love Kate Atkinson, and all her novels are mysteries, too.
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak.
Gangs of New York (Herbert Asbury).
Like the movie? I didn't know it was a book, but that's an excellent film, so I may have to read it.
One of my favourites
You should email her. I guarantee you she will be flattered by such a personal request.
Like the movie? I didn't know it was a book, but that's an excellent film, so I may have to read it.
It's originally a 1928 book. It literaly contains enough material for dozns of films, but unfortunately, I didn't like Scorsese's at all.
Read Queer by Burroughs last night and A Gentlewoman's Pleasure by Portia da Costa. It wasn't very exciting, I'd read another book by her and thought this would be similar, but it was rather plain. And the language, oh god. "Spend"?
We Are Oblivion by Michael Sonbert.
I really enjoyed that.
Me too.
Now reading Stranger Will by Caleb J Ross.
The American Devil by Oliver Stark.
Starting A Very Minor Prophet by James Bernard Frost for the book club.
I'm working on some edits with the editor. It should be out soonish. It's called TV Snorted My Brain.
Dead Island by Mark Morris.
The library was closing and I didn't know what to get, so I ended up with Palahniuk's Damned and 1984.
Just finished the Stepford Wives and The Talented Mr Ripley. Tom Ripley is not nearly as awesome in that novel as he is in the movie Ripley's Game, where he convinces a dying man to assassinate somebody in an attempt to avenge an insult directed at him during a dinner party. Hold my watch. If it breaks, I'll kill everybody on this train.
How does he start out as such a wuss? He's described as a sissy, afraid of his aunt, always feeling self conscious about whether or not people like him, and he seems asexual. And why would he even want to become Dickie? Dickie was an amateur. All he did was paint and he was admittedly bad at it. And he picks the oddest weapons: an ashtray, a shoe; where's the beartraps at, that sadistic adjustable wrench with the electric taped handle?
The writing is great, though. I might try Ripley Under Ground. Presumably, he gets more badass, having not known himself to be a killer until he started deadin people.
Finished Doctor Zhivago. Wonderful.
Just finished the Stepford Wives and The Talented Mr Ripley. Tom Ripley is not nearly as awesome in that novel as he is in the movie Ripley's Game, where he convinces a dying man to assassinate somebody in an attempt to avenge an insult directed at him during a dinner party. Hold my watch. If it breaks, I'll kill everybody on this train.
How does he start out as such a wuss? He's described as a sissy, afraid of his aunt, always feeling self conscious about whether or not people like him, and he seems asexual. And why would he even want to become Dickie? Dickie was an amateur. All he did was paint and he was admittedly bad at it. And he picks the oddest weapons: an ashtray, a shoe; where's the beartraps at, that sadistic adjustable wrench with the electric taped handle?
The writing is great, though. I might try Ripley Under Ground. Presumably, he gets more badass, having not known himself to be a killer until he started deadin people.
I was just talking about the Talented Mr. Ripley last night. I never knew there were books. It was one of my favorite movies that got lost in one of the 5 million moves I made. I need to check these books out.
Have you seen the first film version from the 1960s with Alain Delon ?
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I have not.
Saint Anthony of Padua by Jack Wintz.
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I wonder who is kissing who in that movie, character wise. No one kisses anyone in the book. That might have been what felt off about it, an entire book with no sex whatsoever.
Botchan by Natsume Soseki.
On to Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre because I want something to keep me busy for the rest of the summer.
I started it but I haven't got back to it. It's hard reading off the computer for me.