June, Summer is here and I'm reading...

Starting The Damned Utd, by David Peace.

I felt that way after Pillars of the Earth

Have you read the sequel to Pillars Of The Earth?

Same here

OK - I finished The Lovely Bones. I really think that the problem with the book was - there was no suspense. None!

I had no driving force in me wondering what was going to happen next. I didn't care.

You always know who the killer is. You don't care if he kills again because he killed the main character. She's already dead and she's the one you have sympathy for.

Nothing really happens.

The mom is the most interesting - but then she even ends up acting predictably.

The most interesting part was when she was able to come back to Earth. But she really didn't use the opportunity to do anything. I mean I understood. But that part could have been taken out and the book would have been the same.

Just a disappointing read. I really thought the premise was awesome. Such potential. But I think she failed to produce.

I feel like a short story collection so Ive started The Museum of Doctor Moses by Joyce Carol Oates.

airframe by michael crichton,its very good

trying to save piggy sneed-john irving

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'Haunted', and then 'The Road'.

Who broke this thread?

Jesus! We can't have nice things.

I didn't mean to!!!

YES MAN by danny wallace. this is gonna be a good one.

Excellent, Berto!

Just started At The City's Edge by Marcus Sakey.

A Guide To Recognising Your Saints By Dito Montiel.

i almost picked this one up derek. please be sure to let me know what you think when you've finished it.

This thread is still broken.

Anyway, I just got 7 books from Geisel library including:
Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami
Gaspard in the Morning by Yasutaka Tsutsui
Sand Castle by Shusaku Endo

and a couple of long stories by Natsuo Kirino and one other.

It was good but not great. I like it because it showed me what it must be like to grow up in the Bronx.

Whatever you do DONT pick up his first novel, I think its called the Clapper and apparently its shite!

thanks for the tip.

life's too short for good but not great, and there's so much great.
Yes Man, by Danny Wallace for instance, is great.

^^ Actually you are about the third person that recomended that book to me. The first two people werent Culties so I ignored them. will see if I can get a copy tomorrow.

For now Im reading Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Tower Wells and later Out Of Touch by the not annoying Noob Brandon Tietz.

Mike is the one who recommended it to me in the first place. You now have two cultie recommendations, one by proxy... so now you MUST pick up a copy tmorrow!

There's no debating Crime and Punishment is not worth reading - did 50 pages and gave up.

Still reading Uranium, hoped to be done with it by June but been changing too many poopy diapers!! and modded my GH:WT drumset

Welcome to Eddy's shit list.

How could anyone dislike Crime and Punishment? That's disgusting!

Every time I am skimming down the list of threads, I read it as "Joe Strummer is here" and I get excited.

*sigh*

Now I leave you back to your book learnin'.

I always read it as "Jane, Summer is here..." and I think, "she probably knew that before you made the thread..."

I'm reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion.

It's not as good as Play it as it Lays. But it's ok.

I'm starting to like it the farther I get into it. At first I hated it. I started reading it years ago - and it was one of the few books I started and never finished. So I decided to give it another go. It's starts out really confusing. But it's going good now.

I finished Hunting Midnight which was excellent. I really enjoy Zimler's writing, I've read three of his books now.

Just about to start Falling Man by Don DeLillo.

i just started 'the road' for the book club. also i broke down and got 'pillars of the earth', which is interesting enough so far. i guess i've underestimated ken follett.

Pillars is not typical Follett apparently. Wondering how catherdrals were built long ago was a hobby for him and he decided to write a book about it against the wishes of his publishers and agents who assumed the book would be unmarketable.

Oprah disagreed and then BAM! instant success.

I don't know anyone who disliked it and if they did, we're no longer speaking because they like crap or can't read. Either way, I'm out.

well i like it so far. i tried to read a follett book a long time ago and i couldn't get through it, it was too boring.

also, is 'the road' just the guy describing the landscape through the whole book or does stuff actually happen?

Today I'm buying the new Glen David Gold book Sunnyside. It's a story by a guy whose first book amazed me, about an artist (Charlie Chaplin) who astounds me. Should be good stuff. I know this belongs in that other thread, really, but in about 15 more posts we'll be on a new page and all of this will be fixed.

stuff happens, and i thought the book was brilliant, brutal, beautiful. it does hammer bleak into your head though. the setting is a character, but not in a lost - the island kinda way.

he's great at describing everything. a couple of times i had to stop and reread a paragraph.

for me it was also a pretty psychological read, just because of my own relationship with my dad. more internal than external, though there was physical action.

the thread is still fubard..

* edit * this thread is fixed

okay- ive been meaning to get involved with this thread since i was in new orleans and i'm finally here so i'm going to dive right in:

tuffy, what is your favorite vonnie book? if i remember correctly, you on a personal mission read everything the man has out, stories novels and articles.. so i figure youre the best to ask

pete, i fucking hated the lovely bones. what a snore that was to me. needless, i wont be reading her second book-

william gay. ive heard and read great things about twilight. i even thought i'd read it one weekend because ive had it for months. alas, i'd fooled myself. it was something else or whatever. so it is on the addendum for this weekend and i am looking forward to it. plus, he's published through the cage !!

less than zero was/is my woman's favorite ellis book. one of her favorite books. (im more partial to american psycho, though.)

i agree, the gargoyle is a brilliant work.

pygmy is a great and somewhat difficult read.

pretty pallix: a fantastic read, and i'm going to be leading the bookclub discussion on it starting in the coming days! i'm currently working on a discussion syllabus.. and blood meridian is also a fantastic, though harrowing, read.

currently reading.. workshop submissions of course. clearly. but also started black water by joyce carol oates. and i cant find it. my beautiful, every helpful, very lovely woman politely put it away. i had it on a counter or something. it didnt belong there. so she put it somewhere better. my bookshelves run together and i didnt see it as a glance so i'll have to look for it one night; if ever i come hope and not start tippling, i'll finish it off in like an hour. then i'll pour through gay's twilight novel.. (the one NOT about vampires and written for pubescent teens)

-kabol

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I "fixed" this thread, but there were casualties.

thanks, frank. i started to, but quickly realized i needed help in doing so..

I even hunted down a number of early OOP shorts. Bluebeard is my personal favorite.

You also can't go wrong with:

• Mother Night (1961)
• Canary in a Cathouse (1961)
• Welcome to the Monkey House: A Collection of Short Works (1968)
• Slaughterhouse-Five; or, The Children's Crusade (1969)
• Breakfast of Champions; or, Goodbye Blue Monday (1973)
• Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons (1974)
• Slapstick; or, Lonesome No More (1976)
• Deadeye Dick (1982)

YMMV

Weird!

Sorry...

I've been meaning to reread Less than Zero. I've reread The Informers countless times. I really need to reread Less than Zero though. I've had an itch lately for more Ellis and the guy takes too long to write a book.

I thought I was the only one that felt that way about Pygmy.

The Svage Detectives by Roberto Bolano

great, like 3 things have already happened and i'm just over halfway through the book. it's still a great read, just sayin...

the lie by kultgen,its fucking great